Sussan Ley and David Littleproud on Sunday announced an 11th hour patch up of the federal Coalition that the Liberal leader hopes will hold off an early challenge from Angus Taylor. But on Sunday night it was doubtful whether re-forming the Coalition would prevent Taylor, the opposition defence spokesman,
The submarine industry has an almost supernatural ability to humiliate clever people. It is the only field where trillion-dollar states can be undone by hoses, paperwork, and a failure to ask who is actually in charge. Submarines are not symbols of national will. They are machines that punish process failure instantly and without mercy.
The Americans ...
A recent report from Sky News Australia has laid bare the mounting human cost of our unregulated streets: over the last five years, 40 Australians have been killed and approximately 12,000 injured in e-bike accidents.
These are not merely statistics; they represent a tidal wave of preventable trauma.
Yet, while the carnage grows, our parliaments are ...
It’s a tough time for the nation’s finances – but don’t worry, one man is doing ok. Lord Mandelson received a taxpayer-funded payoff worth tens of thousands of pounds – despite being sacked as US ambassador over his links to the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The Sunday Times reports today that Mandy secured an exit payment equivalent to three months’ ...
Many teenagers today find Christianity off-putting because Jesus seems too fond of ‘mansplaining’. He appears to have a ‘God complex’, while the Almighty is alienating on account of being ‘really violent and aggressive’.
These are the findings in the report Troubling Jesus, the third part of Youthscape’s ‘Translating God’ project, based on a recent ...
As anyone familiar with Irish folklore knows, it’s a fool’s errand to look for Leprechaun gold at the end of the rainbow. Luckily, in Ulster there is a pot of gold which is far more attainable.
Curraghinalt, in Northern Ireland’s Sperrin mountains, is currently sitting on top of the largest gold deposit ever discovered in the United Kingdom – some 3.5 ...
Clearing customs at Heathrow is about to get a lot more demanding for people like me. Hundreds of thousands of dual British citizens living in New Zealand – and millions of others like us spread out around the world – are about to lose the long-standing option of travelling to Britain on a foreign passport. Keir Starmer’s government says that from ...
Outside a small lecture hall, protesters waved placards and shouted – blocking an Israeli speaker from entering. Inside, security struggled; the lecture was cancelled at the last minute. No laws had been broken. No threats made. Yet political inconvenience had done its work: debate silenced before it began.
This was not isolated. Across Australian ...
The pundits are convinced that Peter Mandelson’s friendship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein is the ‘biggest British political scandal since the Profumo affair’. The latest tranche of the Epstein files, released last week, revealed the extent of the pair’s sordid association. But what’s striking to me (and I could probably do the Profumo ...
‘Because it is the Indian Railways that makes India.’ When I have a loquacious personnel officer declare this in my novel, Railsong, I am tapping into an idea as old as the railways in India. To be clear, there was no entity called the Indian Railways back in the mid-nineteenth century. But the British could envisage all too well the possibilities of ...
Labor’s proposed fire sale of culturally and historically significant Defence properties should be stopped.
It is a matter of national urgency.
The idea that a $3 billion sugar hit to the Treasury is worth the desecration of priceless pieces of our history is an insult to Australians.
Labor’s decision is particularly sour, given how much money they ...
Sussan Ley and David Littleproud on Sunday announced an 11th hour patch up of the federal Coalition that the Liberal leader hopes will hold off an early challenge from Angus Taylor. But on Sunday night it was doubtful whether re-forming the Coalition would prevent Taylor, the opposition defence spokesman,
The submarine industry has an almost supernatural ability to humiliate clever people. It is the only field where trillion-dollar states can be undone by hoses, paperwork, and a failure to ask who is actually in charge. Submarines are not symbols of national will. They are machines that punish process failure instantly and without mercy.
The Americans ...
A recent report from Sky News Australia has laid bare the mounting human cost of our unregulated streets: over the last five years, 40 Australians have been killed and approximately 12,000 injured in e-bike accidents.
These are not merely statistics; they represent a tidal wave of preventable trauma.
Yet, while the carnage grows, our parliaments are ...
It’s a tough time for the nation’s finances – but don’t worry, one man is doing ok. Lord Mandelson received a taxpayer-funded payoff worth tens of thousands of pounds – despite being sacked as US ambassador over his links to the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The Sunday Times reports today that Mandy secured an exit payment equivalent to three months’ ...
Many teenagers today find Christianity off-putting because Jesus seems too fond of ‘mansplaining’. He appears to have a ‘God complex’, while the Almighty is alienating on account of being ‘really violent and aggressive’.
These are the findings in the report Troubling Jesus, the third part of Youthscape’s ‘Translating God’ project, based on a recent ...
As anyone familiar with Irish folklore knows, it’s a fool’s errand to look for Leprechaun gold at the end of the rainbow. Luckily, in Ulster there is a pot of gold which is far more attainable.
Curraghinalt, in Northern Ireland’s Sperrin mountains, is currently sitting on top of the largest gold deposit ever discovered in the United Kingdom – some 3.5 ...
Clearing customs at Heathrow is about to get a lot more demanding for people like me. Hundreds of thousands of dual British citizens living in New Zealand – and millions of others like us spread out around the world – are about to lose the long-standing option of travelling to Britain on a foreign passport. Keir Starmer’s government says that from ...
Outside a small lecture hall, protesters waved placards and shouted – blocking an Israeli speaker from entering. Inside, security struggled; the lecture was cancelled at the last minute. No laws had been broken. No threats made. Yet political inconvenience had done its work: debate silenced before it began.
This was not isolated. Across Australian ...
The pundits are convinced that Peter Mandelson’s friendship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein is the ‘biggest British political scandal since the Profumo affair’. The latest tranche of the Epstein files, released last week, revealed the extent of the pair’s sordid association. But what’s striking to me (and I could probably do the Profumo ...
‘Because it is the Indian Railways that makes India.’ When I have a loquacious personnel officer declare this in my novel, Railsong, I am tapping into an idea as old as the railways in India. To be clear, there was no entity called the Indian Railways back in the mid-nineteenth century. But the British could envisage all too well the possibilities of ...
Labor’s proposed fire sale of culturally and historically significant Defence properties should be stopped.
It is a matter of national urgency.
The idea that a $3 billion sugar hit to the Treasury is worth the desecration of priceless pieces of our history is an insult to Australians.
Labor’s decision is particularly sour, given how much money they ...
