The relationship of people to Australia’s environment has been a key interest of scholars and a founding rationale for scientific and cultural institutions for much of the past two centuries. Investigated by a diverse range of disciplines, framed by changing imperial, national, and ecological outlooks, the topic was a central
Artificial intelligence is everywhere now. And everywhere it appears, it raises questions. Artists and writers fear it will trawl their work, produce derivative products and make their creativity redundant. Courts are grappling with AI hallucinations in pleadings by unrepresented litigants and legal professionals. Even where the benefits of AI’s ...
It might have got a little lost in the soaring emotions generated by the World Cup, but America has been celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence this month. It has been a strained and strange time, with the focus on Donald Trump and his
American historian Robert Brigham has written extensively about US foreign policy and the Vietnam war. In Argument Without End (1999) he collaborated with Robert S. McNamara, the 1960s defense secretary known as the “IBM machine on legs,” in a forensic analysis of the mistakes that ignited and inflamed the war.
Recently I came by chance upon some photographs of Mary Cook, wife of Joseph Cook, prime minister of Australia for fifteen months in 1913 and 1914. Sir Joseph is one of Australia’s least-known prime ministers so it follows that Lady (later Dame) Mary is one of Australia’s least-known prime ministerial
Financial Times reporter Sarah O’Connor confesses to having once been a techno-optimist, confident in technology’s power to automate away dangerous, dirty and boring work. Her new book, We Are Not Machines, superbly explains how she came to think otherwise. O’Connor adopts a “show, don’t tell” approach to debunking some of
She was a novelist and journalist, a member of the Algonquin Roundtable, a pal of Hemingway’s, and for half a century the New Yorker’s Paris correspondent. In the latter guise, she moulded the magazine’s voice and outlook, helped establish its mix of “essay journalism,” and paved the way for the
The closing submissions of counsel assisting any judicial inquiry or royal commission often give a clue to the eventual findings, and so it has been with the NSW Supreme Court’s inquiry into the notorious Croatian Six case, which gripped Sydney more than forty-five years ago. Six Croatian-born men were jailed
It probably doesn’t happen very often that two tonally perfect novels (or novellas in this case) become adapted into two tonally perfect films. My claim is that this is the case with Irish author Claire Keegan’s two slim volumes, Foster (published in 2010, 88 pages) and Small Things Like These
When the International Booker Prize committee awarded this year’s prize to Yang Shuang-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue it continued a laudable tradition of diversity. In the eleven years since its relaunch in 2016, the prize has gone to books translated from eleven different languages. Taiwan Travelogue, a Chinese-language novel brought to the
The partnership of Alfred Hitchcock and that most Hitchcockian of composers, Bernard Herrmann, is notable for so many things that it’s easy to miss how they worked together to manipulate our sympathies. Psycho (1960) is a good example. In Phoenix, Arizona, we meet Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) during a lunchtime
“Throughout the decade my mother had spent in and out of custody for a suite of dishonesty offences, she had maintained her innocence. It was a cliché to which I was oblivious. Even once I entered law school, I had still to be disabused of my belief in her. As
The relationship of people to Australia’s environment has been a key interest of scholars and a founding rationale for scientific and cultural institutions for much of the past two centuries. Investigated by a diverse range of disciplines, framed by changing imperial, national, and ecological outlooks, the topic was a central
Artificial intelligence is everywhere now. And everywhere it appears, it raises questions. Artists and writers fear it will trawl their work, produce derivative products and make their creativity redundant. Courts are grappling with AI hallucinations in pleadings by unrepresented litigants and legal professionals. Even where the benefits of AI’s ...
It might have got a little lost in the soaring emotions generated by the World Cup, but America has been celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence this month. It has been a strained and strange time, with the focus on Donald Trump and his
American historian Robert Brigham has written extensively about US foreign policy and the Vietnam war. In Argument Without End (1999) he collaborated with Robert S. McNamara, the 1960s defense secretary known as the “IBM machine on legs,” in a forensic analysis of the mistakes that ignited and inflamed the war.
Recently I came by chance upon some photographs of Mary Cook, wife of Joseph Cook, prime minister of Australia for fifteen months in 1913 and 1914. Sir Joseph is one of Australia’s least-known prime ministers so it follows that Lady (later Dame) Mary is one of Australia’s least-known prime ministerial
Financial Times reporter Sarah O’Connor confesses to having once been a techno-optimist, confident in technology’s power to automate away dangerous, dirty and boring work. Her new book, We Are Not Machines, superbly explains how she came to think otherwise. O’Connor adopts a “show, don’t tell” approach to debunking some of
She was a novelist and journalist, a member of the Algonquin Roundtable, a pal of Hemingway’s, and for half a century the New Yorker’s Paris correspondent. In the latter guise, she moulded the magazine’s voice and outlook, helped establish its mix of “essay journalism,” and paved the way for the
The closing submissions of counsel assisting any judicial inquiry or royal commission often give a clue to the eventual findings, and so it has been with the NSW Supreme Court’s inquiry into the notorious Croatian Six case, which gripped Sydney more than forty-five years ago. Six Croatian-born men were jailed
It probably doesn’t happen very often that two tonally perfect novels (or novellas in this case) become adapted into two tonally perfect films. My claim is that this is the case with Irish author Claire Keegan’s two slim volumes, Foster (published in 2010, 88 pages) and Small Things Like These
When the International Booker Prize committee awarded this year’s prize to Yang Shuang-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue it continued a laudable tradition of diversity. In the eleven years since its relaunch in 2016, the prize has gone to books translated from eleven different languages. Taiwan Travelogue, a Chinese-language novel brought to the
The partnership of Alfred Hitchcock and that most Hitchcockian of composers, Bernard Herrmann, is notable for so many things that it’s easy to miss how they worked together to manipulate our sympathies. Psycho (1960) is a good example. In Phoenix, Arizona, we meet Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) during a lunchtime
“Throughout the decade my mother had spent in and out of custody for a suite of dishonesty offences, she had maintained her innocence. It was a cliché to which I was oblivious. Even once I entered law school, I had still to be disabused of my belief in her. As
