Politics archive

  1. The dubious Nagorno-Karabakh anniversary

  2. AusPost suspends most shipments to the US

  3. Australia’s and Canada’s Elections

  4. Australia, Singapore, and the US

  5. People may want to join you, if you treat them well

  6. 1000 days 💙💛

  7. Tom Nicholas on the 2024 UK elections

  8. Fingers crossed, France

  9. How Kissinger played both sides

  10. The Guardian is wrong about my Ukrainian friends

  11. Michael Twitty on history, food, and family

  12. Stephen Michael Kellat on news, and my last AI post

  13. Henry Kissinger

  14. Finding those few bloggers all those years later

  15. Pluralism makes us stronger

  16. Accepting New Zealand as an Australian state

  17. We can do more than one concurrent thing

  18. What if the Brits French’d their royal family?

  19. Energy retailer of last resort?

  20. The King’s birthday in Australia

  21. Three years on from Brexit

  22. NATO’s Stoltenberg on Ukraine joining the alliance

  23. Queen Elizabeth II

  24. Latvia’s Soviet-era monument removed 🇱🇻

  25. Former Australian Prime Minister Morrison’s secret portfolios

  26. Machismo fascination with conflict

  27. Suburban wheelie bins and repeated effort

  28. Trent Zimmerman writes why the Coalition lost

  29. Russia withdraws from the ISS

  30. Education cuts are a national security threat

  31. Sri Lanka in 2022

  32. The Uber files

  33. The Brussels Effect

  34. Australian housing and mental health

  35. Australian AG Dreyfus on data privacy law

  36. The difference between good and bad people

  37. Edward Luce on the impact (or not) of law

  38. People vote for leaders in parliaments

  39. The Queen’s Birthday, and the Whitlam dismissal

  40. Penny Wong’s first speech as foreign minister

  41. Australian prime minister Morrison is out

  42. TNL’s Nine Pillars of Digital Justice

  43. Actions that separate the world

  44. Flyers, and blogs from the golden age

  45. The NATO expansionism narrative

  46. What Ukraine and Putin have accomplished 🇺🇦

  47. Ukraine UN Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya

  48. Afghanistan in 2021

  49. Singapore and Japan dialogue on Covid

  50. But I’ll just replace them, rent free!

  51. The Internet interprets censorship as damage?

  52. Rejoining, or losing Scotland

  53. The media's culpability in the NBN

  54. Lessons learned from the 2016 Australian census?

  55. Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership

  56. A celebratory New York cheesecake

  57. That map we’ve all been watching

  58. Equinix data centre advice

  59. American friends: please vote

  60. The United States of Apathy?

  61. The Scorpions: Wind of Change

  62. Thirty years since German reunification

  63. The Australian government’s NBN backflip

  64. The 2020 Ig Nobel Prize for Medical Education

  65. Feedback on my Mr Orange post

  66. NBN already outdated

  67. Mr Orange, and Joe Biden’s hires from tech

  68. Kamala Harris’s comments on US standing

  69. Ferdinand II on the King of France

  70. What are the biggest lies you’ve been told?

  71. Charging Australians to come home, with apologies to Clarke and Dawe

  72. These measures aren’t political statements

  73. Cancel culture

  74. Peter Dutton in contempt of court

  75. Selling your fire extinguisher

  76. Race riots

  77. ACCC’s March quarter 2020 report

  78. Post-US world on display

  79. Conflating implementation with intent

  80. Change is a measure of competence

  81. Australian FTTN and metadata surveillance

  82. Impeached Mr Orange

  83. Angus Taylor’s metadata adventure

  84. Carrie Lam and Boris Johnson

  85. False dichotomy of human rights or privacy

  86. Boris Johnson, and malicious joy

  87. Australian solar to Singapore via undersea cable

  88. Benjamin Wittes on the Mueller Report

  89. Australia lost, again

  90. Bob Hawke

  91. Richard Di Natale on Australia’s #aabill

  92. Elizabeth Warren breaking up big IT

  93. Brexit silver lining

  94. Estonian government-in-exile

  95. Australian IT in the budget reply speech

  96. New Japanese Reiwa era announced

  97. The Christchurch massacre

  98. Facebook’s lobbying against global privacy laws

  99. Anxiety plus ignorance, it is!

  100. Our moving NBN adventure

  101. Scott Morrison loses a vote

  102. Tony Benn on refugees

  103. Do parliaments need a separate executive?

  104. Ending mandatory religious classes

  105. Companies leaving over Brexit

  106. Self-redundancy

  107. Having another Brexit vote

  108. He’s just not that great a negotiator

  109. Just test the damned pills

  110. Cheaper, and more affordable

  111. Information war

  112. The Opal Tower conflict of interest

  113. Parliament a disadvatage for governments?

  114. Yes, the #AABill is about encryption

  115. Rubenerd Vacancy Pile Index

  116. Australian Prime Minister Taylor Swift

  117. Economic impact of back doors

  118. World War I

  119. New Caledonia votes against independence

  120. Gendered schools

  121. It wasn’t Pyne’s fault, maybe!

  122. Victorian opposition leader on religious classes

  123. WORLD ORDER: Let's Start WW3

  124. Lee Myung-bak sentenced for bribery

  125. An Australian public energy retailer

  126. Australian Prime Minister Morrison

  127. Cancelling your Australian My Health Record

  128. This techno-utopia

  129. Mad as Hell!

  130. A redacted post about an Australian politician

  131. The original NBN was bad, because Turnbull?

  132. Brigid Delaney on Australia’s 2017

  133. Marriage equality now law in Australia 🎄 🌈

  134. Australia just said yes to marriage equality 🌈

