Politics

The NBN and Disruptive Technology

10 March 2011

Although the Internet has existed in one form or another for about 50 years, it is only in the last 15–20 years that we have seen the widespread emergence of the World Wide Web and its integration into nearly every aspect of modern life. We are now starting to see the disruptive consequences. I suspect [...]

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Australian Independents’ Day

13 September 2010

The failure of either of the two large parties (ignoring the inconvenient truth that the Coalition is itself two parties) to gain an absolute majority of seats in the Federal Parliament is, at least in modern times, a novel situation. Many commentators have suggested that this will create uncertainty, and that uncertainty is bad. Are they right?

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Blood Diamonds

17 August 2010

‘Blood diamonds’ is a phrase that has slipped into the lexicon over the past decade or so. The associations that travel with the phrase suggest that blood diamonds are, if not evil solidified, something very close to it.

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