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 Enigmas and riddles as the Russian economy weathers the storm March 2, 2023 By Binoy Kampmark Editors' Picks Russia’s war on Ukraine and the sanctions that followed have produced growth in different sectors and a global shift in energy markets.
Premium Columnists ChatGPT already in use in politics and public service February 16, 2023 By Binoy Kampmark Communications & Technology Moves are afoot in Singapore’s civil service to integrate ChatGPT into research and the drafting of reports and speeches.
Premium Columnists AAT gets the Albo elbow December 19, 2022 By Binoy Kampmark Editors' Picks Established in 1976, the AAT evolved to consider migration, industrial relations, the NDIS. And it became stacked with LNP cronies.
Premium Columnists Price caps on Russian oil was never going to be a simple fix December 9, 2022 By Binoy Kampmark Editors' Picks Energy market complexities can perplex even seasoned veterans. The move to cap Russian oil exports was always going to be challenging.
Premium Columnists As metaverse government gains traction around the world, here’s a look at the pros and cons December 5, 2022 By Binoy Kampmark Communications & Technology The metaverse offers governments a digital do-over in working, procurement, learning, and socialising. Several countries are embracing it.
Premium Columnists Cyber hacks and the Medibank ransom conundrum December 1, 2022 By Binoy Kampmark Communications & Technology The Medibank Private hack has become something of a defining moment in Australia’s cyber security, going beyond mere embarrassment.
Premium Columnists Australian coal industry’s fraudulent reporting ignored by four government agencies November 24, 2022 By Binoy Kampmark Economy & Industry Andrew Wilkie has received “thousands of documents proving” the coal industry has been lying about the quality of Australian coal.
Premium Columnists Google location data has you forever in its web November 21, 2022 By Binoy Kampmark Communications & Technology ACCC fining Google for location data privacy breaches hardly deals with the central premise of Google’s existence: surveillance capitalism.
Premium Columnists Exploited labour of casual staff at Australia’s universities November 21, 2022 By Binoy Kampmark Economy & Industry The Fair Work ombud has made large-scale underpayment of Australian universities’ casual staff a primary concern for the 2022-23 year.
Premium Columnists Australia’s high rate of incarceration is a poor economic choice November 10, 2022 By Binoy Kampmark Australian Capital Territory Incarceration in Australia costs $330 per prisoner per day. A community corrections order, by contrast, costs a mere $30 per prisoner per day.
Premium Columnists Will Australia heed the lessons of the UK’s bond vigilantism? November 7, 2022 By Binoy Kampmark Economy & Industry The recurring problem with market-based solutions to finance and growth is their tendency to always return to the same formula.
Premium Columnists Australia’s problem with implementing anti-torture, anti-degradation protocols October 28, 2022 By Binoy Kampmark Editors' Picks Funding issues are cited as the reason most state governments have not implemented the OPCAT protocols they ratified.
Premium Columnists COVID-19’s salient lessons for pandemic management October 26, 2022 By Binoy Kampmark Australian Capital Territory The coercive legacy of the pandemic state will be hard to modify. COVID-19 showed us that politicians take precedence over experts.
Premium Columnists Professionals gone bad: the Medicare temptation a swathe of doctors can’t resit October 19, 2022 By Binoy Kampmark Economy & Industry Where there’s a huge pot of money that’s super easy to access (hello, Medicare), you’re going to get bad actors unlawfully taking it.
Premium Columnists Optus and the policy of data insecurity October 6, 2022 By Binoy Kampmark Communications & Technology The chickens of prolonged retention of customers’ personal data have come back to roost, with marked consequences.