John Gooding
The Lowy Institute
Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Facebook’s May day
Upcoming EU regulations will have a huge effect on how data-fuelled tech giants do business. → Read More
Tech’s unhealthy future
Iif a popular narrative emerges equating deeper engagement with unhealthy tech addiction, Facebook will not be able to avoid confronting it. → Read More
‘Ambassador Assange’ is not the real story
Earlier today, The Atlantic's Julia Ioffe ran a story detailing Twitter correspondence between Donald Trump Jr and WikiLeaks (and potentially with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange). The piece is remarkable. It's not particularly revelatory that Assange had attempted to contact Trump Jr at all, as he claimed as much in July of this year. However, the nature of this contact is revealing and… → Read More
Australia’s stake in shaking up fake news
The alternative would be abandoning the problem of misinformation supply and hoping that the tech giants are willing and able to figure it out on their own. → Read More
Why good disagreements need good understanding
Intelligent disagreement is the lifeblood of any thriving society. → Read More
Paranoia on Aotearoa
Almost 20 years ago to the day, then-Foreign Minister Alexander Downer addressed the University of Auckland on Australia-New Zealand relations: > First and foremost, the Australia-New Zealand relationship is a partnership of equals. We do not offer each other unsolicited or patronising advice on how to run domestic or foreign policy. Rather, we work together in a spirit of genuine cooperation… → Read More
Quick comment: Sebastian Mallaby on Trump, the Fed and the global economy
Stephen Grenville's intervew with Sebastian Mallaby covered how Trump might interact with the Fed and with the Bretton Woods institutions. → Read More
Australia’s cash-strapped media and the role of foreign correspondents
Well-resourced journalism is undoubtedly necessary to inform the public about domestic issues, but are foreign correspondents equally necessary? → Read More
Weekend catch-up: Trump and Turnbull, the TPP lives on, rugby league and more
This week Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull met with President Donald Trump aboard the USS Intrepid (now a museum docked in New York City) to honour the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea. The meeting brings with it the risk of falling back into cozy setimentality, wrote James Curran: > This visit, which alliance sentimentalists will welcome as a reaffirmation of all that the… → Read More
Weekend catch-up: Trump's first 100 days, modern Anzacs, where to for Nauru and more
China's new aircraft carrier, Ivanka Trump at W20, India's Quad concerns and more. → Read More
Weekend catch-up: Votes, visas and violent extremism
Elections across the world, what Australian businesses want from Australia's foreign policy, and more. → Read More
Weekend catch-up: Turnbull in India, rivers with rights, the Xi-Trump summit and more
The Swedish terrorist attack, the dissolution of the Australia-Timor-Leste maritime treaty, the future of China's economic rise and more. → Read More
Weekend catch-up: US missile strikes, the Xi-Trump meeting, China-Russia relations and more
CRAs holding back Indonesia, why an Australia-China extradition treaty was always a bad idea, Vietnamese trawlers at Scarborough Shoal, and more. → Read More
Weekend catch-up: Brexit triggered, Putin protested, Trump lobbied and more
Deceptive appearances in UK politics, why Putin needs to change tack to ward off Russian dissent, and how Li Keqiang's visit went down with the Chinese media. → Read More
The content control reckoning for tech giants
Social media networks have long abrogated their responsibilities on content control, and governments have started to notice. → Read More