While Australia sent over 30,000 soldiers to Afghanistan – with 41 killed, hundreds wounded, even more with invisible scars – little did we know the global...
I remember it like yesterday. The airmail letter came from Bondi Beach. Over 40 years earlier, my childhood school friend Chris, spending a year in Australia,...
‘How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.’ – Anne Frank We failed you, Anne Frank. We...
I have been struck by the striking contrast once again in the robust discussion that one can find in the pages of the Speccie, in this...
Australia already has highly restrictive gun laws compared to the US. Yet, many places in the US are like Australia. University campuses and many shopping malls,...
December 14 was the darkest day for Australia in my 30-year lifetime. Islamic extremism struck at the heart of the Australian mythology, Bondi Beach. I wish...
By the afternoon of the day following the Bondi shootings, very few members of the federal government had named the ideology responsible for the attack. That...
There are dangers a society can screen for and dangers it cannot. Metal detectors catch knives. Infrared cameras detect weapons. Background checks flag criminal histories. But...
Yesterday’s tragedy at Bondi has hit hard. As the gravity and horror sinks in, we will all feel much worse before we start to feel better....
After the uprising of radical leftist forces and extremist Islamist groups in 1979 and their seizure of power in Iran, a period of brutal repression began,...