In 2015, soon after he had rolled Tony Abbott to become prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull was heckled when, with a straight face, he told New South Wales Liberals, “We are not run by factions”. Once, there had been a contrast, at least in degree, between the factionally-organised Labor party
One of the most grating and nauseating verbal constructions of our times – ‘Our NHS’ – has with grim inevitability began to evolve and expand. It was only a matter of time before someone or some organisation deemed it necessary to affix that possessive determiner to another state-run organisation, and you hardly need to guess which one.
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When the Amyl and the Sniffers’ free show at Federation Square was cancelled on Friday night due to safety concerns, the band worked quickly to turn this disappointment around. Using their performance fee, they placed A$35,000 across the bars of seven prominent grassroots music venues around Melbourne. Many
Schools have been shut in the Australian Capital Territory after children’s play sand was recalled due to asbestos fears. Almost all Canberra primary schools were closed on Monday, with Education Minister Yvette Berry conceding it could take “days” for schools to be declared safe to open again. The
kevin laminto/UnsplashOn Friday, thousands packed into Melbourne’s Federation Square for a free Amyl and the Sniffers show. Within minutes, fences buckled, the perimeter was breached, and the gig was cancelled over crowd crush fears. It was gutting for fans – but it’s also the latest episode in a much
Andrew Hastie’s bid for the leadership isn’t just another chapter in the party’s factional saga. It is the Liberals’ Last Lifeline, the last chance to adapt to a changing political landscape before, overwhelmed with despair, conservatives break away and build something new.
Liberalism, as an organising political philosophy, is reaching its end. Across ...
Once upon a time, the Australian spirit was known for its courage, independence, and irreverent sense of fairness. We didn’t wait for someone else to speak – we spoke up. We didn’t wait for permission – we acted. We were the quiet battlers who built a thriving democracy out of little more than grit, trust and a handshake.
But something has shifted.
In ...
Andrew Ross Sorkin’s 1929 is a well-told story about the great Wall Street crash. It has vivid characters, a thrilling plot and sensible observations. It is not too long, not too technical and not too tendentious. It brings into the narrative not only the big Wall Street bankers and speculators
Indigenous peoples are on the vanguard of climate action. Longstanding relationships with land means they endure the direct consequences of climate change. And their unique knowledge offers effective solutions to climate problems. But despite this, international climate policies have fallen short of encouraging Indigenous leadership. With the UN climate
Fresh scrutiny of royal interference in Whitlam’s Dismissal has renewed calls for Australia to finally become a republic. read now...
Across history, the middle classes have dreamed of saving their societies. They see themselves as the sober conscience of the nation, humane, rational, on the right side of history. Yet their crusades often end not in redemption but in futility or betrayal, leaving others to pay the price.
From the German clerks and shopkeepers who embraced Hitler as a ...
Lone Thomasky & Bits&Bäume / Better Images of AI, CC BYOver the past weekend, the US AI lab Anthropic published a report about its discovery of the “first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign”. The company says a Chinese government–sponsored hacking group used Anthropic’s own Claude AI tool to automate
In 2015, soon after he had rolled Tony Abbott to become prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull was heckled when, with a straight face, he told New South Wales Liberals, “We are not run by factions”. Once, there had been a contrast, at least in degree, between the factionally-organised Labor party
One of the most grating and nauseating verbal constructions of our times – ‘Our NHS’ – has with grim inevitability began to evolve and expand. It was only a matter of time before someone or some organisation deemed it necessary to affix that possessive determiner to another state-run organisation, and you hardly need to guess which one.
‘A GB News ...
When the Amyl and the Sniffers’ free show at Federation Square was cancelled on Friday night due to safety concerns, the band worked quickly to turn this disappointment around. Using their performance fee, they placed A$35,000 across the bars of seven prominent grassroots music venues around Melbourne. Many
Schools have been shut in the Australian Capital Territory after children’s play sand was recalled due to asbestos fears. Almost all Canberra primary schools were closed on Monday, with Education Minister Yvette Berry conceding it could take “days” for schools to be declared safe to open again. The
kevin laminto/UnsplashOn Friday, thousands packed into Melbourne’s Federation Square for a free Amyl and the Sniffers show. Within minutes, fences buckled, the perimeter was breached, and the gig was cancelled over crowd crush fears. It was gutting for fans – but it’s also the latest episode in a much
Andrew Hastie’s bid for the leadership isn’t just another chapter in the party’s factional saga. It is the Liberals’ Last Lifeline, the last chance to adapt to a changing political landscape before, overwhelmed with despair, conservatives break away and build something new.
Liberalism, as an organising political philosophy, is reaching its end. Across ...
Once upon a time, the Australian spirit was known for its courage, independence, and irreverent sense of fairness. We didn’t wait for someone else to speak – we spoke up. We didn’t wait for permission – we acted. We were the quiet battlers who built a thriving democracy out of little more than grit, trust and a handshake.
But something has shifted.
In ...
Andrew Ross Sorkin’s 1929 is a well-told story about the great Wall Street crash. It has vivid characters, a thrilling plot and sensible observations. It is not too long, not too technical and not too tendentious. It brings into the narrative not only the big Wall Street bankers and speculators
Indigenous peoples are on the vanguard of climate action. Longstanding relationships with land means they endure the direct consequences of climate change. And their unique knowledge offers effective solutions to climate problems. But despite this, international climate policies have fallen short of encouraging Indigenous leadership. With the UN climate
Fresh scrutiny of royal interference in Whitlam’s Dismissal has renewed calls for Australia to finally become a republic. read now...
Across history, the middle classes have dreamed of saving their societies. They see themselves as the sober conscience of the nation, humane, rational, on the right side of history. Yet their crusades often end not in redemption but in futility or betrayal, leaving others to pay the price.
From the German clerks and shopkeepers who embraced Hitler as a ...
Lone Thomasky & Bits&Bäume / Better Images of AI, CC BYOver the past weekend, the US AI lab Anthropic published a report about its discovery of the “first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign”. The company says a Chinese government–sponsored hacking group used Anthropic’s own Claude AI tool to automate