With Khamenei’s death, another war in the Middle East has begun. War, by its nature, is unpredictable, and there are multiple pathways this conflict could take if not managed properly ranging from a contained regional war to a broader conflict stretching from Europe to the borders of China, with the ever-present risk of nuclear escalation. To ...
As the United States and Israel’s war with Iran continues to escalate with no clear end in sight, Australia’s politicians and policymakers must adopt a clear-eyed, Australia-first understanding of the conflict – guided by our national interests and not those of others.
This means understanding both the immediate risks and the longer-term strategic ...
Grantlee Kieza’s biography of Mary Reibey (1777-1855), the woman pictured on the $20 note, provides a splendid account of how Australian pioneers’ self-reliance and can-do approach to tapping the continent’s latent wealth brought living standards 30-50 per cent above those of England within a generation.
Convicts and emancipists still comprised half of ...
The longer the war in Iran churns on, the more hot-tempered and unhinged President Trump becomes. On Tuesday, Trump was at it again, lambasting Washington’s European allies on Truth Social for sitting on their hands and refusing to lift a finger to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf chokepoint through which around 20 per cent of the world’s ...
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has warned Australians to brace for difficult months ahead, but pledged the government will protect them as well as it can, in an address to the nation on the impact of the Middle East War. Albanese said he wanted to be “upfront” about the situation.
Labour’s record in government may have been a litany of U-turns and broken promises, but there’s one cause on which the party hasn’t wavered. When the party pledged before the election to ‘make equality central to policymaking’ this, it turns out, was quite true. Businesses clobbered by energy bills and those wanting the small boats to stop may be ...
As we head towards the Scottish parliamentary elections in May, one party leader has a particularly unenviable job: step forward Anas Sarwar. Only a couple of months ago the Scottish Labour leader was calling for the party’s national leader, Sir Keir Starmer, to step down. Now he has to convince the Scottish electorate to put his party in charge north ...
Balendra Shah does not look like your typical Nepali prime minister, and in many ways, this is precisely the point. The 35-year-old rapper-turned-mayor has just been propelled to the country’s highest office. Known for his reluctance to speak to the press and his brisk, almost nonchalant, style, ‘Balen’, as Nepalis affectionately call him, has a ...
The Orange Wave is baked-in. One Nation is comfortably sitting at 25 per cent primary vote, leading the Liberal Party as Australia’s unofficial opposition. What was once a ‘protest vote’ is now as much a part of the electoral furniture as the Palestinian protesters on Spring Street.
We are witnessing an extinction level event for the party of ...
Maybe a tad prematurely for a term that ends only in 2029, the Trump Organisation has released a short video on Truth Social revealing, with a dizzying CGI fly-throughs, proposals for the Donald J. Trump presidential library.
Any great memorial should be both surprising and inevitable. The Donald J. Trump presidential library is neither, being ...
Alex Preston, and the book he reviewed, with the help of AI. Hachette/Allen & UnwinAn author and freelance journalist has admitted to using AI to help him write a book review for the New York Times. Alex Preston’s review of Jean-Baptiste Andrea’s novel Watching Over Her, published by the
Successive Australian governments’ misplaced priority on military “security” against a fictitious threat has left Australians without adequate fuel, food and transportation security, writes Bevan Ramsden. read now...
With Khamenei’s death, another war in the Middle East has begun. War, by its nature, is unpredictable, and there are multiple pathways this conflict could take if not managed properly ranging from a contained regional war to a broader conflict stretching from Europe to the borders of China, with the ever-present risk of nuclear escalation. To ...
As the United States and Israel’s war with Iran continues to escalate with no clear end in sight, Australia’s politicians and policymakers must adopt a clear-eyed, Australia-first understanding of the conflict – guided by our national interests and not those of others.
This means understanding both the immediate risks and the longer-term strategic ...
Grantlee Kieza’s biography of Mary Reibey (1777-1855), the woman pictured on the $20 note, provides a splendid account of how Australian pioneers’ self-reliance and can-do approach to tapping the continent’s latent wealth brought living standards 30-50 per cent above those of England within a generation.
Convicts and emancipists still comprised half of ...
The longer the war in Iran churns on, the more hot-tempered and unhinged President Trump becomes. On Tuesday, Trump was at it again, lambasting Washington’s European allies on Truth Social for sitting on their hands and refusing to lift a finger to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf chokepoint through which around 20 per cent of the world’s ...
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has warned Australians to brace for difficult months ahead, but pledged the government will protect them as well as it can, in an address to the nation on the impact of the Middle East War. Albanese said he wanted to be “upfront” about the situation.
Labour’s record in government may have been a litany of U-turns and broken promises, but there’s one cause on which the party hasn’t wavered. When the party pledged before the election to ‘make equality central to policymaking’ this, it turns out, was quite true. Businesses clobbered by energy bills and those wanting the small boats to stop may be ...
As we head towards the Scottish parliamentary elections in May, one party leader has a particularly unenviable job: step forward Anas Sarwar. Only a couple of months ago the Scottish Labour leader was calling for the party’s national leader, Sir Keir Starmer, to step down. Now he has to convince the Scottish electorate to put his party in charge north ...
Balendra Shah does not look like your typical Nepali prime minister, and in many ways, this is precisely the point. The 35-year-old rapper-turned-mayor has just been propelled to the country’s highest office. Known for his reluctance to speak to the press and his brisk, almost nonchalant, style, ‘Balen’, as Nepalis affectionately call him, has a ...
The Orange Wave is baked-in. One Nation is comfortably sitting at 25 per cent primary vote, leading the Liberal Party as Australia’s unofficial opposition. What was once a ‘protest vote’ is now as much a part of the electoral furniture as the Palestinian protesters on Spring Street.
We are witnessing an extinction level event for the party of ...
Maybe a tad prematurely for a term that ends only in 2029, the Trump Organisation has released a short video on Truth Social revealing, with a dizzying CGI fly-throughs, proposals for the Donald J. Trump presidential library.
Any great memorial should be both surprising and inevitable. The Donald J. Trump presidential library is neither, being ...
Alex Preston, and the book he reviewed, with the help of AI. Hachette/Allen & UnwinAn author and freelance journalist has admitted to using AI to help him write a book review for the New York Times. Alex Preston’s review of Jean-Baptiste Andrea’s novel Watching Over Her, published by the
Successive Australian governments’ misplaced priority on military “security” against a fictitious threat has left Australians without adequate fuel, food and transportation security, writes Bevan Ramsden. read now...