Should the media act more responsibly?
By Dave Chadwick The public’s hunger for every image and piece of information about terrorist acts and mass murders does not always need to be […]
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Terrorism – The bottom line
By Richard O’Brien So what does Daesh (aka ISIS/ISIL/IS) really stand for? Profit. With assets of around US$2 billion – much of it obtained from […]
Terrorism in Australia
I wonder how I would feel about the title of this article if I lived in Syria or Lebanon, Somalia or Pakistan, Yemen, Palestine, Israel, […]
Turnbull v Abbott: PM in an age of terror
Insofar as personality is a signifier of leadership ability (and like it or not, it is probably the most important characteristic as far as the […]
Metadata, Australia and Edward Snowden
By Daniel Ellery I have some thoughts, one being that this war on ‘terrorism’ has created through surveillance on unparalleled scales, the largest form of […]
Ok. I’m convinced. Terrorism is THE BIGGEST threat to Australia right now.
I have to confess that it’s taken me a while to get here. A few months back, when Tony Abbott said: “Daesh is coming, if […]
Australia and public safety
Domestic Violence According to the most recent National Homicide Monitoring Program (NHMP) annual report, there have been more than 6,200 homicides in Australia since data […]
Deconstructing a dog whistle
Tony Abbott’s government has taken some body-blows in recent weeks, and Abbott’s own leadership standing is suffering. Some say that this is due to a […]
Prime Minister, Why haven’t you called Putin?
Tony Abbott you are weak. When interviewed by Fran Kelly on ‘Insiders’ this morning you were asked if you had called Vladimir Putin. You said […]