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politics

Isobel Redmond – leader of SA’s opposition

by Lee Hopkins on July 9, 2009

in interviews, podcasting, politics

G’day! Thanks for returning! I normally don’t get involved with politics, as long time readers of this blog know, but those who follow South Australia’s (or even Australia’s) politics could not have failed to notice that there’s been a bit of argy-bargy going on within the Liberal Party in the last few weeks.
I’m not going [...]

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Those rascally hackers [grin]

by Lee Hopkins on March 27, 2009

in ethics, politics, tools

The board had “the right to decide what is and isn’t appropriate” for internet users and “control and sheepify the nation”

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Conroy and ACMA are RIGHT to ban ’em!

by Lee Hopkins on March 20, 2009

in ethics, politics, tools

Imagine what horror could await the eyes and minds of our innocent young if they were to access images like THESE

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Free speech, online communication and the law

by Lee Hopkins on February 20, 2009

in Victorian bushfires, legal, politics

So rather than keep fracturing the conversation, please whip over to Laurel’s latest post on this all, “Australia: David Galbally Vs Social Media”

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Why antiquated law(yers) must go

by Lee Hopkins on February 18, 2009

in Victorian bushfires, ethics, legal, politics, public speaking

Marvel again at the ludicrousness of Galbally’s emotion-driven argument. Sheer and utter nonsense. The genie is out of the bottle, ol’ boy, and it ain’t going back in…

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Crisis Communication: where’d the water go?

by Lee Hopkins on February 13, 2009

in PR, customer service, politics

Whither their Communications or Media Manager?

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Lessig and the generational transformation

by Lee Hopkins on January 15, 2009

in clippings, ethics, politics

It’s a pity that our Australian politicians are too afraid to spend on broadband infrastructure, despite their claims to the contrary.

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GreenEnergyTV – an interesting channel

by Lee Hopkins on December 17, 2008

in ethics, politics

GreenEnergTV offers useful self-help information and ideas, especially so now that Prime Minister Rudd has blown the chance for he and Australia to be a ‘leader’ and has instead doomed our Great Barrier Reef to destruction.

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Domestic violence against men – I never knew

by Lee Hopkins on September 22, 2008

in academic research, ethics, miscellaneous, politics

I never realised how prevalent domestic violence against men is.
We all know stories of male-initiated violence against women, perhaps we even know the perpetrators or victims themselves, but violence against men? Being beaten up by your girlfriend or wife is certainly not something that the average Aussie bloke would own up to, I would [...]

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Using words to denigrate and isolate

by Lee Hopkins on September 5, 2008

in ethics, politics

There’s an interesting rhetoric going around Australia at the moment. It seems to have been imported from the US and the UK and has been growing in strength over the last decade and a half.
Ever since Reaganomics and Thatcherite values came to fruition, there has been a growing sense within Australia that being poor [...]

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