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4, January, 2026
How do social values, religion and nationality drive us into separate tribes? How do we recognise the influences and how do we deal with them?
25, December, 2025
The movie Nuremburg teaches us many lessons about the Nazi rise to power in the 1930s. Do any of those lessons apply to politics today? Are there any similarities between Germany in the 1930s, and the USA today?
10, December, 2025
Why do projects run over time and budget. Wrong question. Why do project estimates invariably understate how much and how long?
28, November, 2025
What are the facts about immigration? This article provides an analysis of the real numbers around immigration in Australia.
16, November, 2025
How do we build more homes faster, cheaper and to a better quality standard? The answer may be prefabricated houses.
A Random Selection
If Bennelong had kept the British out in 1788, we would have a better country today. That is the reason we must keep out asylum seekers in their rickety boats.
Democracy does not mean a government can do what it wants. There are checks and balances. Here, we discuss three constraints on government.
The Y2K Effect refers to managing risks. If you get it right, everyone says the risk was overstated. If you get it wrong you didn't take enough effort to avert the risk. Who wins?
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4, January, 2026
How do social values, religion and nationality drive us into separate tribes? How do we recognise the influences and how do we deal with them?
25, December, 2025
The movie Nuremburg teaches us many lessons about the Nazi rise to power in the 1930s. Do any of those lessons apply to politics today? Are there any similarities between Germany in the 1930s, and the USA today?
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16, December, 2013
Rage against the cushions!!! Men, we need to combine to fight the stuffing of our houses with cushions. Join Men Against Cushions.
14, May, 2016
A satirical look at what a building royal commission in 2046 might discover.
