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One of the biggest jokes politics plays on itself is “secrecy” – secret internal polling that apparently makes public polling wrong, secret campaign tactics that relegate Sun Tzu to the status of mere amateur, through to other various secret and suppos...
There’s been a lot of hype this week from News Ltd and the Coalition about the purported threat to a free press from Stephen Conroy’s plan to require the print and online media’s self-regulatory bodies to show they can self-regulate. Conroy has been co...
What is remarkable about a story which News.com has been running since yesterday about a door explosion in an Emirates A380 flight between Bangkok and Hong Kong is not that it is wrong. Almost everything sourced to the Daily Mail in the UK is wrong, ex...
New documents shed light on the enthusiasm of the Attorney-General's Department to move forward with (and think large on) data retention, and the resistance it encountered from industry.
now with extra source
The Queensland LNP's proposal on voluntary voting is aimed at creating a diversion, seeking partisan advantage and creating a smokescreen to hide possible changes on political donations.
It was a bad week for the patriarchy, but some conservative men showed they still have principles ...
Watching Robin Hunicke play Journey—the videogame she worked on at thatgamecompany—at ACMI last week was a revelation. It was, in more ways than one, a moment to find your place in the universe.
Cool under pressure. Lack of empathy. Utilitarianism instincts. A new book, writes LeadingCompany's Kath Walters, examines the link between psychopaths and corporate leaders.
I assumed acclaimed filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson would be happy to discuss correlations between his new film, The Master, and the Scientology movement on which it was partly based. I was wrong.