David Higginbottom

From 1989-1997 David Higginbottom was a Marketing Manager with Telstra responsible for Internet related technologies. From 1997-2009 he was a Canberra-based lobbyist, concentrating on the political and policy issues associated with new technologies. He is a member of the coordinating committee of the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN) and coordinator of the Make Peace A Priority campaign (mpap.au).

Recent articles by David Higginbottom

Friends and frenemies: Australia’s China policy is stuck in a four-tier mindset

Friends and frenemies: Australia’s China policy is stuck in a four-tier mindset

Australia’s stabilisation of relations with China is welcome, but the old adversarial mindset remains intact. Institutional biases, selective outrage and context-free media narratives still shape how Australia sees China, limiting any genuine foreign policy reset.

Corruption isn’t just a moral failure – it’s built into our political system

Corruption in politics is not an accident or an exception. It is a predictable outcome of a system that rewards loyalty, access and survival over accountability, transparency and the public interest.

ASIO’s $12.5 billion espionage bill doesn’t add up

ASIO’s $12.5 billion espionage bill doesn’t add up

ASIO says espionage cost Australia $12.5 billion last year. But that figure relies on assumptions, speculative scenarios and opaque data that raise serious questions about credibility.

Cognitive dissonance in Crimea?

Cognitive dissonance in Crimea?

What convinces masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the system of which they are presumably part.” Hannah Arendt