One of the fun things about being a freelance journalist is that one day you can be producing a radio documentary, while the next you can be staking out notoriously corrupt politicians at the gateway to their illustriously fitted out mansions.  Needless to say, that’s the situation I found myself in recently, when the Independent […]

A few weeks ago I wrote a couple of articles on some investments that The Turnbulls have made over the past few years in NBN contractors such as Siemens AG and Hochtief AG.  While Lucy and Malcolm Turnbull disposed of their shares in Siemens back in late 2011, according to Mr Turnbull’s Federal Statement of […]

Over the past couple of weeks since Edward Snowden started making accusations against the US Intelligence community as a whistleblower, there’s been a lot of focus on the level of engagement that IT companies such as Google, Skype, Microsoft, Apple and Yahoo have with the more clandestine elements of the US government. But while there’s […]

  In a rather interesting turn of events, it seems that my last post in regards to The Turnbulls and their investments in NBN contractors has attracted a wee bit of attention, while also touching a few nerves. Soon after I published yesterday’s post, the following exchange took place between Mr Turnbull and myself on […]

Tony Windsor did an interview with my old radio station TuneFM at the University of New England earlier today. As some of you would be aware, this is the radio station at the same University that Windsor, Barnaby Joyce and Guardian Australia’s Katherine Murphy went to in their heyday, which The Hon Richard Torbay was […]

A couple of days ago Peter Phelps MLC made a rather interesting response to my previous post that focused on the negatives of online drama.  By using a healthy dispute between Mr Phelps and Peter Van Onselen, I attempted to define what’s healthy in regards to social media activity and what’s not.  While their debate […]