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Binoy Kampmark

Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He currently lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne and blogs at Oz Moses.

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The ABC's Colonel Blimp: why Kim Williams misunderstands Joe Rogan
Media - 2/12/2024 - 7 comments
Arrest warrants from the Hague: the ICC, Netanyahu and Gallant
International - 27/11/2024 - 6 comments
Fencing the ocean: Australia’s social media safety bill
Law & Liberties - 25/11/2024 - 14 comments
Thank you for emitting: the hypocrisies of COP29
International - 20/11/2024 - 6 comments
They were there first: election denialism, the Democratic way
International - 14/11/2024 - 2 comments
The musings of Shigeru Ishiba: visions of an Asian NATO
International - 11/11/2024
Virtuous, smug and venal: British electoral interference in the US
International - 4/11/2024 - 2 comments
Widening the war: the US sends troops to Israel
International - 31/10/2024 - 4 comments
Weak endeavours: the meekness of Australia’s anti-corruption body
Law & Liberties - 23/10/2024 - 1 comment
Welcome to tariff land: the retreat of free trade
Economics - 21/10/2024 - 3 comments
Handmaiden to the establishment: Peter Greste’s Register of Journalists
Media - 9/10/2024 - 3 comments
Zelenskyy joins the US election
International - 1/10/2024 - 2 comments
The illusion of a solution: killing Hassan Nasrallah
International - 30/09/2024 - 35 comments
Predatory instincts: the Phoney Pharaoh of Harrods
International - 23/09/2024 - 2 comments
Childish fantasies: age verification for social media down under
Law & Liberties - 18/09/2024 - 4 comments
Bypassing sanctions: Russia, trade routes and outfoxing the West
International - 13/09/2024 - 4 comments
Beware the derogators: the Geneva Conventions turn 75
Law & Liberties - 2/09/2024 - 1 comment
Violating the Sherman Act: Google's illegal monopoly
Science & Technology - 23/08/2024
The distasteful nonsense of Olympism
Sport - 19/08/2024 - 3 comments
AUKUS revamped: the complete militarisation of Australia
International - 13/08/2024 - 6 comments
Tim Walz for Veep: barely noticed or noticeable
International - 9/08/2024 - 3 comments
Olympian ordure: swimming in the Seine
Sport - 1/08/2024 - 2 comments
The Olympic Games: perennially costly and always over budget
Sport - 29/07/2024 - 4 comments
Conventional wisdom: the ICJ ruling on Israeli settlements
International - 24/07/2024 - 6 comments
Tony Blair: profiteer and emissary of artificial intelligence
Science & Technology - 18/07/2024
The convulsed republic: the shooting of Donald Trump
International - 15/07/2024 - 3 comments
Massacre at the ballot: the punishing of the Tories
International - 8/07/2024 - 3 comments
Assange's release: exposing the craven media stable
Media - 3/07/2024 - 1 comment
Hunted Biden: the first presidential debate disaster
International - 1/07/2024 - 3 comments
Victory for the Disposables: the sentencing of the Hindujas
Law & Liberties - 27/06/2024
Quixotic regulation: Australia’s eSafety Commissioner capitulates
Law & Liberties - 25/06/2024 - 1 comment
Ukraine, continued aid, and the prevailing logic of slaughter
International - 18/06/2024 - 5 comments
The EU elections: the march of the right
International - 13/06/2024 - 5 comments
Modi’s comeuppance: the waning of Hindutva
International - 10/06/2024 - 1 comment
Tory nightmares: the return of Nigel Farage
International - 7/06/2024 - 3 comments
Soaking Sunak calls the sodding election
International - 4/06/2024
A certain French stubbornness: violence in New Caledonia
International - 30/05/2024
The rages of equivalence: the ICC prosecutor, Israel and Hamas
International - 23/05/2024 - 1 comment
Dodging the issue: the Biden administration report on Israel's use of US weapons
International - 20/05/2024 - 5 comments
Dodging the issue: the Biden administration report on Israel’s use of us weapons
International - 15/05/2024 - 2 comments
A clubbable admission: Palestine's case for UN membership
International - 13/05/2024 - 14 comments
When safety is a fiction: passing the UK's Rwanda Bill
International - 6/05/2024
Warring against encryption: Australia is coming for your communications
Law & Liberties - 29/04/2024 - 1 comment
Censorship wars: Elon Musk, safety commissioners and violent content
Law & Liberties - 24/04/2024 - 17 comments
Faulty assurances: the judicial torture of Assange continues
Law & Liberties - 19/04/2024 - 3 comments
Aukusing for war: the real target is China
International - 16/04/2024 - 4 comments
Imperial fruit: bananas, costs and climate change
International - 3/04/2024 - 2 comments
Purgatorial torments: Assange and the UK High Court
Law & Liberties - 2/04/2024 - 6 comments
The AUKUS cash cow: robbing the Australian taxpayer
International - 28/03/2024 - 19 comments
Censors celebrated: misinformation and disinformation down under
Law & Liberties - 26/03/2024 - 7 comments
Matters of revenue: Meta abandons Australia's media stable
Media - 15/03/2024 - 5 comments
The campaign to free Assange: reflections on 'Night Falls'
Law & Liberties - 12/03/2024 - 9 comments
A wishful gamble: Rugby League in Las Vegas
Sport - 7/03/2024 - 2 comments
Wary of Sinophobia: Anwar Ibrahim at the ASEAN Summit
International - 6/03/2024 - 2 comments
Old problems with the new: reforming the UN Security Council
International - 28/02/2024 - 1 comment
Swiftie nonsense Down Under
Media - 23/02/2024 - 3 comments
When Scott Morrison met Nemesis
Domestic Politics - 19/02/2024 - 4 comments
Feathery infiltrators: the case of the pigeon spy
Humour & Satire - 16/02/2024 - 2 comments
Cannibalism, conservatives and lies: Australia’s Nemesis story
Domestic Politics - 6/02/2024 - 6 comments
When the cookie crumbled: the Ron DeSantis campaign ends
International - 31/01/2024 - 4 comments
The last flurry: the US Congress and Australian parliamentarians seek Assange’s release
Law & Liberties - 23/01/2024 - 8 comments
Futile and dangerous: bombing Yemen in the name of shipping
International - 18/01/2024 - 10 comments
Circle of secrecy: the Iraq War’s missing cabinet documents
Domestic Politics - 9/01/2024 - 2 comments
A merry AUKUS surprise, Western Australia!
