It’s all too easy to get hooked by the online world, to fall headlong into it, to spend hour upon hour immersed in it. Cyberspace has its good, but also much bad. Staying in control of their social media lives is difficult enough for many adults, but for children it can be an especially dangerous world in which to dwell.
Too often children are glued to ...
Each year, CIS gathers the most ridiculous examples of intrusion into our lives, to find the winners of our annual Nanny State Awards. And the 2025 Nannies were difficult to judge, with a shortlist of very strong contenders. Oddly, this year’s crop showed an overriding concern with what we put in our mouths … and for stopping us from enjoying it at all ...
Australia recorded in 2024–25 the largest number of Indigenous deaths in custody since 1979–80, when monitoring began under the National Deaths in Custody Program. In the 2024–25 year, 33 of the 113 deaths in custody were Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people. The figures have been released by the Australian
The 20 days that Nicolas Sarkozy recently spent behind bars have been turned into a book published today. The 70-year-old former president of France was convicted of criminal conspiracy after a long-running investigation into charges his aides approached Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi for campaign funds. ‘Sarko’ was jailed for five years but he was ...
At times like these, the worst instinct in Australian public life comes out to play. As fires broke across the country, the usual brigade on Twitter arrived in ambulance-chaser formation, posting triumphalist warnings that this is what happens when a nation refuses to act on climate.
It is a consoling fantasy. It reassures the faithful that natural ...
Walk into any supermarket in Australia and you’ll find the country’s mood on full display. Not in the specials bin or the bakery aisle, but in front of the cereal wall. A vast, shimmering landscape of muesli, protein puffs, low-GI loops, and sugar-coated virtue. If you earn a respectable income but still hover in front of a $7 box thinking, ‘Maybe not ...
The Transport Secretary, Heidi Alexander, has revealed new train designs for the nationalised Great British Railways. By next spring, a train looking like a nursery school project will be arriving at a station near you.
According to Alexander, the Union Jack-based design supposedly ‘represents a new railway, casting off the frustrations of the past and ...
Australia’s biggest childcare providers have told an inquiry that systemic failures across the sector had caused harm to children that could have been prevented if governments had acted earlier. Former national children’s commissioner Anne Hollonds — now CEO of the Early Learning and Care Council of Australia — said the
If bear hugs were army divisions and brave words cash euros, Volodymyr Zelensky would have ended his tour of European capitals this week the best-armed and best-funded leader in the world.
Zelensky faces the danger that giving too much to Putin would make Ukraine ungovernable
‘We stand with Ukraine,’ vowed Sir Keir Starmer after hosting a summit for ...
Take my advice and steer clear of your local university. It is not just the flu that’s spreading on campus. Last month, an outbreak of trigger warnings occurred at the University of Essex. Up they popped, warning literature students about ‘violence, slavery, racism, and suicide’ in Hamlet, A Clockwork Orange and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Those infected ...
Sydney, like many other Australian cities, has a long history of urban farming. Market gardens, oyster fisheries and wineries on urban fringe once supplied fresh food to city markets. As suburbs expanded, many farms in and around cities were converted to houses, roads and parks. The process is continuing.
It’s all too easy to get hooked by the online world, to fall headlong into it, to spend hour upon hour immersed in it. Cyberspace has its good, but also much bad. Staying in control of their social media lives is difficult enough for many adults, but for children it can be an especially dangerous world in which to dwell.
Too often children are glued to ...
Each year, CIS gathers the most ridiculous examples of intrusion into our lives, to find the winners of our annual Nanny State Awards. And the 2025 Nannies were difficult to judge, with a shortlist of very strong contenders. Oddly, this year’s crop showed an overriding concern with what we put in our mouths … and for stopping us from enjoying it at all ...
Australia recorded in 2024–25 the largest number of Indigenous deaths in custody since 1979–80, when monitoring began under the National Deaths in Custody Program. In the 2024–25 year, 33 of the 113 deaths in custody were Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people. The figures have been released by the Australian
The 20 days that Nicolas Sarkozy recently spent behind bars have been turned into a book published today. The 70-year-old former president of France was convicted of criminal conspiracy after a long-running investigation into charges his aides approached Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi for campaign funds. ‘Sarko’ was jailed for five years but he was ...
At times like these, the worst instinct in Australian public life comes out to play. As fires broke across the country, the usual brigade on Twitter arrived in ambulance-chaser formation, posting triumphalist warnings that this is what happens when a nation refuses to act on climate.
It is a consoling fantasy. It reassures the faithful that natural ...
Walk into any supermarket in Australia and you’ll find the country’s mood on full display. Not in the specials bin or the bakery aisle, but in front of the cereal wall. A vast, shimmering landscape of muesli, protein puffs, low-GI loops, and sugar-coated virtue. If you earn a respectable income but still hover in front of a $7 box thinking, ‘Maybe not ...
The Transport Secretary, Heidi Alexander, has revealed new train designs for the nationalised Great British Railways. By next spring, a train looking like a nursery school project will be arriving at a station near you.
According to Alexander, the Union Jack-based design supposedly ‘represents a new railway, casting off the frustrations of the past and ...
Australia’s biggest childcare providers have told an inquiry that systemic failures across the sector had caused harm to children that could have been prevented if governments had acted earlier. Former national children’s commissioner Anne Hollonds — now CEO of the Early Learning and Care Council of Australia — said the
If bear hugs were army divisions and brave words cash euros, Volodymyr Zelensky would have ended his tour of European capitals this week the best-armed and best-funded leader in the world.
Zelensky faces the danger that giving too much to Putin would make Ukraine ungovernable
‘We stand with Ukraine,’ vowed Sir Keir Starmer after hosting a summit for ...
Take my advice and steer clear of your local university. It is not just the flu that’s spreading on campus. Last month, an outbreak of trigger warnings occurred at the University of Essex. Up they popped, warning literature students about ‘violence, slavery, racism, and suicide’ in Hamlet, A Clockwork Orange and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Those infected ...
Sydney, like many other Australian cities, has a long history of urban farming. Market gardens, oyster fisheries and wineries on urban fringe once supplied fresh food to city markets. As suburbs expanded, many farms in and around cities were converted to houses, roads and parks. The process is continuing.
