Archive for the 'Australian politics' Category
Thursday, July 26th, 2007
Dr Mohamed Haneef is a 27-year old physician who was arrested on July 2, 2007 at the Brisbane Airport, Brisbane, Australia for suspected terror-related activities, specifically in connection to 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack. He has currently been held in prison by Australian authorities for 24 days without being charged and now that it is [...]
Posted in Australian politics | 13 Comments »
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007
A very special guest (shhhh can’t tell you who) joins me on today’s show to chat about the JFK bomb plot, Rupert Murdoch’s attempts to buy the world, divorce, Facebook, asking the right questions, Apple TV, the Australian government’s new broadband plan which is a bitchslap to our friends at Telstra, Marc Andreesen’s blog, setting [...]
Posted in Australian media, Australian politics, Podcast, US politics, media 2.0 | 4 Comments »
Monday, April 23rd, 2007
No guest today, just a bit of a chat about:
Robert Rodriguez’s cooking show on the Sin City Recut DVD
this report that less than 7% of Australians believe cosmetics advertising
a review of “The Receipt” by Will Adamsdale and Chris Branch, currently showing in the Melbourne Comedy Festival
ExxonSecrets, a site that helps you follow the money behind [...]
Posted in Australian media, Australian politics, Culture Jamming, Podcast, censorship, climate change, depression, energy, energy debate, environment, freedom of speech, future makers, movies | 9 Comments »
Saturday, April 21st, 2007
I’m scanning the headlines this morning and see this one on News.com.au: “Priest claims praying ‘pointless’“. You just know that’s going to get my attention, right? I thought to myself “I can’t wait to show this to Father Bob!”
You should have heard me laugh when I opened it and read:
“SOUTH Melbourne priest Bob Maguire says [...]
Posted in Australian politics, Cam's World, General | 3 Comments »
Monday, April 16th, 2007
David Silverman has been an Atheist since he was six years old. He is an accomplished inventor with seventy-four patents, holds degrees in Marketing and Computer Science, and is the National Spokesperson for American Atheists, an organization in the U.S. dedicated to defending the civil liberties of atheists and advocating for the complete separation of [...]
Posted in Australian politics, Podcast, science vs religion | 13 Comments »
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
As mentioned here last week, Democrat Congressman Pete Stark from California has outed himself. Wonkette says he is a “Unitarian”.
“When the Secular Coalition asked me to complete a survey on my religious beliefs, I indicated I am a Unitarian who does not believe in a supreme being,” Stark said. “Like our nation’s founders, I [...]
Posted in Australian politics, politics, science vs religion | 14 Comments »
Friday, March 9th, 2007
On episode 211 my guests are Dr Phil Burgess, Group Managing Director, Public Policy and Communication, Telstra and Garry Barker, Technology Editor at The Age. We spent an hour at Telstra’s Melbourne offices this morning discussing the state of broadband in Australia.
Phil is often in the news (here are some recent stories) debating the [...]
Posted in Australian politics, Melbourne, Podcast, technology | 21 Comments »
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
The “NoGodBlog“, the official blog of the American Athiests, is all excited about the announcement that on March 12th, a U.S. Congressman/woman is apparently going to announce that he/she is an atheist. This is obviously a big deal in the country where, according to Richard Dawkins, a recent poll indicated that the majority of U.S. [...]
Posted in Australian politics | 4 Comments »
Monday, March 5th, 2007
My guests today are Dr Kris Klugman PhD and Bill Rowlings from Civil Liberties Australia. I invited them onto the show to help me understand what’s happening with a variety of civil liberty matters such as:
David Hicks
Dr Phillip Nitschke’s book
Attorney-General Phillip Ruddock
Banning of Muslim books
Sedition and other “anti-terrorism” laws passed in Australia
The use of fear [...]
Posted in Australian media, Australian politics, Podcast, US politics, censorship, politics | 6 Comments »
Friday, March 2nd, 2007
I was just thinking tonight that someone should get a copy of Nitschke’s “The Peaceful Pill Handbook”, scan it, pdf it, and release it on the web as a free e-book. Then, I thought, why doesn’t Nitschke do it himself? I’m pretty sure he doesn’t see the book as a big money maker. Why not [...]
Posted in Australian politics, censorship | 5 Comments »