s health minister of nearly six years, retired from politics at the age of 45. In retiring early, Dr Wooldridge fulfilled his own longstanding prediction that the health portfolio would be his political graveyard, and in this he shared the fate of most Australian health ministers over the past 30 years. It seems that, in Australia, there is little chance of life in politics after health and the...

The goal of blockmodeling is to reduce a large, potentially incoherent network to a smaller comprehensible structure that can be interpreted more readily. In the paper we present some basic ideas and developments in this area. 1 Basic Notions 1.1 Network Let E = {X1, X2, . . . , Xn} be a finite set of units or units. The units are related by binary relations Rt ⊆ E × E, t = 1, . . . , r, r ≥ 1 ...

One of the common parts of news is to provide the background for a current event, such as the resignation of a Prime Minister. This paper addresses a framework that facilitates semi-automated authoring of explanatory audio-visual news topics in a retrospective style for the domain of politics based on already edited new stories available in the repository of the news corporation. The aim is to ...

This paper explores the use of the alternative genre of satire in conjunction with conventional academic discourse in order to provide insight into information systems development and implementation in government. An outsourcing project for the development and implementation of a new payroll system for the New Zealand education sector provides the focus; this project was just one of a series of...

It is both a privilege and an honor for me, as the representative of His Excellency Dr. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Ambassador of my country to the United States, to attend this celebration and to speak before this distinguished audience. After hearing the interesting addresses by Dr. Harvey and Professor Latourette, it is evident that I cannot add to what has already been said about Dr. Peter Parker as...

Fragmented health care services are responsible for South Africa's dismal infant and maternal mortality rates while budgets are being greedily consumed by bloated and inefficient administrations that sideline clinicians at the coalface. New Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi said this to 200 doctors at Groote Schuur Hospital while sharing how he plans to turn the floundering health care ship a...