Australia’s Liberal and National parties are proud to profess their loyalty to freedom of speech at any opportunity. They insist that this is now a substantive point of distinction between them and their ‘radical’ opponents on the left. But behind cosmetic, rhetorical advocacy for freedom of speech, Coalition governments have…

The recent Netflix film The Social Dilemma presented as a stunning confessional. Ex-executives of Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other companies, each aired their guilty conscience on air, issuing a warning: the social media platforms they helped to create present a huge danger to collective society and individual wellbeing. As ex-Facebook…

There’s a lot happening. So far in 2020 we’ve lived through a devastating bushfire season unlike any other, we’ve been entertained by a “gay, gun-toting cowboy with a mullet” in the unbelievably insane world of Tiger King, woken to an anomalous downpour of brown dirty rain in Melbourne, read news…