Australia’s decision to partner with the US and UK in […]

There is no comfort in the oft-expressed view that China doesn’t start wars. China does. It invaded Vietnam in 1979 'to teach it a lesson' and, more recently, reanimated its bloody border dispute with India. Whipping up nationalistic fervour may be Xi's bid to neuter domestic unrest by redirecting it against external targets, Taiwan and its allies most of all

Exciting progress in the nuclear industry—in safety improvements, waste disposal, cost reduction, small modular reactors—is passing us by in Australia. Technology doesn’t stop just because a government doesn’t like it. At the very least, the Luddite prohibition that has denied us the torch of progress for twenty years should be repealed

Cynicism shares our lunch these days, yet trust survives. It must, for we are human and at that level we still see the shining light of its truth. There’s relief in that, since a tendency to trust others, according to psychologists, is a strong predictor of subjective well-being

Despite our times of comfort and plenty, optimism is under […]