the end game
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange is slowly dying in a UK prison, as the US maintains its fight to have him die in theirs – but there is hope.
1 August 2021
human rights
This Election, Say Yes To Action On Climate Change, And No To White Supremacists
And here we all are, pencils poised — at least those of us who didn’t already get it over with at prepoll — to pronounce judgement on six years of Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison.
17 May 2019
christmas island cruelty theatre
We paid $180m for Scott Morrison to have a press conference on Christmas Island. The blunder could be the most politically costly press conference ever.
3 April 2019
cypherpunks and surveillance power
Let’s go looking for the best examples of how people are building something better, something that delivers on the internet’s original promise. Let’s signal boost the good stuff for a change.
1 April 2019
trapped in a national security script
In two crisp sentences on an Insiders panel, News Corp columnist Niki Savva expressed everything that’s wrong with how the media and political classes deal with the strands of authoritarianism creeping into Australian life
6 December 2018
never forget samarco
Attention fades faster than the destructive impacts of the Samarco dam disaster
3 November 2018
is this Australia’s refugee tipping point?
There is a tipping point where suddenly political advantage comes from demonstrating humanity rather than working to extinguish it. But has Australia reached that point yet?
29 October 2018
learning from history in bougainville
Recently released economic analysis could signal great things for the PNG island, but only if lessons are learned from its catastrophic history.
12 September 2018
It’s Going To Be A Shitshow
So now it really begins. Scott Morrison has been extruded into the Prime Minister’s office after a week of mesmerisingly incompetent stabbings and betrayals.
27 August 2018