The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) has welcomed the release of Australia’s National Science and Research Priorities as an authoritative vision for research and evidence driving Australia’s future. Launched by Minister for Industry and Science, the Hon Ed Husic MP, the outcome-based approach provides a transformational vehicle for elevating science as central…
By James Moore Americans are a confounding people. We are as optimistic as we are cynical. The sunny side comes from an enduring belief in our founding document, which has us convinced we will, eventually, get around to doing the right thing. Progress toward that end constantly falters and then gets occasionally revivified by social…
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There is much to loathe about the AUKUS security agreement between Canberra, Washington and London. Of the three conspirators against stability in the Indo and Asia Pacific, one stands out as the shouldering platform, the sustaining force, the political and military stuffing. But Australian propagandists and proselytisers of the US credo of power prefer to see…
By Noel Wauchope The latest news from Germany really shows up this problem. IF conditions are ideal a decision on a site for Germany’s underground nuclear waste repository could be made by 2074. That’s – 50 years to find a site. Then 20 years to build the underground dump. Then many decades for transporting…
By Denis Bright This article seeks to apply the wisdom generated by UQ’s Business Faculty (BEL) Alumni’s Roundtable event at the Customs House in Brisbane on 2 August 2024. Professor Shaun Bond of UQ moderated the event. The panellists were Mr Paul Taylor, Head of Investments at Fidelity International, Catherine Allfrey, Portfolio Manager at WaveStone…
La Trobe University Media Release La Trobe University researchers will lead a new national project to identify the most effective sexual violence prevention programs, following $7.45 million Federal Government funding. Minister for Social Services Amanda Rishworth said to create real change and end sexual violence in Australia, we need to take action based on evidence.…
After 21 days of 24/7 presence at Home Affairs offices (ongoing) in Melbourne, refugees also began camping outside Tony Burke’s electoral office in Punchbowl Sydney. There are plans for similar vigils in Adelaide and Brisbane. So the 24/7 vigil has been running for 24 days overall. The event has attracted up to 100 refugees from…
Ok, ok. I know! If the other guy is a woman, then that’s an even bigger reason to vote for me… Oh wait, does anyone really believe this crap any more? Obviously some people do, or politicians wouldn’t keep making the sort of sexist and racist arguments that would have been mocked in the later…
While the Kamala Harris coronation for Democratic presidential nomination continues in its safely shielded path, her sacred status among party members growing with each day, the decision to select Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota as Vice Presidential running mate had all the hallmarks of unbearable caution. Caution for being secure from any ambition on his part…
2pm Wed 7 August Tony Burke’s Watson electoral offfice Shop 29, 1 Broadway, Punchbowl NSW 2196 The zone outside Immigration Minister Tony Burke’s Punchbowl electoral office is awash with protesting refugees. Some 20 of them have slept there in chilly tents and marquees overnight. The event is twinned with a 24/7 encampment running for 23…