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Australians will vote soon and contrary to popular opinion on twitter, a swing against the sitting government as being shown by recent polls WON’T decide who runs the country.

There has been a conga line of candidates who have been disendorsed or quit in recent days – and more to come I’d say – all due to comments they have made on social media.

Let’s look at the absolutely shit takes we have seen during the #QldVotes campaign, and, they keep coming post campaign too LOL! I’m a political junkie and happy to admit it. Unlike many political junkies, I’m not a rusted on supporter of any political party.

On Tuesday (09 May 2017) Caitlin Mary and I did our regular #AuspolPunters podcast on PolitiScope #auspollive, you can listen here if you missed it: #AuspolPunters | Noely and Caitlin | 'Back to Basics'

When I was a much younger woman in my mid 20’s working for quite a large corporation I found myself in a sexual harassment situation and all the complications that come from making a complaint. Do I?. Don’t I? Will it make my job worse? Will I get picked on by other Managers (male of [...]

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)

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 [...]

A funny thing happened on the weekend, Queenslanders ignored historical convention, a shipload of advertising and the wishes of the Courier Mail to say, “Yeah, no... Don’t think so Campbell”.