Robert Todd
Robert is an Australian lawyer at Blake Dawson who (outside his engaging and challenging legal practice in media and IT disputes) is involved in the debate to improve press freedom in Australia. Robert believes the more freely we share our ideas the more functional our citizens and communities become. He was involved in the reform of our national defamation laws, acted for a grouping of international media companies in one of the first internet jurisdiction cases in the world which was heard by our High Court, in the cash for comment inquiry and as an advisor to the British Olympic team for the Sydney 2000. His other preoccupations and diversions include the work of the extraordinary women of the Kimberley, developing more “village pumps” to which people come to share, educate and learn small, the psychology of the performance of magic and the life and times of Nicolo Machiavelli. He has been recognised as a leader in his field by several local and international publications.
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Charter For Compassion – let’s pass the can around
The Kimberley is spectacular and spiritual. However, it’s not a place to get a flat tyre or have any other…... Read more
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The humourless hysteria of the holier-than-thou
In I Spit On Your Grave, a young woman is gang raped in a remote woodland. She is beaten and tortured…
Cash mobs aren’t so flash
For a moment in the mid-naughties, they were the coolest of all cool social media-fuelled meme-thingos.…
If we wanted reality, we’d turn off the television
“Some day, far into the future, this here machine will become a powerful medium with the potential…
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From: Punch on: Open thread 09/02/2012
marley says:
I'm one of the older ones, so I've certainly seen a few changes in my time. When I started school I learned to write with a nib pen, dipped in an inkwell (no, I'm not kidding). My mother became a dab hand at getting inkstains out of my clothes. Flicking ink at one another in the classroom was an essential… [read more]From: I’d rather have a piece of toast than listen to crap lyrics
Erick says:
Led Zeppelin are responsible for my all-time favourite mixed metaphor: "There you sit, sit and stare, like a book on a shelf rusting." (Misty Mountain Hop) I laugh every time I hear it. Hmmm, I believe I've decided what to play on the way to work today. [read more]Gentle jabs to the ribs
No wuckin forries. These nuckin futs are tuckin fops
Well, puck me with a fitchfork. The F-word is apparently an acceptable part of Australian speech. That’s… Read more
