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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. ...
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 us....
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...
It is hard to know whether the bleatings of the major media outlets about losing the Meta $70 million payments under the media bargaining code are...
If a future Prime Minister Dutton was able to get the fuel for a HALEU power station, would you be absolutely confident that he might not want to also...
The Canberra Press Gallery is not a homogenous group although its members do seem to suffer from a fair amount of groupthink; preference for gotchas...
“Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty....
At last weekend’s Victorian Writers Festival three authors – two of them also bookshop owners and one of them an author and enthusiastic supporter...
The UK’s Thames Water – infamous for pumping raw sewage into waterways – parent company has now defaulted on its debt. Why should the failure...
Back in 1947 the W.H. Auden poem, The Age of Anxiety, was published a year after he renounced his British citizenship for US citizenship. Today the...
In journalism and politics there are beat ups every day of the week. But some are so outrageous that they make a zephyr breeze look like a tornado. ...
When Twiggy Forrest, Private Eye, The Financial Times and Bloomberg all describe why nuclear power is not the answer you have to wonder why Peter...
Reading the latest Scanlon Foundation social cohesion report makes you aware that there are two quite distinct images of Australia. One – totally...
US politicians and others are always boasting about the US being the greatest in just about any category you can think of – from the record for...
If anyone ever imagined that commemoration of our war dead was not an opportunity to make political points look no further than the Daily Last Post...
Divisions on the Australian War Memorial Council and political pressure are putting Memorial staff in a difficult position over the depiction of...
In the 20th century a series of UK investigations, including the Leveson Inquiry, demonstrated that Murdoch newspapers had engaged in phone hacking,...
As Australia Day looms it’s not surprising that Peter Dutton has yet again found another culture war to prosecute – this time against...
The latest Roy Morgan Most Trusted & Distrusted Leaders research has bad news for Anthony Albanese but worse news for Peter Dutton. … and the...
Now what on earth will those staunch monarchists and climate denialists – John Howard and Tony Abbott – say about their new king, Charles III, and...