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Preparing for a federal election with Centre Executive Director Wayne Burns
13 May 2019The Centre's Executive Director Wayne Burns talks about how best to prepare your company for a federal election: what to do, what not to do, and the importance of getting it right.
socio political environment
public policy
community relations
Britain proposes broad new powers to regulate internet content
Adam Satariano, The New York Times, Monday 8th April 2019, 07 April 2019 Britain has proposed sweeping new government powers to regulate the internet to combat the spread of violent and extremist content, false information and harmful material aimed at children. The recommendations take aim at Facebook, Google and other large internet platforms that policymakers believe have prioritised growth and profits over limiting...
socio political environment
public policy
EU decides against bloc-wide ban of Huawei in defiance of US
Manabu Morimoto, Nikkei Asian Review, Wednesday 27th March 2019, 25 March 2019 The European Union has chosen to let each member nation decide whether to use equipment from China’s Huawei Technologies despite American demands to keep the company away from high-speed 5G networks. “EU member states have the right to exclude companies from their markets for national security reasons, if they don't comply with the country's...
socio political environment
public policy
Is civil public discourse dead and buried?
18 March 2019Peter Van Onselen, Political Editor at Network Ten and Contributing Editor at the Australian newspaper talks about politics, public discourse, and what's next for the role of social media in democracies.
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Businesses urged to ‘do more’ to win public contracts
BBC News, Monday 11th March 2019, 07 March 2019 The UK government is set to announce that businesses looking to secure public sector contracts will need to do more to help improve society, with issues like modern slavery and climate change top of the list to tackle. The UK spends £49bn with outside organisations every year, and will also try to award more contracts to small firms. When drawing...
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public policy
socio political environment
The road to digital unfreedom: three painful truths about social media
Ronald J. Deibert, Journal of Democracy, January 2019, 20 February 2019In this article, Ronald J. Deibert from the University of Toronto examines the state of big tech companies today. Describing Google as a ‘massive commercial surveillance system’, Deibert explains what he calls ‘three painful truths’ about social media. First, that the social-media business model is based on relentless surveillance of personal...
socio political environment
public policy
Corporate sponsorship may be diverting research and distorts public policy, claims report
Christopher Knaus, The Guardian, Wednesday September 26 2018, 27 September 2018 A new study published by University of Sydney researchers in the American Journal of Public Health on Wednesday suggests that corporate support of academic studies could be diverting researchers away from important public health questions. The paper, which seeks to understand how corporate support of research shapes the agendas of researchers,...
community relations
public policy
2018 Corporate Public Affairs Oration
2018 Corporate Public Affairs Oration delivered by David Murray AO, Chairman of AMP
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public policy