International - 2/01/2024 - 4 comments
Flirting with nuclear energy down under
Environment - 18/12/2023 - 10 comments
COP28: where fossil fuel industries go to gloat
Environment - 12/12/2023 - 4 comments
Refreshing the Camelot school: Kennedy hagiography at sixty
International - 7/12/2023 - 1 comment
Henry Kissinger: snake oil salesman of gangster realism
International - 5/12/2023 - 4 comments
Rot in the civil service: farewelling Mike Pezzullo
Domestic Politics - 30/11/2023 - 6 comments
A duty to obey: David McBride, whistleblowing and following orders
Law & Liberties - 22/11/2023 - 13 comments
Sunak’s Dad’s Army option: David Cameron returns
International - 20/11/2023 - 4 comments
Unintended ironies: condemning the Armistice Day marches
International - 15/11/2023 - 1 comment
Viciousness regnant: humanitarianism as a weasel word
International - 14/11/2023 - 4 comments
Rishi Sunak's AI pitch: the Bletchley Declaration
Science & Technology - 9/11/2023 - 3 comments
NATO provoked Putin: Stoltenberg comes clean on the Ukraine War
International - 7/11/2023 - 7 comments
A losing voice: the fall of an indigenous referendum measure
Indigenous Affairs - 17/10/2023 - 7 comments
Flagging support: Zelenskyy loses favour in Washington
International - 4/10/2023 - 6 comments
The Angertainer steps down: Rupert Murdoch’s non-retirement
Media - 25/09/2023 - 5 comments
Destroying Chilean democracy: Australia’s covert role five decades on
International - 19/09/2023 - 7 comments
G20 Aesthetics: Modi's brutal Delhi facelift
International - 13/09/2023 - 5 comments
Educating the US Imperium: Australia’s mission for Assange
Law & Liberties - 7/09/2023 - 4 comments
Whitewashing Down Under: the Vietnam War fifty years on
International - 1/09/2023 - 8 comments
The Oppenheimer imperative: normalising atomic terror
Law & Liberties - 25/08/2023 - 5 comments
The censors down under: the ACMA gambit on misinformation and disinformation
Law & Liberties - 17/08/2023 - 11 comments
Water wars: cooling the data centres
Environment - 7/08/2023 - 5 comments
Barbie pathologies: it’s all about a doll
Society - 31/07/2023 - 3 comments
Congressional concerns: stalling nuclear submarines for Australia
Nation Building - 24/07/2023 - 6 comments
Loathsome amiability: why watching Utopia hurts
The Arts - 19/07/2023 - 6 comments
An accident waiting to happen: NATO looks to Asia
International - 12/07/2023 - 7 comments
Costly amalgamations: the university merger mania
Education - 6/07/2023 - 4 comments
The Saudi football seizure
Sport - 3/07/2023 - 2 comments
Deaths at sea: from the Titan to the Mediterranean
Media - 27/06/2023 - 24 comments
Forget the university: gift cards, professionalism and the Australian academy
Education - 26/06/2023 - 2 comments
Never more relevant: Ted Kaczynski, technology and trauma
Society - 20/06/2023 - 4 comments
Novak Djokovic: always more than tennis
Sport - 19/06/2023 - 5 comments
A matter of interest: the RBA, inflation and corporate profits
Economics - 12/06/2023 - 10 comments
AUKUS, Congress and cold feet
International - 7/06/2023 - 4 comments
Ben Roberts-Smith: the breaking of a plaster saint
Law & Liberties - 2/06/2023 - 29 comments
Modi in Australia: down under bliss for Hindutva
International - 29/05/2023 - 9 comments
Rogues and consultants: PwC, tax evasion and getting clients
Law & Liberties - 26/05/2023 - 8 comments
Imperial protectionism: US foreign policy for the middle class
International - 22/05/2023 - 6 comments
A certain form of thieving: the US banksters strike again
International - 15/05/2023 - 4 comments
Jerry Springer: ringmaster of civilization’s end
Media - 9/05/2023 - 3 comments
Barry Humphries: misunderstood anarchist of culture
The Arts - 4/05/2023 - 3 comments
Libelled by the bot: reputation, defamation and AI
Law & Liberties - 26/04/2023 - 8 comments
Penny Wong’s world view: AUKUS all the way
International - 21/04/2023 - 18 comments
AUKUS, the Australian Labor Party, and growing dissent
International - 29/03/2023 - 8 comments
From balloons to AUKUS: the war drive against China
International - 23/03/2023 - 7 comments
Branding the acceptable: battling cancel culture at Adelaide Writers' Week
Law & Liberties - 14/03/2023 - 2 comments
Doing Washington's bidding: Australia's treatment of Daniel Duggan
Law & Liberties - 6/03/2023 - 13 comments
Sensitivity rewrites: the cultural purging of Roald Dahl
Law & Liberties - 28/02/2023 - 3 comments
Energy wars: outing the Nord Stream saboteurs
International - 23/02/2023 - 13 comments
Irresponsible politics: Australia's B-52 nuclear weapons problem
International - 20/02/2023 - 12 comments
ChatGPT: boon for the lazy learner
Education - 15/02/2023 - 5 comments
Ballooning paranoia: the China threat hits the skies
International - 10/02/2023 - 14 comments
Doltish ways: Biden’s documents problem
International - 30/01/2023 - 2 comments
Nuclear submarine doubts: US lawmakers and AUKUS
International - 20/01/2023 - 16 comments
ExxonMobil: suppressing science and climate change
Environment - 18/01/2023 - 21 comments
Sportswashed: Ronaldo heads to Saudi Arabia
Sport - 9/01/2023 - 1 comment
Metaphors of belligerence: wars by and against nature
Environment - 4/01/2023 - 2 comments
The Wieambilla killings: the sense behind senseless murder
Law & Liberties - 30/12/2022 - 21 comments
Narcissism Inc: the Harry and Meghan production
International - 19/12/2022 - 3 comments
Basketball, Viktor Bout and troubling exchanges
International - 12/12/2022 - 4 comments
The raider spirit: the unveiling of the B-21
International - 8/12/2022 - 13 comments
Tuvalu, climate change and the metaverse
Law & Liberties - 2/12/2022 - 15 comments
Football capitulates at Qatar
International - 28/11/2022 - 6 comments
The secret wars of the US Imperium
International - 21/11/2022 - 6 comments
Micronations: eccentric and unthreatening
Nation Building - 17/11/2022 - 4 comments
Giorgia Meloni: the great replacement moves in
International - 19/10/2022 - 5 comments
Data retention and the devotees of mass surveillance
Law & Liberties - 14/10/2022 - 8 comments
The Liz Truss disaster show
International - 10/10/2022 - 23 comments
Opportunistic interests: the US-Pacific Island Declaration
International - 4/10/2022 - 1 comment
Breaching human rights: Australia, climate change and the Torres Strait Islands
Law & Liberties - 27/09/2022 - 3 comments
Shoddy consultations: Santos, drilling and First Nations peoples
Law & Liberties - 26/09/2022 - 5 comments
Royal money: Charles III and the wealth dimension
International - 19/09/2022 - 5 comments
Dunderheaded Diplomacy: Australia’s funding offer to the Solomon Islands
International - 13/09/2022 - 7 comments
Whistleblowing at Twitter: Mudge spills the beans
Science & Technology - 30/08/2022 - 3 comments
The Maybe Mob and the Rushdie attack
Law & Liberties - 26/08/2022 - 10 comments
Europe dries up
Environment - 24/08/2022 - 8 comments
The failings of Westminster: Scott Morrison's shadow government
Law & Liberties - 17/08/2022 - 5 comments
Stumbling surveillance: the end of the COVIDSafe app
Law & Liberties - 16/08/2022 - 17 comments
Nancy Pelosi, you silly biddy
International - 8/08/2022 - 12 comments
The fuss about Monkeypox
Health - 5/08/2022 - 12 comments
Facial recognition technology down under
Science & Technology - 1/08/2022 - 5 comments
AUKUS, technology and militarising Australia
International - 26/07/2022 - 12 comments
Get Gota: holding a war criminal accountable
International - 21/07/2022 - 5 comments
Vicarious zeal: fighting to the last Ukrainian
International - 18/07/2022 - 16 comments
Hoist with their own petard: Wimbledon’s Russian player ban
Sport - 11/07/2022 - 3 comments
AUKUS submarines: beasts of nuclear proliferation
