ABC’s five-year plan: don’t mention the B-word
To watch the continual expansion of the ABC into every digital niche while disregarding the quality, accuracy and objectivity of its content is to see a version of Parkinson’s law play out.
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Our politicians and media are letting us down
Both are manifestations of human nature, which is stubbornly flawed. The press is our best hope in pushing back against nonsense, yet it is drifting with the zeitgeist.
Save the planet: ditch the pooch, not the car
Studies have shown the annual carbon footprint of a family dog can match that of a car. When the climate fearmongers give up their pups I might be more inclined to listen to them.
Voice opponents claim victim status — and I’m calling it out
Invoking apartheid is grotesque. The deceptiveness and divisiveness of the Indigenous voice to parliament No campaign’s main arguments cannot be allowed to stand.
Censorship tyranny an adventure into dystopia
The unimpeded expansion of government power, unauthorised contraction of citizens’ rights and unannounced restriction of media freedom might have done more harm than the virus.
Exposed censorship fuels demands for Covid-19 royal commission
Public information and the way it was controlled is just one more aspect of our pandemic response where governments overreached.
Canberra silenced posts on Covid
An FOI request by Liberal Alex Antic shows the government intervened at least 4213 times to restrict or censor posts about the pandemic on digital platforms.
Why a compromise on words is needed to save the Indigenous voice
After all the work by so many on both sides of politics over recent decades, this Indigenous voice to parliament referendum must shape the nation, rather than leave it to atrophy in fear.
God save us all, for nothing should save the monarchy
A hereditary head of state is antithetical to Australia’s democratic system and egalitarian ethos.
No argument about it, voice fearmongering is astonishing
Those opponents keen to tackle my arguments supporting a legislated Indigenous voice to parliament should at least get it right as many of the claims are absurd.
Original URL: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/author/chris-kenny/page/11