Category: politics
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Why Julian Assange should be released from prison in 2023
There are many compelling reasons why it is a good idea to release Julian Assange from prison in 2023. First and foremost, Assange has not been convicted of any crime. He is imprisoned on charges of violating bail conditions in the United Kingdom. He is also facing extradition to the United States on conspiracy charges…
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The Stranger..
Returning home to a semblance of normality from a journey that rattles one’s bones takes very a long time indeed. In fact, I was in a Fitzroy bar the other night and a nice young chap, who claimed to be an expert on these things, suggested that it would take two years! It has been…
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What Australian’s think of the NBN
The National Broadband Network (NBN), regardless of who steers the rest of the build, is a significant infrastructure project for Australia. And we all know its cost, technical configuration, corporate configuration, end-user value-proposition, economic benefit, social benefit and roll-out pace have all been subject to claims and counterclaims. But what do the people who will…
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Gov Hack: What party am I?
This is a project in which I was involved over the weekend at GovHack (in Melbourne). It was a really good event. The two guys in the video did all the hard work; I was the story teller (and was at a wedding most of the weekend whilst they did all the coding). Also, check…
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Australian Wikileaks Party launch
The Australian Wikileaks Party Senate campaign was launched on Saturday (6 April 2013) in Fitzroy, Melbourne. The Campaign manager is Greg Barnes, and the party’s secretary is John Shipton, Julian Assange’s father. The party is a welcome entry into the Australian political landscape, bringing a whole new dimension of openness and a unique style of…
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Underground: The Julian Assange Story
As part of their Meet the Filmmaker series, Underground: the Julian Assange story has been playing at Cinema Nova all this past week in Melbourne. The movie was principally made as a telemovie and was primarily funded by Channel 10 (and it was aired last year). Alex Williams, Laura Wheelright, and Robert Connolly The movie…