Word-whore. I write 'em. I talk 'em. Information, politics, media, and the cybers. I drink. I use bad words. All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris! Vive les poissons rouges sauvages!
China’s aquariums utilise robotic whales to reduce the costs associated with keeping live animals. Photo: SCMP composite / Shutterstock / Weibo. Platypus inset photo by Taronga Conservation Society Australia / Chris Wheeler. Digital composition by Stilgherrian.
No, we’re not really on ketamine. But as the spring series continues we’re going sideways with a bonus episode featuring my good friend Snarky Platypus and many, many topics.
Nuclear submarines are the big story this week, but there’s plenty more — including the sudden resignation of our FOI commissioner, predictive policing, and various reports on our surveillance regime.
Yun Jiang. (Photo: Australian National University)
The spring series of The 9pm Edict comes to a belated finale with special guest Yun Jiang, the inaugural China Matters Fellow at the Australian Institute of International Affairs. And guess what? We’re discussing news from China.
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.
Defence analyst H I Sutton and one of his submarine illustrations. (Photo: Supplied)
Finally, it’s time to talk about submarines. The spring series of The 9pm Edict continues with a conversation about what submarines in the 21st century can and can’t do with defence analyst and illustrator H I Sutton of Covert Shores.
When Parliament isn’t sitting the ministers have time to get some projects under way. But the big item this time is a scathing report on the Digital Transformation Agency. There’s also a new quantum science advisory panel, and AUKUS celebrates it first birthday.