I watched a hostage video on Monday.
With four Australian flags hanging in agony as a backdrop, Sussan Ley and David Littleproud gave the weirdest performance of their careers.
Sussan Ley, clearly the dominant force, gritted her jaw. She then engaged in an elite-level of question avoidance, giving barely coherent replies to a room full of frustrated ...
On Sunday night, during the Super Bowl – one of the largest shared cultural moments on the planet – an advert about antisemitism reached tens of millions of homes. Funded by Robert Kraft, it set out to ‘stand up to Jewish hate’. That really matters.
But moments like this are not neutral, they never are. They teach and they imprint. They tell young ...
The NSW Supreme Court has dismissed a challenge to the extraordinary powers given to police to disrupt protests against Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit to Sydney this week. The decision was handed down late Monday, minutes before a planned protest was scheduled to start through Sydney’s central business district, from
So Peter Mandelson, arch manipulator and shadowy Svengali has finally run out of road. This time his political career really has ended in disgrace. Throughout his decades in, and out, of politics, Mandelson was a divisive figure, but there was one part of his character that friends and foes agreed on: Mandy was a strategic genius. I beg to ...
Former Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) secretary Natalie James was sacked, according to evidence in Senate estimates. James was terminated under section 59 of the Public Service Act — the same provision used to remove Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry secretary Adam Fennessy. Prime Minister and Cabinet
The Albanese government in question time on Monday was already targeting Angus Taylor as likely Liberal leader, while the aspirant’s supporters were grappling with the mechanics of organising the challenge. Sunday’s appalling Newspoll, showing the Liberals on a primary vote of 15% (with the Nationals 3%) and Sussan Ley’s
There is (isn’t there always?) a crisis in nonfiction publishing. But this time it really is a crisis, or at least, it seems more of a crisis than the previous ones. The problem is: not enough people are buying the stuff anymore. Last year’s nonfiction sales were down fully six per cent on the 2024 figures, and the long-term graph gives a picture of ...
Sergey Mironov/GettyBathhouses are making a wave in Australia and overseas. And it’s not an isolated trend; it reflects the broader advancement of the global wellness economy, which some reports suggest is outpacing even IT and sport in growth. The Australian wellness sector, too, is booming. According to a report
There’s so much bad news about our prisons that it’s easy to become fatigued by it. Another failing jail, another prison awash with drugs, another inmate released in error. As a result, often it’s only the most extreme or shocking examples which hit the headlines. But there is one particular kind of prison news story which is guaranteed coverage: a ...
Oh Lordy. Here we go. The Gruffalo is back – or rather, the Gruffalo Granny – a new take on the most famous children’s character of the last 30 years other than Harry Potter. So, we’re going multi-generational with the monster; the last one, published over 20 years ago, was The Gruffalo’s Child…now it’s the oldie coming on the scene like Grendel’s ...
Ludvig Hedenborg/Pexels, CC BY-NC-NDIn less than ten years, Australia has to cut its emissions 62–75% below 2005 levels. Given reductions in emissions over the past 20 years, that translates to cutting emissions 47–65% below current levels. As of last year, that’s about 440 million tonnes (Mt) of carbon dioxide equivalent.
For quite a while now, intellectual movements have been nebulous things. This started with postmodernism, which everyone was talking about in the 1980s, but no one could quite define. Or maybe it started a bit earlier, with the New Left, a mix of Marxism and any other trendy shiny thing. But at least that was decidedly left.
You might suppose sensible ...
I watched a hostage video on Monday.
With four Australian flags hanging in agony as a backdrop, Sussan Ley and David Littleproud gave the weirdest performance of their careers.
Sussan Ley, clearly the dominant force, gritted her jaw. She then engaged in an elite-level of question avoidance, giving barely coherent replies to a room full of frustrated ...
On Sunday night, during the Super Bowl – one of the largest shared cultural moments on the planet – an advert about antisemitism reached tens of millions of homes. Funded by Robert Kraft, it set out to ‘stand up to Jewish hate’. That really matters.
But moments like this are not neutral, they never are. They teach and they imprint. They tell young ...
The NSW Supreme Court has dismissed a challenge to the extraordinary powers given to police to disrupt protests against Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit to Sydney this week. The decision was handed down late Monday, minutes before a planned protest was scheduled to start through Sydney’s central business district, from
So Peter Mandelson, arch manipulator and shadowy Svengali has finally run out of road. This time his political career really has ended in disgrace. Throughout his decades in, and out, of politics, Mandelson was a divisive figure, but there was one part of his character that friends and foes agreed on: Mandy was a strategic genius. I beg to ...
Former Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) secretary Natalie James was sacked, according to evidence in Senate estimates. James was terminated under section 59 of the Public Service Act — the same provision used to remove Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry secretary Adam Fennessy. Prime Minister and Cabinet
The Albanese government in question time on Monday was already targeting Angus Taylor as likely Liberal leader, while the aspirant’s supporters were grappling with the mechanics of organising the challenge. Sunday’s appalling Newspoll, showing the Liberals on a primary vote of 15% (with the Nationals 3%) and Sussan Ley’s
There is (isn’t there always?) a crisis in nonfiction publishing. But this time it really is a crisis, or at least, it seems more of a crisis than the previous ones. The problem is: not enough people are buying the stuff anymore. Last year’s nonfiction sales were down fully six per cent on the 2024 figures, and the long-term graph gives a picture of ...
Sergey Mironov/GettyBathhouses are making a wave in Australia and overseas. And it’s not an isolated trend; it reflects the broader advancement of the global wellness economy, which some reports suggest is outpacing even IT and sport in growth. The Australian wellness sector, too, is booming. According to a report
There’s so much bad news about our prisons that it’s easy to become fatigued by it. Another failing jail, another prison awash with drugs, another inmate released in error. As a result, often it’s only the most extreme or shocking examples which hit the headlines. But there is one particular kind of prison news story which is guaranteed coverage: a ...
Oh Lordy. Here we go. The Gruffalo is back – or rather, the Gruffalo Granny – a new take on the most famous children’s character of the last 30 years other than Harry Potter. So, we’re going multi-generational with the monster; the last one, published over 20 years ago, was The Gruffalo’s Child…now it’s the oldie coming on the scene like Grendel’s ...
Ludvig Hedenborg/Pexels, CC BY-NC-NDIn less than ten years, Australia has to cut its emissions 62–75% below 2005 levels. Given reductions in emissions over the past 20 years, that translates to cutting emissions 47–65% below current levels. As of last year, that’s about 440 million tonnes (Mt) of carbon dioxide equivalent.
For quite a while now, intellectual movements have been nebulous things. This started with postmodernism, which everyone was talking about in the 1980s, but no one could quite define. Or maybe it started a bit earlier, with the New Left, a mix of Marxism and any other trendy shiny thing. But at least that was decidedly left.
You might suppose sensible ...