Contractual Disputes: Replacing Monster Chefs on MasterChef
The show is pompous, condescending and shallow. It was designed to mock the lowly non-cook, the ignorant, and, from high culinary summitry, grace the winner […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Top End Travels: The Tiwi Islands, the Catholic Church and King Joe of Melville Island
Darwin, Northern Territory Lush mangroves, the spray of emerald water from the Timor Sea, the sense of the untainted: the journey to the Tiwi Islands, […]
Olive Reincarnations and Elvis on Mars: Boris Johnson Becomes British PM
The BBC World Service took its listeners to the English cathedral town of Ely, set in picturesque Cambridgeshire, during the course of a hot July […]
WikiLeaks, Julian Assange and Decoding the National Security Commentariat
The Fourth Estate, that historical unelected grouping of society’s scrutineers, has become something of a rabble, and, as a confederacy of strewn dunces and the […]
Lunar Narratives: Landing on the Moon, Politics and the Cold War
Anniversaries are occasions to distort records. The intoxicated recounting of the past faces a record in need of correction. Couples long married hide their differences […]
Manus, Nauru and an Australian Detention Legacy
It could be called a gulag mentality, though it finds form in different ways. In the defunct Soviet Union, it was definitive of life: millions […]
Donald Trump, the Democrat Squad and Failed Impeachment
Twitter has become policy. It is platform, direction and determination. It has served one particular person well, a hazy mechanism to fog up the lenses […]
Spying on Julian Assange: UC Global, CNN and Russian Couriers
History’s scope for the absurd and tragic is infinite. Like Sisyphus engaged in permanent labours pushing a boulder up a slope, the effort of making […]
Corporate Gangster: Adani’s Pursuit of Scientists
The Adani conglomerate should be best described as a bloated gangster, promising the earth even as it mines it. Like other corporate thugs of such […]
The Resigning Ambassador: Sir Kim Darroch on Donald Trump
Rarely do ambassadors resign after an intense self-assessment of worth. Diplomatic immunity does not merely extend to protecting the official from the reach of local […]
Juggling with the Authoritarians: Donald Trump’s Diplomatic Copy Book
Cue the shots, take the snaps: US President Donald Trump was back entertaining his fetish with firm handshakes proclaiming the making of history in the […]
Out of Kilter: National Security and Press Freedoms in Australia
Australian society relishes secrecy and surveillance. Forget the laid-back, relaxed demeanour that remains the great fiction of a confected identity; like all such creations, the […]
Dressed for the Fourth of July: The US Imperium Comes Out
The United States of Amnesia has occasionally found expression amongst those despairing at the state of historical consciousness in Freedom’s Land. Gore Vidal remains something […]
Going Nuclear in the Antipodes: Australia’s Megadeath Complex
The antipodes has had a fraught relationship with the nuclear option. At the distant ends of the earth, New Zealand took a stand against the […]
Facebook, Funny Money and Libra
In this squalid era of compromised data and hollowed privacy, it would be fitting that the company largely responsible for such mishaps would steer another […]