Running 2024-25, this high-level R&D review is typical of how Australia works. In other wealthy nations, it might have had a higher profile, attracted political scrutiny and sterner debate.Not Down Under, where our top-20% stakeholders ideate almost as one beehive. Despite its international purview, the review rather risks "talking among
In a distinctly hostile act - the Foreign Ministers of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom announced in a Joint Statement on 10 June sanctions and other measures targeting Israeli politicians Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich for inciting violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. This extraordinary
The overreaction by many to President Donald Trump's dramatic, new tariffs, for all of one week, stunned even us. Overreaction, that is, not from those on the left, but from those on the political right-particularly libertarians and free-market economists. To them, tariffs are the ultimate, and unforgivable, economic "sin." This
Anticipatig a significant United Nations diplomatic gatheringWe may hope and imagine that the mainstream media will pay the necessary attention to the High-level political forum on sustainable development (HLPF) which is officially convened under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in New York, on 14–18 and 21–23
The author has major concerns about piecemeal disaster mitigation approaches across Australia that are getting us nowhere, over decades. Whole communities, towns and cities have inadequate and unsafe disaster protection, including for floods and bushfires.Current disaster approaches are doomed to failure Current disaster management and mitigation ...
An oxymoron is a figure of speech where contradictory or opposite words are combined to create a striking or thought-provoking effect. Examples include "deafening silence", "organized chaos", "perpetual motion machines", and today's favorite among zero-emissions policy makers, "Renewable Energy" !Yet, our so-called government leaders and policymakers ...
Running 2024-25, this high-level R&D review is typical of how Australia works. In other wealthy nations, it might have had a higher profile, attracted political scrutiny and sterner debate.Not Down Under, where our top-20% stakeholders ideate almost as one beehive. Despite its international purview, the review rather risks "talking among
In a distinctly hostile act - the Foreign Ministers of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom announced in a Joint Statement on 10 June sanctions and other measures targeting Israeli politicians Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich for inciting violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. This extraordinary
The overreaction by many to President Donald Trump's dramatic, new tariffs, for all of one week, stunned even us. Overreaction, that is, not from those on the left, but from those on the political right-particularly libertarians and free-market economists. To them, tariffs are the ultimate, and unforgivable, economic "sin." This
Anticipatig a significant United Nations diplomatic gatheringWe may hope and imagine that the mainstream media will pay the necessary attention to the High-level political forum on sustainable development (HLPF) which is officially convened under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in New York, on 14–18 and 21–23
The author has major concerns about piecemeal disaster mitigation approaches across Australia that are getting us nowhere, over decades. Whole communities, towns and cities have inadequate and unsafe disaster protection, including for floods and bushfires.Current disaster approaches are doomed to failure Current disaster management and mitigation ...
An oxymoron is a figure of speech where contradictory or opposite words are combined to create a striking or thought-provoking effect. Examples include "deafening silence", "organized chaos", "perpetual motion machines", and today's favorite among zero-emissions policy makers, "Renewable Energy" !Yet, our so-called government leaders and policymakers ...
