gatewatching

It’s good to get offline for a while now and then. Last night I went to the Belgian Beer Cafe in Brisbane with some colleagues and friends. The mussels were lovely (as was the beer), but as well as getting some nourishment and giving my eyes a rest I got to hear about an interesting [...]

Kevin Rennie is one of the really valuable and interesting voices in the Australian blogosphere. Labor View from Broome has for more than a year given the rest of us a real insight into life in one of the most remote and underreported areas in Australia.
One of my abiding concerns about Australia’s blogosphere is [...]

Hi all - Club Bloggery is back with prognostications about the future of the Australian blogosphere - cross-posted here from our ABC column.
Club Bloggery: Which way in ‘08?
By Jason Wilson, Axel Bruns, Barry Saunders
The blogosphere and online independent media certainly proved themselves capable of offering an outstanding alternative narrative of last year’s federal election.In several [...]

Pip Starr was a Melbourne activist filmmaker. He made powerful, intense documentaries about injustice. His documentary, Through the Wire is a heartbreaking account of the Woomera protests and a powerful indictment of Australia’s policy of compulsory detention of asylum seekers.