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		<title>I&#8217;m not a lobbyist yet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2014 02:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi there. I&#8217;m back from 3 years as a political staffer, working for Senator Richard Di Natale in the federal parliament. It was an amazing experience, working under high pressure but for an amazing boss and as part of a dedicated and united team. I will have more to say on it later on. For [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Value for NBN Money</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 05:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last few days I&#8217;ve found myself agreeing with Stephen Conroy again &#8211; always an unsettling experience. This time it was over the Economist Intelligence Unit&#8217;s recent ranking of Government broadband policies. They are pretty biased towards free market solutions, and so a massive government intervention like the NBN is unlikely to get top [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Jobs rant; and I&#8217;m a dirty bastion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing sets my bullshit detector off like an industry lobbyist talking about saving jobs. The harder the industry works to keep labor costs down by cutting pay and benefits, the louder they will yell about protecting workers when policy heads in a direction they don&#8217;t like. I sound off on this in a piece over [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Dec 2010 07:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope to have a productive January with writing, including finishing my most bizarre project, a short children&#8217;s book in Mandarin. In the meantime, here are two articles I recently wrote for the web: Politicians struggling to cope with that interwebby thing in The Punch Free speech is sexy again for New Matilda, who thankfully will [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea first impressions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 02:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: I also wrote a short piece for Crikey on the subject yesterday. I returned to China a few days ago after a week in the Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of Korea. Every minute of the trip was fascinating, and I have many new insights into the place that I would never have gotten reading the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The narrow view of the federal police</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a piece today in Crikey about a submission by the Australian Federal Police, worrying that the NBN would be a haven for criminals. Today I wrote over at EFA how the AFP are pushing for tough data retention laws. Given how powerful the police are as a lobby group &#8211; since no politician [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Pick a team and play</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I had an op-ed in the National Times (Fairfax) about grassroots participation in party politics. It&#8217;s been a long time since politics was a genuine mass movement. That&#8217;s not good for the country. Here I do my bit to encourage people to think about giving it a go. Take a look here.]]></description>
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		<title>The battle for an open Internet</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently the trends in Internet freedom have been all bad. China&#8217;s censorship regime escalated dramatically over the last 12 months, with a more aggressive Golden Shield, tumultuous events in Iran and of course Australia&#8217;s own filtering plan. It is therefore extremely heartening to see the tough new stand on Internet freedom taken by the USA. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Google article on New Matilda</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a piece by me today over on New Matilda on the Google/China fight. It&#8217;s nice to write about someone else&#8217;s filtering problems for once. Have a read here.]]></description>
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		<title>Flowers for Google &#8211; reactions inside China</title>
		<link>/2010/writing/flowers-for-google-reactions-inside-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: Colin lived in China in 2009 and as EFA&#8217;s internet censorship spokesman has previously commented on China&#8217;s Internet Censorship regime. Google&#8217;s threat, in the wake of apparent Chinese government espionage, to withdraw from the Chinese market completely has created a storm of comment in the media and blogosphere. Google has been praised for a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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