Thriving on Dark Web: The My Health Record and Data Insecurity
Data is rarely inert. It moves, finds itself diverting, adjusting and adapting to users and distributors. Ultimately, as unspectacular and banal as it might be, […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
The Death of the Investigative Journalist: Channel Nine’s Takeover of Fairfax
The Yes Minister series portraying the skulduggery of Whitehall during the Thatcher years throws up a salient reminder how certain things do not mix. Should […]
Findings and Non-Findings: The MH370 Report
It does little to allay the grief of relatives and friends, but the MH370 report on the doomed, and ever spectral Malaysian passenger liner merely […]
Plans for Attack: US Plans for Striking Iran
The world of the terrifying hypothetical is programmatically standard in the Trump White House. Periods of tense calm are followed by careless flights of fury, […]
Embellishing Crime: Melbourne’s “African Gang” Problem
Always trust the handy anecdote to overwhelm reality with force and false persuasiveness. The taxi driver irate at the latest opportunistic scribble in a Rupert […]
Electing the Cornered Tiger: Imran Khan in Pakistani Politics
Tariq Ali, whilst having a lunch in Knightsbridge with the Pakistani cricket colossus, Imran Khan, suggested that retirement should not be too problematic for him. […]
The Middle Man: The Jurisprudence of Justice Anthony Kennedy
“At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of […]
Ecuador’s Agenda: Squeezing and Surrendering Assange
It is perhaps typical in a time where a star of the fleshy celluloid wonder Baywatch, heavy in bust and known for her sexual adventures, […]
Shaking Establishments: The Ocasio-Cortez Effect
Dana Milbank wrote it off as a victory of demographics, a minor, inconsequential point which left the “down-the-line liberal” Rep. Joe Crowley in its wake, […]
Helsinki Theatrics: Trump meets Putin
The first official meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his counterpart Donald Trump was a fairly casual, unpeopled affair, absent bureaucrats and note takers. […]
Putin’s Football Gambit: How the World Cup Paid Off
Even before the single ball was kicked at the FIFA World Cup in Russia, there were threats, promises and suggestions from various governments about how […]
The Woes of Luka Modrić: Croatia, Nationalism and Football
Juraj Vrdoljak of Telesport was convinced. “I think half the population didn’t show up to work on the morning after the win against England.” The […]
Stomping in Britain: Donald Trump and May’s Brexit
What a rotten guest, but then again, that was to be expected. Ahead of his visit to Britain, there was some indignation that US President […]
Soft Brexits and Hard Realities: The Tory Revolt
It was meant to be an away day at Chequers in total hermetic isolation, an effort on the part of UK Prime Minister Theresa May […]
Rescues, Caves and Celebrity Salvation
It all risks becoming pornographic, looped and re-run with an obsessive eye for updates and detail about despair and hope. The twenty-four hour news cycle […]