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 The Collaery trial, open courts and justice October 18, 2021 By Binoy Kampmark Editors' Picks Open justice’s central point of maintaining confidence in the judiciary is rarely in doubt. National security matters, however, often test its limits.
Premium Columnists What will government do about slavery in Australia’s supply chain? October 1, 2021 By Binoy Kampmark Economy & Industry If Rex Patrick’s bill becomes law, all companies would have to show that any imported goods along their supply chain are free of slave labour.
Premium Columnists Craft-a-crime with the Identify and Disrupt Bill September 13, 2021 By Binoy Kampmark Editors' Picks The Identify and Disrupt Bill lets security organisations modify online material and coerce civilians into hacking, in the course of investigating online crimes.
Premium Columnists Forging ahead with replicable vaccination certificates September 2, 2021 By Binoy Kampmark Communications & Technology The Dark Web is awash with ads for fake vaccination certificates, and the myGov website one has been shown to be vulnerable.
Premium Columnists The ADF and the militarised response to COVID-19 August 23, 2021 By Binoy Kampmark Defence While the ADF’s presence in Sydney is intended a show of moral suasion, the more dangerous implications for the future are impossible to shake.
Premium Columnists That’s pandemic PR for you: herd immunity and COVID-19 August 16, 2021 By Binoy Kampmark Editors' Picks Epidemiologists around the world are moving away from the idea that we’ll hit a COVID herd-immunity threshold and then the pandemic will go away for good.
Premium Columnists Matters of transparency: freedom of information and the national cabinet August 10, 2021 By Binoy Kampmark Editors' Picks Binoy Kampmark fleshes out the themes of Australian Administrative Appeals Tribunal Justice Richard White’s decision on national cabinet documents.
Premium Columnists The Afghan repatriation crisis grows August 5, 2021 By Binoy Kampmark Defence Unlike certain bureaucrats mulling over visa applications with customary suspicion, the Taliban is proving far more decisive in their endeavours.
Premium Columnists Loveable Ned Kelly it ‘aint. Why is Australia so complacent towards ransomware attacks? July 27, 2021 By Binoy Kampmark Communications & Technology The ASD says ransomware attacks could cost Australia $30 billion and 160,000+ jobs. So why do cyber security firms see dangerous complacency in Australia?
Premium Columnists Defining essential work in lockdown times July 19, 2021 By Binoy Kampmark Economy & Industry To designate some work as essential and some that is not is bound to be arbitrary. All countries have faced this issue in some form in responding to COVID-19.
Premium Columnists Secrecy, public health and FOI July 14, 2021 By Binoy Kampmark Australian Capital Territory Two recent examples show how Australia’s FOI laws and administration are used to frustrate rather than advance the objective of informing the public.
Premium Columnists Australia’s AstraZeneca bungle is an exercise in failed communication July 5, 2021 By Binoy Kampmark Editors' Picks The prime minister’s change of tack on AstraZeneca precipitated what could only be regarded as fierce dissent. The consensus in the national cabinet is clearly unravelling.
Premium Columnists The return of Barnaby Joyce and the agents of chaos June 29, 2021 By Binoy Kampmark Editors' Picks Joyce’s reappearance on the front benches signals the Nationals were getting increasingly tetchy under the milder and scandal averse Michael McCormack.
Premium Columnists Let’s be friends! The Australia-UK free trade agreement June 21, 2021 By Binoy Kampmark Economy & Industry ‘Global Britain’ turns its gaze favourably upon distant Australia for a free trade deal ‘in principle’ negotiated with speed — even haste.
Premium Columnists With G7 agreeing to 15% global corporate tax, big tech and multinational giants have little to worry about June 16, 2021 By Binoy Kampmark Economy & Industry Google, Facebook and Amazon say the the G7 finance ministers’ tax decision is great; Oxfam and tax associations say it’s absurd and profit-shifting.