People & associates
Chris Berg
Monitoring porn: not government's responsibility
Prime Minister John Howard used last night's webcast to Christian groups across the country to announce a $190 million "crackdown" on pornography,...
Is Aunty's strength a net gain?
The ABC has turned 75 and still occupies a central place in Australia's political status quo. But getting to its 100th birthday may be tougher. The...
Hands off software, Samuel
Nothing gets you more attention than picking on the cool kid at school. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is arguing that Google...
On telecoms, regulator chuting blanks
Far from a success of public policy, the $1 billion rural broadband subsidy won by Optus and Elders demonstrates once again the failure of the...
Media faces an unsentimental future
Media critics have made careers proclaiming how dangerous media moguls are for Australian democracy. These critics now face an even more serious...
When reform has no bang and barely a whimper
What a difference a year makes. One year ago, when Communications Minister Helen Coonan released the discussion paper which was to become the...
Inventing market failure
Governments need problems. Without them, there would be nothing to solve. Australia's broadband situation has presented governments across the...
Aunty will be proud of Maxine's candidacy
The Labor Party has decided that its secret weapon in John Howard's increasingly contestable seat of Bennelong is Maxine McKew. It couldn't have...
Waving goodbye? Fans will decide
Rather than jumping up and waving about, well, jumping up and waving, lovers of the Mexican wave can easily look at alternatives to the MCG's ban....
Dobbing and the community
Australia is a nation founded by people who were dobbed in. Perhaps that's why one of the first rules we learn in life is not to dob in each other:...