‘Australia faces significant climate-related risks regardless of future emissions reductions.’ This is the most important sentence in a recent report by the Productivity Commission about Australia’s...
In recent years, the clash of two titans has come to the fore. On the one hand is the traditional nation state, what Hobbes termed the...
What better snapshot of modern Australia than the news this week from Commonwealth Education Minister Jason Clare. Why the Commonwealth even has an Education Minister remains...
As a child psychologist, I worked mostly with working-class mothers whose children were conspicuously out of control, and only occasionally did I encounter the grief and...
The 145th edition of the United States Tennis Open has now been concluded with Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz winning his sixth Grand Slam victory at age 22....
When staggering around the house between brushing my teeth, blankly staring at walls, and placing my morning coffee on kitchen tiles, I think about sand. Titanium...
Immigration is the sort of issue that Australians are told not to talk about. And yet, a few weeks ago, tens of thousands did more than...
The 2025 Australian Mayors Summit Against Antisemitism took place this week on the Gold Coast. A fitting location, ironically. In the 1980s, the development of Surfers...
What are the achievements of the Australian experiment in liberty? They must be clearly articulated in our dangerous world of negative ideas and geopolitical threats. We...
Solutioneering means jumping to a politically motivated solution to a very ‘urgent’ problem without considering alternative solutions, if indeed there is a problem at all, and...