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For most of history, men fought for the man who fed them, the god who judged them, or the land they could see from the hilltop. Loyalty was personal, war was local, and victory meant […]

CPA Australia Media Release Unlocking Asia: CPA Australia urges bold action to boost national capability Australian businesses are missing significant investment and innovation opportunities in Asia. Education, business and professional exchange programs must be expanded. […]

We stand at a crossroads, poisoned by the air of a false reality. For decades, a carefully crafted narrative has been pumped into our collective consciousness, one that prioritises profit over people and the planet. […]

I once held in my hands a Sumerian tablet – not a mere relic, but a functional key. It was part of a system of bronze casts, a feline figure whose two halves would marry […]

Despite world-leading reforms, half of Australian workers remain trapped in insecure employment while the young bear the brunt. The numbers don’t lie, even when the politicians do. Australia’s precariat; that swelling army of the insecurely […]

By James Moore (Bought a new bicycle. Designed for gravel. Called a gravel bike. Front wheel slipped out from under me on some gravel. Went down hard and shattered my elbow. Ended up with screws […]

History is not just a record of what happened; it is an argument about what matters. The stories we choose to tell, and those we choose to forget, reveal our deepest biases and our greatest […]

The horrors of the 20th century were not anomalies. The Nazi regime in the West and Imperial Japan in the East were not monstrous singularities, but the most extreme manifestations of a logic that is […]

The world of defence policy is truly on another planet. There, budgets are given to astronomical burgeoning and bizarre readings. Threats can be invented or exaggerated. Insecurity can be inflated. Decisions for the next project […]

A profound and perilous pattern scars human history: the debasement of a nation’s currency often serves as a prelude to the debasement of its people’s fundamental rights. This process, where a government erodes the value […]

A Conversation Between Bruce Dawe and Mike Burgess For 3CR Performance [FADE IN: A Canberra afternoon. BRUCE DAWE sits opposite MIKE BURGESS in a nondescript office. Coffee cups. Files scattered. The light’s that particular Canberra […]

In an industry of seedy soothsayers, cocksure charlatans and resourceful rogues, honest and accurate appraisals are exquisitely rare. When it comes to economics, investments and finance, this is particularly so. Certitude, however, tends to be […]

A profound and disturbing transformation is underway in global conflict. The besieged Gaza Strip has become more than a humanitarian catastrophe; it has been turned into a live-fire laboratory for the future of warfare and […]

Why You Can’t Strike in Melbourne (But You Can in Caracas) Australia has built the democratic world’s most sophisticated legal architecture for preventing workers from exercising collective power. We didn’t ban strikes. We just made […]