One of the Labor Government's constant challenges is getting the Australian media to fairly report their policies. This January article by outstanding former ABC reporter Alan Austin, including a complaint to their board, made big waves in 2025. read now...
Thomas Koukas/Unsplash, CC BY-NC-NDAs a scholar researching clouds, I have spent much of my time trying to understand the economy of the sky. Not the weather reports showing scudding rainclouds, but the deeper logic of cloud movements, their distributions and densities and the way they intervene in light, regulate temperatures
Pixabay/PexelsFire is an ancient technology that has helped shape human evolution. Our ancestors used fire for safety, cooking and preserving food. They gathered around a flickering fire to share stories, pass on cultural knowledge and build community. Today, fire is an important industrial tool. It remains woven into our
Kindel Media/PexelsIt’s summer so kids’ playdates and birthday parties might start moving from the playground to the pool. I research how to prevent drowning. I’m also a mum of two kids living in a house with a pool. So water safety is always front of mind. Drowning deaths are at
Sailko, CC BY-SA 3.0, CC BY“All I want is an income of 20,000 sesterces from secure investments”, proclaims a character in a poem by Juvenal (1st-2nd century CE), the Roman poet. Today, 20,000 sesterces would be equivalent to about A$300,000 in interest from investments. Anyone would be very happy with
Sport is one of the most climate-sensitive aspects of Australian life, yet still sits largely outside the national conversation on climate exposure. Sport attracts around 14 million participants annually in Australia. According to national data from July 2023 to December 2024: 85% of adult Australians (aged 15+) participated in
Among his other ongoing projects, US President Donald Trump has spent much of his second term on a renovation. The Oval Office has been converted into a miniature palace festooned with gold bling, the rose garden has been paved over, a triumphal arch is planned and the new ballroom will
Pinterest, Canva, Wikimedia, The Conversation, CC BYThese days, human resources (HR) departments want us to use official titles for jobs. But we know the social truths of a job — how well that job gets done, whether we like the person doing it — are much more complex. Nicknames
In a characteristically lucid and incisive essay written in the aftermath of the Bondi massacre, Helen Pluckrose argues in Islam, Muslims, and the Refusal to Think Clearly that something which ought to be uncontroversial increasingly eludes public discourse: two things can be true at once. Islam contains ideas that can plausibly justify violence, ...
That such an evil and horrific act can be perpetuated – killing and injury so many innocent, peaceful, and law-abiding Jews while celebrating Hanukkah at Bondi Beach – beggars belief.
Such barbarism should not surprise.
Jews have long been subjected to violence, as proven by the long history of hatred and persecution of Jews illustrated by the pogroms ...
Britain should prepare for more rape cases involving illegal migrants, Dominic Cummings has warned. Speaking on The Spectator’s Quite right! podcast, the former advisor to Boris Johnson referenced the case of two young Afghan asylum seekers who were jailed earlier this month for the rape of a 15-year-old girl in Leamington Spa. Places like Leamington ...
What a radically changing year 2025 has been: a year in which Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, found himself fighting not merely the parliamentary opposition, the Russian threat and the brittle promise of European unity, but also his weakest and most self-confident adversary of all – his own coalition partner, the Social Democrats (SPD).
After ...
One of the Labor Government's constant challenges is getting the Australian media to fairly report their policies. This January article by outstanding former ABC reporter Alan Austin, including a complaint to their board, made big waves in 2025. read now...
Thomas Koukas/Unsplash, CC BY-NC-NDAs a scholar researching clouds, I have spent much of my time trying to understand the economy of the sky. Not the weather reports showing scudding rainclouds, but the deeper logic of cloud movements, their distributions and densities and the way they intervene in light, regulate temperatures
Pixabay/PexelsFire is an ancient technology that has helped shape human evolution. Our ancestors used fire for safety, cooking and preserving food. They gathered around a flickering fire to share stories, pass on cultural knowledge and build community. Today, fire is an important industrial tool. It remains woven into our
Kindel Media/PexelsIt’s summer so kids’ playdates and birthday parties might start moving from the playground to the pool. I research how to prevent drowning. I’m also a mum of two kids living in a house with a pool. So water safety is always front of mind. Drowning deaths are at
Sailko, CC BY-SA 3.0, CC BY“All I want is an income of 20,000 sesterces from secure investments”, proclaims a character in a poem by Juvenal (1st-2nd century CE), the Roman poet. Today, 20,000 sesterces would be equivalent to about A$300,000 in interest from investments. Anyone would be very happy with
Sport is one of the most climate-sensitive aspects of Australian life, yet still sits largely outside the national conversation on climate exposure. Sport attracts around 14 million participants annually in Australia. According to national data from July 2023 to December 2024: 85% of adult Australians (aged 15+) participated in
Among his other ongoing projects, US President Donald Trump has spent much of his second term on a renovation. The Oval Office has been converted into a miniature palace festooned with gold bling, the rose garden has been paved over, a triumphal arch is planned and the new ballroom will
Pinterest, Canva, Wikimedia, The Conversation, CC BYThese days, human resources (HR) departments want us to use official titles for jobs. But we know the social truths of a job — how well that job gets done, whether we like the person doing it — are much more complex. Nicknames
In a characteristically lucid and incisive essay written in the aftermath of the Bondi massacre, Helen Pluckrose argues in Islam, Muslims, and the Refusal to Think Clearly that something which ought to be uncontroversial increasingly eludes public discourse: two things can be true at once. Islam contains ideas that can plausibly justify violence, ...
That such an evil and horrific act can be perpetuated – killing and injury so many innocent, peaceful, and law-abiding Jews while celebrating Hanukkah at Bondi Beach – beggars belief.
Such barbarism should not surprise.
Jews have long been subjected to violence, as proven by the long history of hatred and persecution of Jews illustrated by the pogroms ...
Britain should prepare for more rape cases involving illegal migrants, Dominic Cummings has warned. Speaking on The Spectator’s Quite right! podcast, the former advisor to Boris Johnson referenced the case of two young Afghan asylum seekers who were jailed earlier this month for the rape of a 15-year-old girl in Leamington Spa. Places like Leamington ...
What a radically changing year 2025 has been: a year in which Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, found himself fighting not merely the parliamentary opposition, the Russian threat and the brittle promise of European unity, but also his weakest and most self-confident adversary of all – his own coalition partner, the Social Democrats (SPD).
After ...