I have just seen another Coalition vegetable (Ted O’Brien) on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s 7:30 show1. The reason O’Brien was on the show was in relation to nuclear energy, and…
An academic colleague of mine visited the Soviet Union (in the 1980s) on some sort of exchange program to do something geological with scientists in Moscow. While staying in an…
The Nazis burnt books by Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann, Erich Maria Remarque among many other well-known intellectuals, scientists and cultural figures, many of whom were Jewish1. The 1929 Nobel…
Barnaby Joyce was recorded lying on his back on the footpath in Lonsdale Street, in the suburb of Braddon, Canberra, late on Wednesday night (7th February). He was heard mumbling into…
Everyone has seen the decline of the Victorian Liberal Party which, in the two most recent state elections, has gone backwards1,2, in part because the party in that state was…
Another moderate Liberal, Senator Marise Payne has resigned from parliament, effective at the end of September, after 26 years in parliament1. Her exit is symptomatic of the malaise affecting the…