Beyond Vox Pop Democracy: Deepening democracy in the internet age
Herewith the text of my talk on Ockham's Razor this morning. It is from a longer essay which you can find here, boiled down so...
Sinking the Slipper
Recovering journalist Mr Denmore succinctly summarises the response of the media (at least the Murdoch portion of it) to the Peter Slipper controversy: [T]he Tory...
Judicial misbehaviour or just blunt speaking?
[caption id="attachment_19526" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Magistrate Pat O'Shane"][/caption] Cross-posted from CDU Law and Business Online With CDU Introduction to Public Law students due to study the...
Missing Link Friday – journalism, welfare, filial piety and big metal boxes
How aged care reform slipped off the media agenda: "Confronted with a major policy initiative that, while affecting millions, offered little potential for partisanship or...
Waiting for my real life to begin
They played the studio version of this song by Colin Hay on the day that we learned that Greg Ham had died. It was a...
Ideas that might not matter: Inefficient technological path dependence
Part one of a intermittent series on interesting ideas that might not be useful. Today I'm talking about path dependence that leaves us with second...
Anzac Day Post
Anzac Day. A day for reminiscing. A day for remembering great deeds, and the heroic words that were written about them.