Rejection of Toondah will Reset Labor’s Soul in Redlands
By Callen Sorensen Karklis In early 2023, the sitting Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek knocked back a massive controversial coal mine proposed for the Rockhampton region. […]
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Ballooning Rhetoric: Aliens, Escalation and Airborne Surveillance
Things are getting rather bizarre at the US Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). Its increasingly prominent commanding chief, one General […]
ChatGPT: Boon for the Lazy Learner
Inside the beating heart of many students and a large number of learners lies an inner cheat. To get passing grades, every effort will be […]
A Science Future Fund to supercharge economic growth: Budget 2023
Science & Technology Australia Media Release Creating a visionary Science Future Fund that could generate economic returns of up to $2.3 billion a year would […]
Book review: ‘Wolf Hall’ by Hilary Mantel
Wolf Hall is a work of historical fiction. It is meticulously researched, but Hilary Mantel has allowed herself ample space, in which she has thoroughly […]
Ballooning Paranoia: The China Threat Hits the Skies
Hysteria over balloons is a strange thing. Hot air balloons made their appearance during the Napoleonic era, where they served as delivery weapons for bombs […]
Increase in phone and internet complaints in quarter two shows impact of Optus data breach
Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman Media Release The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman’s (TIO) Quarter Two Complaints Report shows a 9.9 per cent increase in the number of complaints […]
Walkin’ in Memphis
By James Moore “There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race. Scientifically and anthropologically.” – Toni Morrison The first […]
The Prince, The Crown and The Letter
By Kirsten Tona Once upon a time, there was a Kingdom called Dwanaland, comprised of the counties Eastbord, West Hale, and Southchurch. Every year, the richest best […]
Ukraine’s Tank Problem
It seems to be a case of little provision for so much supposed effect. The debates, the squabbles, the to-and-fro about supplying Ukraine with tanks […]
A walk in the forest
Bayerischer Wald can be just as hard to get to than it is to pronounce. For we folk who are only fluent in English there […]
Doltish Ways: Biden’s Documents Problem
Through the course of his political life, the current US president has often been injudicious. He has stumbled, bungled and miscalculated. His electoral victory was […]
A Picture of Global Complicity: Aiding Myanmar’s Military Regime
International relations remains the sum game of vast hypocrisies, a patchwork of compromises and the compromised. Every moral condemnation of a regime’s conduct is bound […]
Rampant Speculation: Uranium, Dirty Bombs and Heathrow
The dirty bomb and its purportedly famed radiation dispersal attributes has an undeserved mythology. It serves to bloat budgets and confer grants on specious theories […]
George Pell ‘Devil Incarnate’ is dead
In what she shamelessly and deliberately calls her ‘Obitchuary’ of Cardinal George Pell, guest columnist Tess Lawrence, longtime advocate for sex abuse victims who has […]