The director of Australian Community Media, John Angilley, called it the "transformation of our business", but staff see it as the slow death of community mastheads being stripped of resources.
His story of poverty and neglect reflects a diminished moral agency, as he grew up in an environment that has been systemically stripped of resources as a matter of public policy.
PNG remains a unfinished nation which is being stripped of its resources, from logging to natural gas.
When it existed, hundreds of millions of people in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Pacific were colonised by Britain, ruled against their will, enslaved, exploited as cheap labour and had their lands stripped of natural resources.
Hunt may be a wealthy man, but to hear him cast aspersions on a service that the Tories have stripped of all resources and funding since it came to power?
Now the free-market model has failed, social democracy seems stripped of the intellectual resource to renew itself.
If the review's recommendations are implemented, the union would be abolished by 2014, stripped of its building and resources.
The warning bells are already ringing loudly in Chakaria, where Iqbal says the local populations have been entirely stripped of their natural environmental resources.
"When we arrived in Vail, the local papers ran headlines saying 'Wall Street to strip area of resources,' " he said.
When Charles II returned to the throne in 1660 and restored the Bulkeley family as castle constables, Beaumaris appears to have been stripped of its valuable lead and remaining resources, including the roofs.
Folk is a malleable resource, and here it is stripped of all politics or witness-bearing, becoming an exercise in romantic exegesis for nice men with mandolins.
