As Ridler writes, the name’s “history is changed, becoming yours, / And yours by this: who calls this, calls you.” So, the ...

The divide has the professional policy elite on one side and, on the other, the people. In this account, the people are the legitimate but greatly underutilised resource when it comes to policymaking.

Barry Jones, a Hawke government science minister, published Sleepers Wake!, his book about the social and economic impacts of ...

SpaceX already sells sovereignty to Australia through services supplied by its Starlink division. “Designed, owned and ...

A huge statue of a horse stands on the shore, waves lapping around it. By rights it should be a towering figure, reared up on its hind legs, but it is half buried in sand, seemingly abandoned to the ...

In the 1970s Australia established our present system of funding for both public and private schools. Public schools remained fully funded, open and free to everyone. Private schools, partially funded ...

George Santayana and Winston Churchill are remembered for warning that those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat their errors. The economist John Maynard Keynes failed to ...

American historian Robert Brigham has written extensively about US foreign policy and the Vietnam war. In Argument Without End (1999) he collaborated with Robert S. McNamara, the 1960s defense ...

The partnership of Alfred Hitchcock and that most Hitchcockian of composers, Bernard Herrmann, is notable for so many things that it’s easy to miss how they worked together to manipulate our ...

The closing submissions of counsel assisting any judicial inquiry or royal commission often give a clue to the eventual findings, and so it has been with the NSW Supreme Court’s inquiry into the ...