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Books & arts Democracy in an age of emergencies Stephen Mills 12 June 2025 Can democracy respond effectively when the future is breathing down our necks ...
Viewers who wanted those channels could watch the Sydney versions via the 10 Play app or website. The Seven, Nine, ABC and SBS over-the-air signals would still be available in the area. This was what ...
Books & arts The art of disagreeing Jock Given 23 August 2021 “We should be civil with those we don’t know, and aim to know them well enough that we can be uncivil,” argues a new book From the archive ...
The post-American world arrived with a bang when Donald Trump declared a pox on Pax Americana. The gradual erosion of American leadership went into hyperdrive because Trump sees international ...
Celebrated by previous vice-chancellors, the Australian Dictionary of Biography and its fellow national project, the Australian National Dictionary, are threatened by university cuts ...
The obituaries for former Treasury secretary and National Party senator John Stone — who died last week at the age of ninety-six — have so far focused on his thirty-year career as a public servant, ...
How excited and nervous those women scientists must have been in 1939, those seven percenters. How very, very keen. Keen as ...
And yet, as Marcel Dirsus shows in How Tyrants Fall, there are still ways of bringing them down. Dirsus draws on a global range of examples to illustrate the extreme lengths to which dictators must go ...
Apple, the world’s leading manufacturer, epitomises the futility of the US–China tariff wars. Having sailed close to the financial wind in its first iteration, Apple Computer Company (founded by two ...