International - 7/07/2022 - 6 comments
Overruling Roe v Wade: the international dimension
International - 5/07/2022 - 46 comments
'Top Gun: Maverick' - the Pentagon recruitment drive
International - 28/06/2022 - 4 comments
Weapons of faith: the arming of American schools
International - 15/06/2022 - 9 comments
Election gambit: Australia, Sri Lanka and politicising asylum
International - 3/06/2022 - 4 comments
The economy of tolerable massacres: the Uvalde shootings
International - 30/05/2022 - 1 comment
The great Teal tsunami: arise Australia’s independents
Domestic Politics - 25/05/2022 - 13 comments
Greg Norman: Saudi Arabia’s sportswashing emissary
International - 12/05/2022 - 1 comment
Leaking for Roe v Wade
International - 9/05/2022 - 4 comments
Panic in Kooyong: the threat to the Australian Liberal Party
Domestic Politics - 5/05/2022 - 6 comments
Slaying the dragon of Net Zero emissions
Environment - 29/04/2022 - 25 comments
Fibbing on Anzac Day
Domestic Politics - 27/04/2022 - 3 comments
The 'China threat' and the Solomon Islands
Economics - 20/04/2022 - 7 comments
Political appointments: downgrading the Australian Human Rights Commission
Law & Liberties - 13/04/2022 - 4 comments
AUKUS in the Hypersonic Missile Wonderland
International - 8/04/2022 - 7 comments
Give me that flipper Shane
Sport - 4/04/2022 - 2 comments
Aroused by power: why Madeleine Albright was not right
International - 29/03/2022 - 7 comments
When politics kills: Kimberley Kitching, politics and bullying
Domestic Politics - 21/03/2022 - 2 comments
Business as usual: Facebook, Russia and hate speech
Media - 15/03/2022 - 10 comments
Advertising gimmicks: Australia's nuclear-powered submarines
International - 9/03/2022 - 4 comments
Russia's invasion of Ukraine: outing the Iraq War white washers
International - 7/03/2022 - 4 comments
Antarctica: where realpolitik and science meet
Science & Technology - 1/03/2022 - 3 comments
Innate warmongering: seeing conflict in Ukraine as inevitable
International - 23/02/2022 - 13 comments
Failure in Moscow: Liz Truss loses Britannia’s way
International - 18/02/2022 - 7 comments
The day the ninth life ended: reflections on a passing cat
Society - 15/02/2022 - 4 comments
Bickering gatekeepers: the HMB Endeavour spat
International - 11/02/2022 - 5 comments
Hemispheric gangsterism: the US embargo against Cuba turns 60
International - 8/02/2022 - 3 comments
With intent to harm: the CIA, schizophrenia and Denmark's children
Law & Liberties - 1/02/2022 - 4 comments
One drinks party too many: Boris Johnson and breaching lockdowns
International - 19/01/2022 - 7 comments
Julian Assange: a thousand days in Belmarsh
Law & Liberties - 14/01/2022 - 7 comments
The mauling of Novak Djokovic
Law & Liberties - 11/01/2022 - 14 comments
In search of shallow doctrines: Joe Biden and Trumpism shorn
International - 6/01/2022 - 2 comments
Double standards: The UK-Australian Free Trade agreement
Economics - 23/12/2021 - 2 comments
Ineffectual boycotts: the Beijing Winter Olympics
Law & Liberties - 13/12/2021 - 4 comments
Punishing the unvaccinated: Europe's COVID-19 health experiment
Health - 9/12/2021
Arming against China: the US global posture review
International - 7/12/2021 - 2 comments
Totalitarian cyber-creep: Mark Zuckerberg in the metaverse
Science & Technology - 25/11/2021 - 2 comments
Gasbagging in Glasgow: COP26 and phasing down coal
Environment - 18/11/2021 - 12 comments
Lying in public life: the Scott Morrison formula
Domestic Politics - 15/11/2021 - 9 comments
Hypersonic panic and competitive terror
International - 8/11/2021 - 10 comments
Melbourne: the longest in lockdown
Health - 28/10/2021 - 3 comments
Cancelling cartoonists
Media - 27/10/2021 - 3 comments
War talk from the Mad Monk: Tony Abbott goes to Taiwan
International - 20/10/2021 - 9 comments
Funeral rites for COVID Zero
Health - 18/10/2021 - 2 comments
Trump, Twitter and the digital town hall
Law & Liberties - 7/10/2021 - 3 comments
Trumpism with a Biden face: US Haitian policy
International - 28/09/2021 - 2 comments
The Anglo unilateralists strike
International - 20/09/2021 - 28 comments
Bitcoin the Messiah: El Salvador goes crypto
Economics - 16/09/2021 - 3 comments
Messianic failure: pursuing the GWOT Jabberwock
International - 13/09/2021 - 11 comments
Patriotic snitch: Bob Hawke as US informant
Domestic Politics - 7/09/2021 - 10 comments
The neocons speak: Afghanistan as political real estate
International - 30/08/2021 - 2 comments
Wounded paternalism: Biden and the US 'Imperial Complex'
International - 23/08/2021 - 5 comments
The Taliban take Kabul
International - 17/08/2021 - 13 comments
Cultivated delusions at the Tokyo Olympics
Sport - 10/08/2021 - 2 comments
Sanitising censorship: the Twitter-AP-Reuters news partnership
Media - 6/08/2021 - 3 comments
Greenwashing the Tokyo Olympic Games
Sport - 4/08/2021 - 5 comments
Tokyo's pandemic Games
Sport - 28/07/2021 - 4 comments
Mr Branson goes to space
Nation Building - 20/07/2021 - 13 comments
Sydney Mockdown: the delta variant strikes
Health - 14/07/2021 - 12 comments
The known knowns of Donald Rumsfeld
International - 6/07/2021 - 5 comments
Clinching in the breach: Matt Hancock resigns
International - 2/07/2021 - 6 comments
The insurgency against big oil
Environment - 25/06/2021 - 18 comments
Vaccine failings: the European Commission and AstraZeneca
Health - 23/06/2021 - 2 comments
The conviction and sentencing of Witness K
International - 21/06/2021 - 2 comments
Vague alternatives and G7 summitry: the 'Build Back Better' world initiative
International - 16/06/2021 - 4 comments
ET, you bore me: unidentified aerial phenomena and the Pentagon
International - 14/06/2021 - 4 comments
Of plagues and rodents: Australia’s war against mice
Environment - 9/06/2021 - 4 comments
Laying the bear trap: Orbán visits No 10 Downing Street
International - 2/06/2021 - 11 comments
How it all went wrong: the global response to COVID-19
Health - 28/05/2021 - 6 comments
Liz Cheney, Dick Cheney and the rule of law
International - 26/05/2021 - 4 comments
The gilt comes off: Singapore goes into lockdown
International - 20/05/2021 - 9 comments
Held to ransom: Colonial pipeline and the vulnerabilities of critical infrastructure
International - 17/05/2021 - 2 comments
Mike Pezzullo and giving war a chance
International - 30/04/2021 - 12 comments
Ethnic engineering: Denmark's ghetto policy
International - 28/04/2021 - 8 comments
Exiting Afghanistan: Biden sets the date
International - 21/04/2021 - 5 comments
Nimble Failure: the Australian COVID-19 vaccination program
Health - 14/04/2021 - 5 comments
When Prince Philip became a monument
International - 12/04/2021 - 3 comments
The future of Australian universities: bogans of the Pacific
Education - 8/04/2021 - 10 comments
Cancelling art, Dark Mofo and the offended classes
The Arts - 30/03/2021 - 32 comments
Coming to the playing field: Biden puts Australia first
International - 25/03/2021 - 7 comments
Green passes and dark inequalities: the push for COVID immunity passports
Health - 22/03/2021 - 2 comments
Matters of communication: Handelsblatting the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine
Health - 17/03/2021 - 2 comments
Eyes on China: the Quad takes scattered aim
International - 15/03/2021 - 4 comments
Brawling over vaccines: export bans and the EU’s bungled rollout
Health - 9/03/2021 - 6 comments
War mongering for artificial intelligence
Science & Technology - 5/03/2021 - 1 comment
Refriended in defeat: Australia strikes a deal with Facebook
Media - 25/02/2021 - 9 comments
Facebook unfriends Australia: the triumph of epistemic chaos
Media - 23/02/2021 - 8 comments
Information Interruptus: Bing, Google and the News Media Bargaining Code
