
Just Keep Scrolling: On attention, distraction, and human rights
By Janelle KohJanelle Koh considers the distracting influence of social media on our daily lives, and the implications it has for human rights.
Janelle Koh considers the distracting influence of social media on our daily lives, and the implications it has for human rights.
When it comes to trusting those in power, we comfort ourselves with the belief that checks will balance back to our favour. But what if they’re written out of the legislation?
Jay Thompson speaks to Ginger Gorman about the harm caused by online trolling and how it can cross over into the offline world.
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Dutton’s gone but the Department of Home Affairs is going full steam ahead with its draft bill on encryption, putting Australians’ data privacy at risk.
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During Senate estimates in October last year, the Australian government dug further into the deep and dark moral abyss in which it is stuck in relation to the existential threat posed by nuclear weapons. In questioning by Tasmanian Labor Senator Lisa Singh, DFAT Assistant Secretary Richard Sadleir sought to explain the circumstances in which under […]
Government policy increasingly defines the limits of the right to privacy, excluding marginalised socio-economic groups from its protection.