Will we go the way of the Athenians?
By Ad astra As COVID-19 spreads relentlessly throughout the world, bringing with it the most devastating death toll that anyone alive can remember, people the […]
By Ad astra As COVID-19 spreads relentlessly throughout the world, bringing with it the most devastating death toll that anyone alive can remember, people the […]
Things are getting dizzy in the White House on what, exactly, is being done to “open the economy”. Cranky advocates for the financial argument over […]
We are being pulled in several directions by varying vested interests and moral issues. There is absolutely no doubt that a lengthy lock-down will cause […]
By Graham Nowland The COVID-19 WA case at Perth Airport reported yesterday potentially has deep implications. Had it not been for the rapid finger-prick blood […]
On Monday, Malcolm Turnbull’s memoir A Bigger Picture, will be released. Already the Turnbull haters mainly at Newscorp and SKY are ripping into him for […]
Politicians, as any political class, will nurse their favourite prejudice. And when there is a crisis, those prejudices will be fanned and praised to the […]
Who would have ever predicted that Australia would become a socialist state under a Coalition government? Well – actually, the socialist-style policies have been adopted, […]
We have a breathing space to plan. We are dependent to a large extent on other countries for manufactured goods, often made from raw materials […]
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there […]
Josh Frydenberg is on a mission to try to convince us that we are well-placed to deal with the economic downturn because of the strength […]
As the world hunkers down in isolation many folk are filling their time by reading pandemic-themed literature from Defoe, Camus, Stephen King and others. However […]
By 2353NM Up until recently, the last worldwide pandemic was the Spanish Flu at the end of the First World War. According to the National Museum […]
Gough Whitlam had many flaws. When, some years ago, I read Margaret Whitlam’s biography, I realised that she was the rock behind him, a strong […]
After active opposition to action on climate change, rorting on a grand scale in water management, no long term national drought strategy, and a woeful […]
By Denis Bright Can the politics of hope replace the normal circus of a US Presidential election in these times of public health and financial […]
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