• Infrastructure

    Filling in the blanks


    Neil Sipe |  April 28, 2024


    The housing crisis created by Australia’s high rate of immigration mean that governments and developers are eying every square inch of under-used land in our cities, but plans for ‘in-fill’ development are often slow to materialise in reality.


  • China

    The political thought of Xi Jinping


    John West |  April 28, 2024


    Like Vladimir Putin in Russia, Xi Jinping has established himself as China’s absolute dictator but his policies of internal repression and external aggression are motivated by ideology as well as personal power and nationalism.


  • Society

    The great art robbery


    Oliver Bown |  April 28, 2024


    AI threatens to replace real human artists, just as machines have replaced people in a host of other activities, but AI models were trained on artists’ works without permission or payment,


Latest Story

  • The long history of ‘non traditional threats’

    James Goldrick     |      July 6, 2020

    Many of the ‘new’ threats to international security as are old as the organised military forces which contain them.

  • The truth behind planned obsolescence in product design

    Ben Knight     |      July 6, 2020

    It’s not just your imagination, products used to have a longer lifespan, says a UNSW industrial designer.

  • The death of Hong Kong

    Keith Richburg     |      July 5, 2020

    Communist China’s brutal assault on Hong Kong’s last vestiges of freedom through its controversial new ‘security law’ is yet more chilling evidence of its repressive and expansionist nature.

  • Stamping out stamp duty

    Richard Holden     |      July 5, 2020

    It’s time to reform stamp duty, one of the most inefficient and distorting taxes collected by Australia’s state and territory governments.

  • Time to ramp up Australian cyber-security

    Ebony Stansfield     |      July 5, 2020

    The announcement of the biggest-ever funding package to combat cyberattacks confirms just how vulnerable Australia’s cybersecurity really is – and it’s not just because of China.

  • The growing global food crisis

    Open Forum     |      July 4, 2020

    The Commission for the Human Future’s second Round Table Conference on global threats and solutions has called for a worldwide effort to transform global food production to a system that is renewable, healthy and fair to all.

  • Understanding ‘eco-cultural’ identity

    Ben Knight     |      July 4, 2020

    The importance of the environment is often downplayed as merely one in a sea of global issues. However, the environment is not only indistinguishable from these issues, it is fundamental to who we are.

  • The future of virtual reality in tourism

    Open Forum     |      July 4, 2020

    Tourism has been brought to a standstill around the world, but new doors are opening for virtual and augmented reality to reshape the industry as it edges towards recovery.

  • A league of their own? Why the NRL wins on male privilege

    Karen Brooks     |      July 3, 2020

    Rugby League’s preferential treatment in the COVID-19 shutdown while women’s sport was shutdown reveals both male privilege and the power of its commercial partnerships. It also makes a mockery of the NRL Chairman’s claim that “we’re all in this together”.

  • Graduates need better career education

    Jason Brown     |      July 3, 2020

    A deliberate and well-resourced strategy to support university students’ career education and boost links with industry will boost labour market productivity more effectively than higher prices for arts courses.

  • A new agenda for more resilient supply chains

    Heiko Borchert     |      July 3, 2020

    The COVID-19 pandemic, the lockdown ordered by governments to contain its spread and the unexpected oil price drop in March 2020 have crippled the world economy. These multiple shocks were a harsh wake-up call illustrating inadequate levels of national preparedness.

  • The barbarians inside the gates

    Jason Beale     |      July 2, 2020

    Urban protests against the death of George Floyd in the USA have metastasized into a wider assault against western culture and history, with figures from Winston Churchill to Captain James Cook feeling protestors’ ill-informed wrath.