Media - 17/02/2021 - 4 comments
Going airborne: Coronavirus and hotel quarantine
Health - 8/02/2021 - 6 comments
The Mad Monk strikes: Tony Abbott, taxi rides and Coronavirus despotism
Health - 29/01/2021 - 31 comments
Encircling China and praising India: the US strategic framework for the Indo-Pacific
International - 19/01/2021 - 4 comments
Twitter nukes Trump
International - 13/01/2021 - 6 comments
Trump, insurrections and the 25th Amendment
International - 11/01/2021 - 8 comments
‘It’s not as bad as Iwo Jima, I suppose’: the Julian Assange extradition verdict
Law & Liberties - 6/01/2021 - 13 comments
Tinkering with national anthems: Australia’s patriotic song for children
Indigenous Affairs - 4/01/2021 - 20 comments
Endings for beginnings: reaching a Brexit deal
International - 29/12/2020 - 1 comment
Yuletide lockdowns and cancelling Christmas
Health - 24/12/2020 - 31 comments
Brexit, billionaires and the little people
International - 21/12/2020 - 5 comments
Hoarding the jabs: the inequalities of vaccine distribution
Health - 18/12/2020 - 18 comments
Fish wars and Brexit
International - 17/12/2020 - 8 comments
Irresponsible happenings: Juukan Gorge, Rio Tinto and the Never Again Report
Indigenous Affairs - 14/12/2020 - 15 comments
Think tankers against China: the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
International - 9/12/2020 - 10 comments
The David McBride case: whistleblowing, Afghanistan and Australian war crimes
International - 4/12/2020 - 44 comments
Skewed responsibility: Australian war crimes in Afghanistan
International - 27/11/2020 - 25 comments
Covid offices and the religion of remote work
Society - 23/11/2020 - 2 comments
A dedicated obsession: Washington's continuing Iran sanctions regime
International - 19/11/2020 - 4 comments
Petitions, probes and Rupert Murdoch
Media - 13/11/2020 - 8 comments
Biden's victory: a eunuch presidency beckons
International - 10/11/2020 - 22 comments
The US Republic, Trump and the authoritarian fear-mongering club
International - 5/11/2020 - 11 comments
Google meets the Sherman Act
Law & Liberties - 3/11/2020 - 3 comments
Poor timing: Cartier meets Australia Post
Domestic Politics - 27/10/2020 - 12 comments
Tarnished crown: finding the thorns of a gambling empire
International - 23/10/2020 - 1 comment
Sloppy methodology: social media, censorship and New York Post’s Hunter Biden story
International - 20/10/2020 - 6 comments
Dropped prosecutions: the Afghan files, public interest journalism and Dan Oakes
Law & Liberties - 19/10/2020 - 6 comments
Omnibus collisions: Coronavirus policing and aoerreach in Victoria
Law & Liberties - 13/10/2020 - 3 comments
Matters of international justice: challenging Trump's ICC sanctions
International - 9/10/2020 - 5 comments
Lunar lunacy: competition, conflict and mining the Moon
Economics - 7/10/2020 - 8 comments
Dean Jones: life of a cricketing entertainer
Sport - 29/09/2020 - 9 comments
Dangerous streamlining: emergencies, militarisation and civil liberties
Economics - 22/09/2020 - 5 comments
Pandemic reflexes: lockdowns and arrests in Victoria, Australia
Law & Liberties - 7/09/2020 - 11 comments
The sentencing of Brenton Tarrant: jailing the man, not the Great Replacement
Law & Liberties - 3/09/2020 - 28 comments
Free speech be damned: Joshua Krook and the Australian Public Service
Law & Liberties - 27/08/2020 - 3 comments
Google’s open letter: fighting Australia’s news media bargaining code
Law & Liberties - 19/08/2020 - 4 comments
Macron lectures Lebanon: the condescending politics of aid
International - 14/08/2020 - 12 comments
Big tech antics: the data robber barons appear before Congress
Media - 11/08/2020
Death from the sky: Hiroshima and normalised atrocities
International - 10/08/2020 - 20 comments
Mealy-mouthed universities: academic freedom and the Pavlou problem down under
Education - 7/08/2020 - 15 comments
Pulling out of Germany: Trump adjusts the military furniture
International - 3/08/2020 - 26 comments
Mephistopheles of Wall Street: Goldman Sachs, 1MDB and the Malaysian Settlement
International - 28/07/2020 - 2 comments
Zombie seizures: the hacking of twitter
Science & Technology - 24/07/2020 - 2 comments
Spiteful authority: Malaysia goes for the journalists
International - 14/07/2020 - 1 comment
Spiked concerns: the Melbourne coronavirus lockdown
Health - 10/07/2020 - 27 comments
Killing koalas: the promise of extinction Downunder
Environment - 6/07/2020 - 13 comments
Boycotting Facebook and the Stop Hate for Profit Campaign
Law & Liberties - 2/07/2020 - 5 comments
Bolton’s memoir bolts from the stable
International - 29/06/2020 - 5 comments
Obvious maladies: prepublication reviews and Trump’s Bolton problem
International - 23/06/2020 - 30 comments
Sticks, stones and death in Galwan Valley
International - 22/06/2020 - 2 comments
Woked in fright: the brief banning of Fawlty Towers
Law & Liberties - 15/06/2020 - 25 comments
Radical reforms: disbanding police forces in the US
International - 10/06/2020 - 17 comments
Misconduct, the University of Queensland and Drew Pavlou
Law & Liberties - 8/06/2020 - 7 comments
Let's burn the whole thing down: death, protest and George Floyd
International - 3/06/2020 - 31 comments
One rule for me and another for everyone else: the Cummings Coronavirus factor
Health - 29/05/2020 - 10 comments
Why thinking makes it so: Donald Trump’s Obamagate fixation
International - 25/05/2020 - 31 comments
Patriotic vaccines: the divided Coronavirus cause
Health - 19/05/2020 - 3 comments
Tara Reade, the Democrats and Joe Biden's woman problem
International - 11/05/2020 - 8 comments
Brutal choices: Anders Tegnell and Sweden’s herd immunity goal
Health - 4/05/2020 - 11 comments
Threatening the governors: William Barr’s commercial and civil liberties brief
International - 28/04/2020 - 6 comments
Coronavirus socialism for the wealthy
Economics - 16/04/2020 - 8 comments
University bailouts, funding and Coronavirus
Education - 7/04/2020 - 22 comments
The Swedish alternative: Coronavirus as a grand gamble
Health - 1/04/2020 - 15 comments
Coronavirus and the prison industrial complex
Health - 31/03/2020 - 9 comments
Business as usual: Coronavirus, Iran and US sanctions
International - 25/03/2020 - 9 comments
Britannic Herd Immunity and Coronavirus
Health - 20/03/2020 - 21 comments
For heaven's sake sanitise! Coronavirus as a way of life
Health - 18/03/2020 - 9 comments
Toilet paper blues: coronavirus and pandemic pantries
Health - 13/03/2020 - 36 comments
Golden anniversaries for flawed treaties: the NPT turns fifty
International - 12/03/2020 - 2 comments
Strong man legacies: burying Mubarak
International - 9/03/2020 - 1 comment
Daring to kiss: Coronavirus and the Butterfly Effect
Health - 5/03/2020 - 20 comments
Julian Assange, the glass cage and heaven in a rage: day four of extradition hearings
International - 2/03/2020 - 7 comments
Julian Assange, political offences and legal restraints: day three of extradition hearings
Law & Liberties - 28/02/2020 - 20 comments
Julian Assange against the Imperium: day two of extradition hearings
Law & Liberties - 27/02/2020 - 6 comments
Julian Assange and the Imperium's face: day one of the extradition hearings
Law & Liberties - 26/02/2020 - 12 comments
The priorities of General Motors: ditching Holden
Economics - 20/02/2020 - 5 comments
Disease diplomacy and the heavy hand: China and the coronavirus problem
International - 17/02/2020 - 4 comments
Subverting the blacklist: Kirk Douglas's modest contribution
Media - 13/02/2020 - 4 comments
Triumphal divisions: Trump's State of the Union address
International - 7/02/2020 - 26 comments
Hillary Clinton versus Mark Zuckerberg
International - 6/02/2020 - 6 comments
Muddling Democrats: chaos in the Iowa Caucus
