Nuclear power – nirvana or nonsense?
The federal Coalition's adoption of a policy involving government-owned construction of 7 nuclear power plants around Australia has raised an argument that most people thought...
Returning to blogging at Troppo
As longstanding readers will know, I was one of the founders of Troppo along with Nicholas Gruen and several others including Mark Bahnisch and Don...
John Quiggin and the Overton Gradient
(Not to mention Overton’s Elephant and Overton's Mouse) With inflation stuck at 4%, what a terrible problem that it will probably take a deliberately engineered...
Sleep promotion takes off globally
I recently published this musing in my Substack newsletter. And coming across a further free kick from the policy world — something that would have...
Alasdair MacIntyre on how ethically lost we are
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="507"] A young Mondrian in 1908 channels an old Monet but is really thinking “I wonder if a bunch of rectangles on...
Escape from planet sensible: Stunning listening
Adolf never had much time for planet sensible. Here he is after the Reichstag fire with fellow traveller Sefton Delmer who was Berlin correspondent for...
Bernard Keane on Adam Bandt, Israel and the double think solution
Right at the outset of this conflict, I worried that Israel was overestimating the strength of its hand. In the US, the Israel lobby’s lobbying...