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Van Badham

Van Badham

The Guardian

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The disinformation hurricane surrounding the Bondi stabbing marks the end of Twitter as a breaking news destination

The harrowing local news stories of the last week have confronted Australians with the limitations and opportunities of our contemporary media...

18.04.2024 20

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We hear about a ‘class ceiling’ in Australian arts. Cultural employers should measure diversity like corporates do

News fresh from the Department of the Obvious this week: the Australian Financial Review reports that “class can have a bigger effect on your chance...

13.04.2024 3

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Social media is making kids sad – and it’s bad news for democracy

No, the kids are NOT alright. And as our future depends on them, we have to do something about it. This week the US surgeon general, Dr Vivek Murthy,...

23.03.2024 3

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The ABC’s Cranbrook investigation shows why Australia needs to turn its back on single-sex cultures built on exclusion

What to say about Louise Milligan’s Four Corners investigation into yet more allegations of a boys’-club-toxic-culture scandal at yet another...

05.03.2024 10

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Some people are desperately averse to hard data – the gender pay gap is no exception

The gender pay gap is the demonstrable, statistical gap that exists between the amount of money men take home from work as opposed to what women take...

28.02.2024 20

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‘Sephora tweens’ are raiding Drunk Elephant – and we only have ourselves to blame

An intergenerational war is brewing. Yes, another one. It seems a plague of “Sephora Tweens” have been raiding available stocks of Drunk Elephant...

25.02.2024 20

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Facebook’s endless back-to-school photos spark complex feelings for childfree people like me – but sadness isn’t one of them

As a childless person, many feelings are aroused by Facebook’s annual floods of back-to-school photos but sadness is not one of them. I am not...

10.02.2024 3

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The stage-three tax cuts are finally being reversed. The rich complaining Labor broke its promise just sound vulgar

It’s Christmas Day for a columnist when a governing party reverses a decision for which you have previously given them a righteous bollocking. So HO...

25.01.2024 8

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Australian students aren’t trying in the Pisa exams. They should be congratulated on their disdain

News this week revealed that a full three-quarters of Australian high school students admit they aren’t “fully trying” in their Pisa tests. File...

12.01.2024 20

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The promotion of Australian-born Mary from princess to queen proves what a pure lottery the aristocracy has always been

The new year 2024 has begun with Queen Margrethe II of Denmark handing in a shock abdication. After 52 years of monarching, the sovereign of the...

01.01.2024 30

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Christmas in Australia has become an expression of diverse, personalised and secular joy

How is it that Australia has become a country without a Christian majority and yet we voluntarily outstrip ourselves year on year with the scale of...

24.12.2023 8

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After all those dole diaries and ‘mutual obligations’, it turns out Australia’s privatised employment services don’t work

A parliamentary inquiry report on 30 years of privatised employment services is out and it is damning. So it should be. Workforce Australia issues the...

02.12.2023 5

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Supermarkets are ditching self-checkouts in a sign that we can push back against the technofuturist tide

British supermarket chain Booths is scrapping its self-service machines and replacing them with living, breathing, talking, thinking human cashiers....

23.11.2023 70

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Indefinite detention – what do the last seven prime ministers have in common?

09.11.2023 6

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The Optus outage was like an old South Park episode – only the serious and costly disruption unleashed was LOLs-free

There’s a South Park episode from season 12 in which the town falls to chaos when the internet inexplicably stops working – and on Wednesday...

09.11.2023 20

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When Andrew Tate and the online manboys obsess over a ‘bodycount’, girls, you know what to do

On 24 October, in the year of Our Lord 2023, online manfluencer and alleged sex offender Andrew Tate wrote on X/Twitter: “I reject women who have...

03.11.2023 20

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Teenage mullets are freaking me out – but I’m all for them

A week ago, at the train station, four boys aged about 15, in matching uniforms, buffeted past me. Childless, I have minimal contact with rambunctious...

19.10.2023 2

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‘Disinformania’ has taken over the internet - can ‘no’ voice opportunists maintain control of an unleashed far right flank?

The Indigenous voice to parliament proposal is not a secret UN plot to steal Australian land. It is not a proposal for a “third chamber of...

27.09.2023 100

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Tim Gurner’s spray about ‘arrogant’ workers lays bare the economic sadism of our time

W ith the far right becoming both so visible and loud across the west, the excesses of their cousins in the neoliberal centre-right are often...

14.09.2023 100

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