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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 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 >>
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 >>
