Binoy Kampmark Dr. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne. Email: bkampmark@gmail.com
Premium Columnists Alice Springs curfew is a question of legality April 8, 2024 By Binoy Kampmark Community & Social The spectre of federal intervention over the Alice Springs curfew hovers much like the sword of Damocles over the bureaucrats and representatives of the NT.
Premium Columnists The limits and prospects of vaccination mandates in Australia March 24, 2024 By Binoy Kampmark Editors' Picks The crux of a vaccination mandate is the risk of preventing infection and transmission and the individual’s right to informed consent.
Premium Columnists The latest AUKUS snag? Fewer promised submarines March 14, 2024 By Binoy Kampmark Defence The US Navy’s intention to cut a submarine that is already paid for and built threatens the timeline for the Royal Australian Navy.
Premium Insights and analysis The hidden dangers of the proposed military secrets law February 29, 2024 By Binoy Kampmark Defence Canberra wants to assure Washington and London of our watertightness with the transfer of expertise and technology under the AUKUS pact.
Premium Columnists Marles, Conroy happy for Australia to be AUKUS’ supplicating friend February 5, 2024 By Binoy Kampmark Defence AUKUS gives the US control and authority over Australian goods and technology while retaining control over the sharing of any US equivalent.
Premium Insights and analysis The ICJ’s provisional orders provide lessons about the Genocide Convention for Australia January 30, 2024 By Binoy Kampmark Editors' Picks The Albanese government walks the diplomatic tightrope on genocide but the ICJ says it’s an active matter for all states.
Premium Insights and analysis Difficult horizons for Australia’s first anti-slavery commissioner January 22, 2024 By Binoy Kampmark Editors' Picks Australia’s first anti-slavery commissioner will need to do more than tinker with the available machinery that has not resulted in meaningful change.
Premium Insights and analysis The secrecy protocol: The affair of the missing cabinet papers January 17, 2024 By Binoy Kampmark Editors' Picks The Australian National Archives has form when it comes to locking away historic documents. And it’s a bit rich to call the Dennis Richardson probe into why records were withheld from the 2003 cabinet papers ‘independent’.
Premium Columnists Commonwealth Infrastructure Review’s costs and concerns December 5, 2023 By Binoy Kampmark Editors' Picks Vast infrastructure projects, be it in their approval stage or execution phase, have biting consequences for specific localities.
Premium Columnists Workings of government compromised by overly keen interest in transparency: A-G November 28, 2023 By Binoy Kampmark Editors' Picks Secrecy laws have a massive impact on press freedom and whistleblowers. That’s an essential fact the government has chosen to resist.
Premium Columnists Ending Australia’s old precedent of indefinite detention — at speed November 21, 2023 By Binoy Kampmark Editors' Picks Australia’s immigration system has been punctured. And as the commonwealth digests the implications of the decision, suggestions abound.
Premium Columnists AI visions, managing data risks, and the Bletchley Declaration November 9, 2023 By Binoy Kampmark Communications & Technology Who will draft the use of AI data rules? Which agency will be vested with the power to police them? And who will care to abide by them?
Premium Columnists Controversial foundations: The Sydney Opera House and lessons for government November 2, 2023 By Binoy Kampmark Culture Disputes between artistic architects and pragmatic engineers are just one part of the history of The Sydney Opera House.
Premium Columnists Australia’s FOI regime shrouded in impenetrable secrecy October 24, 2023 By Binoy Kampmark Communications & Technology Efficiency and openness do not describe Australia’s FOI regime. Information rationing and control are more like it.
Premium Columnists The Voice outcome, predictable from the start, shows the hurdle for Australia’s referenda October 19, 2023 By Binoy Kampmark Community & Social No referendum will ever achieve a double majority in a majority of states if it does not have near-uniform public approval from the outset.