By Bert Hetebry I read an interesting book recently, The Power of Strangers by Joe Keohane. Subtitle is The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World. I talk to strangers, and very quickly discover they are not really strange at all, in fact, many are a lot like me; living a life and willing to…
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By Michael Willis The first operational outcome of the Pillar 2 AUKUS arrangement between the US, UK and Australia has just been announced. The three countries will share data from their submarine-hunting PA-8 Poseidon aircraft, manufactured by the troubled Boeing Corporation. This was announced on May 29 in an “exclusive interview” given to US online…
Australia’s modest sovereign wealth fund, modestly standing at A$272.3 billion, has crawled into some trouble of late. Investors, morally twinged, are keeping an eye on where the money of the Australian Future Fund goes. Inevitably, a good slice of it seems to be parked in the military-industrial complex, a sector that performs on demand. Filed…
Australia’s modest sovereign wealth fund, modestly standing at A$272.3 billion, has crawled into some trouble of late. Investors, morally twinged, are keeping an eye on where the money of the Australian Future Fund goes. Inevitably, a good slice of it seems to be parked in the military-industrial complex, a sector that performs on demand. Filed…
Oxfam Australia Media Release Two-thirds of population now squeezed into less than a fifth of the Gaza Strip Israel’s relentless air and land bombardment and deliberate obstruction of the humanitarian response is making it virtually impossible for aid agencies to reach trapped, starved civilians in Gaza, Oxfam said today, as the latest ceasefire deal negotiations…
Monash University Media Release Monash researchers have compiled the first snapshot of annual emissions generated by 140 coal mines across the country. Their analysis uncovered clusters of coal mines in NSW and QLD were surrounded by densely populated urban areas, raising health concerns. The findings suggest the proximity of coal mines to nature and forest…
Charles Darwin University Media Release A world first global groundwater temperature model projects that shallow groundwater will warm on average by between 2.1 and 3.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. Charles Darwin University (CDU) Outstanding Future Researcher Dr Dylan Irvine and University of Newcastle’s Dr Gabriel Rau collaborated with colleagues from Canada,…
By Denis Bright Australian travel needs its own Rome to Rio Site to identify affordable travel options in every direction. The Australian inventors of this site sold it to Omio Travel in Germany over a decade ago. As a travel site with embedded AI technology, its outreach extends to the remotest locations here and overseas.…
It has been noted by some of the more astute media observers that Rupert Murdoch attended his fifth wedding wearing a conventional lounge suit and ‘sneakers’. Has Rupert gone punk asked one observer who suggested that this attire was more in line with the rebellious streak one would expect from Keith Richards or perhaps Sir…
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By any reckoning, this was the move of a fool. A fool, it should be said, motivated by spite larded with caution. Evidently playing safe, adopting what has been called a “Ming Vase strategy” (hold it with scrupulous care; avoid danger), the British Labour Party under Sir Keir Starmer is already laying its own boobytraps…