Barry Jones, a Hawke government science minister, published Sleepers Wake!, his book about the social and economic impacts of ...

SpaceX already sells sovereignty to Australia through services supplied by its Starlink division. “Designed, owned and ...

A huge statue of a horse stands on the shore, waves lapping around it. By rights it should be a towering figure, reared up on its hind legs, but it is half buried in sand, seemingly abandoned to the ...

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George Santayana and Winston Churchill are remembered for warning that those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat their errors. The economist John Maynard Keynes failed to ...

The closing submissions of counsel assisting any judicial inquiry or royal commission often give a clue to the eventual findings, and so it has been with the NSW Supreme Court’s inquiry into the ...

When the International Booker Prize committee awarded this year’s prize to Yang Shuang-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue it continued a laudable tradition of diversity. In the eleven years since its relaunch in ...

Financial Times reporter Sarah O’Connor confesses to having once been a techno-optimist, confident in technology’s power to automate away dangerous, dirty and boring work. Her new book, We Are Not ...

Karl Stefanovic loves being the centre of attention. Last week he succeeded in getting everyone talking about his podcast, The Karl Stefanovic Show, by publishing a chummy interview with far-right ...

The partnership of Alfred Hitchcock and that most Hitchcockian of composers, Bernard Herrmann, is notable for so many things that it’s easy to miss how they worked together to manipulate our ...