Uneasy Locations: The Russian Embassy Site in Canberra
They think we are mugs – and it’s insulting. It’s all fine for politicians to be swimming, swerving and tossing about in the goo of […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Dumpling Wars
The Ukrainian blonde had the smell of trouble. She had perched herself, along with her mute friend, in a restaurant across from the famed South […]
Never More Relevant: Ted Kaczynski, Technology and Trauma
Henry A. Murray has much to answer for. Between 1959 and 1961, the Harvard psychology academic, as the leader of a team of equally unprincipled […]
Novak Djokovic: Always More than Tennis
The victory of Novak Djokovic in the latest French Open had the usual mixed reception in Australia. While Australians pretend to like radicals, larrikins and […]
A Matter of Interest: The RBA, Inflation and Corporate Profits
He is one of the least empathetic of beings, a cold fish, bothered and irritated. Captured by the cradle of numbers (he is an economist); […]
Convenient Villains: Kathleen Folbigg’s Miscarriage of Justice
They – being the howling press, the screeching vox populi, and anybody else wishing to weigh in – were very clear about it. Kathleen Folbigg […]
Deserving Each Other: The PGA Tour-LIV Golf Merger
Described as acrimonious, divisive and disruptive to golf, the LIV Golf Tournament, launched with the aid of former world number one Greg Norman and an […]
Diluted Sovereignty: A Very Australian Example
Australian concepts of sovereignty have always been qualified. First came the British settlers and invaders in 1788. They are pregnant with the sovereignty of the […]
Ticketing Woes: The Patchy Record of Myki
What is it about government contracts that produces the worst results and poorest returns? Those clods behind such deals, notably in the poison chaliced field […]
Ben Roberts-Smith: The Breaking of a Plaster Saint
It was an ugly case lasting five years with a host of ugly revelations. But what could be surprising about the murderous antics of a […]
AUKUS, Congress and Cold Feet
The undertakings made by Australia regarding the AUKUS security pact promise to be monumental. Much of this is negative: increased militarisation on the home front; […]
Meta and Privacy: The Economy of Data Transgressions
Meta, to put it rather inelegantly, has a data non-compliance problem. That problem began in the original conception of Facebook, a social network conceived by […]
HAK Birthdays: Henry Kissinger Turns 100
“Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands.” Anthony Bourdain, A Cook’s Tour (2002) […]
Modi in Australia: Down Under Bliss for Hindutva
There is an interesting thread that links the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, the owner of the gargantuan conglomerate that bears his name, Gautam Adani, […]
Visits of Justice: Stella Assange’s Plea to Australia
It certainly got the tongues wagging, the keyboards pressed, and the intellectually dead aroused – at least for a time. Given how many of those […]