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Courts are only just beginning to grapple with the application of defamation law to social media platforms like Twitter. Hockey v Fairfax is only the second Australian case to reach final judgment in which damages have been awarded for defamatory tweets. Rolph (1)

Bishop has finally stepped down as Speaker, but don’t get too excited. It appears Mr Abbott is not only going to let Ms Bishop get away with ripping off the taxpayer by allowing her to resign and keep her job, BUT is in fact doubling down on the insult to us by trying to make ‘Party Business’ a [...]

If I hear one more person say, “Oh they all do it...” in regard to rorting entitlements I swear I will scream. That is not good enough. These people are on OUR payroll. If you owned a business you would not cop this abuse of expenses that we see from Ms Bishop and other MP’s of all flavours.

Have you ever, like me, lamented the fact that a friend/relative didn’t have Facebook? How do you show them your photos, keep in touch, remind them you care?

Let me explain. This sort of playing fast and loose with taxpayer funds is not new with our elected officials, though it does have to be said that Ms Bishop has taken the ‘entitled’ attitude to a whole new level. Every few years some intrepid journalist, or in the case of Peter Slipper, ambitious [...]

Twitter is clearly different things to different people. It is one part of new/social media; forms of media production and dissemination that were popularised long after I changed careers and stopped teaching about the media. Social media is more democratic and less controllable (despite the recent [...]

There are many, like Brock who are not hiding from scrutiny, just want to expand their social contact and pretty much have a life beyond their immediate surrounds, to discuss ideas, politics of the day but without the context of their own physical backgrounds or demographic which colour and cloud [...]

Last night twitter was abuzz with Same Sex Marriage debate - or as I like to call it, "Equality" – with the introduction of a ‘Multi-party same-sex marriage bill to be introduced in August’. If you only watch and read certain news you would think it is just the Liberals & ALP doing this, though [...]

Sadly for Bill Shorten, the biggest threat to Tony Abbott & the Coalition not getting a 2nd term in Government is Bill Shorten stepping down as ALP Leader and new non-Union tainted Leader taking his place. If the last 48 hours of news reporting on Bill Shorten are anything to take seriously, then that [...]