The Costly Decline of Our Telecommunications Industry
The NBN is not only over budget, behind schedule and technologically buggered, it is driving down the value of a whole industry.
Media Failures and Politics – Part One
Media power has been around “forever”, and Chomsky’s seminal work on manufacturing consent is as relevant as ever – media is failing its intended role of keeping the powers that be to account.
Burmese Days
author: George Orwell name: Kim average rating: 4.53 book published: 1934 rating: 5 read at: 2019/06/09 date added: 2019/06/15 shelves: review: Colonialism laid bareWritten with much insight into the time and the place where the story is set, characters defined by a...
Independent media growth gathers pace!
Independent media growth in Australia is accelerating. As print media continues to decline, the mainstream media operators lose ground even faster in the online space. Independent media grew by 21.7% from February to May 2019.
Shadows of Uniformity
The new Shadow Cabinet mirrors the Government in more ways than intended, uninspiring in its uniformity, offering limited hope for new beginnings or imagination.
A Ministry of Mediocrity
In the (in)famous words of Donald Horne: “Australia is a lucky country run by mainly second-rate people who share its luck.” The new Morrison Government is a mostly uninspiring group lacking in diversity and bereft of vision.
The climate election that wasn’t
Climate inaction continues to be official government policy in Australia – it is a travesty and the blame is on everyone – including Labor and The Greens who had the opportunity to seize the day, but didn’t. Yet again.
The Battle of the One Percent won – for now.
This election proved to be no exception after all – politics is a battle over small margins, apathy reigns supreme among voters, the particracy rules and democracy is the loser every time.
Game of Votes
Just as Game of Thrones seems likely to end with a whimper, leaving someone in charge as corrupted by the process of getting there as the psychopath who crumbled under the weight of the rubble that killed the incumbent – Cersei Lannister – the Game of Votes may well end up proving that the more things change, the more they stay the same…
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