  135. King Willem-Alexander at KLM

  136. Irredentism

  137. Marriage equality

  138. Trump

  139. In fact, we do elect our Prime Ministers

  140. Australia’s wave of resigning MPs

  141. Scott Ludlam

  142. Fibre to the Node

  143. High speed rail in Australia, again

  144. Cardinal George Pell charged

  145. Who’s to blame for slow AU broadband?

  146. Mr Brandis, You Can (Not) Decrypt

  147. UK election 2017

  148. Interest over values

  149. Marcon, not Le Pen

  150. Mr John Clarke, one of the great satirists

  151. No more local Singapore-Malaysia calls, kinda

  152. Hot enough for you 2017?

  153. Civil use of Australia's mandatory metadata

  154. UK's EU ambassador quits

  155. But even in their dressing

  156. Australian ISPs to block torrent sites

  157. Why politicians like property investment

  158. Domain: All you need are rich parents

  159. Australia's immigration dimwits

  160. The @wellmaywesay podcast

  161. Trump

  162. One Australian electorate against marriage equality

  163. Leaked doc show long Medicare delays

  164. Extracting more money from renters

  165. The NBN is dead, but look at the kitten!

  166. Check your election enrolment

  167. Government still committed to uni fee hike

  168. No more Australian HECS repayment incentives

  169. Turnbull’s moot startup point

  170. Australian privacy, NBN net neutrality, and other news

  171. We are all Lebanese and French

  172. You’re not part of the problem if you criticise FTTN

  173. I could pass a US citizenship test

  174. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull

  175. Two years of the Abbott Government

  176. Call on Australian Government to offer safety to Syrian Refugees

  177. Goodbye, Bronwyn Bishop

  178. Poles and wires for the NBN

  179. Australia's surveillance tax is on

  180. US bases in Australia

  181. John Roderick for Seattle City Council

  182. I’m done, Mr Abbott

  183. He’s still Prime Minister Abbott

  184. Tony Abbott is Australia’s George W. Bush

  185. Australian climate policy up somewhere

  186. Authors of your own misfortune

  187. Gough Whitlam 1916–2014

  188. Scotland 2014

  189. Australian Coalition repeals mining tax

  190. Data retain THIS, Mr Attorney General

  191. Bill Shorten’s Australian budget reply

  192. Nelson Mandela ♡

  193. Fibre optic considered faster than copper

  194. David Cameron’s permanent austerity

  195. Goodbye, Kevin Rudd

  196. US Congress nearly cost me an exam

  197. Prime Minister Tony Abbott

  198. Malcolm Fraser on drones

  199. Obama’s 2009 whistleblower promise

  200. Kevin Rudd is Prime Minister, again

  201. LNP doesn’t want the university student vote either

  202. I’ll take that under advisement, DPRK

  203. Margaret Thatcher

  204. Albania and the European Union

  205. The Fifth Estate Assange Wikileaks movie

  206. When I lost some respect for Julia Gillard

  207. Bashar al-Assad, Julian Assange

  208. EU votes down #ACTA 478 to 39!

  209. R18 game classification in Australia

  210. Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2012 survey

  211. No drive encryption in flavours of Windows 8?

  212. It’s as if PM Lee planned this for the QLD election!

  213. First US Marines arrive in Darwin

  214. Canada scares poor little Dick Cheney

  215. Legal bedfellows

  216. Megauploads to delete user data?

  217. #TwitterBlackout

  218. Nothing on Megaupload you haven’t read already

  219. Blacked out [this post] for SOPA et al

  220. My German immigrant grandparents wore deodorant

  221. Vote for The Canada Party 2012

  222. Václav Havel and Kim Jong Il

  223. Don’t worry, they’re green bullets!

  224. Brunei is second best! Again!

  225. Biometric flying Malaysian aeroplanes

  226. A Cup of Joe

  227. Cause this is my United States of Whatever

  228. Penny Wong on marriage equality

  229. Am I the only one not giddy and waving a flag over this?

  230. Media cartels, Australian law, pointless images

  231. NSW post-leadership benefits… wait, what?

  232. Australian media enquiry misses the point

  233. Singapore’s new president

  234. We don’t need fibre optic and power cables!

  235. Singapore’s presidential race in one tweet

  236. He should fix PayPal first

  237. Ripping ratings agencies a new one

  238. CNN: Alaskan credit rating still AAA

  239. YouTube videos to scare refugees?

  240. My rebuttal of Eric Abetz on #QandA

  241. Ten disturbing things about the Interpol filter

  242. Finally, a government website that makes sense

  243. My dream about Nicolas Sarkozy

  244. Libertarianism-ism?

  245. Dr Najib Razak’s meaning?

  246. A common sense Queen’s Birthday

  247. Governments buying stock doesn’t count!

  248. Technorati symptoms of something bigger?

  249. Openinternet commonsensification

  250. On ANZAC Day, New Zealanders get this?

  251. Even their hair is kinda the same!

  252. Oh noes, data caps!

  253. First layer of leaves after the election…

  254. The NSW elections were tectonic… really?!

  255. Some random Singapore news

  256. Egyptians sleeping in front of a tank

  257. #Anime Piracy boosts sales?

  258. Obama high-fiving MLK

  259. Malcolm Turnbull’s 640KiB moment

  260. Banking on lots of fancy labels

  261. Nonsense barometers, Spanish copyright

  262. Dave Winer’s TechWithoutBorders.org

  263. One score and nine years ago, Reagan…

  264. Wikileaks now available on Wikileaks.ch

  265. Government use of iPads?

  266. Obama

  267. Yesterday was UN World Statistics Day

  268. The filter IS a moral issue, Ms Gillard

  269. 20 years of German reunification!

