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Human potential is crushed by disaster capitalism

March 22, 2024 - 12:47 -- Admin

We must speak to people who require assistance and listen to their needs instead of speaking over them. In the case of Australia’s refugee policy, we wasted billions on toxic cruelty when we could have done much better by cooperating internationally and supporting people humanely. One of the “greatest pre-resettlement programs in the world” for…

Censors Celebrated: Misinformation and Disinformation Down Under

March 22, 2024 - 07:44 -- Admin

The heralded arrival of the Internet caused flutters of enthusiasm, streaks of heart-felt hope. Unregulated, and supposedly all powerful, an information medium never before seen on such scale could be used to liberate mind and spirit. With almost disconcerting reliability, humankind would coddle and fawn over a technology which would, as Langdon Winner writes, “bring…

Archer, Pocock win McKinnon Prize for outstanding political leadership

March 20, 2024 - 12:53 -- Admin

Federal Member for Bass Bridget Archer and ACT Senator David Pocock have been announced as winners of the McKinnon Prize, Australia’s independent, non-partisan award for outstanding political leadership. The McKinnon Prize is a collaboration between the Susan McKinnon Foundation and the University of Melbourne and has been awarded annually since 2017. The Prize was established…

R&D push will boost Australia by $100 billion and 42,000 new jobs

March 20, 2024 - 00:15 -- Admin

Science & Technology Australia Media Release   The Australian economy would be $100 billion bigger and boosted by 42,000 new jobs by hitting a target of investing 3% of GDP in research and development, new analysis by the nation’s peak body for science and technology has found.  Speaking at the National Press Club today, Science &…

Labor Hegemony Under Threat? Perspectives on the By-Election in Ipswich West

March 19, 2024 - 10:31 -- Admin

By Denis Bright   The tidal wave swing against Labor in the Ipswich West by-election on 16 March 2024 created no ripples on the stagnant Bremer River. Historic struggles on behalf of the Labor Movement will come and go in the future without any lasting effects from the by-election results. The Timothy Molony Oval in front…

Predictable Outcomes: Australia, the National Security Committee, and invading Iraq

March 19, 2024 - 08:09 -- Admin

Archivists can be a dull if industrious lot. Christmas crackers are less important than the new year announcement in Canberra, when the National Archives of Australia releases documents like the newborn into the information world. The event is not without irony, given that such documents are often aged and seasoned numbers, whiskered by storage and…

Dutton’s bid for nuclear power: hoax or reckless endangerment?

March 18, 2024 - 23:27 -- Admin

It’s incredible. Such is our love-in with Peter “Junkyard” Dutton, our former Border Overlord, who used to play the bad cop dispensing rough justice–doing whatever it took to keep us safe-that today, he’s being cheered by most of the press gallery for reckless endangerment in his punt on nuclear energy. Is it just to please…

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