Why has investment in renewable energy projects stalled?

You may have seen recent reports that Australia’s renewable energy sector is suffering.
24 November 2014

SBS’s First Contact is the real ‘festering sore’ of the nation

The SBS/Blackfella Films production First Contact – that takes six non-Indigenous people and immerses them into Aboriginal Australia for the first time – captured the nat
21 November 2014

Israel’s policy on statehood merits the same scrutiny as Hamas gets

Escalating confrontations in Jerusalem centred on the al-Aqsa Mosque, 1500 more homes to be built in settlements in occupied East Jerusalem and a sharp deterioration in I
21 November 2014

How an approach to science helps define the political centre

There was a bit of talk over the last election cycle, expressed in the usual language of political left and right, about returning the pendulum to the “sensible centre”.
17 November 2014

High Court invites fresh challenge to Queensland’s bikie laws

Last Friday, the High Court handed down its decision in a constitutional challenge to Queensland’s controversial suite of anti-bikie laws.
17 November 2014

Booing at a memorial: politeness and political ritual

Last week, I was one of a sea of Australians who rose to remember Gough Whitlam. Fitting its subject, the Whitlam memorial was sweeping.
10 November 2014

Iron ore race to the bottom not in the interests of Australians

The world’s biggest iron ore producer, Vale, has announced its intention to expand production despite a falling price.
10 November 2014

Memoria in Memoriam: Whitlam’s farewell invokes power of oratory

In a playful rhetorical flourish at the Sydney Town Hall on Wednesday, Indigenous leader Noel Pearson monumentalised Gough Whitlam’s prime ministerial legacy, Monty Pytho
10 November 2014

Refugee mental health a top priority for Endeavour Scholarship winner

A University of Queensland researcher is bound for Harvard University, thanks to the Australian Government’s Endeavour Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarship for
7 November 2014

Oh the irony! Retailers blind to discrimination and lost business

A blind woman has made news by launching a claim of unlawful discrimination against Coles and its online website.
7 November 2014

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