3+ hour, 16+ min ago  (1023+ words) The discourse around Anzac Day this year was dominated by the reaction to "Welcome to Country" ceremonies. These ceremonies now have a prominent role in the Dawn Service at many locations and, for the second year in a row, were…...

6+ hour, 2+ min ago  (366+ words) US officials have warned executives at Apple, AMD & Qualcomm that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could bring the tech industry to its knees....

1+ hour, 33+ min ago  (281+ words) The uniparty stranglehold is weakening, and the people of Farrer have an opportunity to be a part of history....

56+ min ago  (219+ words) It is easy to forget that what we think of as "constitutional democracy" covers fewer than half of the world"s sovereign states. Constitutional democracy as we know it was developed in England over the course of about 500 years, and…...

15+ hour, 31+ min ago  (341+ words) I had a great-uncle, the brother of my maternal grandfather, who died at Gallipoli. My father was in the RAAF during the second world war, and as such I have had a great reverence for Anzac Day for most of…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (701+ words) Several things can be true at once. A majority of Australians, as suggested by the Voice to Parliament referendum, disagree with "Welcome to Country" utterances outside tourist settings. Perhaps even more Australians find "Welcome to Country" particularly abrasive, even insulting,…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (351+ words) We'll soon find out what the'final'compromise will be. But from an online safety, privacy and civil liberties standpoint, the details hardly matter. The wave of a legislative wand will not magically banish children from social media. The only way to…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (227+ words) The project consolidates one of the ways in which Oxford went wrong in 2001 To quote the Centre's website, "Here, academia's hallowed halls take new forms'all in the name of new thinking and expression." Plus, there's a centre for Ethics and…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (475+ words) AI writing is God-awful. It appears intelligent at first glance, empty at second. It possesses the insufferable buoyancy of a holiday rep. It offers little by way of humour, nothing by way of originality. But its fatal flaw is the…...

2+ day, 14+ min ago  (851+ words) The Spectator Australia Britain has a Prime Minister problem I wrote not all that long ago about this disconcerting situation we're in where the only news story the Prime Minister seems capable of generating is a news story about the…...