"Today, the Australian people have voted for Australian values: for fairness, aspiration and opportunity for all; for the strength to show courage in adversity and kindness to those in need," Albanese said.
In his autobiography, Bono said he took "full responsibility" for the stunt."I'd thought if we could just put our music within reach of people, they might choose to reach out toward it," he wrote.
"Not quite."But as they enter their fifth decade, the band are ready to "re-apply for the job of best band in the world", as they memorably put it in 2001.A year ago, Bono expressed his desire to release "a noisy, uncompromising, unreasonable guitar album", citing AC/DC as an influence.
At the Ivors, I accidentally misquote this back to him as "an unassailable guitar record"."I'm really pleased with that adjective -
," he says, trying it on for size.
"I think he said, 'un-sellable'," shoots back Mullen Jr.Mr Agrawal says his company, Zen Barefoot, is unusual as much of the Indian footwear industry is not very innovative.
"There are very few people who are ready to take time and invest in new technologies here. Indian manufacturing is a very profit- first market, ROI [return on investment] driven."And in a lot of cases, even the government is not ready to enable these industries through grants or tax relief, which makes it quite difficult."
Comet is one Indian firm looking to innovate.It claims to be the first homegrown trainer brand that owns the whole production process, from design to manufacturing.