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By James Moore   “I was born in the autumn of things.” (Richard Flanagan, Australian author). Our carburetors had to be opened up for the engines to get us up the Front Range. We had just […]

Step One: Adopt Our Values There’s a particular kind of sentence in Australian politics that sounds firm, sensible, and reassuring – right up until you ask the most basic follow-up question. Angus Taylor’s announcement that […]

By Maria Millers   Nobody wins a war Two thousand twenty four, I hear the drums of war Echo in the blackened skies with no sign of compromise Children watch their cities burn, when will […]

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, […]

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 […]

The whole proposition of a massive hunk of brain-flesh that is capable of introspective reflection, inside a body, inside a culture, doing the washing up, while shouting at the kids, is ludicrous. But there it […]

By Chen Ziqi This is not your ordinary expo. Here, you can try on a pair of sleek black glasses, and suddenly, you can understand nearly 90 languages in real time. You can ask for […]

In what feels like another lifetime, Carol and I wandered the quieter corners of Germany. One region in particular gave us a memorable, breathtaking adventure – one I wrote about years ago on our old […]

Tourism and civilisation are intimately linked. But tourism is much more robust. Warfare, drought, famine, earthquake, and tsunami are just minor inconveniences. The Russian, Mongol, and Qing dynasties, like the Persian, Roman, English, and American […]

Last month, the United Nations General Assembly was unimpeachably correct in condemning the hideous practice of slavery in a resolution endorsed by 123 votes. Those voting either against the resolution (Argentina, Israel and the United […]

Bryan Dawe sits at his desk. John Clarke enters in a suit, slightly hurried, carrying a reusable shopping bag with “ALBO” written on it in texta. Dawe: Mr Albanese, thank you for coming in. Clarke: […]

Part 1: The chimpanzee sex conundrum When you banish the rather odd concept of humankind as a golden twig protruding from the very top of the tree of life, and instead start comparing and contrasting […]

The One Nation ‘Policy Development’ officer was suffering through yet another minor existential crisis. At one o’clock in the morning, seated at his desk, at home, with the rest of the world securely locked outside, […]

In a previous life I administered the funding and programming of Victoria’s L2P program, as well as various regional workforce pilots dealing with regional disadvantage/transport. What follows is not the account of a real individual […]

I was a very crook 16-year-old kid, lying in a cot in the detox ward of the Bridge Centre in Sydney, when a Captain of the Salvation army pulled a chair up to my bed […]