Craig's Blogs

Twelve years after its initial publication, what can ex-Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser's book on the Lucky Country's relationship with the United States possibly have to offer to the modern reader? ______________________________________________ There are basically two types of political publication.  By far the smallest proportion remain relevant long after their publication – well written biographies and memoirs, in particular.  The far larger majority, however, a

Why is the Australian Federal Government neither demanding nor taking urgent action on Grok and X, which have, in recent weeks, been identified as some of the largest disseminators of child sexual abuse material in the world? In case you’ve missed it, Grok, an AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s company xAI, and now hardwired into his social media platform X (formerly Twitter), has recently been revealed to have been misused on a wide scale to generate sexually explicit and n

Welcome Aboard. Get Comfy. Smoke 'Em If You've Got 'Em ...   Welcome to Buchanan Today , my newly established (as at January 2026) blog site.   For those who don’t know me, I guess a word or two of introduction is likely in order at this stage.   I’m Craig Buchanan, an academic, writer and commentator based in sunny Western Australia, where, for the past decade I’ve served as a research officer for a number of crossbench MPs in our state parliament.   From an academic persp