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Filter our freedom of speech right
The new mandatory filtering regime proposed by the Government is the kind of election pledge most wish the Government would just forget about. It...
Do taxpayers really need to pay for the ABC any more?
Mark Latham is a fine example of the economic principle of specialisation and the division of labour. He is an excellent public intellectual but...
Not the Voice to Sell Our Values
In last Thursday's Bruce Allen Memorial Lecture, ABC managing director Mark Scott called for a significant expansion of the ABC as a global media...
Ultimate civic nonsense
Kevin Rudd announced on Tuesday that he wanted the federal government to be involved in the urban planning for Australia's cities. Presumably, he...
Consumerist kiddies? Come on, give them a little credit
There's a lot of rage directed at the advertising industry. The comedian Bill Hicks famously told his audience: "If anyone here is in marketing or...
Rule by nods and winks
The idea that anyone, let alone the government, has a clue about what the internet will look like in eight years' time is preposterous. In 2001 we...
Where's the breadth of vision in Rudd's broadband plan?
With the national broadband network (NBN), Kevin Rudd is stepping into the breach to save the Australian economy for the fifth time. Already we've...
The winds of change will not wait for Rudd's broadband
The failure of the National Broadband Network tender to find a sensible and willing private sector company is not surprising. But the failure...