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by Mark Bowyer

There’s an exodus of expats from Asia’s COVID crisis. Australians are stuck.

ia has normalised cruelty over many years – now, as COVID’s delta variant sweeps through South East Asia, our citizens abroad are copping it.

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by Mark Bowyer

Australia’s ACCC is protecting local media monopolists from Google and Facebook

The stakes have been raised in the Australian government’s stoush with Google and Facebook. Last week, Facebook joined Google in expressing opposition to the proposed new laws, threatening to block news sharing from Australian Facebook users. But the ACCC seems more concerned with protecting the market power of Australia’s old news publishers, and is squandering […]

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by Mark Bowyer

In Google’s battle with the Australian Government, there’s no good guy

Australia’s regulator is barking up the wrong tree when it comes to dealing with Google and Facebook and news publishers.

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by Mark Bowyer

Close the beach – a very Sydney solution to the coronavirus problem

The closure of Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach in response to coronavirus concerns was typical Sydney problem solving – fire, aim, ready – and punish all for the transgressions of a few.

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by Mark Bowyer
Sydney in Coronavirus

The world’s richest can’t save the United States

How could the world’s richest country, home to the world’s most successful drug and technology companies, richest plutocrats, and most prestigious universities, be incapable of providing essential medical care for its people?

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