Precarious Communications: Julian Assange, Internet Access and Ecuador
Being a netizen, to use that popular term of sociological derivation, can be a difficult business. It presumes digital engagement, often of the sharper sort. […]
Politics
Matt Canavan tells the press club that our current tax system is “very competitive”
Resources Minister Senator Matt Canavan addressed the National Press Club today. When asked by David Denham from Preview Magazine if declining trends in exploration and […]
Shorten smells blood
Bill Shorten can smell blood and is becoming bolder by the week. His announcement last week that the cash payments tied to the dividend imputation […]
The racist Immigration Minister
Sometime in 2014, journalist Rob Burgess interviewed former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser and discussed refugee policy. During the discussion, apparently Fraser made a prediction. Burgess […]
“As surely as night follows day” doesn’t equate to evidence
The government has offered no evidence whatsoever that their proposed company tax cut will lead to more investment, more jobs and higher wages other than […]
Turnbull lost down dangerous data mine-shaft.
“The federal Liberal Party must and does stay within the law, and we will always do that. It is crucial we do that if we’re […]
Women will never achieve their potential under a Coalition government
Much has been written about the lack of women in Coalition ranks, and with good reason, but it is also the quality of those women […]
Just not right
By Kyran O’Dwyer There has been much written about such things as perception, bias, dishonesty, all manner of things relating to the media, our political […]
Wage Rises in the Neoliberal New World Order
Neoliberals are often wrong but never in doubt. In pursuing its corporate tax cut agenda the Government is attempting to shift the industrial relations paradigm […]
Death and Impunity: Iraq Fifteen Years After
It might have made a bit more than a whimper had the US political scene not found itself in yet another paroxysm of the drama […]
China following the West’s example
By Dr Strobe Driver Having been in Taiwan for approximately one month, I have watched the constant commentary regarding the Taiwan-China crisis. To state that […]
Listening to industry lobby groups results in poor policy every time
There was a time when politicians were advised by an apolitical public service whose department heads and senior management had expertise and a wealth of […]
When your own side does it
Friday 23 March 2018 1 The Labor Party, yes the one you have supported all your life, is caught rorting the system, or the taxpayer, or […]
Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and Surveillance Capitalism
Whether it creeps into politics, marketing, or simple profiling, the nature of surveillance as totality has been affirmed by certain events this decade. The Edward […]
Can you help me?
Thursday March 22 2018 In 2016 I wrote a series of articles about the state of our democracy, and from them I deduced what I […]