International - 5/02/2020 - 6 comments
Brexit Day
International - 3/02/2020 - 11 comments
Split hearings: the Assange extradition case drags on
Law & Liberties - 29/01/2020 - 3 comments
Diminishing returns: calculated misery in air travel
Society - 23/01/2020 - 4 comments
Short of time: Julian Assange at the Westminster Magistrates Court
Law & Liberties - 21/01/2020 - 14 comments
Vague imminence: US policy, pre-emptive force and Qasem Soleimani
International - 17/01/2020 - 21 comments
Incendiary extinctions: Australian fires and the species effect
Environment - 13/01/2020 - 16 comments
Disruptive assassinations: killing Qassem Soleimani
International - 7/01/2020 - 7 comments
Scapegoats for the real killers of Jamal Khashoggi
International - 3/01/2020 - 3 comments
Medical opinion, torture and Julian Assange
Law & Liberties - 24/12/2019 - 21 comments
Climate change accounting: the failure of COP25
Environment - 17/12/2019 - 18 comments
The Bloomberg factor: authoritarianism, money and US presidential politics
International - 13/12/2019 - 16 comments
Lethal visits: volcano tourism and the White Island eruption
Law & Liberties - 11/12/2019 - 14 comments
Going to the ICJ: Myanmar, genocide and Aung San Suu Kyi’s gamble
International - 9/12/2019 - 4 comments
Popes against nuclear weapons
Law & Liberties - 2/12/2019 - 4 comments
Dropped investigations: Julian Assange, sex and Sweden
Law & Liberties - 22/11/2019 - 12 comments
Letting the side down: Prince Andrew, the royal family and Jeffrey Epstein
Media - 19/11/2019 - 16 comments
Russian connections in Albion: the ISC report
International - 13/11/2019 - 2 comments
Charter for conservatism: the ALP campaign review
Domestic Politics - 11/11/2019 - 12 comments
Tethering Pegasus: WhatsApp takes NSO Group to court
Law & Liberties - 5/11/2019 - 2 comments
A touch of plagiarism: the Nazari precedent
Education - 31/10/2019 - 2 comments
Libra and Calibra: Mark Zuckerberg appears before Congress
International - 29/10/2019 - 2 comments
Brand Trudeau wins a second term
International - 25/10/2019 - 2 comments
Celebrity protesters and Extinction Rebellion
Environment - 22/10/2019 - 7 comments
Internal dissolution: Brexit and the Disunited Kingdom
International - 14/10/2019 - 1 comment
Cynical enterprises: the Kurds await their fate
International - 11/10/2019 - 35 comments
Turning 70: Xi Jinping's People's Republic of China
International - 7/10/2019 - 2 comments
When convenience counts: leaking, whistleblowing and the Democrats
International - 1/10/2019 - 3 comments
Scott Morrison’s China thesis
International - 30/09/2019 - 3 comments
Rotten in Tunisia: the corrupt rule of Ben Ali
International - 24/09/2019 - 4 comments
Improper purposes: Boris Johnson's suspension of parliament
International - 16/09/2019 - 9 comments
Spikes of violence: protest in West Papua
International - 12/09/2019 - 30 comments
Robert Mugabe’s legacy: revolution, amity and decline
International - 10/09/2019 - 7 comments
Justifications for inequality: the neuroses of Kochland
Political Philosophy - 3/09/2019 - 5 comments
Unhinged before the Fall: Boris Johnson, parliament and Brexit
International - 2/09/2019 - 9 comments
Imperial sentiments: Donald Trump, Greenland and colonial real estate
International - 29/08/2019 - 11 comments
Fast bowling, concussions and Jofra Archer
Sport - 22/08/2019 - 2 comments
God, guns and video games
Law & Liberties - 19/08/2019 - 20 comments
Conspiracy, death and Jeffrey Epstein
International - 13/08/2019 - 11 comments
Caught in the Strait
International - 9/08/2019 - 18 comments
Cheering a new arms race: the end of the INF
International - 7/08/2019 - 6 comments
Publishing stolen material: WikiLeaks, the DNC and freedom of speech
International - 2/08/2019 - 22 comments
Top End travels: the Tiwi Islands, the Catholic Church and King Joe of Melville Island
Society - 30/07/2019 - 9 comments
Olive reincarnations and Elvis on Mars: Boris Johnson becomes British PM
International - 25/07/2019 - 13 comments
Lunar narratives: landing on the moon, politics and the Cold War
Science & Technology - 22/07/2019 - 11 comments
Donald Trump, the Democrat Squad and failed impeachment
International - 19/07/2019 - 19 comments
Spying on Julian Assange: UC Global, CNN and Russian couriers
Law & Liberties - 18/07/2019 - 12 comments
Going Nuclear in the Antipodes: Australia’s megadeath complex
International - 10/07/2019 - 13 comments
Dressed for the Fourth of July: the US Imperium comes out
International - 9/07/2019 - 6 comments
Facebook, funny money and Libra
Economics - 3/07/2019
Childish diplomacy: Donald Trump’s new play against Iran
International - 28/06/2019 - 3 comments
Violent voyeurism: surveillance, spyware and human rights
Law & Liberties - 26/06/2019 - 3 comments
The fragility of democracy: Hong Kong, China and the Extradition Bill
International - 19/06/2019 - 6 comments
Julian Assange and the scales of justice: exceptions, extraditions and politics
Law & Liberties - 17/06/2019 - 5 comments
Cleansing the platforms: YouTube, censorship and grievance
Media - 13/06/2019 - 5 comments
Social democracy with an inhumane face: Denmark's left wing swerves to the right
International - 11/06/2019 - 8 comments
Warring against sources: the Australian national security state, journalism and the public interest
Law & Liberties - 7/06/2019 - 36 comments
Lies in politics: Boris Johnson, the law and the European Union
Law & Liberties - 3/06/2019 - 5 comments
The Espionage Act and Julian Assange: the US Justice Department expands its case
Law & Liberties - 27/05/2019 - 10 comments
The victory of small visions: Scott Morrison retains government
Domestic Politics - 21/05/2019 - 15 comments
Bob Hawke: misunderstood in memoriam
Domestic Politics - 20/05/2019 - 3 comments
Lowering standards: Australian universities, English requirements and student cash cows
Education - 17/05/2019 - 7 comments
A great flushing out: social media footprints and electioneering in Australia
Domestic Politics - 14/05/2019 - 6 comments
Hoaxing cultural studies: Sokal 2.0
Education - 3/05/2019 - 4 comments
Corporate Joe: Biden enters the presidential race
International - 29/04/2019
Lethal bungling: Sri Lanka’s Easter bombings
International - 24/04/2019 - 8 comments
Burning Gothic: reflections on Notre-Dame de Paris
Religion & Spirituality - 23/04/2019
Shredding asylum: the arrest of Julian Assange
Law & Liberties - 15/04/2019 - 29 comments
Night parrot confections: the dangers of discovering the elusive
Environment - 10/04/2019 - 3 comments
Angles of tolerance: Yusuf Islam in Christchurch
International - 1/04/2019 - 14 comments
Michael Jackson, convenient freak
Law & Liberties - 29/03/2019 - 23 comments
Disinviting Jordan Peterson: the Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge and approved ideas
Society - 25/03/2019 - 49 comments
Reading manifestos: restricting Brenton Tarrant’s The Great Replacement
Law & Liberties - 21/03/2019 - 9 comments
The dangers of values: Brenton Tarrant, Fraser Anning and the Christchurch shootings
Society - 18/03/2019 - 50 comments
Militarised conservation: paramilitary rangers and the WWF
Environment - 13/03/2019 - 2 comments
The cardinal can do no wrong: George Pell's defenders
Law & Liberties - 11/03/2019 - 50 comments
The showbiz of conservation: PETA, Google and Steve Irwin
Environment - 7/03/2019 - 12 comments
Walkout in Hanoi: the second Trump-Kim summit
International - 4/03/2019
Size matters: the demise of the A380
Economics - 25/02/2019 - 7 comments
Means of control: Russia’s attempt to hive off the Internet
International - 15/02/2019 - 2 comments
Football, refugee rights and Hakeem al-Araibi
Law & Liberties - 14/02/2019 - 15 comments
Sharp manias: knife crime in London
