Search results for "beyond federation"
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Australia’s uncertain future
Bernie O'Kane | August 28, 2023Australia has a rich but turbulent history and contemporary divisions between disparate generations, cities and regions, ethnic groups and social classes threaten to widen rather than close long-standing divides. In a major new essay, Bernie O’Kane reflects on the complex past, contested present and uncertain future of a land which will always be “vast, extreme, fragile and alone”.
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Revenge of the Tartars
Gerald Hughes | August 7, 2023A resistance group of Crimean Tatars, an ethnic group native to the occupied peninsula who suffered terribly under the Russian Empire and Soviet rule, are now a prominent player in Ukraine’s struggle against the Russian invaders.
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How Putin ruined Russia
Matthew Sussex | August 1, 2023While most of Eastern Europe sloughed off Soviet domination to embrace freedom and prosperity, Russia has collapsed back into a new dark age under the dictatorship of Vladimir Putin.
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The hardscrabble lives of the selectors
Bernie O'Kane | April 28, 2023In the second half of his family memoir, Bernie O’Kane explains the struggles of early farmers in Victoria, the trials of family life and the coming of mechanisation in the late 19th century.
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Beauty and the beast
Brendan Nicholson | March 25, 2023The bestial cruelty displayed by Russia’s invaders has shocked the world but only deepened Ukraine’s determination to fight for its survival.
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Remembering the “forgettables”
Joshua Black | January 9, 2023Compilers and contributors to ‘best of’ lists seldom delve beyond living memory, but many of Australia’s earliest Prime Ministers deserve to be remembered for their contributions.
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Open access science
Virginia Barbour | December 29, 2022Researchers can’t progress their work without access to very expensive scientific journals but the rebellion against the publishers and their fees has begun.
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How to quit coal
John Wiseman | November 12, 2022How do nations turn the rhetoric of the transition to clean energy into reality while sustaining economic prosperity and maintaining popular and political support?
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Fracturing Russia could collapse
Open Forum | November 1, 2022Putin’s gamble to eradicate Ukraine and humiliate the west has backfired spectacularly, calling into question the future of Russia itself.
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Women take command in the High Court
Kcasey McLoughlin | October 19, 2022In appointing Justice Jayne Jagot to the High Court, the Albanese government has made history as, for the first time, the court will have a majority of women on its bench.
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Australia must do more to help Ukraine
Brendan Nicholson | September 16, 2022Ukraine’s heroic but lonely resistance against Russian aggression is paving dividends as the invaders retreat in disarray, but more sophisticated and long-range weapons are required to defeat the enemy.
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Less talk, more action needed to reform IP
Joel Lexchin | July 25, 2022IP laws are supposed to work to aid pharmaceutical innovation in rich nations. Can a new system support treating illnesses rife in developing economies, too?
