http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/helen-young/ Helen Young teaches at UWS and UNSW. You can follow her on Twitter @heyouonline. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/wheres-wikileaks-in-the-celebrity-circus/ Julian Assange repeatedly said that is the car accidents not the bus accidents of war that have resulted in the massive numbers of civilian casualties revealed by the Afghanistan and Iraq War Diaries in 2010. Now it’s the media circus around the comparatively pedestrian accident of his legal situation that is drawing global attention away from Wikileaks and the revelations it has made. Malcolm Turnbull was right when he said that Prime Minister Julia Gillard should not have jumped on what he called a “media frenzy” in describing Assange as a criminal when it had not been established that he broke Australian law. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Helen Young) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/wheres-wikileaks-in-the-celebrity-circus/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/wheres-wikileaks-in-the-celebrity-circus/#item5569 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:40:56 +0000 Helen Young | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-wiki-leaks-are-not-the-end-of-all-secrets/ The latest Wikileaks disaster for the U.S. government may centre on the actions of its diplomats rather than its soldiers, but Cablegate and the Afghan and Iraq War Diary data dumps are all crises of information control and management. In a press briefing on Monday U.S. State Department Assistant Secretary P. J. Crowley was quizzed about the government’s policies and practices of storing information. There is, as Crowley said, tension between “the need to protect or the need to know” when it comes to information – and this is true in all spheres, not just government bureaucracies. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Helen Young) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-wiki-leaks-are-not-the-end-of-all-secrets/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-wiki-leaks-are-not-the-end-of-all-secrets/#item4610 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:40:06 +0000 Helen Young | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-real-reason-youre-scared-of-boat-people/ The Prime Minister made a major mistake on Monday when she said “I don’t think it’s the Australian way to have kids behind razor-wire.” Whether it’s as a deterrent or something else, this has in fact, been the Australian way since the early 1990s. The announcement that more families and children will be moved out of detention centres was accompanied by another, that two new centre will be constructed near Adelaide and Perth. The rhetoric of nationalism and security were once again set upon asylum-seekers. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Helen Young) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-real-reason-youre-scared-of-boat-people/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-real-reason-youre-scared-of-boat-people/#item4290 Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:40:35 +0000 Helen Young | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/blaming-technology-when-society-goes-wrong-is-lazy/ Facebook is an easy target. With its size and history of privacy gaffes, criticising it is like taking aim at the proverbial barn door. The same could be said for the online world in general. When we are faced with a social problem, from cyber-bullying to privacy breaches, it’s much easier to blame technology or the company that provides us with it than to take responsibility ourselves. We can truthfully say that the internet has changed us, but once we start talking about how and why we need to factor ourselves in as well. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Helen Young) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/blaming-technology-when-society-goes-wrong-is-lazy/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/blaming-technology-when-society-goes-wrong-is-lazy/#item4253 Sun, 17 Oct 2010 19:50:54 +0000 Helen Young | Author bios | The Punch