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Journalism is getting something of a battering in Australia.  At the parliamentary level, laws have passed that would be inimical to any tradition versed in […]

By George Theodoridis  Exhibit 1: Justin Milne to Guthrie (via email): “…I just think it’s simple. Get rid of her. My view is we need to […]

Relations between Russia and Israel have been those of an estranged couple punctuated by occasional breakouts of tense understanding. As with other such couples, a […]

As its 61st anniversary approaches it is worth pondering the lasting impact on popular culture of a polished metal sphere whose 21-day orbit ushered in […]

This effort seems to be a bit of camping out on the part of director Bruce Beresford, whose list of cinematic achievements include Driving Miss […]

By Cal Sorensen-Karklis  What is clear in the hearts and minds of society today is the growing divide in generational thinking, both for better and […]

The pulse of negotiations, a flurry of communications, and the person central to this is one who threatens to go nowhere – for the moment. […]

The Essential Background to APEC 2018 By Denis Bright Australia will have an important steering role when leaders from the twenty-one-member Asia-Pacific Economic Summit (APEC) […]

  “Eventually you’ll have the implant, where if you think about a fact, it will just tell you an answer.” (Larry Page, co-founder of Google). […]

By Kyran O’Dwyer  There is a book titled ‘Jasper Jones’, by Craig Silvey. Having found the day to day offerings of our media a tad deficient […]

The US military industrial complex reigns like a ravenous ruler in search of new funding prospects. It has done well this year, with the Trump […]

Stage set Washington.  Object: adulterating power.  The arm of government: the judiciary.  That particular group of high ranking paladins remains up in the air as […]

It’s fitting that the same society that produced George Orwell with his warnings of a totalitarian dystopia stacked with all-prying monitors, surveillance and paranoia should […]

By John Haly How is it that recent parliamentary bloodletting over tax breaks and electricity pricing continues to detract from steady planetary exsanguination?  Are we now […]

More Dams for the Northern Food-bowls: Achievable Policies or Pre-Election Hype?  Preamble to the Discussion of Australia’s Northern Development The 2013 federal election was another historic […]