Ashamed of Australia

Dear World,

I’m very cross tonight. Most of the time, I quite like being Australian.  I love my socialized medicine and my affordable education and my superannuation. Not tonight, though. Tonight I am ashamed. And tonight I want to tell you about it.

Oh, what a delightful thing, that this still goes to the world. For the time [...]

Australian Internet Censorship

Most days, I am a proud Australian. Tonight, I am not.

I’ve known about MP Stephen Conroy’s internet legislation for a while, but I never thought it would ever come to anything. But now I’m getting scared, because it is starting to look like it might actually happen.

The legislation basically introduces two federally-controlled internet filters [...]