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Two tips for rank and file union members to lobby members of parliament

Unions and union members rightly lobby their local representatives and government Ministers all the time. Not only are unions the largest, oldest social movement on earth, but in Australia they make up the country’s largest voluntary representative associations.
While imagining political lobbying may evoke suited professionals, big business and slick CEOs, it is perfectly legitimate for [...]

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Happy Women’s Day

Today is International Women’s Day:
International Women’s Day (8 March) is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. In some places like China, Russia, Vietnam and Bulgaria, IWD is a national holiday. The first IWD was run in [...]

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Should you block ads on the Internet?

For my Project 52 post, I thought I’d write about a much-commented and dug story on Ars Technica makes the case that Ad Blockers are “devastating” professional websites.
My argument is simple: blocking ads can be devastating to the sites you love. I am not making an argument that blocking ads is a form of [...]

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Website outage now fixed

Had some major hosting problems from my host 3ix, who were finally able to restore a backup (meaning one of my posts was lost). This underscores the importance of having a reliable host, and of making regular backups of your site.

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Don’t prosecute the messenger

I subscribe to the Google Public Policy Blog and get updates every few days. Today, I got sent a story about a case in Italy where three Google executives have been prosecuted for a video of an autistic student being bullied at school.
In late 2006, students at a school in Turin, Italy filmed and then [...]

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