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14, October, 2025
What makes a person receptive to a conspiracy theory? What makes a conspiracy theory something people can grab and not want to let go?
22, September, 2025
We still talk of an Aboriginal Treaty. What is the background? Why is there a need? What would it contain?
11, September, 2025
What happens when you mix business with government? Should a government be run by a business? Is that what Trump is doing?
23, August, 2025
What can we do about the mountain of regulation restricting growth in Australia? Can we do anything? Do we want to do something?
8, August, 2025
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?
A Random Selection
If our efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions fails, what then? One possible technology is DAC or direct air capture.
WEIRD. It stands for Western – Educated – Industrialised – Rich – Democratic. Are we all a bit weird? How do other societies operate, and is it OK to be weird?
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.
Morality largely depends on your perspective. One person sees a particular incident as perfectly moral and another as totally immoral.
what’s trending
14, October, 2025
What makes a person receptive to a conspiracy theory? What makes a conspiracy theory something people can grab and not want to let go?
22, September, 2025
We still talk of an Aboriginal Treaty. What is the background? Why is there a need? What would it contain?
editor’s pick
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.