  270. Ned Flanders on Aussie NBN security

  271. My Gillard, Abbott comparison chart

  272. Open letter(s) to Wendy Francis of Family First

  273. Conroy dubbed Australia’s dumbest MP

  274. Labor support sliding, time to panic?

  275. #debate #ausvotes

  276. 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11

  277. Aussie politics in a nutshell

  278. Great Firewall of Australia on hold…

  279. The Julia Gillard Kevin Rudd #spill

  280. No internet filter change under Gillard

  281. Australia has a female atheist PM! Run away!

  282. Australia to record browsing history?

  283. #Anime Haruhi for Prime Minister

  284. Brit Hume is a Tool and Singapore’s oil spill

  285. Newt Gingrich, report for cleanup duty

  286. Aussie customs can now search laptops

  287. The United Kingdom votes 2010 and all that

  288. Conroy responds to critics… online?

  289. Evacuate Singapore, islands float and capsize!

  290. Margaret Thatcher didn’t want a united Germany?

  291. Seven years of the illegal Iraq war

  292. Rush Limbaugh, healthcare reform, goodbye!

  293. SA Votes 2010: Octopus Battle by Edible_Hat

  294. Michael Atkinson stepping down (onto a thorn?)

  295. Watching Tasmanian South Aussie election thing

  296. Voting Green in the South Aussie election thingy

  297. Never before seen in a democracy…

  298. Possible reason for mixed Rudd premier meeting?

  299. The new GrowUpAustralia.com

  300. Dick Cheney is a war criminal

  301. My World’s Smallest Political Quiz results

  302. Michael Atkinson steps down on net gag order!

  303. South Aussie election law hurts my brain

  304. Politicians avoiding questions video stuff

  305. Michael Atkinson on democracy, games

  306. Half-baked Alaska

  307. The Great Australian and Chinese Firewalls

  308. Letter for the leaders in Copenhagen

  309. Tony Abbott, Liberal Party self destructing

  310. Sarah Palin’s book is… nonfiction?

  311. Bill Maher on the sole profit motive

  312. A Kenyan Standard poll thingy

  313. South Aussie tertiary education going Microsoft

  314. League tables will come to Australia

  315. Ted Kennedy and the heathcare bill

  316. Peace hasn’t been given a chance, 40 years on

  317. A Keith Olbermann Bobblehead!

  318. Keith Olbermann’s Countdown as a podcast

  319. Revised Aussie coal lobbyist video

  320. Christopher Hitchens on QandA in Australia

  321. Newsmax isn’t doctor’s journal or The Onion

  322. Mark Parnell on Marine Policy 101

  323. Why are lobbyists tolerated at all?

  324. Dick Cheney schadenfreude

  325. Live trial of the Great Firewall of Australia

  326. Sarah Palin damaged McCain’s campaign

  327. Help Justice, Defeat Tyranny in Burma

  328. Could someone tell me what ASEAN is for?

  329. Reconsidered International Relations lately?

  330. Followup to my nuclear deterrence fail post

  331. Why nuclear deterrence doesn’t work

  332. Them Aussie states aren’t needed

  333. Well that’s good to know!

  334. Rubenerd Fun Fact #74: Bill Maher

  335. Mike Rann tells me it’s cold in Adelaide

  336. Bill to allow same sex marriage in Australia

  337. Israeli army not doing itself any moral favours

  338. #IranElection #CNNFail @Change_for_Iran

  339. A very merry Queen’s Birthday to you!

  340. Stop the Settlements petition

  341. The leadership skills of W Bush. Wait, what?

  342. US rejoins the UN Human Rights Forum

  343. Twittering with South Australian Premier Mike Rann!

  344. South Australia: The Unpretentious State?

  345. Sad month for gay rights in South Australia

  346. PKR wins Bukit Selambau by-election

  347. Clipmark: Joe the Plumber a political William Hung?

  348. Becoming a fan of Malcolm Turnbull on Facebook

  349. Clipmark: Greens call for China spy alert in Australia

