Tag: terrorism

• The Invisible Spark

  Those who would come to kill Fear we have an invisible spark Yet it’s our fear that keep us still And so our light dies in the dark. In Paris and Beirut and elsewhere In the midst of all that is terrible One with another starts to share That lighting of a spark invisible Once […]

  Andrew Whalan

  November 15, 2015

  Fiction, Poetry

  BATALAN, France, Paris, terrorism

• National Insecurity, Citizenship and Exile

  As posted on Gumption-inc… With less than eighteen months remaining in its first term, (or less according to some commentators), the Australian Government has been determined to show that it is tough on national security. One of those measures is legislating to strip citizenship of anyone who has joined the fighting in Syria and Iraq. In […]

  Andrew Whalan

  July 14, 2015

  Information Technology, Opinions-Editorial, Politics

  australian politics, canadian politics, citizenship, dual nationals, passport, Politics, terrorism

• Would You Believe? The Government’s Metadata Botch-Up

  In following the metadata retention debate, of late I feel like I’ve stumbled into a 21st century remake of the classic Get Smart.  We resume as the desperate and bumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart (Agent 86) is trying to convince his arch-enemy and nemesis Kaos to give up evilness and rottenness… “Would you believe at […]

  Andrew Whalan

  March 16, 2015

  Humour, Politics

  australian politics, counter espionage, counter terrorism, cyber security, get smart, maxwell smart, metadata, organised crime, Politics, terrorism