Geelong: Easy . . .
Well my track record isn't too flash. I predicted a Collingwood win last year for the first final - and they controlled the game and...
Inequality in Australia – are the rich getting richer and the poor poorer?
Cross posted from Inside Story Australians like to think of themselves as egalitarian, and in the past Australians also liked to believe that we had...
Missing Link Friday – 30 September 2011
Spoken like a true utilitarian: "If we really want the greatest happiness of the greatest number, we should be electing psychopathic, Machiavellian misanthropes", writes Roger...
Manly and Collingwood
The two finals for the oval ball codes do not just share a weekend this year. Two of the finalists - Collingwood in the AFL...
The Bolt case: racial defamation done cheap
I was all set to fulminate against the evils of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act in the wake of the Federal Court's verdict against Bolt and publisher...
The David Solomon Lecture: Government 2.0 a couple of years on . . .
Here's the David Solomon Lecture I'll be giving at the Brisbane Museum of Modern Art in an hour's time. ...
Are you tough minded enough to be with us? Or are you against us?
Someone familiar with Russian totalitarianism once asked how George Orwell understood it so well without ever having experienced it. It was pointed out that Orwell...