Iran has already broken the current two-week "double-sided" cease fire declared by Trump on 7 April (7 April ceasefire) ...

Australia is facing a growing governance challenge that can no longer be ignored: an overwhelming and rapidly expanding body of legislation, regulation and policy across federal, state and local ...

An extensive economic review of South Africa's Integrated Resource Plan 2025 (IRP 2025), approved by Cabinet in October 2025 has been conducted by the authors, and the report concludes that the South ...

The new Claude Mythos Preview was advertised with almost parental glee as the "best-aligned model that we have released to date by a significant margin". The child, however, seemed to be a horror, a ...

Of the hundreds of conferences I have attended in my career, the 16 th International Conference on Climate Change(ICCC16) ...

In light of President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements, destructive Middle East policies, and the resulting economic crisis and criticisms of Australia’s value as an ally, it is time to seriously ...

Because policy does not operate on paper. It operates through people. And when policy outcomes fall short, the failure is frequently attributed to flaws in design. The response is predictable: refine ...

The latest – and here, the latest will become distant and dated shortly – is that the Strait of Hormuz, predictably controlled by Iran with devastating global effect, was to be reopened for commercial ...

Ten years ago I did a study into ageing and wealth. At the time, I called the study "old poor and lonely" – given this more ...

In the spring of 2026, the gap between ideology and reality became visible all at once. Tensions in the Strait of Hormuz, together with the stark reminder that some countries, such as Japan, rely on ...

Behind these policies stand rival pictures of the human condition-one that prizes purity and control, another that accepts fragility and compromise as the ground of moral life. In the twentieth ...

Over this month the Melbourne Comedy Festival will feature three women performing sketches celebrating “small moments in life that make us laugh.” These supposedly funny skits include a send up of a ...