Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the
media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
Those at X, and its executive, Elon Musk, begged to differ, choosing to restrict
general access to the graphic details of the video in Australia alone. Those outside
Australia, and those with a virtual private network (VPN), would be able to access ...
Feel worried. Shane Jones and a couple of his Cabinet colleagues are about to be
granted the power to override any and all objections to projects like dams, mines,
roads etc even if: said projects will harm biodiversity, increase global warming ...
Platforms such as Meta and X engage in their own forms of censorship and information
curation, their agenda algorithmically driven towards noise, shock and indignation.
All the time, they continue to indulge in surveillance capitalism.
Public service cuts are being enacted without the coalition government having a clue
(or visible concern) about what the impact will be. The prior promise to go through
this stuff “ line by line” has gone out the window.
It is time for NATO to re-examine its 75-year-old legacy, and be courageous enough
to change directions altogether - instead of opting for a state of non-peace, actually
seeking real peace.
Helen Clark, oh how we miss you. The former New Zealand Prime Minister – the safest
pair of hands this country has had in living memory – gave a masterclass on the
importance of maintaining an independent foreign policy when she spoke at an AUKUS ...