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09 December 202209 December 2022

Digital developments from Canberra 17

Parliament may have finished for the year, but that just means there’s time for some announcements. Cybersecurity! Foreign influence! The myGov app! DNS! And more.

04 December 202211 December 2022

Weekly Wrap 653: Starting summer with schadenfreude and a king parrot

My week of Monday 28 November to Sunday 4 December 2022 represented a pause before a couple of very busy weeks. The weather was lovely, as was the continuing schadenfreude from You Know What.

02 December 202231 January 2023

Digital developments from Canberra 16

This morning Parliament wrapped up for 2022, and a whole bunch of important things happened — including the passing of legislation for the National Anti-Corruption Commission and bigger data breach penalties, and an interesting selection of new bills.

27 November 202202 December 2022

Weekly Wrap 652: How much schadenfreude can one person eat?

My week of Monday 21 to Sunday 27 November 2022 saw me get a bunch of things done, most of which I can’t talk about. But hey we all enjoyed the Twitter dramas, and I refined my decision about The 8pm Quiz.

25 November 202205 December 2022

Digital developments from Canberra 15

Parliament sat Monday through Thursday this week, with the Senate also sitting on Friday. The National Anti-Corruption Commission legislation trundles along, we find out just how dodgy Scott Morrison’s ministerial appointments were, and much more.

20 November 202227 November 2022

Weekly Wrap 651: Ever more schadenfreude, a kookaburra, and an announcement about The 8pm Quiz

Two weeks in and I’m still wallowing in the ongoing soap opera that is Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter. My week of Monday 14 to Sunday 20 November 2022 saw me waste so much time on that, but I also managed to push some commentary and other media objects.