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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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Offence By Another Name: Suppressing Anti-Royal Protest In Britain
Thursday, 22 September 2022, 2:11 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The right to protest, fragile and meekly protected by the judiciary in Britain’s common law tradition, did not really hold much force till European law confirmed it. In the UK, condemning other countries for suppressing rights to protest is standard ... More >>
“I Do Not Think I Know”: Scott Morrison’s Submarine Deception
Tuesday, 20 September 2022, 2:15 pm | Binoy Kampmark
When it was revealed that former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison had not only shown contempt for his own government in secretly appointing himself, via the Governor-General’s approval, to five portfolios, the depths of deception seemed ... More >>
Back Door Proliferation: The IAEA, AUKUS And Nuclear Submarine Technology
Saturday, 17 September 2022, 6:36 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In Vienna, China’s permanent mission to the United Nations has been rather exercised of late. Members of the mission have been particularly irate with the International Atomic Energy Agency and its Director General, Rafael Grossi, who addressed the IAEA’s ... More >>
Royal Money: Charles III And The Wealth Dimension
Friday, 16 September 2022, 3:34 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Once the fixated adoration with the late Queen Elizabeth II starts cooling, the accountants of public welfare and decency will be stunned to realise the costs and wealth associated with the royal institution. Her successor, Charles III, is continuing ... More >>
When Killers Become Choosers: Resurrecting The Thylacine And Other Species
Wednesday, 14 September 2022, 2:40 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Here we go again, playing God and toying with Promethean fire. Having done a comprehensively brutal job of killing off the thylacine, known in popular parlance as the Tasmanian Tiger, along with a growing number of other species, there is interest in reviving ... More >>
Queenly Saturation
Tuesday, 13 September 2022, 11:43 am | Binoy Kampmark
Turn on the television. Move to the screen. Switch on the device – if you ever left it off. Queen Elizabeth II may have passed, but she is everywhere in very lively fashion, a spectral manifestation that has utterly controlled large chunks of a transfixed ... More >>
Cool Subjects: The Other Side Of Elizabeth II’s Reign
Monday, 12 September 2022, 11:32 am | Binoy Kampmark
Global, personal, individual. The reactions to the death of Queen Elizabeth II seemed to catch even unsuspecting republicans off guard. In Australia, former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who had led the Australian Republic Movement, was a mess of reflection ... More >>
Dunderheaded Diplomacy: Australia’s Funding Offer To The Solomon Islands
Thursday, 8 September 2022, 12:41 pm | Binoy Kampmark
What is it about Australian diplomacy that makes it so clumsy and dunderheaded? Is it the harsh delivery, the tactless expression, or the inability to do things with subtle reflection? On September 6, Australian diplomacy gave another display ... More >>
Casting Malevolent Shadows: Liz Truss Wins The Tory Leadership
Tuesday, 6 September 2022, 1:39 pm | Binoy Kampmark
10 Downing Street is set to be bathed in social media guff with the victory of Liz Truss. Confirmed as Boris Johnson’s successor, the new British Prime Minister won by a slimmer margin over rival contender Rishi Sunak than anticipated. Nonetheless, ... More >>
The Harlot’s Score: Blood Money And The LIV Golf Tournament
Monday, 5 September 2022, 1:48 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It has been a hobbyhorse of Greg Norman for years: a threatening, alternative golf tournament to draw the stars and undermine the musty establishment. Realising a most dubious project, the LIV Tournament has become blood money’s greatest symbol. Funded ... More >>
The Helsingin Sanomat Case: Prosecuting Journalists In Finland
Monday, 5 September 2022, 5:09 am | Binoy Kampmark
On December 16, 2017, the Finnish daily newspaper Helsingin Sanomat published an investigative report on the activities of the Finnish Intelligence Research Centre. Titled “Finland’s Most Secret Place,” the report focused on the military intelligence ... More >>
Qantas, Rain Man And The Virtual Airline
Thursday, 1 September 2022, 11:41 am | Binoy Kampmark
The list of sins is lengthy and growing with diseased relish. Australia’s first and for decades only international airline, Qantas, is looking rather tattered of late. Its reliability is becoming something of the past, its standing diminished ... More >>
Beggars In Surplus: Australia’s University Gangsters
Wednesday, 31 August 2022, 12:37 pm | Binoy Kampmark
With the election of a new government in Australia in May, the begging bowls were being readied by administrators in the university sector. Bloated, ungainly, ruthless and uneven in quality, the country’s universities, for the most part, had inadvertently ... More >>
Shaq Dunks The Voice
Tuesday, 30 August 2022, 1:19 pm | Binoy Kampmark
August 27, Sydney. The scale was jaw dropping and amusing. There he was, the still fresh Labor Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, rendered pygmy-like by the enormity of one Shaquille O’Neal, popularly known as Shaq. No degree of expert photography ... More >>
Spears In Place Of Bridges: Australia, China And Fashioned Ignorance
Thursday, 25 August 2022, 12:20 pm | Binoy Kampmark
There is an overwhelming boisterous ignorance that characterises Australia’s foreign policy approach to China. When Beijing was boxed and derided as emerging, weak and well-behaved, everyone supposedly got on. Washington remained the region’s patriarch ... More >>
The Many Lives Of Ayman Al-Zawahiri
Tuesday, 23 August 2022, 1:41 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Ayman al-Zawahiri is dead – or so we are told. Al-Qaida’s chief and successor to the slain Osama bin Laden, he was deemed the chief ideologue and mastermind behind the audacious September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. On July 31, he was ... More >>
The Opaque Pacific: Fiji’s Maritime Essential Services Centre
Sunday, 21 August 2022, 6:50 pm | Binoy Kampmark
With China constantly being accused of insufferable secrecy and a lack of openness about security and defence arrangements among partners in the Pacific, the shoe, when on the other foot, sits just as well. In the case of Australia, it is particularly ... More >>
Liz Cheney: Goodbye And Good Riddance
Saturday, 20 August 2022, 6:30 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The fact that Daddy Dick was there, the dark eminence who soiled the Republic and inflated executive power with drugged glee, said it all. This was the occasion of his daughter’s electoral defeat at the hands of another Republican, Harriet Hageman. ... More >>
The Maybe Mob And The Rushdie Attack
Thursday, 18 August 2022, 12:28 pm | Binoy Kampmark
He has survived death threats and attempts on his life since February 1989. But Salman Rushdie’s luck just about ran out at the Chautauqua Institution, southwest of Buffalo in New York State. On August 12, at a venue historically celebrated for ... More >>
The Failings Of Westminster: Scott Morrison’s Shadow Government
Tuesday, 16 August 2022, 11:57 am | Binoy Kampmark
Why the sharp intake of breath, the tingling shock? In one of the world’s most secretive liberal democracies , the revelation that the previous Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison ran a shadow government overseen by personal quasi-despotic ... More >>
