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 […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
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 […]
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 […]
Going Airborne: Coronavirus and Hotel Quarantine
It has happened again. This time, a diligent worker, having followed all the protocols given to him, had returned a positive result for COVID-19. The […]
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 […]
Boris Johnson and the Deaths of the Hundred Thousand
Not exactly Thermopylae. Not even close. The hundred thousand who have now been taken by COVID-19 in Britain were not determined warriors holding up the […]
The Mad Monk Strikes: Tony Abbott, Taxi Rides and Coronavirus Despotism
This is a man who decries the use of experts. He prefers things rough, ready, pungent with vernacular promise and populist feeling. To be in […]
Not Knowing What You Stand For: Deborah Birx and Public Health
Pity the public health official tasked with convincing those beyond convincing that a pandemic crisis is worthy of serious consideration. This is further complicated in […]
Masking Up under Biden: The Perils of Tribalism, Bureaucracy and Lawsuits
One crackling theme streaking through the US elections of 2020 was the issue of mask wearing. Critics initially felt that facemasks were of the too […]
Sunk before Service: Australia’s Disastrous Submarine Project
One only gets into the submarine procurement business to spite government treasurers and economic managers. Efficiency and effectuality are bonus additions, but hardly necessary. Witness […]
Reading the COVID Fine Print: The Undoing of the Australian Open
The decision to go ahead with the Australian Open, the first of the grand slams of the tennis calendar, was always going to be fraught […]
Trigger Finger for Armageddon: Trump and the Thermonuclear Monarchy
It is the sort of breezy, skimpy and careless reasoning that is laying the ground for the Biden Republic. A person, kicked off a social […]