20+ min ago   (845+ words) Countries like Australia have long struggled to tax the global tech giants. Now, a new approach could significantly increase tax collected from multinationals such as Apple, Google, Microsoft and Amazon. These companies earn significant revenue from Australian consumers. However, much…...

49+ min ago   (1001+ words) Over the past two weeks, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin staged a major diplomatic blitz. Across three events in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Vladivostok in Russia’s Far East and New Delhi, India, as well as a state visit by Vietnam’s leader, he met…...

3+ hour, 27+ min ago   (1503+ words) It says something not too flattering about Australian politics that respected academic Paul Strangio’s new book The Alchemy of Leadership only discusses 21st century prime ministers, but still needs to cover seven of them. Or eight, if you count Kevin Rudd…...

9+ hour ago   (387+ words) Global warming is set to surpass the 1.5°C limit if governments worldwide fail to act....

9+ hour, 4+ min ago   (774+ words) Western Australian author Hamish Kelly has struggled with reading for almost two decades. In his first of two books, he describes his experience of learning to read: What Hamish is describing is reading anxiety. This involves excessive worries and apprehensions…...

9+ hour, 5+ min ago   (617+ words) Important as it is, no amount of social media regulation will meaningfully address the manosphere unless we also dismantle the misogyny that underpins it....

9+ hour, 11+ min ago   (1170+ words) Alice’s dreaming is centrally about the childhood, memories and writings of Alice Duncan-Kemp (1901-1988), who grew up on a pastoral property named Mooraberrie in the first decades of the 20th century. Mooraberrie was a vast sheep and cattle station located in the…...

16+ hour, 43+ min ago   (743+ words) It would be easy to mistake the new National Food Security Strategy as a plan that will reduce food insecurity in Canada. In launching the initiative in June 2026, Prime Minister Mark Carney declared that it was meant to “address structural…...

17+ hour ago   (946+ words) In June 2026, the Canadian government passed a groundbreaking reform of the Criminal Code — the Protecting Victims Act (Bill C-16). This strengthened protections against gender-based violence and, for the first time, made it a crime to share sexual “deepfakes” of a…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1034+ words) Daniel Kahneman’s passing at 90 years old has left a major gap in the field of behavioural science and in the wider intellectual community. His scientific contributions, many made in collaboration with cognitive psychologist Amos Tversky, transformed the disciplines of psychology…...