February 2012
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Gina Rinehart and Rupert Murdoch: a study of power... →
Australia’s wealthiest person, Gina Rinehart has bought shares in Fairfax Media. Should we be worried if she buys a controlling interest in the company that publishes the Age, Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian Financial Review?
I think we should.
It would mean that all the significant newspapers in Australia would be controlled by two very wealthy individuals, Rupert Murdoch and Gina ...
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A man doesn’t know what happiness is until he’s married. By then...
– Frank Sinatra
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January 2012
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Triple J Hottest 100 of 2011 (320kbps) (download... →
The Hottest Songs of 2011 as voted in Australia’s (and the world’s) biggest publicly voted music countdown. Run by Triple J (JJJ)
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Kill a man, one is a murderer; Kill a million, a conqueror; Kill them all, a...
– Jean Rostand
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40 years of canvas diplomacy - The Drum... →
The coming week marks the 40th anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, one of the most significant and sustaining political protests in the history of Australia.
A series of events on the lawns of the Old Parliament House in Canberra will pay tribute to the Aboriginal rights agenda that acted as a rallying call for communities throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s.
The commemoration and ...
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Australia: US Copyright Colony or Just a Good... →
Collectively, we Australians can be a cowardly bunch, so scared of an unknown invader that we will sell our sovereignty for the illusion of protection. This fear is symbolised in the movie ‘Tomorrow When the War Began,’ a film of dubious quality that portrays an Australia under invasion from some shadowy Asiatic power.
The foundation-stone of Australia’s defence policy is our alliance with...
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Anonymous downs government, music industry sites... →
Hacktivists with the collective Anonymous are waging an attack on the website for the White House after successfully breaking the sites for the FBI, Department of Justice, Universal Music Group, RIAA and Motion Picture Association of America.
In response to today’s federal raid on the file sharing service Megaupload, hackers with the online collective Anonymous have broken the websites for...
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Your iPhone Was Built, In Part, By 13 Year-Olds... →
We love the super-high profit margins of Apple, Inc., the maker of our iPhones and iPads.
And that’s why it’s disconcerting to remember that the low prices of our iPhones and iPads — and the super-high profit margins of Apple — are only possible because our iPhones and iPads are made with labor practices that would be illegal in the United States.
And it’s also disconcerting...
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