Jeff Sparrow
Jeff Sparrow is a Walkley award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster.
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We live amid the wreckage of formerly treasured institutions and services, despoiled by decades of marketisation and neglect
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We tend to think about media disruption as driven by technological innovation. But the ‘enshittification’ of our socials shows that the tech itself plays a relatively minor role
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As the planet continues to heat, politicians will go to greater and greater lengths to suppress popular outrage
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If the authorities won’t stand up to fascists, ordinary people must be prepared to come out in numbers
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No one should be surprised that young people reject a status quo so manifestly stacked against them
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By the time Australia gets its first nuclear-powered submarines, ecological collapse will already have reshaped world politics
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Perhaps a long symbolic resonance explains the otherwise baffling battle raging in 21st century skies
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Nick Cave has condemned a song designed and directed by ChatGPT. But new technology should be embraced, not feared
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AI is becoming more sophisticated, and some say capable of writing academic essays. But at what point does the intrusion of AI constitute cheating?
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Something’s wrong when basic infrastructure maintenance seems utopian, while the hare-brained schemes of tech oligarchs become routine
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It’s far better to speak too loud than to remain silent. With the environmental catastrophe accelerating day by day, activism has never been more important
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Along with subsidising big polluters, governments are setting in place repressive anti-protest laws to protect them
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Albanese government awaits legal advice from solicitor general over former prime minister’s power grab. This blog is now closed
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There is no ‘peace’ to be brokered with fossil fuel companies who stand to make billions. Effective policy is to threaten their gains
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The conservative commentariat could not be more wrong in dismissing global heating as a concern of only the ‘woke elite’
In 10 years Australia went from Abbott to Albanese – but how much has really changed?