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Binoy Kampmark
Dr. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne.
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The Bond Vigilantes Get Busy
Thursday, 3 November 2022, 2:24 pm | Binoy Kampmark
While the levels of schadenfreude will be going through the roof given the unfolding farce in British politics, the resignation of Liz Truss as UK Prime Minister was troubling in one vital respect. True, her juvenile salad understanding of economics, ... More >>
Virtuous Hypocrisy: The Socceroos And The Qatar World Cup
Monday, 31 October 2022, 3:32 pm | Binoy Kampmark
For a time, the confused and muddled approach from Australian football (soccer to some) did much of a side-step regarding the human rights imbroglio and Qatar’s hosting of the FIFA World Cup. There was ample cash and participation in one of the ... More >>
Tactical Nuclear Fantasists
Thursday, 27 October 2022, 12:08 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Bogeyman politics tends to be flatly unimaginative. The image of the nuclear-mad Russian President, counting his diminishing options, has caught the imagination of press and propaganda outlets across the West. Will Mad Vlad go the distance and deploy ... More >>
Eric Schmidt: A Conflict Of Interest
Wednesday, 26 October 2022, 2:28 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Ethics and Eric Schmidt are rare bedfellows. The former Google/Alphabet CEO/Chairman exudes a sense of predatory self-interest, always making the point that what he wants aligns with what is supposedly good for the United States. He has splashed money ... More >>
A Political Solution For Assange: Jennifer Robinson At The National Press Club
Sunday, 23 October 2022, 6:12 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It was telling. Of the mainstream Australian press gallery, only David Crowe of the Sydney Morning Herald turned up to listen to Jennifer Robinson, lawyer extraordinaire who has spent years representing Julian Assange. Since 2019, that representation ... More >>
Exit Liz Truss; Enter Lettuce
Friday, 21 October 2022, 1:47 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“When are you going to govern? The only thing you have governed for the past year is your own survival.” Jess Phillips, Labour MP, October 20, 2022 British politics has revealed hidden depths, each one being sought as each prime minister succumbs. ... More >>
Feeble And Invisible: Sports Protests At The Qatar FIFA World Cup
Wednesday, 19 October 2022, 1:30 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Sports stars are often adored like dumb show animals, suitably pretty, happily disposed to the cause they are paid for. For the FIFA Men’s World Cup being held in Qatar next month, football can count on the face of former English star David Beckham as ... More >>
Fibs And Fantasy: Scott Morrison Joins The Global Lecture Circuit
Tuesday, 18 October 2022, 2:10 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Time for some dark amusement. Rising water levels are being recorded in Victoria and New South Wales. Homes and businesses have been inundated before swelling rivers. And Australia’s former Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, is being advertised in his ... More >>
The Implosion Of Liz Truss
Monday, 17 October 2022, 12:47 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“The Tory Party is like a knight dying in his armour.” Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday , Oct 16, 2022 Liz Truss is proving to be the architect of her own spectacular demise. She laid the mines in a fit of drunken ecstasy and decided to skip across ... More >>
Charles III: Architectural Meddler And Saboteur
Saturday, 15 October 2022, 5:45 pm | Binoy Kampmark
As a prince, the new British monarch developed some curious attitudes to architecture. He also proved to be a dedicated meddler behind building projects he did not like. Combined, this led to a number of interventions that cast a shadow over his accession ... More >>
Giorgia Meloni: The Great Replacement Moves In
Thursday, 13 October 2022, 12:42 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Demographic angst is a terrifying thing, especially to leaders concerned about poor returns from horizontal folk dancing. Viktor Orbán of Hungary is particularly apprehensive that precious Hungarian blood is not being propagated, facing dilution, if not disappearance, ... More >>
Facing The Warmongers: An Assange Update
Tuesday, 11 October 2022, 1:14 pm | Binoy Kampmark
On the latest slimed path Julian Assange has been made to trod, a few things have presented themselves. The rusty sword of Damocles may be suspended above him (he, we are informed, has contracted COVID-19), but there are those, in the meantime, ... More >>
The Liz Truss Disaster Show
Friday, 7 October 2022, 3:06 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Never underestimate the power of failure. As the Liz Truss Disaster Show demonstrates, the next pitfall is probably just around the corner. The UK Prime Minister has shown, along with her distinctly oblivious Chancellor of the Exchequer, how to balls up ... More >>
The China Coup Dupes
Tuesday, 4 October 2022, 1:29 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It all caused a flutter amongst the ignorant and expectant on September 21. China, it was said, was in the grip of an intriguing internal crisis. Air traffic had dramatically altered , with some 9,583 flights cancelled. There were talking heads aflame with ... More >>
Dated And Fractured: Optus And Data Protections Down Under
Monday, 3 October 2022, 5:38 am | Binoy Kampmark
Things are not getting better for Optus, a subsidiary of the Singapore-owned Singtel and Australia’s second largest telecommunications company. Responsible for one of Australia’s largest data breaches, the beleaguered company is facing burning ... More >>
Opportunistic Interests: The US-Pacific Island Declaration
Friday, 30 September 2022, 4:15 pm | Binoy Kampmark
If ever there was a blatant statement of realpolitik masquerading as friendliness, the latest US-Pacific Island declaration must count as one of them. The Biden administration has been busy of late, wooing Pacific Island states in an effort to discourage increasingly ... More >>
Gautam Adani: Ecological Crossdresser
Thursday, 29 September 2022, 1:43 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Imagine the tobacco producer who invests in smoke limitation programs, or the arms manufacturer who attends a conference proposing to ban weapons and seek a better future. Gautam Adani, one of India’s most ruthlessly adept billionaires, has added ... More >>
Whitewashing At Shinzo Abe’s State Funeral
Tuesday, 27 September 2022, 3:05 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Be careful who you praise and the degree of zeal you do it with. The slain Shinzo Abe, shot dead in Nara on July 8, towered over Japanese politics. In doing so, he cast a lengthy shadow. In death, this shadow continues to grow ever more darkly. ... More >>
Breaching Human Rights: Australia, Climate Change And The Torres Strait Islands
Sunday, 25 September 2022, 6:59 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Australia has a mixed relationship with the United Nations Human Rights Committee. Irritation, dismissal and even the occasional openly hostile comment, have registered. But in 1994, the Toonen decision filtered through the Australian legal process, leading ... More >>
Shoddy Consultations: Santos, Drilling And First Nations Peoples
Friday, 23 September 2022, 12:13 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Federal Court Justice Mordecai Bromberg has been in the environmental news again, this time throwing a large judicial spanner in the works of Santos and its drilling efforts in the Timor Sea. On this occasion, the Federal Court found that the National ... More >>
