Keywords: Internet Access
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 16 August 2010
20 Comments
Broadband policy is the only major point of difference between Labor and the Coalition in the lead up to this Saturday's federal election. The minimalist approach mooted by the Coalition fails to appreciate fast broadband's nation-building potential.
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INTERNATIONAL
- James Dorsey
- 13 July 2010
6 Comments
One Moroccan organisation for lesbians,
transsexuals and homo- and bisexuals, estimates
that some 5000 people have been jailed in Morocco or forced to emigrate
because they are gay. Mithly, the Arab world's only gay magazine, hopes to steer the debate into calmer waters.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 21 June 2010
5 Comments
SBS TV's world renowned Subtitling Unit is about to lose one third of its staff. It's perfectly valid for SBS to jettison its subtitlers if it determines that SBS is fundamentally no longer a multicultural broadcaster. It's up to SBS management to come clean on its current purpose.
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ENVIRONMENT
New technology can improve health care for geographically remote and ethnically diverse Australians. But it won't make much difference unless these people know how to use the technology and are involved in its design and implementation.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Philip Harvey
- 01 March 2010
9 Comments
We are seeing only the early technology of the e-book. In five years the e-book will look, feel, sound, smell and gesticulate in very different ways from its iPad and Kindle prototypes. As usual, libraries are quietly ahead of everyone else.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 31 July 2009
2 Comments
For those who value serious content over sensationalism and glitz, who
want media meat rather than fairy floss and cake, the 'slow TV' movement is a welcome part
of the new media explosion on the internet.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Roanna Gonsalves
- 23 June 2009
36 Comments
Vincent and I were both international students
from Bombay. He had lived here for a year while I had only arrived
three months ago. We worked in the same Indian restaurant. The night of his attack, Vincent sounded upbeat on the train.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 27 February 2009
3 Comments
Professor Martha Nussbaum's recent book Liberty of Conscience provides a rich textured treatment of the place of religion in the public square. If God is taken out of the picture,
it may be difficult to maintain a human rights commitment to the
weakest and most despised in society.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Ben O'Mara
- 15 December 2008
2 Comments
I spent untold hours playing on my Commodore 64. I upgraded to a PC, to fight the beasties of Duke Nukem 3D as I chugged too many coffees and Mars bars. Interactivity is videogames' strength, and can be applied in socially constructive ways for marginalised communities.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 11 August 2008
1 Comment
While he was best known for his unrelenting criticism of the Soviet system, Alexander Solzhenitsyn also provided a
devastating critique of the excesses of Western capitalism.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Ben O'Mara
- 06 August 2008
4 Comments
The iPhone is sexy and clever, but not everyone will benefit from this new technological drug of choice. Increased reliance on communications technology has emerged as a major issue in health promotion to multicultural Australia.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Kirstyn McDermott
- 28 January 2008
The Government's Clean Feed initiative will allow families to surf the Net without risk of stumbling upon adult content. But there is real concern that the definition of inappropriate content could be widened.
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