The inequality is starkest in criminal justice — the poor are still disproportionately incarcerated. read now...
Over the 2 September to 15 November 2025, the US Trump administration has killed at least 83 foreign nationals in boats, which involved military strikes upon 22 vessels in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Venezuela. And while the White House claims it is carrying out the operations to stop narcotraffickers, the tactics ...
Recent months have seen the US Trump administration illegally killing foreign nationals in boats off the coast of Venezuela, while in NSW, the Minns government recently announced that it wouldn’t end the police use of drug dogs and strip searches at music festivals, and what these two divergent scenarios have in common is an ongoing reliance on the ...
Architect Frank Gehry poses with miniatures of his designs in Los Angeles in 1989. Bonnie Schiffman/Getty ImagesIn April 2005, The Simpsons featured an episode where Marge, embarrassed by her hometown’s reputation for being uneducated and uncultured, invites a world-famous architect to design a new concert hall for the city.
Since Labor’s victory, the threat of right‑wing populism has not gone away — it has grown increasingly palpable. read now...
Pete Harmsen, CC BY-NDSometimes, we get lucky in science. In this case, an oceanographic float we deployed to do one job ended up drifting away and doing something else entirely. Equipped with temperature and salinity sensors, our Argo ocean float was supposed to be surveying the ocean around the
Let's be honest, finding a good electrician shouldn't feel like a gamble. read now...
Christian Swegal’s Sovereign (Amazon Prime) moves with quiet inevitability towards a terrible conclusion. Tense, difficult and deeply confronting, it is an emotionally precise film. This is tragedy rendered in muted colour palettes and a perfectly calibrated soundscape that conveys anxiety, dread and the heavy, crushing weight of American precarity. With
Donald Trump’s second term is going no better than his first. He has failed to end the war in Ukraine, failed to put forward a plan on healthcare, and failed to cut government spending. Inflation is higher, unemployment is up and GDP growth has fallen. His main achievements have been
If the Middle East conflict is a race war between Arabs and Jews, does it mean supporters of Palestine, or Israel, are all being “racist”? read now...
Britain has spent 2025 in a deep funk. Its sense is of a stuck country which doesn’t work. It lacks self-belief, a moral centre, an animating spirit. Public spaces are ill-governed and derelict. Authorities exist to nag, mistreat or ignore a sulky populace. Epic sums are wasted and essentials scrimped.
“I cannot live with You —” goes Emily Dickinson’s poem. “It would be Life —/ And Life is over there —/ Behind the Shelf.” Once upon a time many Australian homes had the books of Patrick White out front of their shelves, as did classrooms and libraries too. It’s different today. Like many
The inequality is starkest in criminal justice — the poor are still disproportionately incarcerated. read now...
Over the 2 September to 15 November 2025, the US Trump administration has killed at least 83 foreign nationals in boats, which involved military strikes upon 22 vessels in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Venezuela. And while the White House claims it is carrying out the operations to stop narcotraffickers, the tactics ...
Recent months have seen the US Trump administration illegally killing foreign nationals in boats off the coast of Venezuela, while in NSW, the Minns government recently announced that it wouldn’t end the police use of drug dogs and strip searches at music festivals, and what these two divergent scenarios have in common is an ongoing reliance on the ...
Architect Frank Gehry poses with miniatures of his designs in Los Angeles in 1989. Bonnie Schiffman/Getty ImagesIn April 2005, The Simpsons featured an episode where Marge, embarrassed by her hometown’s reputation for being uneducated and uncultured, invites a world-famous architect to design a new concert hall for the city.
Since Labor’s victory, the threat of right‑wing populism has not gone away — it has grown increasingly palpable. read now...
Pete Harmsen, CC BY-NDSometimes, we get lucky in science. In this case, an oceanographic float we deployed to do one job ended up drifting away and doing something else entirely. Equipped with temperature and salinity sensors, our Argo ocean float was supposed to be surveying the ocean around the
Let's be honest, finding a good electrician shouldn't feel like a gamble. read now...
Christian Swegal’s Sovereign (Amazon Prime) moves with quiet inevitability towards a terrible conclusion. Tense, difficult and deeply confronting, it is an emotionally precise film. This is tragedy rendered in muted colour palettes and a perfectly calibrated soundscape that conveys anxiety, dread and the heavy, crushing weight of American precarity. With
Donald Trump’s second term is going no better than his first. He has failed to end the war in Ukraine, failed to put forward a plan on healthcare, and failed to cut government spending. Inflation is higher, unemployment is up and GDP growth has fallen. His main achievements have been
If the Middle East conflict is a race war between Arabs and Jews, does it mean supporters of Palestine, or Israel, are all being “racist”? read now...
Britain has spent 2025 in a deep funk. Its sense is of a stuck country which doesn’t work. It lacks self-belief, a moral centre, an animating spirit. Public spaces are ill-governed and derelict. Authorities exist to nag, mistreat or ignore a sulky populace. Epic sums are wasted and essentials scrimped.
“I cannot live with You —” goes Emily Dickinson’s poem. “It would be Life —/ And Life is over there —/ Behind the Shelf.” Once upon a time many Australian homes had the books of Patrick White out front of their shelves, as did classrooms and libraries too. It’s different today. Like many