In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger traces the history of propaganda to Edward Bernays, the American nephew of Sigmund Freud, who invented the term “public relations”. Bernays believed in “engineering public consent” and creating “false realties” as news — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Labor’s controversial internet filter plan faces near-death despite the ascension of Julia Gillard as Australia’s 28th prime minister — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A bill allowing same-sex couples to adopt in New South Wales has been passed in state parliament’s Lower House — via redwolf.newsvine.com
One of the odors emanating from Washington, DC, these days is from journalists marking their territory — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Sensing Senators don’t have the stomach to try and pass a stand-alone bill in broad daylight that would give the President the power to shut down the Internet in a national emergency, the Senate is considering attaching the Internet Kill Switch bill as a rider to other legislation that would have bi-partisan support — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Tasmania’s Lower House of Parliament has approved laws recognising same-sex marriages and civil unions registered in other states or countries — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Greens leader Bob Brown says he believes Opposition Leader Tony Abbott may be trying to force Australia back to the polls — via redwolf.newsvine.com
During his visit to the the Swedish capital Stockholm, Wikileaks spokesman Julian Assange struck a deal with the local Pirate Party — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australians will be allowed to enrol to vote online — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Labor’s hopes of getting its internet filter plan through federal parliament look destined to fail, with the Greens calling for a PC-based approach — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Australian Greens are demanding to know how many children will be held in ‘prison-like’ detention centres following next weekend’s federal election — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Senate candidate for Family First Wendy Francis today stood by comments she made then deleted on social networking website Twitter, on which she compared legitimising gay marriage to “legalising child abuse” — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Saying that it unfairly targets gay men and women, a federal judge in San Francisco struck down California’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage on Wednesday, handing supporters of such unions a temporary victory in a legal battle that seems all but certain to be settled by …
This is a list of Twitter accounts that appear to be maintained by the agencies of Australian governments. The list is not actively screened for whether these accounts are still live or how actively they Tweet. I also cannot verify that all of these accounts are official. If you are aware of any additional government twitter accounts, or that any on the current list that are not official, please provide feedback via this page — via eGov AU
Conservative leader David Cameron has become the UK’s new prime minister after the resignation of Gordon Brown. Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg will be his deputy after they agreed to the UK’s first coalition government in 70 years. Mr Cameron, who at 43 is the youngest PM in nearly 200 years, vowed to set aside party differences and govern in the national interest
Following pressure from the US Government, Canada is preparing to ram through a revamped copyright bill that will have disastrous consequences for consumers. The Government is hereby ignoring the public consultation held last year, where many Canadians spoke out against harsher copyright legislation
Kevin Rudd has put another election promise on the backburner with his controversial internet filtering legislation set to be shelved until after the next election. A spokeswoman for Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said yesterday the legislation would not be introduced next month’s or the June sittings of parliament. With parliament not sitting again until the last week of August, the laws are unlikely to be passed before the election
The Library of Congress is to archive every single public tweet ever made. Twitter says since they started in 2006, billions of tweets have been created and 55m are sent every day. The digital archive will include tweets from President Barack Obama on the day he was elected as well as the first tweet from co-founder Jack Dorsey
Child pornographers can be captured and prosecuted without having to resort to mandatory internet filters, says Barack Obama confidante and US Ambassador to Australia Jeff Bleich. The Rudd government has said the mandatory filters are crucial in its arsenal of online weapons aimed at stamping out child pornography and other forms of illegal material
Internet Industry Association (IIA) chief executive officer Peter Coroneos has said he plans to ask his members to sign a declaration calling for more transparency in the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) talks being held this week in Wellington, New Zealand. Unfortunately, The US Trade Representative issued a release just prior to the launch of the New Zealand round of ACTA negotiations that has left no doubt that the US is the biggest barrier to official release of the ACTA text. The full text of the release is couched in terms of improving transparency, but is really a thinly-veiled shot at the European Union’s public demands for release of the text
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