“Perhaps
it is impossible to understand anything unless it happened
to you yourself.” - Martha
Gellhorn.
Gellhorn was not only a superb war
correspondent (and Ernest Hemingway s lover), but also a
writer who never lost her vigilant sense of self-awareness,
born as it was from a profound inner loneliness, a radical
political uncertainty, and her consequent habit of merciless
self-analysis. It was a quality that enabled her, even in
moments of almost unbearably intimate confrontation with the
suffering of others, to become the perfect stranger in
another s territory, the emissary from a zone of human
calamity to a land where people are both comfortable and
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Sky News host Peta Credlin has apologised to Kevin Rudd regarding a November 2020 episode of ‘Credlin’. “Before we close, on November 11 last year while commenting on former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s petition to the House of Representatives for a Royal Commission to ensure a strong, diverse Australian news media, I said the petition was a data harvesting exercise and that Mr Rudd now had more than half a million email addresses to use for his own political purposes," Ms Credlin said.
“That was false. Mr Rudd did not have access to the email addresses in the petition because they were the property of the Parliament. Nor did he seek them. The misuse of the email addresses as claimed would have been a serious invasion of people’s privacy. I apologise to Mr Rudd for any damage caused to him by my false statement.”
So far there has been a kind of deregulated regulation whereby corporations regulate users and users regulate users through establishing rules for online conduct. Such regulation may blur the line between private and public action.
But, could there not be a move to adopt measures such as a firewall like China has?
Already, though admittedly for very different purposes, the federal Coalition government has introduced regulation to prevent the ease at which news is shared and make Google and Facebook answerable to media companies/oligopolies, mandating that they pay news organisations.
The old gods of printed media may be dead, but they still demand sacrifice.
Jon Sullivan, a politician who represented Queenslanders for more than a decade, has passed away.
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Subscriber only Jon Sullivan, a longstanding Queensland politician who represented Queenslanders at state and federal levels, has passed away at age 70. The Bulli-born politician was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Glass House in 1989 before representing Caboolture from 1992 to 1998. Mr Sullivan died on Sunday and was remembered at a funeral service on Thursday.  ALP candidate Jon Sullivan handing out how to vote forms at Narangba State School in the 2010 Federal election. Elected to the Federal House of Representatives for Longman in 2007, Mr Sullivan was defeated in 2010.
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