Tag: regulars
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Ice Cream, Politics & Gossip Girl: What Happened to Climate Change
One of the most intriguing things about the current state of politics, both in Australia and worldwide, is the reconfiguring of people’s policy priorities from, say, five years ago. In Australia, as around the world, the last decade was dominated by debates over what leading policymakers have called a “diabolical policy problem” and “the most […]
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Something Happened: If You Don’t Know About Him, You Should
There’s always a push-back against any form of social progression. The current brouhaha over gay marriage is much the same issue, traditionalists using whatever means and tools that come to hand to defend what they see as a traditional or biblical definition of marriage versus those who see it as a demonstration of love or […]
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Lizzette the Agony Aunt: Timmy Greenberg and the ATO
Dear Miss Aunty lady, Hi there, it’s Timmy Greenberg here again, I wrote to you last year about helping me not get kidnapped by rapists, and to help my Mummy not be so worried about it. But now she’s all scared again, because we’re going to America soon for a holiday and she is worried […]
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Spotlight on UNSW: Nicholas Cowdery
Nicholas Cowdery AM QC is the former Director of Public Prosecutions in NSW from 1994 to 2011 and has over 40 years of experience in the criminal law. Cowdery is currently a visiting professorial fellow in the UNSW Faculty of Law and a member of the Australian Drug Law Reform Initiative based out of that […]
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Something Happened: How Dan Nolan Would Run Fairfax
If you’re at all interested in the state of media in Australia you probably would have heard that Fairfax has laid out a new strategy for how it is going to survive in the age of the internet. They’re changing to a tabloid format to save paper, people are getting fired left, right and centre, […]
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Ice-Cream, Politics & Gossip Girl: What’s Wrong with the Olympics?
Every four years when the Olympics roll around I make a big fuss about “bullshit nationalism,” the government “wasting money on elite sport” and “stupid commentators and awful coverage.” But inevitably I end up staying up till 4am watching ridiculously obscure sports that I would never normally pay attention to like badminton, handball and dressage. I’ve spent a fair bit of time thinking about why, […]