Citizen’s post to Facebook
ABC NEWS, 22 Februry 2021 – ‘Government to escalate Facebook feud by pulling advertising spend potentially worth millions of dollars’. Yay! That means we all […]
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The Age of Aquarius
By Ad astra Older folks will remember the musical Hair with its opening song Aquarius: ”This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, When the Moon […]
Un-Friending Facebook?
My finger is itchily hovering over the button that will sever my connection with Facebook. But before my digit descends I’ll pop out to the […]
The “Return” of America: Biden’s Maiden Foreign Policy Speech
Few could have been slack-jawed at the first significant foreign policy speech of US President Joe Biden. It can easily be filed under the “America […]
Lobbying for Gain: Nick Warner and Australia’s Revolving Door
Governments have an almost crippling trouble appreciating conflicts of interest. Since tentacle-heavy lobby groups decided to move into the world’s capitals to make the case […]
Missions to Mars: Mapping, Probing and Plundering the Red Planet
In the first month of 2020, Forbes was all excitement about fresh opportunities for plunder and conquest. Titled “2020: The Year We Will Conquer Mars”, […]
Trouble in Vaccine Land: The Wiliness of South Africa’s Coronavirus Variant
It began as a shudder through the scientific and public health establishments. A new variant of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 had been found, mutating in […]
Continuing Prosecutions: Assange and the Biden Administration
With changes of presidential administrations, radical departures in policy are always exaggerated. Continuity remains, for the most part, a standard feature. It is precisely that […]
Information Interruptus: Bing, Google and the News Media Bargaining Code
It’s looking a touch quixotic, but the News Media Bargaining Code has become Australia’s weapon of choice in attempting to redistribute proceeds from big tech […]
Being Indifferent to Difference
By Dr Stewart Hase Humans are not particularly adept at accepting difference. I suspect that we are hard wired to at least be wary of […]
China, Papua New Guinea and Australia’s Backyard Blues
Clever diplomacy rarely involves total commitment or unqualified fidelity to any one state. Treacherous waters require careful navigation, an understanding of shifty and shifting allegiances. […]
Let the Investigation Begin: The International Criminal Court, Israel and the Palestinian Territories
International tribunals tend to be praised, in principle, by those they avoid investigating. Once interest shifts to those parties, such bodies become the subject of […]
Coronavirus Education: Learning and Teaching from the Margins
The coronavirus student, a species brought forth in the world of education by a pandemic that has killed over 450,000 people in the United States […]
Cowardly History: Australia Day and Invasion
It’s the sort of stuff that should have been sorted years ago in Australia: a murderous, frontier society ill disposed to the Indigenous populace; the […]