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Everyone has the odd “if only” thought from time to time. If only you had made a different career choice, if only you had not said the things you...
Elon Musk has been a major presence in the Trump US presidential campaign – financially, through social media and also through encouraging tech...
How long will Elon Musk last in the Trump orbit? Currently he seems to be ubiquitous but that presents a problem for Donald Trump and his massive...
Give me the child for the first seven years and I will give you the man was a Jesuit maxim attributed to Ignatius Loyola. It is probably...
It is now abundantly clear that the Albanese Government is gutless. But what’s worse is that – as recent events demonstrate – it’s also...
Every year or so Australia gets a bulky new book about an Australian war, military action, hero or some other military matter written by what is...
When Marx wrote “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice, the first time...
The Australian War Memorial oscillates between seeming to be ready to admit that Australia’s Frontier Wars ought to be commemorated in the AWM...
WTF just happened? is a question being asked around the world after the US Presidential election. In some places it is a cause for celebration and...
The new Queensland Premier, David Crisafulli, has made some moderately progressive comments about climate and nuclear energy but they are, when...
Journalists around the world were once inspired by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to commit to significant investigative journalism. The pair,...
Inauguration Day for the new President in 2025 will mark the 90th anniversary of the publication of Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here. This...
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away there were purposeful, progressive and committed Labor Governments. The recent biography of Race Mathews,...
It is understandable that people around the world obsess about US elections given the cultural and political impact the country has on the rest of...
Guess what? A study of about 1,500 climate policies in 35 countries found that the single most effective policy in reducing carbon emissions was a...
It is sometimes difficult to believe that the US is not headed irretrievably towards a new civil war. But recent research suggests that among the...
Australia has come up with some absolute shockers when advertising agencies have been tasked with promoting the country around the world. Lara...
There is no doubt that multimedia technology can tell stories dramatically. These stories particularly resonate with a generation raised on video...
The Albanese government is arguably the most timid Labor Government in our history. What’s the point of the Albanese Government? You might argue...
The latest Reuters Institute and University of Oxford report on media in Australia and the world has been published – and it’s bad news for almost...
One oft-proven way to make money is to pick up a few gems among a pile of discarded mining rubble. In the case of the UK, an investment fund is...
It’s not known if Peter Dutton reads The Economist but if he does, he must probably think from time to time that it is sometimes dangerously left...