Year: 2025

The dynamics have changed somewhat since I wrote “Elect Peter Dutton, get a mini Trump” almost two months ago. The title of this article is the dead giveaway: It implies that voting for Dutton would […]

Winston Smith opened his eyes and focused on the drab room that he called his home. Chanting from the streets below reminded him that it was Liberation Day – a euphemism referring to the population […]

Continued from Part 1 In Part 2, I explore hypothetical scenarios, so think of this article as a mix of personal opinions and potential outcomes. Australia’s Potential Response Australia is in a tricky spot with […]

Monash University Media Release Dr Isaac Gross, Department of Economics, Monash Business School suggests that: “The RBA held interest rates steady today as they await for the next set of quarterly inflation figures to see […]

There has been a fascinating, near unanimous condemnation among the cognoscenti about the seemingly careless addition of Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic to the chat chain of Signal by US National Security Advisor Michael Waltz. […]

Monash University Media Release The generation of deepfakes during election campaigns is becoming more sophisticated, with advanced techniques in: Human-centred artificial intelligence Audio-visual deepfakes Computer vision Associate Professor Abhinav Dhall from Monash University’s Department of […]

“You didn’t learn our language.” It has been a long time since I saw the film ‘1492: Conquest of Paradise’, but the closing scene (as I remember it) was Christopher Columbus asking the leader of […]