The relationship between older, younger, and future Australians and our tax and spending priorities is based on an implicit generational bargain. Working age taxpayers support older and younger Australians and can expect the next generation to support them in the same way, and economic and social development will enable each successive generation to enjoy rising living standards. At the very least, we should not leave the next generation worse off.
The UK government’s pursuit of growth at all costs hands this country to predatory capital.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 30th January 2025
I can scarcely believe I’m writing this, but it’s hard to dodge the conclusion. After 14 years of environmental vandalism, it might have seemed impossible for Labour to offer anything but improvement. But on green issues, this government is worse than the Tories.
Labour’s housing strategy makes a dysfunctional system bigger. We need systemic change.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 26th January 2025
Build baby, build. That’s about the intellectual limit of the government’s housing strategy. Millions are under-housed, so let’s “bulldoze” the planning system and build more homes. But it’s not nearly so simple.
Trump’s presidency is a reversion to autocratic tyranny. Only concerted resistance can stop it from spreading.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 19th January 2025
What if we held an Australian broadband crisis and nobody came? That’s pretty much what happened in Australian broadband policy over the decade to 2025. Governments, forecasters and the media can all learn lessons from this episode.
It is that time of year again: Time to look back at information technology in 2024 and make light of it. As with prior year-in-reviews, this one will be arranged like an award ceremony. There are three criteria for the dozen awards given out this year:• The award must be for something involving digital technology.• The key event must have taken place this year, 2024.• The award cannot take itself seriously. The event receiving attention must lend itself to sass, sarcasm, and ridicule. As a reminder, the awards are worth nothing.
Plan International Australia Media Release December 26 marks 20 years since the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, which claimed the lives of 230,000 people and [...]
He looked like a young, freshly sprouting Henry Kissinger, before complicity in war crimes coarsened him, and plagiarism became commonplace in allegedly relevant academic texts.The [...]
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Oxfam Australia Media Release Barefoot children forced to search through rubbish for food scraps across Gaza. Of the meagre 34 trucks of food and water [...]
By James Moore “If we’re the most intelligent things in the universe, well, that’s just depressing.” – Rekha Sharma, Canadian Actress. In a park along [...]
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It’s been 30 years since the genocide of Rwanda. I recall driving my children to school as the news was on the radio, the numbers [...]
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By Sue Barrett We have reached a critical juncture – not just on climate change, but on societal transformation. The decisions we make now will [...]
The NSO Group, Israel’s darling of malware infection and surveillance for the global security market, was the brainchild of three engineers drawn from that busiest [...]