International - 8/02/2019 - 4 comments
'Instagram Helped Kill My Daughter': censorship tendencies in social media
Law & Liberties - 31/01/2019 - 4 comments
Spy theories and the White House: Donald Trump as Russian agent
International - 22/01/2019 - 8 comments
Trump, Bolton and the Syrian confusion
International - 18/01/2019
Oaked fires in Serbia
Religion & Spirituality - 14/01/2019
Biting into Apple: the giant's revenues fall
Economics - 10/01/2019 - 2 comments
Agreed rules, COP24 and climate change protest
Environment - 3/01/2019 - 27 comments
The Christmas 1914 truce
Society - 2/01/2019 - 2 comments
Cooking books and limiting responsibility: Goldman Sachs in Malaysia
International - 31/12/2018 - 2 comments
May days in Britain
International - 19/12/2018 - 10 comments
Steve Bannon at Oxford
Political Philosophy - 17/12/2018
Exhuming Franco: Spain’s immemorial divisions
International - 14/12/2018 - 3 comments
Eyes without the prize: stripping Aung San Suu Kyi's awards
International - 11/12/2018 - 4 comments
Security derangement complex: technology companies and Australia’s anti-encryption law
Law & Liberties - 10/12/2018 - 3 comments
Mutual decline: the failings of student evaluations
Education - 3/12/2018 - 8 comments
A parliament of irresponsibility: Peter Dutton, section 44 and pecuniary interests
Law & Liberties - 30/11/2018 - 8 comments
Fanciful notions: European armies, Trump and NATO
International - 29/11/2018 - 7 comments
Coming up against Yellow Vests: Emmanuel Macron’s fuel problem
International - 26/11/2018 - 7 comments
Forgetting Jamal Khashoggi: Donald Trump, Saudi Arabia and brute realism
International - 23/11/2018 - 27 comments
The disgruntled former prime minister
Domestic Politics - 16/11/2018 - 44 comments
Politicised victimhood: Ukraine's Holodomor, genocide and intent
Law & Liberties - 12/11/2018 - 1 comment
Losing users: Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook problems
Media - 5/11/2018 - 3 comments
The tyranny of fashion: shredding Banksy
The Arts - 22/10/2018 - 1 comment
Embassy disappearances: Jamal Khashoggi and the foreign policy web
International - 19/10/2018 - 7 comments
Orson Welles, broadcasts and fake news
The Arts - 11/10/2018 - 6 comments
Augmenting brains: Google turns twenty
Law & Liberties - 2/10/2018 - 1 comment
Parasitic and irrelevant: the university vice chancellor
Education - 26/09/2018 - 16 comments
Deplatforming Germaine Greer
Law & Liberties - 20/09/2018 - 15 comments
Doctrines of impunity: John Bolton and the ICC
Law & Liberties - 14/09/2018 - 5 comments
The natural enemy: Serena Williams and the sporting umpire
Sport - 12/09/2018 - 20 comments
Repudiating the global commons: Trump’s militarisation of space
International - 3/09/2018 - 3 comments
Ambushing Pope Francis: the accusations of Cardinal Viganò
Religion & Spirituality - 30/08/2018 - 3 comments
Sodding the Australian voter: accidental prime ministers and political indulgence
Domestic Politics - 27/08/2018 - 15 comments
Charisma and banality: Kofi Annan and the UN
International - 22/08/2018 - 2 comments
Readying knives: the mortality of Australian prime ministers
Domestic Politics - 21/08/2018 - 10 comments
Using the burka: Boris Johnson’s bid for popularity
Law & Liberties - 15/08/2018 - 39 comments
The non-university and the manager
Education - 10/08/2018 - 7 comments
Trillion dollar companies: the Apple empire and concentrated markets
Science & Technology - 9/08/2018 - 6 comments
The lasting condition: drought in Australia
Nation Building - 7/08/2018 - 9 comments
The death of the investigative journalist: Channel Nine’s takeover of Fairfax
Media - 2/08/2018 - 15 comments
Soft Brexits and hard realities: the Tory revolt
International - 11/07/2018 - 6 comments
The lures of kleptocracy: Malaysia's Najib condition
International - 6/07/2018
Defeat in Sochi: Australia’s World Cup campaign ends
Sport - 28/06/2018 - 6 comments
The food of movement: Anthony Bourdain's Universal Eater
Society - 12/06/2018 - 3 comments
Elite atrocities: Australia's Special Forces in Afghanistan
Law & Liberties - 11/06/2018 - 17 comments
Universities, branding and Saudi Arabia
Education - 31/05/2018 - 2 comments
A very republican sickness: loving royal weddings
Society - 21/05/2018 - 3 comments
The commercial heavens: the new Australian space agency
Science & Technology - 16/05/2018 - 3 comments
'Return of the Mummy': Mahathir Mohamad and the Malaysian elections
International - 11/05/2018 - 8 comments
Sugar demons, sweet lobbies and taxes
Health - 2/05/2018 - 7 comments
Enoch Powell: blood speeches and anniversaries
Law & Liberties - 26/04/2018 - 4 comments
Admiring Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg goes before congress
Media - 13/04/2018 - 20 comments
Indulgent violence: the legacy of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
International - 9/04/2018 - 4 comments
The temptations of ball tampering: Steve Smith's Australian team in South Africa
Sport - 26/03/2018 - 8 comments
The ease of accusation: the Skripal affair
International - 23/03/2018 - 26 comments
Fictional free trade and permanent protectionism: Donald Trump's economic orthodoxy
Economics - 22/03/2018 - 5 comments
John Brennan's Trump problem
International - 21/03/2018 - 1 comment
Art and exploitation: Ai Weiwei, dissidence and the refugee crisis
The Arts - 14/03/2018
Bullied relations: Australia, East Timor and natural resources
International - 9/03/2018 - 5 comments
Weaponising rumour: Australia's new political sensitivity
Domestic Politics - 5/03/2018 - 12 comments
Arming educators: Trump, gun violence and schools
International - 26/02/2018 - 16 comments
George Brandis, the rule of law and populism
Law & Liberties - 15/02/2018 - 4 comments
Outing the US empire: Trump's military parade
International - 12/02/2018 - 9 comments
Big power diversions: Olympic diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula
International - 22/01/2018 - 2 comments
Gangs, race and Melbourne
Law & Liberties - 4/01/2018 - 19 comments
Journeying to the DMZ
International - 29/12/2017 - 4 comments
The ‘Me Too’ movement, sexual politics and unnatural justice
Law & Liberties - 18/12/2017 - 25 comments
The ‘Me Too’ movement, sexual politics and unnatural justice
Law & Liberties - 15/12/2017 - 32 comments
Hopes and nightmares over crypto currencies
Economics - 11/12/2017 - 5 comments
Milo in Australia: Yiannopoulous, free speech and violence
Law & Liberties - 8/12/2017 - 16 comments
Hopes and nightmares over crypto currencies
Economics - 6/12/2017 - 8 comments
The rhetorical trap: North Korea as 'state sponsor of terrorism'
International - 28/11/2017 - 13 comments
A new movement of rights and the right in Australia
Law & Liberties - 22/11/2017 - 6 comments
Idiot voters and trolling the Internet: Russia, social media giants and US elections
International - 15/11/2017 - 8 comments
Fixations of propriety: the Manus closure scandal
Law & Liberties - 13/11/2017 - 25 comments
Why WikiLeaks was right: rigging the democratic way
International - 7/11/2017 - 13 comments
Strafing parliament: Australia's High Court citizenship ruling
Law & Liberties - 30/10/2017 - 16 comments
When conspiracies meet: Donald Trump and the JFK files
International - 24/10/2017 - 5 comments
The trans-Tasman spat show: New Zealand-Australian tensions
International - 23/10/2017 - 14 comments
Vengeful in defeat: Hillary Clinton fantasises about WikiLeaks
International - 18/10/2017 - 20 comments
Kurdistan's referendum gamble
International - 3/10/2017 - 4 comments
The intolerance of tolerance: Tony Abbott's head butt episode
Law & Liberties - 26/09/2017 - 11 comments
Energy chaos in Australia: closing the Liddell Power Station
Economics - 14/09/2017 - 24 comments
