Joshua Krook
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Australians Are Quietly Losing Their Right to Free Speech
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In September, more than half of Australia’s environmental scientists working for the federal and state governments reported that they had been “prohibited from communicating scientific information” to the general public. Research on climate change, the extinction of animal species and pollution was all being suppressed. Despite the potential for scientific research to shape national elections,…
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What COVID-19 Teaches Us About Big Tech
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In April, I published the following blog post here on my personal blog New Intrigue and on the Oxford Political Review. A few months later, I was told to take down the post or get fired from my then job as a public servant in the Australian Federal Government. Although the post had no criticism of the government…
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Australia’s Bushfire Crisis
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It is difficult to talk about the current bushfire crisis facing Australia with anything close to the objectivity required of a journalistic article. As my home, I have struggled to come to grips with the scope of the disaster that has occurred here. For a long time, we have had the benefit of sitting on…
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A Universal Basic Income for Indigenous Australians
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Imagine a debit card without the ability to withdraw cash. The card cannot be used to buy gambling products, alcohol, cigarettes or other drugs. At the same time, every purchase is tracked and collected by the government, to be stored and monitored at a later date. It sounds like a science fiction dystopian novel but…
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How Australia Became a Conservative Nation
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The year is 2014 and Tony Abbott, the Australian Prime Minister, announces a series of cuts to public spending across healthcare, education and unemployment benefits. Modeled off of the austerity programs sweeping Europe at the time, the cuts aimed to balance the federal budget and privatize public services. The UK, Greece, Spain and Portugal have…
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There is a Logical Fallacy at the Heart of the Case Method
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Since the late 1800s, the best law schools in common law countries have taught law by way of the case method. Invented by Professor Christopher Columbus at Harvard Law School, the case method is based on the idea that law can be understood by reading cases. Langdell saw law as a science that could be…