A few weeks ago, former President Donald Trump, put together a lawsuit aimed at the big three social media giants – Twitter, Facebook and YouTube – claiming censorship and infringement of his First Amendment rights. In an in-depth interview, Constitutional Law expert and Fulbright Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Howard Schweber argued that the [...]
Education should regiment, homogenise, and reward students for producing materials that are standardised and punished for anything creative.
I have now been writing about US politics for well over a year and it is refreshing to write about policy rather than conflict. Below is a brief analysis of Biden's infrastructure bill. I hope you enjoy it. Last week, United States President, Joe Biden, unveiled his $2 trillion ‘infrastructure plan’. Titled “Build Back [...]
As we all know, in 2016, the election of Donald Trump as the President of the United States of America was not only unexpected but also signalled both a rising tide of populism as well as a ‘right-wing pivot’. While many books have been written about the Trump election, key here is that Trump [...]
Sitting in Australia and watching United States politics can be confounding. What I have learnt in my time in the Western states is that much of the information making its way to Australia and other ports of the world makes its way via the east or west coast of the USA and does not [...]
For most of us, it is easy to pass judgement on others while finding it difficult to reflect on ourselves. Diversity Arts Australia recently undertook a research project, Shifting the Balance, with the assistance of Western Sydney University and BYP Group. We investigated the representation of culturally and/or linguistically diverse (CALD) Australians in leadership positions [...]
Weeks before I left Sydney to start my Fulbright Fellowship, discussions began about the need to ban mobile phones from schools. This followed a decision by the Victorian Government to bad mobile phones in all state schools - both primary and secondary. According to the education minister, James Merlino, this was to take place from [...]
I have always felt very lucky on the journey that I am experiencing as part of my university career. Though I have prided myself on working hard and being committed to my university - I strongly believe that luck (or timing) has always played an important role in success. One of the things I have [...]
Over the last decade, piracy has emerged as a growing field of research covering a wide range of different phenomena, from fashion counterfeits and media piracy, through to 17th-century buccaneers and present-day pirates off the coast of Somalia. In many cases, piracy is a metaphor or an analytical perspective to understand conflicts and social [...]
Over the last year or so I have been working on the concept of 'data ethics' and 'data fairness', doing some awesome work with the folk in the Centre for Research Mathematics (at Western Sydney University), the Consumer Policy Research Network, ABC investigative team as well as the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN). [...]
