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A digital call to arms: #StopDataRetention | Scott's Blog
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Senator Scott Ludlam's blog. A digital call to arms: #StopDataRetention. Asymp; Leave a comment. FIRST PUBLISHED AT JUNKEE.COM. We need to talk about what happened in Parliament over the last ten days. After nearly two years gestating in obscure committee rooms, draft national security laws were rammed through the Parliament, by. Here’s what happened while attention was diverted elsewhere. Parliament kind of banned national security reporting in Australia. Anyone who discloses a new category of i...Two w...
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dear jo | Scott's Blog
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Senator Scott Ludlam's blog. Asymp; Leave a comment. This december, we celebrate a very important 30th anniversary: it is 30 years since jo vallentine was elected to the senate. ON OCTOBER 19 I WAS INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN ‘ MEN OF LETTERS. 8216; in sydney – an occasional departure for the wonderful women of letters team. ten of us were invited to write a letter to a woman who changed our lives. this was mine. So many years after that Palm Sunday crowd dispersed for coffee or a swim; discovering for mys...
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A digital call to arms: #StopDataRetention | Scott's Blog
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Senator Scott Ludlam's blog. A digital call to arms: #StopDataRetention. Asymp; Leave a comment. FIRST PUBLISHED AT JUNKEE.COM. We need to talk about what happened in Parliament over the last ten days. After nearly two years gestating in obscure committee rooms, draft national security laws were rammed through the Parliament, by. Here’s what happened while attention was diverted elsewhere. Parliament kind of banned national security reporting in Australia. Anyone who discloses a new category of i...Two w...
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Senator Scott Ludlam's blog. October 25, 2013. So we’re seven days into the search for #14votes, and there are probably another seven days to go. There’s good …. Continue reading →. August 27, 2013. There is an old story about the original creator of the game of chess, a wily mathematician who submits his …. Continue reading →. Field notes from an election. August 26, 2013. FIRST PUBLISHED AT THE GUARDIAN ONLINE The formula for election 2013 is by now cast in concrete. The press gallery …. August 20, 2013.
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thanks to you, the real opposition | Scott's Blog
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Senator Scott Ludlam's blog. Thanks to you, the real opposition. Asymp; Leave a comment. END OF YEAR SENATE SPEECH TO GET A FEW THINGS OFF MY CHEST. I rise tonight to thank and acknowledge all of those people around the country who are providing the real opposition to the Abbott Government. I don’t think that idea has. And to all of those at all levels of community building, from planners and developers to public transport advocates and architects, all those who see our cities and settlements not just as...
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of the city | Scott's Blog
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Senator Scott Ludlam's blog. August 27, 2013. There is an old story about the original creator of the game of chess, a wily mathematician who submits his …. Continue reading →. WA20 – a preview. August 20, 2013. An impressionistic view of the place we want to create: home town, home state. February 14, 2013. 30 second TV ad riffing on the theme of ‘True Progress’ created for the March 2013 state election. Adobe Photoshop …. Continue reading →. October 25, 2012. Continue reading →. East Perth Power Station.
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teh interwebs | Scott's Blog
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Senator Scott Ludlam's blog. A digital call to arms: #StopDataRetention. October 2, 2014. FIRST PUBLISHED AT JUNKEE.COM I’d have never made it as a journalist. The tyranny of a blinking cursor on …. Continue reading →. Labor’s strange surveillance capitulation. April 1, 2014. It won’t make the front page but on 30 March, Labor’s deputy leader Tanya Plibersek quietly caved in on one …. Continue reading →. The day we fight back. February 11, 2014. Continue reading →. November 19, 2013. June 7, 2013. With f...
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labor’s strange surveillance capitulation | Scott's Blog
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Senator Scott Ludlam's blog. Labor’s strange surveillance capitulation. Asymp; Leave a comment. It won’t make the front page but on 30 March, Labor’s deputy leader Tanya Plibersek quietly caved in. On one of the most invasive of recent proposals for mass surveillance in Australia. The mandatory data retention regime would compel phone companies and internet service providers (ISPs) to retain telecommunications data “metadata” for at least two years for the whole Australian population. The idea hasn’t com...
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Welcome to Western Australia | Scott's Blog
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Senator Scott Ludlam's blog. Welcome to Western Australia. Asymp; Leave a comment. Just as the reign of the dinosaurs was cut short to their great surprise, it may be that the Abbott government will appear as nothing more than a thin, greasy layer in the core sample of future political scientists drilling back into the early years of the 21st century. So to be very blunt, the reason that I extend this invitation to you, Mr Prime Minister, to spend as much time as you can spare in Western Australia is tha...
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About Scott | Scott's Blog
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Senator Scott Ludlam's blog. Welcome to my blog. For some reason it’s taken a long while to make a place to dump writing, video work, various bits of art and whatever else catches my eye. Formally, I’m our national spokesperson for transport, housing, communications, sustainable cities, infrastructure, waste and matters nuclear. I also assist on defence issues and do my best to help Burmese pro-democracy campaigners in their long quest for basic human rights. Or my inaugural speech. Hi Scott. Great t...