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Author: Edwina Byrne

AUSTRALIA

Turnbull's electronic voting pitch is on the right track
- Edwina Byrne
- 12 September 2013
3 Comments
Malcolm Turnbull's justification for calling for the introduction of electronic voting is that roughly six per cent of voters failed to correctly fill in their ballot papers on Saturday. Electronic voting would stop this senseless waste. Ignoring the fact that electronic voting would disenfranchise the roughly 5.9 per cent of voters whose democratic wish is to draw male appendages on their ballot, Turnbull has a point.
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How Google is narrowing our minds
- Edwina Byrne
- 14 March 2012
12 Comments
Google's personalised search aims to supply us with content that reflects our interests. The problem is that, exposed only to the views of those like us, our position is reinforced and may tend to the extreme as we become unsympathetic to alternative perspectives.
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AUSTRALIA

Best of 2011: Australian politics could use a dash of vitriol
- Edwina Byrne
- 09 January 2012
3 Comments
The speeches of the Tea Party movement, for all their faults, are notable for their vivid symbolism and appeal to values. When was the last time you heard an Australian politician invent their own intelligible metaphor? Published 20 January 2011
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AUSTRALIA

Australian politics could use a dash of vitriol
- Edwina Byrne
- 20 January 2011
16 Comments
The speeches of the Tea Party movement, for all their faults, are notable for their vivid symbolism and appeal to values. When was the last time you heard an Australian politician invent their own intelligible metaphor?
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AUSTRALIA

Best of 2010: Don't wimp out at the ballot box
- Edwina Byrne
- 07 January 2011
5 Comments
It would be easy to cast a donkey vote or a vote for a minor party and to thus wash your hands of the responsibility for our governance for the next three or so years. In a representative democracy, a vacuous election represents a lazy polity.
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AUSTRALIA

Don't wimp out at the ballot box
- Edwina Byrne
- 20 August 2010
22 Comments
It would be easy to cast a donkey vote or a vote for a minor party and to thus wash your hands of the responsibility for our governance for the next three or so years. In a representative democracy, a vacuous election represents a lazy polity.
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AUSTRALIA

Best of 2009: Generation Y for yoghurt
- Edwina Byrne
- 13 January 2010
1 Comment
It's fashionable to make all sorts of claims about Generation Y. Among other things, we are spoilt, attention-deficient, highly educated and unemployable. If you stop prophesising our doom for a moment, you might see we're not as hopeless as we seem. August 2009
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AUSTRALIA

Generation Y for yoghurt
- Edwina Byrne
- 10 August 2009
7 Comments
It's fashionable to make all sorts of claims about Generation Y. Among other things, we are spoilt, attention-deficient, highly educated and unemployable. If you stop prophesising our doom for a moment, you might see we're not as hopeless as we seem.
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AUSTRALIA

What price our sporting soul
- Edwina Byrne
- 10 March 2009
7 Comments
Members Equity Stadium, ACER Arena, Suncorp Stadium, Etihad Stadium; corporations think they own a lot of our stuff. These buildings, and the events they house, constitute our cultural and urban landscapes. They should be sources of community pride.
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Author: Edwina Byrne