There is an ethereal tone to the Australian debate on energy. The government is focused on what it regards as an inevitable transition to Net Zero...
July 1, 2025, marked a flashpoint in Australia’s sex wars with the commencement of the Equality Legislation Amendment (LGBTIQA+) Act in New South Wales (Equality Act). Hailed...
The hydrogen economy, once heralded as the future of clean energy, is unravelling as I write. A few years back, I argued that hydrogen’s promise was...
During what some have dubbed ‘Nuremberg at Glastonbury’, we heard, thanks to the BBC for their unfiltered live-stream, death chants the likes of which haven’t surfaced...
When science fiction author Paolo Bacigalupi published his best-selling novel The Water Knife about a water crisis and the growing commodification of water in 2015, he...
How refreshing to discover an anti-feminist psychiatrist. Very few people in the ‘helping professions’ have the courage to openly oppose the prevailing orthodoxy. But Hannah Spier...
It is a humbling experience to be a leader in a democracy. It requires the recent Coalition concession that they were ‘smashed’ at the last election....
Populism has been defined as an approach to politics that pits a champion of the commonfolk against elites. Right-wing populism has often been regarded as anti-expert,...
In a world obsessed with the apocalyptic hellfire of ‘carbon’ and the terror of an imperceptibly warmer climate nowhere near the Edenesque rainforests of the Carboniferous...
Australian workers face a pattern of betrayal from union leaders. This week, the Victorian branch of the Health Services Union was placed into administration, with its...