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Tag Archives: media
Killer Drones, Dieback and Democracy
Free speech and doublespeak at The Australian by Justin Clemens
Boris Bites Packer
How I accidentally thwarted Sir Frank and discovered Madame Blavatsky
Water in a Geo-political Context
Lindsay Fitzclarence on the need for alternative perspectives about water policies and the Murray-Darling Basin
Afghanistan: Gift or Grand Conceit?
It is beyond most Westerners to understand today how offers of democracy are really much more than this: there is a widespread incapacity to grasp the social assumptions embedded in our ‘gifts’ writes John Hinkson
The Reality of TV
Television isn’t to blame for every social ill but neither is it neutral, write Melinda Hinkson.
The State and Terror in the New Era
Jenny Hocking: Imprecision over the language of ‘terrorism’ and its application, leads to concerns that counter-terrorist security measures will be broadly targetted in ways that are neither appropriate nor efficient, ways that may impinge upon legitimate political agitation and dissent
Them’s Fighting Words
Douglas McQueen-Thomson: Language of War and War Through Language.


