Are you a terror suspect?
In a way this story is reassuring. I don't have any objection to some extra attention being given to someone who fits a profile of...
Homo Dialecticus V: Why Adam Smith is to markets what Jane Austen is to marriage¢â¬
I've just got back from a trip to Canberra which allowed me to pick up the family copy of Pride and Prejudice - my Dad's...
Hundreds of essays disappear
I sent two unsolicited essays to Black Inc a couple of months ago a longer and a shorter essay on open source software. Neither was...
More on anti-terror
Richard Ackland has a powerful and angry article in this morning's SMH about the Howard government's anti-terrorism bill (a topic about which I've blogged here...
Intergenerational theft and intergenerational gifts
As David Williamson's latest foray demonstrates this idea that we're stealing from our kids is back in fashion. Cruise Ship Australia is in fact living...
Gagging on scag scam
I must be going through a particularly grumpy phase of middle age at the moment. It's not often these days that I find myself so...
Noel Pearson, ten years on
Thanks to Ian for providing the link to this 1994 piece by Noel Pearson, deploring the Labor failure to allocate more money to health care...