It's Jake Thomas

For any spam campaign to be successful, two things needs to happen. First of all, there needs to be a market able to receive and more importantly a vehicle to distribute the message. Free email service providers are a godsend to spammers. They are free, for the most part anonymous and unfortunately the biggest barriers set up [...]

In many parts of the world stable government is but a dream – multiple minority parties when banding together hold the balance of power and 1 disagreement can lead to a costly dissolution of parliament and re-election. Whatever your political views are, there is no denying the labor government is a legitimate one that has every right to put [...]

Petrol companies are consistently being criticized for raising their prices from Thursday through Sunday and around holiday periods. I’m not entirely sure why they get all the bad press – almost all businesses that have peaks and troughs do the same thing; think airlines, events, cinemas, functions, live shows, etc. In fact doing so is good business [...]

I’ve always been a huge fan of free speech – I believe it has the potential to change the world and mostly for the better. But it cannot and should not be used as a defence for hatred, bigotry or just plain stupidity. If in your public life you intentionally, viciously or mockingly target a minority – expect [...]

Quite frequently we read in the media about a Muslim terrorist blowing something up, or a right wing christian lunatic wanting to enforce their interpretation of the bible on an unwilling society. Perhaps the greedy Jews stealing land that doesn’t belong to them or the catholic priest who touches children where he shouldn’t. The issue with [...]

It seems our media (and public) thrive every time a “nation-polarising-issue” is on the agenda. If it’s not live exports it’s refugees, if not it’s foreign aid, if not it’s religion, if not it’s the economy, if not it’s immigration…. Lets face it, the media loves to hype up a story and the public can’t get enough [...]

We’ve basically won the battle for the gay & lesbian marriage in Australia. Millions of people, from all walks of life, from religious leaders, to politicians, to regular citizens, to celebrities have all spoken out in support of marriage equality. Every poll I have read on the subject clearly shows an overwhelming majority of people [...]

Over the past decade, social media has exploded in popularity. It’s reach has permeated and taken over almost every aspect of our lives. As a result of this, some of us have had to learn the hard way that everything we put online, stays online and for those of us that haven’t learned this first hand, we’ve seen others that have.

Fashion is in a constant state of evolution (and resurrection for that matter) and it seems the latest trend is to wear as little as possible. This has sparked a number of debates on what is and isn’t appropriate, I thought I might throw my $0.02 in. My main position is the only person whose opinion [...]

I just wanted to write this public letter of thanks to Wendy Francis of the Christian Lobby. A hugely important topic in the gay community is safe sex, it’s seldom covered in schools and a rather taboo subject around the dinner table. As a result, the Queensland Association of Healthy Communities launched a rather small [...]