12 lessons from the weird, unnoticed end of Australia’s bitter broadband war
What if we held an Australian broadband crisis and nobody came? That's pretty much what happened in Australian broadband policy over the decade to 2025....
Mime, misdirection and pyramid of code
The Gregorian revolution gave rise to a form of organisation that was gradually stamped out all over the Western world and then to its followers. Constitutional...
Copilot stopped talking to me
I was reading some arguments by Bettina Arndt recently about women dominating the legal profession, especially in the Family Law sphere, so I thought I...
Some philosophy is probably fraud; let’s try to find it
If scientific fraud represents five per cent of scientific papers, we might well expect to have a great deal of philosophic fraud as well. But...
Trump would be a disaster for the world economy (and climate change)
As the US presidential election count continues, it becomes increasingly likely that Donald Trump will win. It appears that the majority of Americans believe that...
Advocating Very Fast Train travel for Australia
The possibility of one or more Very Fast Train (VFT) lines for Australia has been debated for more than 40 years, most often being treated...
The US Election and the End of the Media Monoculture
There’s a strong gerontocratic tinge to US politics of late — the youngest of Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Elizabeth...