Titling this as the "Best posts of 2006" is a little bit pretentious, as all I'm really trying to do is put together in one place a collection of posts that represent what I have posted on this blog this year. Some of these posts are academic, some are trivial, some just link to what other people say, and some are a little random, but they do represent what interests me and what I have posted on this blog in 2006.
Media Issues:
- Nine Network v Ice TV - an interesting copyright issue currently before Justice Bennett in the Federal Court.
- Glenn Milne attacks Crikey's Stephen Mayne - the beginning of a bizarre media circus.
- Summary of the proposed new media framework for Australia - an overview of the reforms when first proposed.
- Free speech issue at Columbia University? - "Stop being a pussy".
- Is the media (and this blog) beating a dead horse on BB? - following the whole turkey slapping incident.
- Are blogs the answer to concentrated media ownership? - alas, probably not.
- FoxNews turns 10 today - why has it succeeded?
- More on David Tench - an early look at David Tench.
Internet Issues:
- What to do about racist Australian blogs? - shutting them down is not the answer.
- Cybersquatting? - summarising Wayne Smith's alleged cybersquatting.
- Australian government to provide an internet filter - I had my doubts.
- Thank God It's Here: Downloading TV shows in Australia - hear, hear!
Politics:
- Politics moves online, ALP tries to close defamatory website, Peter Costello and the "Beds are Burning" and Victorian politics on YouTube - politicians discover the internet.
- Improving debate in the House of Representatives - why PowerPoint won't work.
- Labor attempts to revive the Senate committee system - an outline of the ALP's ambitious plan following Australian democracy under attack again.
- Review of a compelling documentary This Divided State - one of the lesser known political docs out of the US this year.
Other:
- Blawg Review #85 - a wrap up of the blawgosphere at the end of November.
- Judicial appointments - a collection of links relating to judicial appointments, specifically the appointment of Justice Ann Lyons to the Supreme Court of Queensland.
- School chaplains and s 116 of the Constitution - arguing that Howard's plan for school chaplains would not violate the Australian Constitution.
- School pays out over boy's reading failure - could the school have been sued?
- Thinking about the Constitution - a couple of points arising out of one of my Australian Federal Constitutional Law tutorials.
- Jonestown: The Power and the Myth of Alan Jones - a review of this compelling but flawed biography.
- Why laptops should be banned in lecture theatres - this was the first post in what became a recurring theme this year.
Tomorrow I'll wrap-up the top 10 video posts this year.
