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The companies strangling WikiLeaks are partly relying on the Australian government’s discredited claims about the illegality of WikiLeaks’ publication of diplomatic cables.

WikiLeaks has been so dependent on the business model built up during the commercialisation of the web — that all one needs to do is get people people to hit the “confirm payment” button — that the withdrawal of such became a political tool.

The slow financial strangulation of WikiLeaks by the major credit card institutions Mastercard, Visa and online payment giant PayPal, has certainly harmed the whistleblower organisation’s capacity to embarrass the world’s governments.

This week we’re giving the Wankley to products that pinkefy themselves with all sorts of glowing promises about their commitment to breast cancer research. Too bad the donations cost less than the feel good advertising it brings them.

This is Australia’s version of the US Green card lottery, writes Peter Faris.

Former Baxter detainee Kasian Wililo has been invoiced for his time in detention: for $161,684.60, reports Sophie Black.

There are some 250,000 foreigners studying at Australian tertiary institutions and two-thirds of them don’t want to be. Don’t want to be foreign, that is, writes Michael Pascoe.

The hapless Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews, fresh from a bollocking over his appalling mishandling of Gold Coast doctor Mohammed Haneef, is refusing to grant a visa to a respected UK based writer and newspaper editor, Abdel Bari Atwan.

In my opinion, at 3pm CDPP Damian Bugg will withdraw the charge and that will be the end of this fundamentally flawed prosecution, writes Peter Faris QC.