Durable conspiracies: twenty years after Princess Diana's death
Society - 4/09/2017 - 5 comments
Resting Sea Shepherd: a pause in the whale war saga
Environment - 30/08/2017 - 18 comments
Lying about citizenship: Australian politicians before the high court
Law & Liberties - 28/08/2017 - 26 comments
The long, long story: 'Principled Realism', Trump and Afghanistan
International - 24/08/2017 - 4 comments
The burka comes to parliament: Pauline Hanson's panto
Religion & Spirituality - 21/08/2017 - 47 comments
Breaking the seal: child abuse and the confessional
Law & Liberties - 18/08/2017 - 26 comments
A plague on parliament: Australia's citizenship crisis
Law & Liberties - 16/08/2017 - 6 comments
Believing in deterrence: responding to North Korea
International - 14/08/2017 - 4 comments
Memories of futility: the Passchendaele method of war
International - 9/08/2017 - 7 comments
Reviving the cult of Princess Diana
Media - 2/08/2017 - 15 comments
The passing of Mr Football: Les Murray, Australia and the world game
Sport - 1/08/2017 - 1 comment
Mum did it: the Canavan argument, citizenship and the Australian constitution
Law & Liberties - 28/07/2017 - 11 comments
Slaying in Minneapolis: Justine Damond, shooting cultures and race
Law & Liberties - 26/07/2017 - 5 comments
Archaic obstacles: Australia, parliament and dual citizenship
Law & Liberties - 21/07/2017 - 56 comments
Barclays in hot water: the Qatar connection
Economics - 23/06/2017 - 5 comments
Teasing Theresa: the EU, Brexit and the British Elections
International - 16/06/2017 - 12 comments
James Comey's testimony
International - 13/06/2017 - 36 comments
Dreams of detention
Law & Liberties - 12/06/2017 - 21 comments
Terror as opportunity: exploiting the London attacks
Law & Liberties - 8/06/2017 - 10 comments
Predictable exits: Trump and the Paris agreement
Environment - 5/06/2017 - 9 comments
Forrest donations and false charity
Economics - 1/06/2017 - 10 comments
Coral Sea mythology: Malcolm Turnbull's fictions
International - 11/05/2017 - 32 comments
Ice and busts: the lost war on drugs in Australia
Law & Liberties - 7/04/2017 - 14 comments
The demon drink and cricket sponsorship
Sport - 27/03/2017 - 6 comments
Free speech confusions: Australia's Q&A program
Law & Liberties - 17/03/2017 - 16 comments
It did not take much to see Parliament being fetishised, the sacred cow., the bulwark against an evil European bureaucracy
International - 3/02/2017 - 11 comments
Ignored ironies: women, protest and Donald Trump
International - 24/01/2017 - 62 comments
Pathological terror: health fears ahead of Trump's inauguration
International - 19/01/2017 - 7 comments
Cities of sickness: pollution, dementia and the modern condition
Health - 10/01/2017 - 10 comments
From white to black: the colours of Brexit
International - 20/12/2016 - 1 comment
The passing of a sharp tongue: the glorious hatchet of AA Gill
Media - 15/12/2016 - 3 comments
Baggy green woes: the crisis of Australian cricket
Sport - 23/11/2016 - 2 comments
Fantasies of impeachment and protest: continued misreadings of Donald Trump
International - 17/11/2016 - 8 comments
Waking up in Trumpland: the new USA
International - 10/11/2016 - 5 comments
Propositions, measures and the presidency: voting American style
International - 9/11/2016 - 5 comments
Nobel confusion: Ramos-Horta, Trump and world disorder
International - 28/10/2016 - 15 comments
Risk, danger and cricket: the death of Phillip Hughes
Sport - 17/10/2016 - 6 comments
Bartering on refugees: the Costa Rica solution
International - 23/09/2016 - 6 comments
Australia's global 'exit': tribalism and international institutions
International - 16/09/2016 - 41 comments
The value of false expectations: Islamic State, lone wolf attacks, and Australia
International - 9/09/2016 - 15 comments
Stretching the kill chain: Malcolm Turnbull, the ADF and Islamic State
Law & Liberties - 5/09/2016 - 7 comments
Closing Manus Island's detention centre: the search for alternative cruelties
Law & Liberties - 22/08/2016 - 23 comments
Refugee trauma on Nauru: the leaked incident reports
Law & Liberties - 11/08/2016 - 13 comments
Proposed indefinite detention laws in Australia
Law & Liberties - 9/08/2016 - 22 comments
Rubbishing Pauline Hanson: the campaign continues
Domestic Politics - 3/08/2016 - 20 comments
Kevin Rudd's failed UN Secretary General bid
International - 29/07/2016 - 18 comments
The Northern Territory, torture, and Australia's detention disease
Law & Liberties - 28/07/2016 - 41 comments
Australia's Malcolm Turnbull: the failure of success
Domestic Politics - 20/07/2016 - 1 comment
The virtues of hung parliaments
Political Philosophy - 7/07/2016 - 8 comments
Rubbishing Brexit: post-referendum malevolence in action
International - 27/06/2016 - 3 comments
Clipping academic freedom: Australian university management
Law & Liberties - 15/06/2016 - 13 comments
Investigating the banksters
Law & Liberties - 13/04/2016 - 7 comments
Diminishing democracy: the Australian senate changes
Political Philosophy - 7/03/2016 - 12 comments
Australia, terrorism and throwing away the key
Law & Liberties - 17/12/2015 - 28 comments
Paris, the terrorists' magnet
Political Philosophy - 16/11/2015 - 53 comments
Paying the problem: Australia and the people smuggling industry
Law & Liberties - 2/11/2015 - 30 comments
The fall of Tony Abbott
Domestic Politics - 15/09/2015 - 11 comments
Abbott's Syrian refugee solution
International - 9/09/2015 - 20 comments
Closing in: Tony Abbott and the electoral letter of suicide
Domestic Politics - 17/08/2015 - 24 comments
Paying the people smugglers: the Abbott Government joins the industry
Law & Liberties - 15/06/2015 - 11 comments
The Alan Bond principle: how greed and capital triumph
Society - 9/06/2015 - 8 comments
Citizenship and terrorism: the Abbott recipe
Law & Liberties - 2/06/2015 - 56 comments
The failings of capital punishment: Indonesia executes the traffickers
Law & Liberties - 30/04/2015 - 14 comments
Richie Benaud and cricket’s broadcasting life
Sport - 11/04/2015 - 1 comment
Malcolm Fraser and the politics of ruthlessness
Domestic Politics - 23/03/2015 - 4 comments
David Hicks and the death of a legal system
Law & Liberties - 20/02/2015 - 72 comments
Permanent dysfunctionalism: Australia's leadership disease
Domestic Politics - 10/02/2015 - 24 comments
Cruelty in PNG: hunger strike on Manus Island
Law & Liberties - 22/01/2015 - 55 comments
Exaggerating the terror genie: reflections on a fake sheik
Law & Liberties - 17/12/2014 - 131 comments
They are coming for you: ASIO, surveillance and Australia's new security laws
Law & Liberties - 29/09/2014 - 45 comments
Team Australia: from bad fashion to bad politics
Domestic Politics - 1/09/2014 - 84 comments
The benefits of war: Afghan helpers and Abbott’s 'discrete settlement' program
Law & Liberties - 5/06/2014 - 6 comments
ICAC: purpose without follow through
Law & Liberties - 15/05/2014 - 4 comments
Top Gear in the soup: Clarkson, nursery rhymes and political correctness
Law & Liberties - 7/05/2014 - 10 comments
Terror, laws and oversight: mixed blessings of the National Security Monitor
Law & Liberties - 26/03/2014 - 6 comments
A question of accountability: credit rating agencies, investments and councils
Law & Liberties - 6/03/2014 - 4 comments
The demon of Transfield: sponsorship, the arts and detention centres
Law & Liberties - 3/03/2014 - 14 comments
Business models and preventing asylum: the death of Reza Berati
Law & Liberties - 26/02/2014 - 24 comments
Breaching sovereignty: Australia, Indonesia and the law of the sea
International - 21/02/2014 - 35 comments
Toyota, closures and protectionism
Economics - 13/02/2014 - 29 comments
