Mar 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
Published in the Overland Sunday, 14 March, 2021. By Lizzie O’Shea, Rebecca Giblin, Kate Seear and Alexandra Dane. Promising Young Woman boldly examines male entitlement and female rage from a woman’s perspective. By which we mean: it’s not simply a story about...
Mar 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
Published in The Saturday Paper on Sunday March 13, 2021.
Mar 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
Published in Nikkei Asia on Sunday, March 13, 2021. In the #MeToo era, it is now clearer than ever that sexual assault is not some irregular occurrence, but is actually a function of the structural dominance of men over women. It is a consequence of a world in which...
Mar 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
As published in The Saturday Paper March 11 2021 Public policy should not be left to the cult of personality, no matter how amicable the current eSafety Commissioner may be. The best protection against unintended consequences is for this legislation to be surgically...
Mar 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
Published in Baffler March 2021 In August 2019, Facebook settled an eight-year legal dispute with a French schoolteacher. The complaint, made by Frédéric Durand, accused the platform of deleting his account because he posted an image of Gustave Courbet’s iconic oil...
Feb 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
Published in Overland Thursday, 18 February, 2021. Facebook has followed through on its promise, banning news content on its platform in response to the media bargaining code currently before parliament. Although it was something that Google had talked about most...
Feb 18, 2021 | Events, News
Tech Won’t Save Us Podcast with Paris Marx. Listen to podcast. More ways to listen: Apple Spotify Overcast Google Stitcher Podcast Addict Paris Marx is joined by Lizzie O’Shea to discuss how Australia’s plan to make Google and Facebook pay news publishers...
Feb 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
As published in Nikkei Asia on Friday, February 12, 2021. Lizzie O’Shea is a human rights lawyer. She is author of “Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us about Digital Technology.” The experience of online...
Dec 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Published in the Overland. Sunday, 14 December, 2020. The proposed news media bargaining code tabled last week has been praised by many journalists. It’s also deeply flawed. The scheme requires that organisations apply to the Australian Media and Communications...
Jun 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Hosted by Melissa Benn Featuring: Ed Miliband MP, Hilary Cottam, Christine Berry, Lizzie O’Shea and Anita Whittaker Whether or not we have a second wave of the pandemic, the post-coronavirus economic recession is going to be very severe and is already here for...