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Part of civilisation is a response to our inability to know everything about the world around us. We don’t know what everyone else knows. We cannot anticipate all the effects our actions will have. Our […]

The facts on the nuclear industry’s effects on health and environment are now seen through a blur of discussion on climate change, and costs, and connection with military power, and it all seems too hard […]

In his second term, US President Donald Trump has gone the way of past executive tribunes of the American imperium in seeking land and resources like a kleptomaniacal pincher. This has been bracing, not least […]

From Racial Prejudice to “Scientific” Proof Continued from Part 2 The use of “survival of the fittest” occurred during a period when Aboriginal people were hunted like animals, thousands died from introduced diseases, and many […]

With gratitude to John Clarke and Bryan Dawe. Clarke plays a federal government spokesman for responsible resources. He has a boarding pass in his top pocket. DAWE: Thanks for your time. CLARKE: Pleasure, Bryan. But […]

Is liberalism dead? Social engineering is alive and well. “Can women and men work together in the workplace?” Canadian academic, author and psychiatrist Dr Jordan Peterson posed that question in an interview in Vice News […]

The trend was already tracing itself through the corridors of power, but the world’s most powerful defence department has fallen, most heavily, for the use of artificial intelligence at virtually every level of its operations. […]

Darwin, Spencer and the “Survival of the Fittest” Continued from Part 1 In 1859, a book was published that would profoundly influence the way Europeans thought about life, humanity and, eventually, race: Charles Darwin’s On […]

With a hasty executive action by the Scott Morrison’s government, Australia signed up to buy $368 billions’ worth of second-hand nuclear submarines, and created a special military alliance with USA and UK -“AUKUS”. The then […]

Many forms of cognitive ability have had scarcity value throughout human history. Someone who could perform calculations rapidly, memorise vast amounts of information, write well, diagnose disease, translate between languages, learn complex legal codes or […]

The Racist Heritage of Colonial Australia There has been much discussion in Australia about racism and the way it continues to manifest itself in our political and social landscape. Yet racism is hardly a recent […]

Anglicare Sydney Media Release  The Australian Government is enabling more social and affordable housing than it has in a generation, but new Anglicare Sydney research warns that supply alone will not solve the housing crisis. […]

The Greens have a new leader. The press gallery has a new roughie. The field has been called to the post and the commentators are already in the box. And they’re racing. That is how […]

There was nothing new in the Reality Television President’s swill filled address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 22. Donald Trump had said much of it before, most of it with wearying derangement […]