Looking for events to add to festival program
This year's Sapphire City Festival will be held from October 17 to November 2, and the organising committee is calling for more events to be added to the program.
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"If anyone is interested in conducting an event during the extended festival period it's time to get in contact with Tourism Inverell to make sure you are included in the official program,” said Anka McMahon, secretary of the committee.
While we have a lot of great regular events held during the festival period the Committee are always looking for anything new and in particular mid week events to help ensure that every day of the festival period has a number of options available for visitors.
For further information you can contact contact Anka, or Ann Clydsdale, at Tourism Inverell on 6728 8161.
Millions being spent on new computer games
On the Pulse was over the moon to learn that Screen Australia had announced their final round of funding for games production at the end of last month.
This year the federal government has spent $3,828,500 on games production alone, but look just look at the sort of thing we got for our money!
Introducing ‘Majestic Nights’, a new action-adventure title for PC, Mac, consoles and mobiles.
It has intriguing plotlines and conspiracy theories (and the world is so short of those just now) with a retro aesthetic ($128,000 funding).
There’s the next in a ‘Bean’ platform game series, ‘Bean Dreams’, for mobile, PC and Mac ($50,000) and who would be without ‘Rebound’ a futuristic, multiplayer sports game for PC and Mac, in which players compete in a fast-paced environment to score goals and knock out other players? ($190,000).
And what about ‘All Stars Tennis’?
It’s a fun, casual tennis game for mobile devices and only cost the Australian taxpayer $92,000, while ‘Flick Fighters’ is a turn-based strategy game combined with a unique touch-screen, combat mechanic; cheap at $150,852.
Something that everyone should have in their pocket is ‘Baffles’ History of Puzzles’. It’s a game that gives mobile players the irresistible chance to solve hundreds of the world’s best-known classic puzzles ($49,000) and of course ‘Particulars’ is that ‘sub-atomic particle adventure you’ve just always wanted.
It has striking visuals for PC, Mac and Linux and you only spent $50,000 to help design it.
What a mixed bag for Santa Claus it all represents! Then again, just one of these titles probably does beat that cheap Totem Tennis set, board game or little plastic water pistol On the Pulse used to get for Christmas as kids.
Where’s justice when it comes to funding
Speaking of federal funding, On the Pulse was interested to hear about a $300,000 report delivered by the Centre for Innovative Justice at RMIT University to the Productivity Commission’s Access to Justice inquiry.
It revealed many people who required legal assistance are missing out because the legal profession often charges extraordinary prices for what should be an essential and ordinary service.
Now that would have taken a long while to figure out.
While the report said there were a range of innovative practices across the legal system that had the capacity to make the delivery of legal assistance more affordable, it suggested there was a need to do more to bridge the gap between government- funded assistance and the prohibitive fees often charged by the private profession.
In other words the government should pay more of those prohibitive fees, and that had On the Pulse scratching its head and wondering; wouldn’t be fairer to have the lawyers reduce their prohibitive fees to bring down the cost? Just a thought.
