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Blogging resistance to Fiji's military dictatorship

April 13, 2009 – 1:36 am

Kevin Rudd has said that Fiji is now “virtually a military dictatorship”.  I’m not sure what else needs to happen before the word “virtually” gets dropped, but whatever term you want to use, it sure isn’t democracy – especially with the latest censorship crackdown. The dictatorship’s Secretary for Information, Major Neumi Leweni, is kindly providing ‘information officers’ [...]

By Andrew Bartlett | Posted in blogging, international issues | Also tagged , | Comments (6)

Rights blog stops as rights debate begins

January 2, 2009 – 2:55 pm

A new year is usually a time when people make some changes, but I am disappointed to see that one of these changes is the decision of Jeremy Gans to bring a halt to his Charterblog, which forensically followed the progress of Victoria’s Charter of Human Rights, and the impact (or in most cases lack of [...]

By Andrew Bartlett | Posted in blogging, human rights | Also tagged | Comments (2)

Tanner matches words with action (through more words)

October 11, 2008 – 12:20 am

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner was “in the early stages of organising a trial government blog. The purpose of the experiment will be to explore the possibilities for government participation in blogging.”
To his credit, Mr Tanner is following through with the same notion of using online forums to encourage participation [...]

By Andrew Bartlett | Posted in blogging, federal parliament | Also tagged | Comments (0)

Radio National Media Report looks at blogging &(un)civil discourse

September 23, 2008 – 10:10 pm

The main reason I was interested in blogging when I was a politician was to provide another way for people to access information about aspects of the political process, and to see if I could get useful feedback from people about some of my ideas and activities. To me, the comments are the most interesting [...]

By Andrew Bartlett | Posted in blogging, media | Also tagged | Comments (4)