It sent three convictions back to the appeals court, but the special probe shied away from the implications of suppressed ASIO evidence ...

See how patching operates with the World Trade Organization, the body designed to set the rules and judge the disputes of ...

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Until 2011, any mention of a “carbon tax” invariably meant a consumption tax on specific goods. John Howard swore off a “carbon tax” before he lost government in 2007 but promised an “emissions ...

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 ...

Australia’s nuclear debate re-ignited last year when Peter Dutton released the Coalition’s plan to use nuclear power rather than renewables to meet Australia’s emissions-reduction obligations. He gave ...

Nations are built with pens and brushes not just hammers and nails. They exhibit their character in what they say about themselves as much as what is said about them. — Bruce Pascoe, Convincing Ground ...

Leaving aside the fringe-dwellers who don’t believe “the Stratford man” wrote any of the plays published under his name, attribution scholars have employed sophisticated, increasingly computerised ...

Between 1946 and 1958, when the Marshall Islands was still administered by the United States under a UN strategic trusteeship, the American military conducted sixty-seven atmospheric nuclear tests at ...

A writer friend recently asked if I ever felt lonely. She confessed to being puzzled by the idea: her problem was an excess of people, with their endless demands and stupidities, not a lack. What her ...

From the big end of town, the perspective is grim. Global investment in Victoria’s property sector halved in three years, down from $10 billion to $5 billion. The Property Council is quick to blame ...

While it’s generally poor taste to mention an author’s age, it’s uplifting for many reasons to read a highly accomplished biography by a ninety-four-year-old writer dealing with an author who produced ...