None of Your Business: China, Hong Kong and a Question of Sovereignty
Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam seemed to relish it before the cameras this week. The United States was enduring extensive shudders of internal instability […]
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To the Commercial Heavens We Go! SpaceX, NASA and Space Privatisation
It would be too simple to regard the latest space venture, funded by Elon Musk, as entirely a matter of vast ego and deeply-pocked adventurism. […]
Running with cows
I admit I was pleasantly surprised that my stories of growing up on Kangaroo Island were so well-received. Inspired I am, dear reader, to offer […]
Sinister Flatulence: Trump versus Twitter
Sawing off the branch you sit on can hardly be the best of policies. But that all depends on the nature of the branch. US […]
Welcome Deaths: Coronavirus and the Open Plan Office
For anybody familiar with that gruesome manifestation of the modern workplace, namely the open plan office, the advent of coronavirus might be something of a […]
Ego Trip: US Space Flags and Super-Duper Missiles
US President Donald Trump is much taken with the bombastic and the exaggerated. In an interview with the Associated Press in April 2017, he spoke […]
One Rule for Me and Another for Everyone Else: The Cummings Coronavirus Factor
Leaving crises to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s management skills will never disappoint those who favour chaos and the attractions of vague direction. The double standard […]
Patterns of Compromise: The EasyJet Data Breach
It has been a withering time for the airlines, whose unused planes moulder in a gruelling waiting game of survival. The receivers are smacking their […]
Why Thinking Makes It So: Donald Trump’s Obamagate Fixation
The “gate” suffix has been wearing thin since the break-in scandal that gave it its birth. Since Watergate, virtually anything dubious and suggestive, and much […]
UniSA research shows promising signs in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs
University of South Australia Media Release As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread across the globe, effective medical treatment against bacteria and viruses has never […]
Inglorious Bastardry: Hacking for Vaccines
If you cannot discover or create something, best steal it. It has been the operating principle for everything from wealth to technology. With the efforts […]
Stuff from way back when
Home-isolation … it’s come to this. I’m prepared to write about anything, even stuff I wouldn’t normally admit to. Such as: When I was a […]
Why can’t my carer get a visa?
Attention, Llew ‘Obrein, LNP MP for Wide Bay and Andrew Wallace, LNP MP for Fisher. It is now two years since I first requested your […]
The Liabilities of History: The Dangers of Pandemic Compensation
Smug assertions of liability in history are often incautious things. They constitute a fruit salad mix: assertions of the wishful thinkers; hopes of the crazed; […]