In the first week of its release, the government’s CovidSafe app has apparently been downloaded 4 million times. The app has been heavily promoted by government and it has been endorsed by the Chief Medical Officer, Chief Nurse and the heads of the doctors’ and nurses’ unions.
The release of the app was accompanied…
Image: James Wiltshire The Border Mail
The devastating bushfires across Australia in the summer of 2019/20 provide us with a clear message. Australians – people, businesses, and those who govern us – can no longer take our environment for granted. We have been willfully ignoring the signs so far but that must now stop.
There…
Oath of fealty (Middle Ages)
As foreshadowed in my last post, I return with some reflections on Love v Commonwealth: a case currently before the High Court of Australia in which two Aboriginal men, both non-citizens, are arguing against their deportation from Australia. The argument involves interpretation of the ‘naturalisation and aliens’ power in…
In the case of Love v Commonwealth, the High Court of Australia is considering submissions by two Aboriginal men born overseas, as to whether the Commonwealth can deport them. Neither man has been naturalised and their overseas birth means that they are not citizens.
While both parties accept that the men are not citizens,…
Following my last post about fractionalised land title on blockchain, I’ve been thinking through a number of additional unanswered questions about the proposal. Based on responses and discussions on Twitter, it seems clear that there is no use case for blockchain in this context even though it is possible to roll it out.
Assuming it…
The South Australian government has announced the launch of a new system of property investment to be rolled out in Adelaide’s two new residential towers. The system involves ‘fractionalising’ the property into ‘bricklets’ and establishing a market for the bricklets via blockchain technology. According to the press release bricklet owners will have their interest recorded…
Several media outlets reported late last week that the Queensland government had extinguished native title over the Adani coalmine, by granting a freehold estate to Adani. If the State did grant freehold, then certainly the effect is to extinguish native title: the two forms of title inherently conflict with each other, and freehold will…
Several media outlets reported late last week that the Queensland government had extinguished native title over the Adani coalmine, by granting a freehold estate to Adani. If the State did grant freehold, then certainly the effect is to extinguish native title: the two forms of title inherently conflict with each other, and freehold will…
Not long ago, I climbed on my soapbox about the lack of diversity among speakers at a recent technology conference I attended. Here’s the picture that prompted that post.
At the risk of revisiting this, I have had three recent experiences that brought to mind related issues of women, how men treat and view…
