90.3 Jul-Sept 2019

AQ: Australian Quarterly

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A Word
An incredible number of words have already been spilled on the ‘miracle’ election – an election that was a vigorous, noisy and dramatic vote for a familiar status quo. Voters across the country chose to favour a party with no policy platform other th
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Open Access: Should One Model Ever Fit All?
The arrival of the internet threatened to disrupt publishing substantially, and in many ways it has done so. But the changes we have seen have, until very recently, been more related to only the delivery of research via a different medium – electroni
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Blowback: The Sewage Intifada Of Gaza
Without going into background politics, one result of the Israeli siege imposed on Gaza from 2007, is that few, if any, spare parts and tools are allowed into Gaza for repairs and maintenance of its handful of wastewater treatment plants;3 especially
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Deleting Democracy: Australia And The Surveillance Juggernaut
The ‘datafication’ of the economy as we near the third decade of the 21st century is all-pervasive. The model, in the space of a decade and a half, has become so utterly hegemonic that it has earned its status as a special type of capitalism – Survei
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Interpreting the Dismissal Paul Kelly’s influence
If the present political malaise can be characterised by seriously diminished accountability, a propensity of the executive to stack the system or use mediating institutions as weapons against political opponents, or more generally embodied by ‘doing
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References
1 Jeff Nesbit, “Google’s True Origin Partly Lies in CIA and NSA Research Grants for Mass Surveillance,” Quartz (blog), December 8, 2017, https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance/ 2 Sh
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FROM THE ARCHIVE Party Spirit In Politics
When William III [of England] determined to select his ministers from the dominant party in the House of Commons [in 1698], he created a distinction for future generations between politics and statecraft and between the politician and the statesman.

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