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Opinion

Apple is big brother in your pocket (National Times, 27 April 2011)

The copyright battle in Australia (ORGZine, April 15 2011)

Actually, we’re not paying more for less (New Matilda, 14 Feb 2011)

Conroy Not Fooling Anyone On An Open Internet (Gizmodo, 3 Feb 2011)

We owe the classification system a debt of thanks (ABC online, 24 January 2011)

The threat of job cuts is a smokescreen (The Punch, 14 January 2011)

Politicians struggling to cope with that interwebby thing (The Punch, 23 December 2010)

Free speech is sexy again (New Matilda, 13 December 2010)

Deconstructing the morality of the internet filter (Delimiter, 15 October 2010)

North Korea and a cult of the Kims personality (Crikey, 12 October 2010)

NBN a haven for criminality, say federal police (Crikey, 7 September 2010)

Politics: Pick a team and play (National Times, 17 August 2010)

The National Broadband Network is a future we must embrace (Online Opinion, 17 August 2010)

The Evolution Of Labor Internet Filter Policy (Gizmodo, 9 July 2010)

No Sex Please, We’re Apple (New Matilda, 28 April 2010)

A mollycoddling internet policy is just feeding the trolls (The Age, 19 March 2010)

Facebook jerks should be ignored, not legislated against (Crikey, 2 March 2010)

Conroy frantically spins Clinton speech (Crikey, 25 January 2010)

Flowers for Google (New Matilda, 19 January 2010)

It’s the edges that matter (Larvatus Prodeo, 8 January 2010)

Reporters Without Borders: Don’t do it, Rudd (Crikey!, 21 December 2009)

Net filter that helps no-one (ABC Unleashed, 16 December 2009)

Conroy won’t tame ‘wild west’ web (The Australian, 3  September 2009)

Green Dam takes China’s net censorship to Scary new level (Crikey, 19 June 2009)

The Trial Begins (New Matilda, 25 Feb 2009)

Putting the filtering cart before the horse (ZDNet, 23 Feb 2009)

Confused filtering policy won’t deliver (ABC Online, 3 Feb 2009)

The filtering wars: EFA vs Hamilton (Crikey!, 17 February 2009)

Cyber-libertarians love their children too (EFA, 20 Feb 2009)

Filtering won’t deliver for Aussie kids (Online Opinion, 28 January 2009)

The world smirks at Conroy’s censorship plan (Crikey!, 9 January 2009)

Internet censorship. Nice idea, just not practical (Crikey!, 21 November2008)

Other Stuff

Bagging the Matrix over at Quickflix

Working Holiday (Fiction, audio version)

Leaving the Kokoda Track (Diggers)

Private Property (Private Schools)

How to Learn a Language (2004)

For historical amusement:

The Cost of a Big Mac (Voiceworks, Spring 1996)

Scientology: Salvation on Sale (Voiceworks, Winter 1996) (Voiceworks got hassled by CoS for this piece)

@coljac’s recent tweets

  • Isn't issuing a denial giving tacit permission to the media to report personal matters? #qanda 1 week ago
  • @13tales I'm not at all down on languages at all. I just don't think "more languages = success in Asia" is a coherent policy. 1 week ago
  • @swearyanthony I learned how to say 'comrade' when I was in Pyongyang. It's 'dongmu'. But i wasn't there on greens business... 1 week ago
  • @kaelalou was just an example about the undifferentiated push for Asian languages without a reason - that would make sense to students. 1 week ago
  • @13tales I speak Chinese and think its wonderful. But how many of us negotiate trade deals? How to motivate kids to learn en masse? 1 week ago

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