Tag: Communications

‘Tents everywhere’ as Rafah struggles to hold a million Palestinians

Tents as far as the eye can see in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, January 9, 2024. (Mohammed Zaanoun)

Israel claims to have dropped millions of leaflets and made millions of phone calls telling people to evacuate. It’s not to warn but to panic and put the fear of god into people herded and trapped like fish in a barrel. There are no phone lines, a rarely functioning internet and when technicians try to repair it they are shot. So who are the Israelis ringing?

The leaflets aren’t a humanitarian warning they are intended to panic Palestinians and to keep them moving. Cruelty is when your oppressors regard you as animals. There is only one side to this war.

Displaced multiple times by the war, many in Gaza’s southernmost city are living in makeshift shelters without sufficient food, water, or blankets.

Source: ‘Tents everywhere’ as Rafah struggles to hold a million Palestinians

The best democracy money can buy – Rex on Albo’s secret advertising sub-committee – Michael West

While we’ve been busily distracted on the big issues like cost of living, AUKUS, the Voice, access to doctors and a broken gas market, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been quietly wrapping a highly controversial topic in a Cabinet secrecy blanket. Rex Patrick looks at politicised government advertising and raises concerns about the new Government Communications Sub-Committee of Cabinet.

Source: The best democracy money can buy – Rex on Albo’s secret advertising sub-committee – Michael West

Report Ranking Internet Speeds By Country Almost Downloaded, Turnbull Says

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A report that ranks countries according to their broadband speed is 57% downloaded, Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull confirmed today.

Mr Turnbull said he would share the results with the rest of the nation as soon as the report had downloaded. “I’m really looking forward to seeing where Australia is on the list. I’ll just pop the kettle on and then we’ll have a look,” he said.

He then suggested it might be easier to just send it on later once it’s ready. “It’s still not quite there. How about I email it around to everyone tonight, then you can start downloading it and have it ready for tomorrow morning,” he said.

The full list of countries, ranked by internet speed, is available here.