Emasculating the public broadcaster: Tony Abbott and the ABC
Media - 10/02/2014 - 28 comments
Free speech battles: narrowing racial vilification in Australia
Law & Liberties - 13/11/2013 - 27 comments
The mess of marriage equality: the ACT and the constitution
Law & Liberties - 1/11/2013 - 20 comments
Bikie laws sicken civil liberties
Law & Liberties - 29/10/2013 - 20 comments
A parliament of leakers: WikiLeaks and the new vision
Political Philosophy - 9/08/2013 - 6 comments
Farewell to Gillard, enter the old
Domestic Politics - 27/06/2013 - 15 comments
Angelina Jolie: breasts, celebrity and choice
Society - 16/05/2013 - 8 comments
Economic blockade and WikiLeaks: Iceland and beyond
International - 30/04/2013 - 1 comment
Suspected but not charged: the Rolf Harris problem
Law & Liberties - 23/04/2013 - 21 comments
Rough paternalism: the Conroy media proposals
Law & Liberties - 19/03/2013 - 4 comments
Loathing democracy: knifing the electorate's wishes
Domestic Politics - 8/03/2013 - 6 comments
Horse spotted in Lasagne: British food insecurity
Health - 15/02/2013 - 6 comments
Must be Indian: human settlement in Australia
Indigenous Affairs - 21/01/2013 - 16 comments
The problem of gun control: the myth of American uniqueness
Law & Liberties - 20/12/2012 - 25 comments
Operation Pillar of Defence: death via social media
International - 21/11/2012 - 8 comments
Good bile and bad: tolerating Alan Jones
Media - 3/10/2012 - 24 comments
Paper king of the Gray Lady: Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
Media - 2/10/2012
Medal madness and sporting myopia: Australia's misery continues
Sport - 8/08/2012 - 2 comments
Star gazing and politics: battling for the Square Kilometre Array
Science & Technology - 29/05/2012 - 6 comments
Bungling over Mladic: The Tribunal’s ‘unpleasant surprise’
International - 21/05/2012
Strings of power: Rupert Murdoch and the Leveson Inquiry
Media - 30/04/2012 - 7 comments
The burdens of history: remembering Sarajevo
International - 10/04/2012
George Galloway and his own British Spring
International - 3/04/2012 - 16 comments
Farewell to print: remodelling the Encyclopaedia Britannica
Media - 19/03/2012
Dingos and babies
Society - 28/02/2012 - 4 comments
Monuments to 'Reason': De Botton's temple exercise
Religion & Spirituality - 21/02/2012 - 21 comments
The farce of protection: humans, human rights, and Syria
International - 20/02/2012 - 2 comments
The Wikipedia Blackout: Congress and digital erasure
Media - 20/01/2012 - 4 comments
Murderous marines: the Wuterich trial
Law & Liberties - 18/01/2012 - 6 comments
Absurdity and truth: the passing of Václav Havel
International - 21/12/2011 - 2 comments
In Russian politics there is method in their acting
International - 12/12/2011 - 1 comment
Assassins of Memory: The problem with targeting Bin Laden
Media - 16/11/2011 - 5 comments
Globalising the Occupation: Wall Street and the world
Economics - 14/10/2011 - 3 comments
A continuing debate? Protectionism and free trade in Australia
September 2011 Feature - 21/09/2011 - 2 comments
Taking the Vatican to the cleaners: the ICC lawsuit
Law & Liberties - 15/09/2011 - 8 comments
Happy anniversary: ten years of the US Security State
International - 11/09/2011 - 5 comments
The fall of the Malaysian solution: The High Court decision
Law & Liberties - 1/09/2011 - 10 comments
Looting in London: the end of the social contract
International - 11/08/2011 - 56 comments
The virtues of being mad: Anders Breivik and Europe's exoneration
Political Philosophy - 28/07/2011 - 7 comments
The passing of Dr Death: The Kevorkian legacy
Law & Liberties - 13/06/2011
Food Wars: Denmark’s War on Marmite
International - 8/06/2011 - 7 comments
The capture of Ratko Mladic
International - 30/05/2011 - 1 comment
Eurovision in Düsseldorf: From Magic Men to Haba Haba
Humour & Satire - 17/05/2011
Osama Bin Laden, dead and alive
International - 2/05/2011 - 16 comments
The travails of space: the Gagarin adventure
International - 13/04/2011 - 3 comments
Heading to the bottom: the NSW elections
March 2011 Feature - 22/03/2011
The Tucson killings: the battle over mind
International - 13/01/2011 - 4 comments
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks and the virtues of secrecy
Media - 16/12/2010
High Court restores rights to refugees
Law & Liberties - 12/11/2010 - 30 comments
Muddled over Banksy: street art in Melbourne
The Arts - 6/10/2010 - 3 comments
Going Mad in New Delhi: The Commonwealth Games in Crisis
Sport - 27/09/2010 - 8 comments
‘Clairvoyant crime busters’: using psychic powers in policing
Law & Liberties - 23/08/2010 - 34 comments
‘The canary in the coal mine’: the Israeli Lobby in San Francisco
International - 1/07/2010 - 12 comments
Rotten in Victoria: The Carl Williams Case
Law & Liberties - 28/04/2010 - 1 comment
Tasmanian Greens and the terror of coalitions
Domestic Politics - 24/03/2010 - 13 comments
Trouble at 'The Lancet': Wakefield and the medical profession
Science & Technology - 10/02/2010 - 2 comments
When men do stare at goats
The Arts - 9/12/2009
Don’t give us your wretched ... this is Australia
Political Philosophy - 2/11/2009 - 26 comments
S*xing the politician: the Della Bosca scandal
Domestic Politics - 11/09/2009 - 3 comments
Sporting violence in Oz: the acceptable vice
Sport - 7/08/2009 - 5 comments
The same old story: torture and accountability
Law & Liberties - 1/05/2009 - 13 comments
Disestablishment and worried Anglicans
Law & Liberties - 21/04/2009 - 8 comments
The politics of empathy: David Cameron and Ivan’s death
International - 2/03/2009 - 1 comment
The perils of Gaza: Israel and Hamas
International - 8/01/2009 - 8 comments
Death of a friend: the end of 'The Religion Report'
Religion & Spirituality - 30/10/2008 - 19 comments
How not to understand anti-Americanism
International - 4/09/2008 - 9 comments
Beyond apology?
International - 22/08/2008 - 3 comments
Olympia and Hetty
The Arts - 18/07/2008 - 20 comments
Voting at York: women bishops and the Anglican Church
Religion & Spirituality - 11/07/2008 - 7 comments
The progress of defeat: the withdrawal of Australian forces
International - 10/06/2008 - 11 comments
Fearing reality: Bill Henson and the Australian wowser
The Arts - 29/05/2008 - 43 comments
UFOs, ufology and the British public
Society - 23/05/2008 - 7 comments
Beauty and whiteness: the Indian Premier League
Sport - 2/05/2008 - 5 comments
Boycott or abolition? The politics behind the Beijing Olympiad
Sport - 15/04/2008 - 13 comments
Socialism for the rich: the unwise free market
Economics - 31/03/2008 - 4 comments
When ethics don’t matter: Kerviel and Société Générale
Economics - 31/01/2008 - 4 comments
The American Primaries: the US Presidential race so far
International - 22/01/2008 - 5 comments
A sorry responsibility
Political Philosophy - 29/11/2007 - 18 comments
Eyes wide shut
Domestic Politics - 9/11/2007 - 6 comments
Environmental Gore: A Nobel Argument
International - 22/10/2007 - 1 comment
Hunting in the Algarve: the Madeleine disappearing act
International - 17/09/2007 - 5 comments
Gordon Ramsay and the death of gastronomy
Society - 4/09/2007
Giving good face
Media - 17/08/2007 - 2 comments
The inventiveness of John Howard - the SIM card terror case
Domestic Politics - 23/07/2007 - 47 comments
Boycotting the Academy
International - 2/07/2007 - 15 comments
How to become a conspiracy theorist
June 2007 Feature - 14/06/2007 - 18 comments
American re-visions: it’s all about us
International - 6/06/2007 - 14 comments
When massacres are normal: guns and Virginia Tech
International - 18/04/2007 - 22 comments
Was it legal? The Howard Government’s handling of MV Tampa
International - 15/01/2002 - 1 comment
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