Australia’s ambassadorial offices and political leaders have a consistent record of ignoring their citizens in tight situations. David Hicks, Mamdouh…
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The Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force Afghanistan Inquiry was always going to make for a gruesome read – and…
Australia has given the world two influential and disruptive exports in the field of media. One, currently in London’s Belmarsh…
News and information can only go so far. Despite the utopian fluffiness about having multiple platforms, the consumers of news…
Tech giants tend to cast thin veils over threats regarding government regulations. They are also particularly concerned by those more…
On July 14, Jenny Hocking was breathless. “Forty-five years after they were written,” the political scientist penned with excitement in…
There has been a lot of noise made in Australia about the need for broader protections when it comes to…
There are few sadder sights in international relations than a leadership in search of devils and hobgoblins. But such sights…
Entering a university should be, to some degree, unsafe. Away from the gazing eyes of parents, institutional structures for the…
The Australian press and a chorus of the country’s politicians painted a misguided, blotched picture: the Scott Morrison government had…
Australia matters little when it comes to international muscle. It is the retainer and pretender of power, a middle-distance runner…
Scientists in Australia said they have discovered an already existing drug, which kills COVID-19 within 48 hours in the laboratory.…
Hollywood actor Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson have both tested positive for coronavirus, the actor said Wednesday. The…
A parliament of tears, or at the very least, a chamber of parliamentarians keen to shed tears. It all seemed…
The bush fire situation in Australia is now deemed catastrophic. And it started early, with a relentless ferocity that has…
Australian police have arrested two men for allegedly smuggling 645 kilograms (1,422 pounds) of ecstasy hidden inside hundreds of aluminum…
Despite the Internet, connectivity, and linking technologies, distance has not shrunk the Australian sense of self, an often provincial appraisal…
It was always a probable fact: the dark consequences of having what is termed in Australia a “racing” industry, where…
The university, in a global sense, is passing into a managerial oblivion. There are a few valiant holdouts, but they…
The protestor of school age sported a placard featuring a distorted caricature of Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison: “Scomo liked…
It was predictably ugly: in tone, in regret, and, in some ways, disgust. Australia emerged from the Pacific Islands Forum…
Australia has always nursed a contradictory, repressive relationship with its Pacific neighbors. Being a satrap of great powers, it has…
Australian society relishes secrecy and surveillance. Forget the laid-back, relaxed demeanor that remains the great fiction of a conflicted identity;…
The antipodes has had a fraught relationship with the nuclear option. At the distant ends of the earth, New Zealand…
Subordinates rarely have a good time of dictating matters to their superiors. In the webbed power relations that pass as…