  350. My passport says I’m an Aussie!

  351. Kevin Rudd meets Barack Obama, Adelaide Advertiser

  352. Clipmark: Senator Conroy on Twitter

  353. Cute uninteded political commentary in my CSS

  354. Rush Limbaugh and Michael J. Fox

  355. Is it RIP for Singapore internet radio? Probably

  356. I have some barred locations on my phone line!

  357. Callie Shell’s moving photo of Obama

  358. Jon Stewart in his finest form ever

  359. Manichaean paranoia deleted from Wikipedia

  360. My joke against Bill O’Reilly saga continues, again

  361. Aussie internet filter dead in the water and whatnot

  362. I’m Blacked Out for New Zealand

  363. On Jonathan Schwartz, Sun and Barack Obama

  364. Stick a fork in him, Bush is done!

  365. Mary Wallace on love and happiness

  366. Emailing a politician… and getting a response!

  367. Results for Frome by-election in South Australia

  368. Responses for my Bush Nixon post

  369. History will judge George W. Bush well. Wait, what?

  370. Obama is president, we heave a sigh of relief

  371. A quick sort-of Middle East story of my own

  372. Welcome back to the world America, we missed you

  373. Less than four hours before Obama inauguration

  374. Official Obama and Bush portraits compared

  375. Bill Moyers on Israel, Gaza and lives

  376. First of the last single digit days for Dubbya

  377. Peace in Hebrew, Arabic and English

  378. My political compass, mild left wing libertarian?

  379. My attempt at a Canadian Liberal NDP coalition post

  380. Canada and Australia are kinda similar, eh, mate

  381. Comment on my Bill O’Reilly Flickr photo

  382. Alaskan senate election race news

  383. Our Prime Minister is now on Twitter!

  384. Australian internet censorship pilot to commence

  385. Conroy, fix the Internet before you censor it

  386. Important philosophical post on Barack Obama

  387. Someone thinks internet filtering is a good idea?

  388. The world needed Barack Obama

  389. Steven Fry’s salient tweet about America

  390. Twitter chatter over Obama win

  391. Obama has won!

  392. Public service announcement for American friends

  393. Final post on the American elections tomorrow

  394. People in Australia talking about Obama

  395. McCain discusses Australia, Obama does not

  396. Sarah Palin’s non-answers are scarier

  397. Avaaz.org message for American friends

  398. Australia would vote for Obama

  399. Palin pick backfired amongst younger voters!

  400. We need a world government, and we need it now

  401. Even Aussies think Sarah Palin is funny!

  402. Sarah Palin, Russia, parliament, stupidity

  403. 3/700ths of a Wall Street bailout will feed every child

  404. I believe in the United Nations Charter

  405. The Church of the New World Order!

  406. JB Singapore urban rails: about time!

  407. Tibet and the Olympics, a sign?

  408. Twitter keeps trying to recruit me

  409. Barack Obama, Bob Brown Awesomeness!

  410. Australia 2007 – Voting Green!

  411. Australia 2007 – No more John Howard!

  412. Review of Cranky Geeks 081

  413. Robert Meyer’s inconvenient truth

  414. Rebecca Hagelin shoudn’t try economics lah!

  415. The Desk: Is her hope slipping?

  416. Great comment regarding my flat tax system post

  417. All You Would Ever Want To Know About John Howard!

  418. George W. Bush in Singapore

  419. Democrats Sweep Republicans Out of Power!

  420. Stop Bush This November 7th!

  421. Days Until Bush Leaves Office!

  422. Another Bushism

  423. EDS and CSC Are Gonna LOVE This Article!

  424. Poor Papua New Guinea

  425. Beppe Grillo’s Blog

  426. South Australia’s Premier Now a Doctor

  427. John Howard and Peter Costello Ad

  428. Basque Ceasefire