The weekend brought news that marked not just the loss of two towering figures in Australian public life, but the closing of a chapter in how...
Australians used to feel pride about our capacity to laugh at ourselves. We don’t anymore. Until recently, we loved our sunburnt country with a deep red...
Last week, I joined the world’s largest gathering of the nuclear sector, the World Nuclear Exhibition (WNE) in Paris. Over three days, 25,000 delegates filled the...
I have six large, decorative but functional candles at the ready. The lights going out are the least of my concerns in a power blackout. The...
One of the curious oddities of our time is the near-universal contempt shown by Western Europeans towards President Donald J Trump. Even a fleeting visit to...
Continuous warnings from commentators, including myself, about AI taking our jobs are starting to come home to roost. A slew of jobs data this week from...
I don’t want to forget, but it hurts when I remember. Yet here we are … we’re on Goodbye Road, as Michael Gray Griffith calls it,...
Held in August three long and unproductive months ago, Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ much-vaunted Productivity Summit was billed as the moment Australia finally stopped talking about productivity...
It is with great sadness that we learned this morning of the passing of Graham Richardson, known affectionately to both friend and foe simply as Richo....
One Nation has rocketed to a record-high 15 per cent primary vote in Newspoll, while the Coalition languishes at an all-time low of 24 per cent....