Viktor Orbán’s Soros Problem
Where there are refugees and asylum seekers, there will be the assistants, the exploiters and the opportunists. The global anti-refugee sentiment has become an industrial […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Defeat in Sochi: Australia’s World Cup Campaign Ends
“Disappointing is the word. Empty is the other word.” (Mile Jedenak, Jun 26, 2018). Australia was always the outsider in the tournament, and a loitering […]
Evading Medical Care: Australia’s Refugee Arrangements with Taiwan
It is a credit to the venality of Australia’s refugee policy that much time is spent on letting others do what that particular country ought […]
The Catholic Church in Resistance: Priests, Child Abuse, and Breaking the Seal of the Confessional
The tradition is represented as noble, the confiding link between confessor and penitent, a bridge never to be broken, even under pain of death. Taken […]
Leaving the UN Human Rights Council
The margin between what is a human right as an inalienable possession, and how it is seen in political terms is razor fine. In some […]
Rocking the G7: Trump Stomps His Allies
Disruption, disturbance, eruption, the words crowning the presidency of Donald J. Trump, who has effectively demonstrated an idea made famous by Nazi doodler of law […]
Embers and Death at the Victoria Park Hotel: The Anguish for Lost Buildings
We came across a skeleton of a building bristling with warnings: Asbestos, Stay Out; Danger, Do Not Enter. The sense was that entering this site […]
Dark Precedents: Matteo Salvini, the MV Tampa and Refugees
In August 2001, Australia’s dour Prime Minister John Howard demonstrated to the world what his country’s elite soldiers could do. Desperate, close to starvation and […]
Pushing Huawei Out: Australia, the Solomon Islands and the Internet
Be wary of the Chinese technological behemoth, goes the current cry from many circles in Australia’s parliament. Cybersecurity issues are at stake, and the eyes […]
Meeting on the Island of Death From Behind: The Kim-Trump Summit
Everything about this summit is in the showy warm-up run. “I am on my way to Singapore,” tweets US President Donald J. Trump, “where we […]
The Ramsay Twist: Australian University Funding and Western Civilisation
There is a lot of tattle going on about why the Australian National University rebuffed, after a series of talks, the offer for the establishment […]
Elite Atrocities: Australia’s Special Forces in Afghanistan
“Further into the Afghanistan mission, after multiple deployments, soldiers began to refer to members going ‘up the Congo’.” (Chris Masters, The Sydney Morning Herald, Jun […]
The Food of Movement: Anthony Bourdain’s Universal Eater
Bruce Chatwin considered movement the indispensable feature of the human species. Sedentary natures killed through asphyxiation; a refusal to move suggested an acceptance of death. […]
Dazzled by Tech: Universities, Googlification and Microsoft
The mechanical, robotic striving of university politburos and their jack boot managers have always been interesting when it comes to one particular topic: the role […]
Twats and Tweets: Roseanne Barr and the Issue of Proportion
Can anything be said that doesn’t warrant an empaneled jury of twitting twats to determine the fate of an individual? It is evident that branding, […]