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Category Archives: Law
Prevention not prison: justice reinvestment makes dollars and sense
Australia spends billions of dollars every year on our prison system yet the number of those being sent to jail keeps increasing. Is this sustainable? Simple logic would suggest not, unless we want to start actively cutting health and education budgets to warehouse criminals. Wouldn’t we better off spending that money more wisely, trying to [...]
Also posted in Politics Tagged Australia, Australian government, budget, criminal, justice, policy, prevention, prison Leave a comment
Conferring to change the world
Recently I took part in the incredible experience that is Harvard WorldMUN. I came across the application while browsing the RMIT News feed and had no real idea of what it involved, but decided to jump in to try something new. WorldMUN is an annual event, bringing together more than 2,000 university students from more [...]
Also posted in Education, Politics, Social Justice Tagged experience, harvard, Melbourne, model, RMIT, students, UN, United Nations, worldMUN, youth Leave a comment
Witnesses are forgetting clues to the Boston bombings … quickly
Memories, we know, are fallible, and in the case of acts such as this week’s horrific bombings in Boston, this presents particular problems. How can those charged with gathering eyewitness accounts – and those charged with giving them – be sure of what they’re hearing and saying? In a couple of words, they can’t. Last [...]
Unlimited government and police control of the internet? There’s no filter for that
Good news. A decision made earlier this month by Australia’s Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Senator Stephen Conroy may have inadvertently opened the door for unlimited government and police control of the internet. On November 9, Senator Stephen Conroy said: Australia’s largest ISPs [internet service providers] have been issued with notices [by [...]
Also posted in Technology Tagged AFP, Australian Federal Police, child pornography, cybercrime, Section 313, Stephen Conroy Comments closed
Online GST push places an unfair burden on pop culture lovers
Will the long tail of the internet be docked by the fastidious imposition of GST to online purchases? Australian retailers have been lobbying the federal government to up the ante on online GST by lowering the tax-free limit so that it would apply to transactions under $1000 AUD. Some have argued that the so-called low [...]
Also posted in Business, Entertainment Tagged Australian retailers, Chris Anderson, GST, longtail, niche product, online retail Comments closed
Porn, manga and the 21st century Japanese man
The generation of men who have come of age in Japan’s twenty-first century society have grown up enveloped in a world of pornography. They are the first generation to have grown up as teenagers with easy and individually-tailored access to hardcore and child pornography in the form of manga comic books and the first to [...]
Also posted in Media & Communications, Politics Tagged Chakuero, child pornography, Japan, Japanese government, Japanese men, manga, porn, pornography Comments closed
Anonymous’ Operation Australia – can the federal police stop them?
About 10am this morning, Anonymous used Twitter to announce an attack on the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) website. Anonymous claimed the ASIO website would be unavailable for the rest of the day. The ASIO website was down for about 30 minutes after the attack and is now operating slowly or not at all. It [...]
Also posted in Media & Communications, Social Media, Technology Tagged AFP, Anonymous' Operation Australia, ASIO, Australian Federal Police, DDoS attack, hacker, Hacking Comments closed
Are TV’s games of chance safe? Don’t bet on it
Here is a thought: If you need a gambling licence to make a TV game show based on chance not skill, what licence will you need for a murder mystery? The first part of the question is one that is exercising the minds of British television producers and the UK Gambling Commission. It led the [...]
Also posted in Entertainment, Media & Communications Tagged Australia's Got Talent, chance or skill, Convergence Review, Deal or No Deal, gambling, Gambling Commission, Red or Black?, The Voice, TV game show Comments closed
Do we need a cultured approach to sport?
As great minds in Canberra turn their thoughts to evaluating the recommendations of the Convergence Review and, in particular, the architecture of the regulatory edifice, a small but interesting bump on the road to revised anti-syphoning laws for sporting coverage on free-to-air television was noticed. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has decided to lodge objections [...]
Also posted in Entertainment, Media & Communications, Sport Tagged Cathy Freeman, Convergence Review, Cricket Australia, International Olympic Committee, IOC, media regulation Comments closed
Keep calm and trademark it: privatising the English language