France has sold its 129 tonnes of gold being held in the New York Federal Reserve and purchased an equivalent amount now held in Paris’ La Souterraine underground vault. This represents 5 per cent of its total global gold holdings which is around 2,437 tonnes.
This happened in the last half of 2025.
As the joke goes, France has saved it from the ...
There are species of sloth that move faster than the Prime Minister.
This much is evident as we discover today that someone in his office, probably the secretary, decided to bring forward a scheduled meeting with Singapore later in the year – to this week.
As our largest and most important supplier of fuel, they have recently cancelled critical ...
The Trump administration sent a cable early last week ordering its embassies and consulates to launch local campaigns to proactively combat propaganda targeting the US. This initiative, of course, includes the US embassy and its consulates in Australia, where Washington is already monitoring the criminal activity of local migrants and taking a keen ...
As Donald Trump’s 8 p.m. deadline crept closer by the minute, accompanied by increasingly furious posts from the president online, the last-minute scramble to achieve a ceasefire by diplomacy became ever more desperate. Within the final 90 minutes it was announced that there would be a two-week pause in the fighting, based on a ten-point plan submitted ...
When I wrote about One Nation’s rise earlier this year, the polling was startling. The question was whether it would hold. It has. Now a harder question is being asked: Is Australia experiencing its own populist insurgency, and can the Liberal Party survive it, or is it being structurally replaced?
In February, I noted that One Nation was leading among ...
President Donald Trump’s acceptance of a Pakistani proposal for a two-week ceasefire in the war with Iran brings a sigh of relief to the international community. Just hours before, many had been alarmed by Trump’s threats to bomb Iran back to “the stone age” and destroy its “civilisation”.
It’s strange and ironic that higher education establishments in Britain, institutions which ostensibly exist to broaden minds and deepen thought, should today speak in such a cliche-ridden, jargon-infested and deadening variety of English. Yet it’s unsurprising and rather appropriate that they should do so in order to communicate to everyone that ...
At 5 p.m. Washington time, speculation was rife that a deal between the United States and Iran was in the works. Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif pleaded for President Trump to extend his 8 p.m. Tuesday deadline – before he destroyed every bridge and power plant in Iran – by another two weeks in order to give diplomacy more time to work. Yet ...
Engin Akyurt/Pexels, CC BY-NC-NDIt might feel like a lifetime ago, but it was just last week analysts began talking about fuel rationing in Australia. This week, that prospect seems less likely. A temporary ceasefire in the Iran war has been announced, even as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese heads off
"Donald Trump and his supporters are a threat to humanity," writes Professor Mark Beeson. "Every time you think things can’t get worse... they double-down on stupidity." read now...
Nationals leader Matt Canavan has urged the embrace of work-from-home opportunities as a way to boost the growth of smaller towns and regions. In a Wednesday speech calling for an “economic revolution”, Canavan told the National Press Club that today many families needed two jobs to make moving to
In the geological past, I sat on the engineering and earth science and major equipment committees of the Australian Research Council (ARC) in my capacity as a chair and senior scientist in my discipline. I also advised governments on special research centres and concurrently sat on the German and Swedish research councils.
My own research on the ...
France has sold its 129 tonnes of gold being held in the New York Federal Reserve and purchased an equivalent amount now held in Paris’ La Souterraine underground vault. This represents 5 per cent of its total global gold holdings which is around 2,437 tonnes.
This happened in the last half of 2025.
As the joke goes, France has saved it from the ...
There are species of sloth that move faster than the Prime Minister.
This much is evident as we discover today that someone in his office, probably the secretary, decided to bring forward a scheduled meeting with Singapore later in the year – to this week.
As our largest and most important supplier of fuel, they have recently cancelled critical ...
The Trump administration sent a cable early last week ordering its embassies and consulates to launch local campaigns to proactively combat propaganda targeting the US. This initiative, of course, includes the US embassy and its consulates in Australia, where Washington is already monitoring the criminal activity of local migrants and taking a keen ...
As Donald Trump’s 8 p.m. deadline crept closer by the minute, accompanied by increasingly furious posts from the president online, the last-minute scramble to achieve a ceasefire by diplomacy became ever more desperate. Within the final 90 minutes it was announced that there would be a two-week pause in the fighting, based on a ten-point plan submitted ...
When I wrote about One Nation’s rise earlier this year, the polling was startling. The question was whether it would hold. It has. Now a harder question is being asked: Is Australia experiencing its own populist insurgency, and can the Liberal Party survive it, or is it being structurally replaced?
In February, I noted that One Nation was leading among ...
President Donald Trump’s acceptance of a Pakistani proposal for a two-week ceasefire in the war with Iran brings a sigh of relief to the international community. Just hours before, many had been alarmed by Trump’s threats to bomb Iran back to “the stone age” and destroy its “civilisation”.
It’s strange and ironic that higher education establishments in Britain, institutions which ostensibly exist to broaden minds and deepen thought, should today speak in such a cliche-ridden, jargon-infested and deadening variety of English. Yet it’s unsurprising and rather appropriate that they should do so in order to communicate to everyone that ...
At 5 p.m. Washington time, speculation was rife that a deal between the United States and Iran was in the works. Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif pleaded for President Trump to extend his 8 p.m. Tuesday deadline – before he destroyed every bridge and power plant in Iran – by another two weeks in order to give diplomacy more time to work. Yet ...
Engin Akyurt/Pexels, CC BY-NC-NDIt might feel like a lifetime ago, but it was just last week analysts began talking about fuel rationing in Australia. This week, that prospect seems less likely. A temporary ceasefire in the Iran war has been announced, even as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese heads off
"Donald Trump and his supporters are a threat to humanity," writes Professor Mark Beeson. "Every time you think things can’t get worse... they double-down on stupidity." read now...
Nationals leader Matt Canavan has urged the embrace of work-from-home opportunities as a way to boost the growth of smaller towns and regions. In a Wednesday speech calling for an “economic revolution”, Canavan told the National Press Club that today many families needed two jobs to make moving to
In the geological past, I sat on the engineering and earth science and major equipment committees of the Australian Research Council (ARC) in my capacity as a chair and senior scientist in my discipline. I also advised governments on special research centres and concurrently sat on the German and Swedish research councils.
My own research on the ...
