Leadership is about how you show up every day, how you communicate, how you support others and how you make decisions when things aren’t straightforward. Contrary to popular belief, good leaders aren’t born with a particular set of traits. They study, practice and fine-tune the skills that enable teams to
I remember it like yesterday. The airmail letter came from Bondi Beach. Over 40 years earlier, my childhood school friend Chris, spending a year in Australia, wrote excitedly of enjoying Christmas Day wearing shorts at a barbecue on Bondi Beach. I could feel the sunbeams and hear the surf in the aerogram of that innocent era, forever instilling within ...
‘How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.’ – Anne Frank
We failed you, Anne Frank. We failed to understand the message in your diary. We failed to understand that racism and hatred against Jews is happening on the shores of Australia. We failed to learn from century-old atrocities carried out ...
I have been struck by the striking contrast once again in the robust discussion that one can find in the pages of the Speccie, in this case best exemplified by the anguished commentary from Rowan Dean himself The night Australia died (14 December), and the risk-averse pusillanimity of the online moderators employed by The Australian. The eagle-eyed ...
So you're thinking about visiting Turkey for the first time? Smart choice. This country sits right where Europe meets Asia, and honestly, that location alone tells you everything about what makes it special. You'll find ancient ruins older than Rome, beaches that rival the Greek islands, and food that'll ruin every
A data processing blunder silenced a bushfire emergency warning system as multiple life-threatening blazes bore down on homes and people. The Emergency WA website and app failed about 12.15 pm on Monday amid five emergency-level bushfires north and south of Perth in searing heat. “It’s not ideal,” Western Australian Premier
Amid the horrors at Bondi Beach in Sydney on Sunday night, false reports of a second shooting at Dover Heights quickly began to spread. The post How the false story
The massacre of Jews on Bondi Beach was the tragic, yet inevitable, result of rising Jew hatred throughout the western world, including in Ireland. Ireland’s Chief Rabbi, Yoni Weider, spoke of the festering anti-Semitism targeted at Ireland’s Jewish community, as the Taoiseach Micheál Martin and senior ministers fell over themselves to proclaim support ...
This year’s Reith lecturer is the historian and activist Rutger Bregman. Given the way things work in the BBC, it comes as no surprise that a Dutchman, however charismatic, has been chosen to lecture us on modern British history. There are dozens of extremely well-qualified historians in British universities who could have spoken rather more ...
In the twelve months since he was elected for a second term, Donald Trump has driven an agenda more damaging to American democracy, rights, freedoms and international reputation than could have been predicted by even the most far-sighted political analyst. Where is the political opposition to citizens being snatched off
In 1830, the Palawa people were in the midst of their guerilla war against the British colonists taking their land in what is now Tasmania. After flaring in the mid-1820s, intensifying violence had claimed hundreds of First Nations and settler lives. In response, the Governor of Van Diemen’s Land, Sir
Leadership is about how you show up every day, how you communicate, how you support others and how you make decisions when things aren’t straightforward. Contrary to popular belief, good leaders aren’t born with a particular set of traits. They study, practice and fine-tune the skills that enable teams to
I remember it like yesterday. The airmail letter came from Bondi Beach. Over 40 years earlier, my childhood school friend Chris, spending a year in Australia, wrote excitedly of enjoying Christmas Day wearing shorts at a barbecue on Bondi Beach. I could feel the sunbeams and hear the surf in the aerogram of that innocent era, forever instilling within ...
‘How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.’ – Anne Frank
We failed you, Anne Frank. We failed to understand the message in your diary. We failed to understand that racism and hatred against Jews is happening on the shores of Australia. We failed to learn from century-old atrocities carried out ...
I have been struck by the striking contrast once again in the robust discussion that one can find in the pages of the Speccie, in this case best exemplified by the anguished commentary from Rowan Dean himself The night Australia died (14 December), and the risk-averse pusillanimity of the online moderators employed by The Australian. The eagle-eyed ...
So you're thinking about visiting Turkey for the first time? Smart choice. This country sits right where Europe meets Asia, and honestly, that location alone tells you everything about what makes it special. You'll find ancient ruins older than Rome, beaches that rival the Greek islands, and food that'll ruin every
A data processing blunder silenced a bushfire emergency warning system as multiple life-threatening blazes bore down on homes and people. The Emergency WA website and app failed about 12.15 pm on Monday amid five emergency-level bushfires north and south of Perth in searing heat. “It’s not ideal,” Western Australian Premier
Amid the horrors at Bondi Beach in Sydney on Sunday night, false reports of a second shooting at Dover Heights quickly began to spread. The post How the false story
The massacre of Jews on Bondi Beach was the tragic, yet inevitable, result of rising Jew hatred throughout the western world, including in Ireland. Ireland’s Chief Rabbi, Yoni Weider, spoke of the festering anti-Semitism targeted at Ireland’s Jewish community, as the Taoiseach Micheál Martin and senior ministers fell over themselves to proclaim support ...
This year’s Reith lecturer is the historian and activist Rutger Bregman. Given the way things work in the BBC, it comes as no surprise that a Dutchman, however charismatic, has been chosen to lecture us on modern British history. There are dozens of extremely well-qualified historians in British universities who could have spoken rather more ...
In the twelve months since he was elected for a second term, Donald Trump has driven an agenda more damaging to American democracy, rights, freedoms and international reputation than could have been predicted by even the most far-sighted political analyst. Where is the political opposition to citizens being snatched off
In 1830, the Palawa people were in the midst of their guerilla war against the British colonists taking their land in what is now Tasmania. After flaring in the mid-1820s, intensifying violence had claimed hundreds of First Nations and settler lives. In response, the Governor of Van Diemen’s Land, Sir
