Chinese consumers daring to complain online cop threats and abuse

One of our favourite news/current affairs sites Worldcrunch reports on the dangers facing Chinese internet users, and it’s not just from the state but from private sector:

The Chinese Internet is not a safe place. Criticizing government officials might land …

GetUp! doesn’t get it: The Age/SMH are finished, squabbling about who owns them is so ’80s

True to form, the excitable Sheikhs of GetUp! are firing on all electric car cylinders denouncing Gina Rinehart’s acquisition of what will almost certainly be a controlling stake in Fairfax..

GetUp! simply doesn’t get it. What they’re really worried …

SECRET WOMEN’S BUSINESS: Liberal preselections in Deakin and Corangamite dissected VEXNEWS style

Sarah Henderson triumphed in Corangamite. Kelly O’Dwyer disgraced herself as a villain. Sandra Mercer-Moore’s “project” unexpectedly grabbed the Deakin crown. In Australia’s first political party founded on feminist principles, the women loom large and are in charge.