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Fake news or no news? The folly of Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code
Kim Wingerei: Michael West Media Meta’s declaration that Facebook will no longer pay (some) Australian publishers for their news content has again highlighted the folly of the News Media Bargaining Code. It’s a poor solution to the wrong problem. Facebook’s threat to...
A Cosmic ‘Speed Camera’ just revealed the Staggering Speed of neutron star jets in a World First
James Miller-Jones, Curtin University How fast can a neutron star drive powerful jets into space? The answer, it turns out, is about one-third the speed of light, as our team has just revealed in a new study published in Nature. Energetic cosmic beams known as jets...
Censors Enthroned: Australia’s Misinformation and Disinformation Bill. The Sirens should be going off.
By Binoy Kampmark: Michael West Media Should the government decide what news is appropriate and what is not for its people? The heralded arrival of the Internet caused flutters of enthusiasm, streaks of heart-felt hope. Unregulated, and supposedly all powerful, an...
The Amputated Limbs Of Children
Listen to a reading by Tim Foley: “I want my legs back,” the girl cried in Arabic.“I want my legs back.” You can’t have your legs back, little girl.They have been eaten by a hungry machinewho needs them for fuel to power its gears. The machine needs your legs
“Rules-Based Order” Means Rules For Thee But Not For We
Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ Israel’s allowed to bomb an Iranian consulate, but Iran’s not allowed to strike back. The US is allowed to surround China with war machinery, but it would be World
Assange Extradition Case Moves Forward While The CIA Covers Its Tracks
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): So they’re really doing it. The Biden administration is really ignoring Australia’s request to end the case against Julian Assange, and they’re proceeding with their campaign to extradite a journalist for telling the truth about US war crimes.
EASTER BUNNY SENDS YOU GREETINGS
In the minds of most Australians, not just the 10% who go to Church, what is the foremost reason we have for celebrating Easter? It’s time to be honest with ourselves as a nation and acknowledge an order of priority instead of pretending to be religious. Firstly, most...
‘DINNER WITH THE FOUNDING FATHERS’
Enjoy reading my book about how Edmund Barton and Alfred Deakin and other giants of Australian History created a nation of six States on New Years Day, 1901, the very first Australia Day. It was an extraordinary achievement that was attained within 12 years from when...
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Terra nullius 2.0 – what AUKUS means for First Nations peoples
The ramifications of the military alliance between Australia, the United Kingdom and United States (AUKUS) will weigh heavily on First Nations communities for generations to come, as the Commonwealth of Australia cedes lands and waters that never belonged to them, in a bid to become the 51st state of the
Black Life, Black Solidarity, and Late Stage Settler Colonialism
Life – Black life – does not stop once the article is written and the words are published. I wrote the first of what was intended to be a series of five articles for IndigenousX in August last year. Black Grief and the Elimination of the Native traced the ways
“They just rounding us up like cattle” The catastrophic failure of emergency services in Borroloola.
Despite what we’re seeing in the mainstream media, emergency services in the Northern Territory have failed the residents of Borroloola. Community members are left confused and fearful, as flooding continues to inundate the town. I have spoken at length with Garawa Elder and Borroloola resident Jack Green, who explained that:
Mandating social changes to achieve net zero emissions is a fool’s game!
World DEMAND for the products and fuels made from fossil fuels that did not exist before the 1800’s is GIVING dollars to oil producers to increase SUPPLY, then claiming the suppliers are then causing climate change. Thanks to all the products and fuels human ingenuity has been able to develop
UN prolongs Israel-Gaza war by keeping Gazans penned in Gaza
Dry Bones 15 February 2024: Nothing has changed The continuing failure of the United Nations and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) to transfer Gaza’s women, children, the sick and the elderly to the safety of 50 of its refugee camps
Cancellation
There is a lot of commentary about academics being cancelled for expressing their views, especially in the US where hundreds have been fired. But Australia is lucky to be a decade behind the US in many things. My experience is that academic cancellation is not something that currently is of
Imagine This…
Imagine this scenario. All across Australia, as children in pre-school colour-in dinosaur pictures and make clay cupcakes, a sinister thing is happening. It is revealed that 39.2% of them have been subjected to abuse. Some have been bashed, and some have even been sexually assaulted. What do you think would
Inspiring women: Jen Webb
BroadAgenda is featuring a short series of profiles on amazing women and LGBTIQ + folks. You’re about to meet Distinguished Professor of Creative Practice at the University of Canberra, Jen Webb. If you were sitting next to someone at a dinner party, how would you explain your work and research
Recognising diverse perspectives in environmental accounting
Have you ever heard of the concept “what gets measured, gets managed”? It means that when we put a value on something, people are more likely to pay attention to it. This approach is traditionally used in business settings but has become increasingly relevant for environmental issues. Implementing this concept
Lost in the supermarkets, the housing crisis, factchecking the IPA and the war against the new Governor-General
In this new episode of New Politics, we explore the pressing concerns impacting Australians today. Starting with the grocery and supermarkets sector, we analyse the interim report from the Food and Grocery Code Review which highlights the significant power imbalance favouring major supermarkets like Coles, Woolworths, and Aldi. We discuss
A new crisis in Gaza, fair politics, immigration law and Liberal’s preselection fail
In this episode of New Politics, we explore a series of pressing global and domestic issues that have unfolded recently. We start with a development in Gaza, where the killing of Zomi Frankcom, an Australian working for the food charity World Central Kitchen, has sparked international controversy. Initially attributed to
Sweeping campaign and donation reforms needed for democratic renewal
In recent years, the discourse surrounding political campaign and donation reform in Australia has reached a tipping point and it’s clear to most people that change is needed. Spearheaded by the crossbench, including the Australian Greens and independent politicians, there has been a renewed push for sweeping changes to how