| John Howard says the special heads of government meeting won't be a talkfest. |
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| It seems unlikely that any new visions about how to fight racism globally will emerge, but a talkfest is certainly welcome. |
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| Last week saw delegates gather for their annual talkfest on whaling, at a meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Italy. |
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| The skepticism is justified because past administrations have made them grandiose promises that fell flat as soon as the talkfest was over. |
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| The original Fab Five will arrive in Sydney on August 23 for a blink-and-you'll-miss-it talkfest to launch their new single, Sunrise. |
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| Other suggestions include a national infrastructure summit, but this would be a talkfest of little long-term value. |
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| The film succeeds as a perceptive character study, demonstrating how emotional complexity can be obtained from the simplicity of a lean, well-written, two-person talkfest. |
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| But on Friday I went to a talkfest that actually got me thinking. |
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| There's an enormous conference in Austria this week called Money, Happiness and Impatience, with the best and the brightest, and the World Bank, jetting in for the talkfest. |
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| But many wonder how a high-level talkfest with no agenda can succeed. |
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| You may think it is a mere talkfest, but there are actually complex arguments around ownership of property and the ability to make money from farming. |
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| Eight hundred delegates, predominately practising and aspiring independent documentary makers and those who study the craft, attended the four-day talkfest and marketplace. |
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| Later, its early magic seemed to fade as the group became little more than a talkfest, with long communiques with little actual implementation. |
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| In the corporatised and coal-company sponsored cocoon of a pre-G20 talkfest in Brisbane, the burst of vocal protest came like a sudden jolt of the reality of life outside. |
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