How has the defeat of the Voice referendum affected public debate about Indigenous affairs? One way to answer this question is to look at what’s been...
“We are like a small sesame seed, stuck in the middle of conflict between two great powers.”— Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, 16 January 2019 The founder...
In just a few short weeks the Trump administration has halted, overturned, defunded or revised vaccine-related research programs, approvals processes and public health guidance, with steps...
Peter Dutton says he regards John Howard as more of a role model than Donald Trump. That’s a relief. Hang on, though, which John Howard is...
Establishment circles in Canberra and other Western capitals are abuzz with an unfamiliar debate set off by Donald Trump’s smashing of America’s longstanding alliances and trading...
Amid the torrent of announcements pouring out of the White House over the past two months, one small but significant drop may have been missed. At...
The edition of Charles King’s Every Valley on the shelves of Australian bookshops — the Bodley Head edition, published in London — has the subtitle, “The...
Oral testimonies from more than twenty-five former policemen, security officials and lawyers pulled out of retirement; fifty-three huge folders bulging with documents extracted from government and...
In 2016 a new Liberal senator, a mere stripling of twenty-eight years, had a foolproof idea for getting himself noticed. James Paterson told the media the...
Believe it or not, there is a field of academic inquiry devoted to not knowing. Ignorance studies, which sometimes dignifies itself as “agnotology,” hopes to do...