When the federal Coalition was elected to government in 2013, they took a great deal of glee in repealing the very effective Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS). It was in…
I read a piece in the New Yorker by Anthony Gottlieb about the Cambridge mathematician Frank Ramsey1, a person of whom I had never heard. Reading about Ramsey makes one…
The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing.
Everyone probably has heard of the Brereton enquiry into alleged war crimes by Australian troops in Afghanistan1. A few days ago, Lieutenant General Rick Burr, the Chief of Army, faced…
In 2011, current New South Wales Premier, Gladys Berejiklian cast aspersions on the motives of then Premier, Kristina Keneally over the decrease in the fares for the Airport Rail Line,…