The NSW Department of Health has admitted to the late payment of key entitlements for salaried emergency doctors at Westmead Hospital, potentially amounting to as much as a quarter of their take-home pay, following intervention by the Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation. In a long-running dispute over payment times for allowances that
Australian Public Service Commission lawyers have spent two days at the Administrative Review Tribunal trying to prevent the release of more information related to the sacking of former secretary Mike Pezzullo. The code of conduct inquiry into Pezzullo was released following an 18-month FOI battle between former senator Rex Patrick
Thursday’s announcement of the updated National Defence Strategy (NDS) by Defence Minister Richard Marles was replete with the kind of language you would expect from a man whose job it is to balance the precarious expectations of a population in the grips of a cost-of-living crisis against a belligerent and,
The news this week that two people had tried to burn down Finchley Reform Synagogue in London wasn’t even surprising. Just a few weeks ago, ambulances operated by a Jewish volunteer organisation were firebombed and destroyed. In Manchester, a synagogue was attacked on Yom Kippur, leaving two people dead. Over the last couple of years, there have been ...
Immanuel Kant, who was born on 22 April 1722, is perhaps best known for two things: writing The Critique of Pure Reason (1781) – one of the most important and most difficult books in Western philosophy, and for being a man of such clinical regularity that the residents of his native Königsberg in East Prussia (present-day Kaliningrad) would set their ...
In the 19th century, the geographer and explorer David Livingstone was scathing of what he described as ‘easy chair geographers’ – authors and mapmakers who produced maps and treatises about the non-European world without ever leaving their learned society or personal office.
Donald Trump is a latter-day armchair geographer. Or judging by photographs ...
The best time to visit Provence, I always advise when asked, is in the spring before the scorching heat and summer crowds.
I have been spending time in the south of France since the early 1990s. Provence was fashionable in those days. Peter Mayle’s massively successful book, A Year in Provence, inspired thousands to pull up stakes and move to southern ...
The news that the original Oxfam bookshop on St Giles in Oxford is not to close is not just a relief, but a rare victory in the ongoing battles between town and gown in the city. The building’s owners, Regent’s Park College, had attempted to take back the relatively modest space that the bookshop occupies and turn it into a common room for graduate ...
Many governments are suddenly realising that economies do not operate on sunbeams and zephyrs.
This is less so for the ossified EU bureaucracy, which is preparing a ‘catalogue’ of energy-saving and low-carbon investments (to replace oil/gas), including smart-grid upgrades incentivises for better renewable integration.
Germany, however, is going ...
The Liberal Party could not be more rattled by the rise of One Nation and the speech by Angus Taylor earlier this month made this very clear.
The results in South Australia demonstrated that the demise of the Liberal Party and rise of One Nation isn’t just a polling phenomenon, it’s the reality at the ballot box as well. By most metrics, we comfortably ...
Three justices of the New South Wales Court of Appeal struck down the Minns government’s law enabling the blanket banning of protest marches on Thursday, 17 April 2026, describing the law as a “blunt tool”. And as activist groups and a stella legal team saw the unconstitutional regime torn down, the analogy of a blunt tool certainly lent itself to many ...
Making time to prepare to host the White House Correspondents’ Dinner has not been easy. Presently I’m flying back to New York, where I live, on a red-eye after a show in Las Vegas. My wife and five kids, all under the age of ten, are at home waiting for me. On average, I have one media appearance every day and a half between now and then. I’m not ...
The NSW Department of Health has admitted to the late payment of key entitlements for salaried emergency doctors at Westmead Hospital, potentially amounting to as much as a quarter of their take-home pay, following intervention by the Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation. In a long-running dispute over payment times for allowances that
Australian Public Service Commission lawyers have spent two days at the Administrative Review Tribunal trying to prevent the release of more information related to the sacking of former secretary Mike Pezzullo. The code of conduct inquiry into Pezzullo was released following an 18-month FOI battle between former senator Rex Patrick
Thursday’s announcement of the updated National Defence Strategy (NDS) by Defence Minister Richard Marles was replete with the kind of language you would expect from a man whose job it is to balance the precarious expectations of a population in the grips of a cost-of-living crisis against a belligerent and,
The news this week that two people had tried to burn down Finchley Reform Synagogue in London wasn’t even surprising. Just a few weeks ago, ambulances operated by a Jewish volunteer organisation were firebombed and destroyed. In Manchester, a synagogue was attacked on Yom Kippur, leaving two people dead. Over the last couple of years, there have been ...
Immanuel Kant, who was born on 22 April 1722, is perhaps best known for two things: writing The Critique of Pure Reason (1781) – one of the most important and most difficult books in Western philosophy, and for being a man of such clinical regularity that the residents of his native Königsberg in East Prussia (present-day Kaliningrad) would set their ...
In the 19th century, the geographer and explorer David Livingstone was scathing of what he described as ‘easy chair geographers’ – authors and mapmakers who produced maps and treatises about the non-European world without ever leaving their learned society or personal office.
Donald Trump is a latter-day armchair geographer. Or judging by photographs ...
The best time to visit Provence, I always advise when asked, is in the spring before the scorching heat and summer crowds.
I have been spending time in the south of France since the early 1990s. Provence was fashionable in those days. Peter Mayle’s massively successful book, A Year in Provence, inspired thousands to pull up stakes and move to southern ...
The news that the original Oxfam bookshop on St Giles in Oxford is not to close is not just a relief, but a rare victory in the ongoing battles between town and gown in the city. The building’s owners, Regent’s Park College, had attempted to take back the relatively modest space that the bookshop occupies and turn it into a common room for graduate ...
Many governments are suddenly realising that economies do not operate on sunbeams and zephyrs.
This is less so for the ossified EU bureaucracy, which is preparing a ‘catalogue’ of energy-saving and low-carbon investments (to replace oil/gas), including smart-grid upgrades incentivises for better renewable integration.
Germany, however, is going ...
The Liberal Party could not be more rattled by the rise of One Nation and the speech by Angus Taylor earlier this month made this very clear.
The results in South Australia demonstrated that the demise of the Liberal Party and rise of One Nation isn’t just a polling phenomenon, it’s the reality at the ballot box as well. By most metrics, we comfortably ...
Three justices of the New South Wales Court of Appeal struck down the Minns government’s law enabling the blanket banning of protest marches on Thursday, 17 April 2026, describing the law as a “blunt tool”. And as activist groups and a stella legal team saw the unconstitutional regime torn down, the analogy of a blunt tool certainly lent itself to many ...
Making time to prepare to host the White House Correspondents’ Dinner has not been easy. Presently I’m flying back to New York, where I live, on a red-eye after a show in Las Vegas. My wife and five kids, all under the age of ten, are at home waiting for me. On average, I have one media appearance every day and a half between now and then. I’m not ...