Dr. Binoy Kampmark

Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. He has published widely on topics of international security and modern history, and is currently lecturing in Modern History at the University of Queensland. I blog at Oz Moses (http://ozmoses.blogspot.com/)


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	Funeral Rites for COVID Zero by Dr. Binoy Kampmark It was such a noble public health dream, even if rather hazy to begin with. Run down SARS-CoV-2. Suppress it. Crush it. Or just “flatten the curve”, which could have meant versions of all the above. This created
	Cheap Grace and Climate Change: Australia and COP26 by Dr. Binoy Kampmark It was not for everybody, but the shock advertising tactics of the Australian comedian Dan Ilic made an appropriate point. Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison, a famed coal hugger, has vacillated about whether to even go to the clim
	COVIDSafe: The Failure of An App by Dr. Binoy Kampmark The returns have not been impressive. For an app essentially anointed as a saviour for tracing purposes in the worst pandemic in a century, COVIDSafe is a lesson in exaggerated prowess and diminished performance.

	Blowing the Whistle at Facebook by Dr. Binoy Kampmark The only surprise was that it did not come sooner. Big Tech whistleblowers are not exactly running out of the offices of Silicon Valley, so it was with some excitement that Facebook could produce a person willing enough to s
	Britannia Turns Back The Boats by Dr. Binoy Kampmark Pushing people back across borders; turning asylum seekers away from shores. When such tactics were openly adopted and used with impunity by Australia’s navy and border force, it caused outrage and concern in the marit
	Murderous Fantasies: The US Intelligence Effort Against Assange by Dr. Binoy Kampmark If there was any reason to halt a farcical train of legal proceedings, then the case against Julian Assange would have to be the standard bearing example. Since last year, the efforts by the US government to pursue his extra
	Our Man in Washington: Morrison's Tour of Deception by Dr. Binoy Kampmark It was startling and even shocking. Away from the thrust and cut of domestic politics, not to mention noisy discord within his government’s ranks, Australian Prime
	Trumpism with a Biden Face: US Haitian Policy by Dr. Binoy Kampmark With that orange haired brute of a president supposedly ushered out of the White House with moralising delight, the Biden administration was all keen to turn over a new leaf. There would be more diplomacy, and still more dip
	The Anglo Unilateralists Strike by Dr. Binoy Kampmark When President Joe Biden won the White House, he promised, with a facility of unceasing boredom, that diplomacy was back. “Diplomacy is back at the centre of our foreign policy,”
	The Right to Clean Air in Jakarta by Dr. Binoy Kampmark It seems utterly beyond debate but acknowledging legal rights to clean hair has assumed the makings of a slow march over the years. The 1956 Clean Air Act in Britain arose from the lethal effects of London’s 1952 kille
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