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My latest Global Voices Online post is Australia's Sandwich Gate: PM Julia Gillard Better Take CoverThe mainstream media have been accused of trivialising political coverage in Australia over an incident involving Prime Minister Julia Gillard and a s...

Australia: National Disability Insurance Scheme Funding At Last (Global Voices Online):(NDIS campaigning logo – Courtesy: Every Australian Counts)On the trending twitter hashtag #NDIS, there have been lots of people prepared to pay the levy wh...

Great Broadband Wagon Rolls on in Australia is my latest weblog for Global Voices Online:The Opposition’s national broadband policy, released on 9 April 2013, was always going to be highly contentious in Australia. It is not just for geeks but also...

My latest post for Global Voices Online:Whistleblower Simone Marsh has added fire to ongoing arguments about the environmental impact of the coal seam gas (CSG) industry in Australia. 4 Corners, a current affairs program on ABCTV (Australian Broadcas...

A message from some of the people who have been reporting for ThinkBrigade from around the globe in the last year:  ThinkBrigade's Multimedia Journalists...

A Big Mac and a Coke have not been some Australians' idea of happiness in recent months. Something about the fast food and drink mob inflames the passions. Two of my posts this week for Global Voices Online look at activists' responses to the two big...

From my web roundup for Global Voices about the claims of police brutality at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras:Sydney Mardi Gras police contingent 2013Image courtesy: Zsoolt – flickr, NonCommercial 2.0 Generic licenseVideo involving participan...

Questions remain about the life and death of Israeli/Australian, Prisoner X - Ben Zygier, a Mossad spy. He apparently committed suicide whilst in secret solitary confinement in an Israeli prison in 2010.Reporter Trevor Bormann of Australia' ABC TV'S...

My latest post for Global Voices: Secret Life and Death of Australian-Israeli Mossad Spy ‘Prisoner X’Revelations by Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC) progamme Foreign Correspondent on 12 February, 2013 have fired up Australian onliner...

by Joy Bennett   I could be the poster child for the merits of abstinence before marriage: I am a member of the US evangelical Christian community and remained a virgin until my wedding.   I’ve been happily married to the same man fo...

Climate denier blogosphere reaction to conspiracy study confirms conspiracy ideationFrom Cindy Baxter, NZ climate action campaigner:Perth - 6 February 2013 -- When Australian climate psychologist Stephan Lewandowsky published a study showing that tho...

2012 was a good year for us but like with most things, we want this year to be even better. We kick things off with new additions to the site- [...]...

My review of Greg Jericho's The Rise of the Fifth Estate is online:There's a touch of irony in Michangelo's David gracing the banner of Grog's Gamut, the humble blog that slew the mainstream media goliath during the 2010 Australian Federal elections...

My latest post for Global Voices Online:Online outrage has followed news reports of a fatwa against Christmas allegedly issued by an iman at Sydney’s Lakemba Mosque. There have also been touches of humour from those tired of the seasonal hard sell.

We’re quite flattered and confused (but leaning more on flattery) to be nominated for the Liebster Blog of the Year Award. We’re flattered to be recognized by our counterparts and [...]...

An introduction to Global Voices Online: Global Voices Lingua Project from Paula Góes Thanks to Paula Góes, GV Multilingual Editor. Her presentation transcript is available here.

By Chris Evangelista Editorial calendars are fantastic. They are great with content distribution and they also help bloggers organize material. As much as I want to follow schedule, there are [...]...

The blogosphere is busy posting about the Fake Apple Apps that seem to have appeared on our Beloved Google Play Store. Before you go off and purchase these Apple apps in the Google Play Store, I would recommend you to read a few facts on this, and wa...

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