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In 2001, as Australia argued over refugees, borders, and national identity, John Howard delivered a line that would come to define an era: “We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in […]

The Touska Gambit: Piracy, Power, and the Theatre of Broken Promises Theatre That is the word you need to hold onto as you try to make sense of what happened in the Gulf of Oman […]

Depending on which historical sources you care to consult, the Pope has been a figure of obloquy, ridicule and abomination. This mediator between the terrestrial and the divine was always set for the battering. Martin […]

A Note on the Instrument. Martin Amis understood that certain horrors cannot be approached frontally. You do not walk up to the monstrous and describe it. You circle it, you find its vanity and its […]

There was a time – not so long ago – when the office of President of the United States seemed a sufficiently demanding role. Nuclear codes, global alliances, the occasional domestic crisis. A full plate, […]

How a 400-Year-Old Corporate Blueprint Became the Architecture of Modern Power – and Why We Can Choose to Make It Irrelevant Dedicated to my wife, who sees the pattern before the pieces fall. I. Introduction: […]

By Denis Hay   Description Why do Australians pay for the NBN if it was publicly funded? Discover where your money goes and why the internet still costs so much. Introduction: The Question Millions Are Asking […]

By James Moore “America’s greatest promise is that something is going to happen, and after awhile you get tired of waiting because nothing happens to people except that they grow old and nothing happens to […]

Yes, ain’t it grand! We, the God-fearing, God-loving, West and Israel don’t really need any longer to put our $billions of tax-payer money into those horribly expensive nuclear missiles, bombs, submarines. Good old new technology […]

A NOTE ON CLARKE AND DAWE John Clarke and Bryan Dawe were, for thirty years, the sharpest double act in Australian public life. Every Thursday night on the ABC, Clarke played the politician, the bureaucrat, […]

Reading messages from President Donald J. Trump is an exercise in taunting masochism. It is one inflicted on commentators and the press corps the world over, and they are not better for it. The latest […]

How Palantir Profits from Genocide – and Why Australia Must Walk Away Dedicated to my wife, who knows evil by the way it behaves. I. The Company That Kills Enemies Alex Karp, the CEO of […]

I’ve recently started watching For All Mankind, the alternate-history series where the Soviets reach the Moon first and the space race never ends. It’s gripping stuff – but it also sent me back to the […]