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When did the bushfires become woke?

If Australia is so 'diverse', 'inclusive' and 'anti-bigotry' as we make out to be - then why make a habit of singling out race at all?

by Vanessa de Largie - 10/01/2020 - 32 comments

Australia's economic, social and environmental future

Entering a new decade in 2020, can Australia improve its economic, social and environmental policy mix at time of unprecedented policy difficulties?

by Chris Lewis - 8/01/2020 - 2 comments

More anthropologists and fewer economists, please

However people tended to vote on cultural grounds. They were sick of foreigners (as they saw them) taking over the British way of life.

by Keith Suter - 2/01/2020 - 15 comments

Your money or your life? Putting wellbeing before GDP

Some countries are now giving priority to wellbeing over economic growth, but are they going far enough fast enough?

by Richard Eckersley - 27/12/2019 - 19 comments

Lethal visits: volcano tourism and the White Island eruption

While the authorities and tour operators count the profits from visitors they can also claim to be bringing humans closer to the earth.

by Binoy Kampmark - 11/12/2019 - 14 comments

Our children's future

We owe it to our children to take urgent action to prevent these threats from becoming future realities.

by John Avery - 10/12/2019 - 26 comments

Cultures

Many groups here tend to see others as variants of their own if they cannot understand the structure of that other's language.

by Ian Nance - 28/11/2019 - 23 comments

Give yourself the gift of social media down-time!

Christmas, it is often said, is a time for giving. Perhaps the greatest gift we can offer those we love is the gift of our attention.

by Mal Fletcher - 21/11/2019 - 1 comment

Horny

In 1913, the Ford Model T, created by the Ford Motor Company, became the first automobile to be mass-produced on a moving assembly line.

by Ian Nance - 12/11/2019 - 10 comments

We're having the wrong conversations about open plan

The general concept of Open Plan has been taken down by most major news outlets, and for good reason - the case against Open Plan is fairly damning.

by Riley Flanigan - 8/11/2019 - 7 comments

Identity politics collars fiction

Advocates of identity politics are demanding that white writers stop creating fictional characters who are different from their own race, gender or sexual orientation.

by Malcolm King - 4/11/2019 - 16 comments

Trafalgar through the eyes of a modern day spy

Alongside his abiding love of the sea and his intimate knowledge of it, he had a unique practice of consulting with and delegating to, his officers that was largely alien to his French and Spanish counterparts.

by Warren Reed - 1/11/2019 - 4 comments