When I was a child, and the internet was just a bizarre U.S. military experiment, I looked hopefully to computers as a possible future solver of all things factual.
By Damian Baker: As part of our new focus on development and human rights issues, theangle.org is reposting old articles printed on the site which still have a high degree of revelance. We start with co-founder Damian Baker’s trip to Papua New Guinea in November 2009 where he encountered the lives of the people...
Radio New Zealand International Don Wiseman recently interviewed Damian Baker, co-founder of theangle.org, to discuss his recent photojournalist mission to the island of Bougainville, PNG, where he documented tensions over the re-opening of the contentious Panguna mine between the semi-autonomous Government, mine owners and the remnants of the Bougainville resistance.Share on Facebook
theangle's contributing regional editor Alex Schlotzer reports on "Share the Spirit" in Melbourne -- an Australia Day festival where Indigenous and non-indigenous people come together to celebrate the sharing the country.
By Kevin Rennie: When the Governor-General’s representative in London visited Oz in 1954, I was six years old. We stood waiting patiently in Mt Alexander Road, near Melbourne’s Essendon Airport for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. We had been given little British and Australian flags to greet her passing by. The Union Jack in...
Alex Schlotzer rolls out the crystal ball and gives us a look at what's in store in Victorian politics for 2010.
Political analyst Alex Schlotzer takes a look at the important events and examines Australia's influence in the Pacific's political year of 2009.
In this first of a two-part series, Simon Hukin examines how sport is leaching vital funding from the Arts.
By Alex Schlotzer: The Internet filtering ‘debate’ is pretty much dead in the water. However with the announcement of the mandatory ISP-level internet filter proceeding, the web’s nearly melted down. Australians on Twitter and Facebook began decrying the further erosion of our civil liberties. But just as quickly began an erroneous debate about what...
By Rich Bowden: More than twenty percent of the five thousand children who die every year in East Timor, do so through preventable diseases caused by poor sanitation and drinking unclean water, according to a new supplementary report released by aid agency WaterAid Australia. The NGO said despite poor or non-existent sanitation facilities being...
By Damian Baker Joint venture partners in Papua New Guinea’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) development announced the go ahead of one of the country’s largest resources projects in a statement earlier this week. The AU$16.5 billion project will proceed, subject to the signing of final agreements. The consortium of companies involved in the operation...
By Damian Baker: The Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project is the biggest of its type in the history of PNG. Oil was found in the southern highlands 20 years ago but gas has emerged as the energy hope for the future. An Australian company, Oil Search, is in the process of developing its gas...
Our love affair with oil, the most glorious and tragic story of our times, but how does it end? Michael Hodgkin looks at the science behind the story.
By Damian Baker: After a somewhat tense introduction we finally got to meet and talk with the leader of the remnants of the Bougainville militia General Chris Uma. Following the initial breaking of the ice, as General Uma seemed to realise we were there to tell his story, he relaxed and came across as...
By the NewsHooker: Sitting in the comfortable surrounds of the Bismark Ramu offices in northeastern Madang, with broadband, air-conditioning and the relative comforts I’m used to in Australia, PNG and its accompanying drama seem a little like a surreal dream. The highs of making new Papuan friends and diving in the islands are balanced...
Well I'm on the road again to an area called Kainantu. The road is good, the sun is out, reggae music is being played on the bus stereo and the countryside passing my window is breathtaking.
On location in the PNG Highlands, the NewsHooker describes how he evaded robbery by a local rascal.
The NewsHooker takes us through the wild and untamed Porgera Valley, describing the exploitation by mining companies while fending off a marriage proposal or two.
Flew out of Moresby after introducing a few Porgera locals to the Port Moresby Yachting (PMY) establishment.
This week its pink yachts,Georgie Parker, Johnathon Thurston, Michael Caton, Panties, Bras, Jennifer Hawkins, Johnno and Catriona Rowntree
Along with an improve in the weather there seems to be an upsurge in community protest in Sydney.
A look behind the scenes of celebrity photojournalism (and other events) with the NewsHooker.
Every week theangle.org's very own Newshooker takes a witty or jaundiced look behind the scenes of the sausage factory that is Australian news reporting.
By-Elections: A Final Commentary
Political analyst Alex Schlotzer writes on the Higgins and Bradfield weekend by-elections; what it means for the leadership of the Liberal Party, Australia's political landscape and whether the issue of climate change will be a vote changer in the run up to the next election.
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