Category: politics
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Pollies embrace Google for the ‘e-election’
From the Melbourne Age John Howard says the internet is “not some sort of gimmick” and has invited voters to have a conversation with him on YouTube. Peter Garrett believes the web will play a “really really critical role” in the upcoming election, which Joe Hockey has dubbed the “e-election campaign”. The Prime Minister, opposition…
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Only one party’s in the game for attention in cyberspace
From the Melbourne Age Kevin Rudd has a genuine presence on the web. The Coalition seems to be lagging, writes Catherine Deveny. LET’S be honest here, it’s a bit hard to sex up Kevin Rudd. Sure, he’s probably a good bloke. Actually, he must be a good bloke seeing that Howard and his mates have…
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Wolfenden50: Sex/Life/Politics in the British World 1945-1969
2007 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Wolfenden Report, a British government inquiry into homosexuality and prostitution which profoundly shaped public debate on the regulation of these sexualities (and others), in Britain and beyond.Most famously, the Report recommended that homosexual acts between consenting adults in private ought not to be an offence and 2007 also…
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The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
This year is the 200th Anniversary of the abolition of the Slave Trade in the British Empire. There are a lot of exhibitions and events taking place around London at the moment. Here is a timely new resources from the Arts and Humanities Data Service (btw. this is just the database files you download). The…
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Fidel Castro Search Engine
Cuba built an internet search engine that allows users to trawl through speeches by Cuban leader Fidel Castro and other government sites, but does not browse web pages outside the island. The search engine (www.infosoc.cu/buscador) unveiled at a conference last week underscored restrictions on internet access in communist-run Cuba, which the government blames on US…