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Hunter Reynolds, 17, received a $1625 fine for being 'too far from home'.

We need the authorities in these times of crisis, but that doesn't mean we can trust them

We need to trust the authorities with increased power during the pandemic. But they need to earn that trust, every day, by not exceeding their already oppressive powers.

  • John Birmingham

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Committed to memory: People are increasingly trading their physical media for digital. But will it last?

Classic novels in the time of novel coronavirus

With a little tweaking, literature can really speak to us prisoners of the plague.

  • John Birmingham
Deliveroo riders will be issued with free hand sanitiser in coming weeks.

One of the real heroes during the virus crisis delivered your pizza

When everything is falling apart, it is often average people doing normal things who are the true heroes – and the ones we must honour.

  • John Birmingham
Just another day at the "office". Get used to it, people.

Trapped working from home? Here's my pro survival tips

I am Gen X and I have been training for this my whole life.

  • John Birmingham
Fear not, for the mighty Conan has the fortitude and ultra soft Sorbent to save us all.

Conan the Deliverer of Wisdom (but not Scrolls of Sorbent)

As the dark coronavirus plague descends and the panicked villagers rush for toilet rolls, hearken to the words of the mighty Conan.

  • John Birmingham
When will this end?

When the coronapocalypse is over, I’m never washing my hands again

I’ve washed them so many thousands of times the last few days that I have scrubbed off every loop and whorl of my fingerprints and clogged up every pore with soap.

  • John Birmingham
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What they're not telling you about the Great Baboon Escape

Nobody in the so-called "responsible" media will tell you this, so it falls to me to screech an appropriate warning about the great baboon escape yesterday. The Danger Has Not Passed.

  • John Birmingham
BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 08: Members of the public walk past a Brisbane Metro Information Booth at King George Square on April 8, 2017 in Brisbane, Australia. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Fairfax Media)

Brisbane Metro could be cool – if it gets more than a ghost of a chance

Brisbane's Metro may seem underwhelming but it's an important first step for an increasingly gridlocked city.

  • John Birmingham
A Tesla Model S idles in Davos ahead of this week's World Economic Forum.

Slowly, surely and quietly, electric vehicles are here – let the battle begin

There are few tech sectors more likely to be turned into battle grounds for our never-ending culture war than the car industry.

  • John Birmingham
A ruling from the Federal Court that TPG can tap into apartment block electricity without paying for it, is just the latest in a series of seemingly surprising decisions, which highlight the unparalleled legal entitlements of Australian telecommunications providers.

The NBN is coming for me and I can not slip through the net

I'm terrified because the few people I know who do admit to having NBN don’t like to talk about it.

  • John Birmingham

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