Leadership and other news
Explainer: how does a leadership spill work?
All that trouble for a phantom challenge
Why new media reforms are bad news for Australian content
Protectionism: a matter of national pride
What price is too much for a cultured society?
Media reforms a historic opportunity missed
Government newspaper subsidies: threat to democracy or essential to its survival?
Crean’s coup flops as Rudd fades away
Twitter celebrates its seventh birthday
Doing business behind China’s ‘Great Firewall‘
Google Reader Death May Aid Internet Censorship
Just How Fast Are China’s Internet Censors? Very.
Related articles
New news – with a SciTech focus
NSW laws passed to end right to silence
Counting the hidden costs of energy
Lie detectors and anti-doping – who’s kidding who?
Explainer: Conroy’s proposed new media laws
Newsroom cuts a turnoff for readers: report
Eurozone crisis: A Timeline of events – three years of pain
Cyprus savings levy: fair or foul?
Researchers explore positive social and cognitive effects of video games
Despite bumps in the rollout, households show strong support for the NBN
Wicked Campers may face police action over ‘offensive’ slogans
Cut cost of generic medicines and save a billion
Please check out Google News’ Science and Technology tabs. There are HUNDREDS of useful, readable and relevant updates.
Why tax reform can help reduce problem gambling
Earth Hour increases emissions: Claim
Cyberlinguistics: recording the world’s vanishing voices
Qwerty keyboards: Time for a rethink?
Google Fibre is totally awesome, but it’s also completely unnecessary
Sandberg: Speak up, believe in yourself, take risks
Conroy proposes media reforms: the experts respond
Landmark homelessness report from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
Invasion ripped apart a nation, causing misery
In Pathological Gambling, Problems Differ With Age
Lights Out in the City That Never Sleeps
Criminal Justice issues
Criminal justice system faces four inquiries
Australian lawyers look outside the courtroom
VIDEO EVIDENCE KEY TO POLICE BRUTALITY CASES
Bikie gangs ready to start the killing
Tackle guns before laws, NSW premier says
States under pressure on national anti-gang laws
Hikes in court fees endanger access to justice
Early bid to divert kids from crime
Media and Popular culture
Opinion: Violent videogames aren’t the problem
More than 20 hours of violent crime shows weekly on free-to-air TV
Michael Jackson’s Death — What Does it Say About Us?
Pop Culture: The New Frontier For Sports Beverage And Performance Companies
AUSTRALIAN CONTENT: SEEING OURSELVES ON TV
With American lingo, we’ve imported toxic US culture
The Americanisation of Australian Culture
Cheap imports killing expensive local TV productions
Free ride for sports just not equitable
The fight to put more Australian content on (digital) TV (crikey.com.au)
Pop Culture’s Most Popular TV Show Is – Brace Yourself – The Bible (tarpon.wordpress.com)
News and Current Issues this week
Big Alcohol and Big Tobacco – boozem buddies?
Forbidden fruit: are children tricked into wanting alcohol?
China: Three challenges for new leaders
Politicians from both right and left could learn from the Nordic countries
Rock art row: writing on wall if Gina Rinehart digs
Senior judge warns over deportation of terror suspects to torture states
Sex, drugs and illness: why teens need medical confidentiality
Is using the internet as carbon heavy as flying?
World stands up for women’s rights
How to green the world’s deserts and reverse climate change
Gillard snubs UN on single parent welfare
Should There Be Limits On Paparazzi?
Taking the odious option in a censorship war
Why work on the homefront won’t count this year
Following Resignation, Top British Cardinal Acknowledges Sexual Misconduct
Gina Rinehart Coal Mine Draws Opposition From Environmentalists – Bloomberg
Education, Politics and governance
Topic areas this week are Governance/Politics and Education. There is a great deal of material already on the blog on these issues. Please look for these tags and categories in previous posts.
Asylum seekers: Where Australia stands
How much do you know about China? Take our quiz.
Australia called on to refocus security in its neighbourhood
Drones an option for Australia’s defence
My drinking, your problem: alcohol hurts non-drinkers too
The environment issues we should be hearing about at this election
How will electoral reform shape the September election?
Fat Tax won’t stop our ballooning obesity epidemic
Factbox: Gonski by the numbers
The European debt crisis is not over
Iran photoshops Michelle Obama’s Oscar dress
Prisoner X and the question of dual loyalties
Renewables will shift the global superpowers
Fact check: only drugs and alcohol together cause violence
How much do you know about Iran? Take our quiz to find out.
Understanding the Gonski proposals
Censorship standards come from a personal place
PM will fight for education funding
Think you know the Middle East? Take our geography quiz.
Tainted grub in Europe’s food bowl
Related articles
- If Labor goes, Gonski goes with us: Gillard (abc.net.au)
- Gonski Hangs in the Balance Amid the Politicking (tutoringtoexcellence.blogspot.com)
- Gonski review left out as kids suffer (dailytelegraph.com.au)
In the news in February
What to do about performance enhancing drugs
The media and the madness: sport, drugs and Dank’s defamation
Prisoner X and everything you need to know about Mossad
Israel makes first official comment on Zygler case
Pistorius case and violence on women
Governing in a campaign year: what next for policy in 2013?
From the shadows, ‘loathsome’ Labor Lunchalot fronts ICAC
Australia strikes refugee deal with NZ
Love thy neighbour: religious groups should not be exempt from discrimination laws
Doping, Gambling and Sport. Integrity begins at home
The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI
Explainer: royal commission into child sex abuse
North Korea nuclear test: the experts respond
Historic ruling allows private firms to patent human genetic material
Life, liberty and the pursuit of gun control
The case for optional preferential voting
Ethics and morality in public life
Conspiracy of silence lets persecution of PM fester Anne Summers says ‘it’s time to afford the PM her rights at work’.
Men and women are different, and so should be their marriage vows By Peter Jensen,Anglican Archbishop of Sydney.
Gags gone but public debate is still a joke
Misogynists and nut jobs need to turn down the volume
Courts outside the usual legal processes can offer better outcomes
Rinehart’s welfare comments an ‘insult to millions’: Treasurer
Finding reason for taking a life
INFIDELITY AS A DEFENCE FOR SPOUSE KILLERS
New inquiry call after abuse cover-up charges
Inquiry looms as more suicides linked to sexual abuse by Catholic priests
Health group gets green light to import abortion drug into Australia
This (electronic) life
Charlotte Dawson Twitter attack sparks call for changes to laws against cyber bullying
Social media on trial
Facebook killer jailed for 21 years
Crime-fighting software used by govts to spy on political dissidents
New telco consumer code starts tomorrow
Online trolls tough to beat: Scipione
Internet data tracking proposal seen as ‘a police state’
Anonymous attack protests web laws, catches innocents
Media and the Arts
PLEASE LOOK AT OLDER POSTS FOR MATERIAL ON MEDIA ND THE PHONE HACKING SCANDAL
The Leveson Inquiry made simple
For too long we have fuelled arts debates with ignorance
This House would censor the internet
End government arts funding!
Media moguls or corporate looters? Rinehart’s raid marks a changing of the guard
Media Inquiry misses the point, as the news crisis worsens
Funding cuts threaten jobs at city arts centres
If MONA is our Guggenheim, does Walsh deserve a free pass?
Who’s making money in art? Everyone but the artists
Censors eye ratings system for artworks
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