On death and dying
Health - 29/07/2021 - 33 comments |
Some concluding thoughts about climate change
Environment - 28/06/2021 - 23 comments |
A different defence policy
International - 17/06/2021 - 18 comments |
What sort of Australia do I want?
Society - 11/06/2021 - 41 comments |
A looming referendum
Law & Liberties - 1/06/2021 - 25 comments |
The perfect essay on climate change
Environment - 7/05/2021 - 15 comments |
Voting and talking
Political Philosophy - 30/04/2021 - 4 comments |
Angels and Demons
Political Philosophy - 13/04/2021 - 19 comments |
How feasible are these 2050 targets?
Environment - 29/03/2021 - 16 comments |
The day of the social justice warrior
Political Philosophy - 25/03/2021 - 5 comments |
Quarantine and immigration
Health - 16/03/2021 - 10 comments |
What to do with Christian Porter?
Law & Liberties - 11/03/2021 - 132 comments |
What do popular votes mean in the USA?
Political Philosophy - 5/03/2021 - 36 comments |
The gentle art of blaming
Environment - 23/12/2020 - 56 comments |
Our 30th Prime Minister
Domestic Politics - 16/12/2020 - 11 comments |
The art of helpful communication
Media - 1/12/2020 - 4 comments |
The sine wave in politics
Political Philosophy - 23/11/2020 - 6 comments |
Why do scientists disagree about climate change?
Environment - 12/11/2020 - 84 comments |
Meanwhile, back at climate change…
Environment - 30/10/2020 - 50 comments |
The Declaration of Human Rights?
Law & Liberties - 20/10/2020 - 17 comments |
On television advertising
Media - 2/10/2020 - 25 comments |
Issues and outcomes
Domestic Politics - 3/09/2020 - 9 comments |
Even when you’ve read the fine print…
Law & Liberties - 13/08/2020 - 7 comments |
Preposterous political posturing
Law & Liberties - 31/07/2020 - 56 comments |
Writing to the Queen
Law & Liberties - 28/07/2020 - 14 comments |
The impossible claim
Environment - 20/07/2020 - 7 comments |
Another crisis in higher education
Education - 25/06/2020 - 15 comments |
Bushfires and climate change
Environment - 17/01/2020 - 76 comments |
My ABC, some of the time
Media - 9/01/2020 - 34 comments |
The Map and the Territory: the problem with models
Science & Technology - 18/12/2019 - 5 comments |
Climate change and the bushfires
Environment - 18/11/2019 - 12 comments |
What is human life for, anyway?
Religion & Spirituality - 4/09/2019 - 34 comments |
An Indian view of climate change, and where it led me
Economics - 12/08/2019 - 26 comments |
Good government and federalism
Political Philosophy - 6/08/2019 - 1 comment |
On sympathy, empathy and action
Society - 8/07/2019 - 9 comments |
How the message gets embedded
Environment - 28/06/2019 - 19 comments |
Thinking about things
Science & Technology - 26/06/2019 - 31 comments |
On poverty
Economics - 13/06/2019 - 47 comments |
An important essay by Richard Lindzen
Environment - 26/10/2018 - 85 comments |
At last, some humour
Humour & Satire - 8/10/2018 - 7 comments |
On faith
Religion & Spirituality - 13/09/2018 - 157 comments |
Rimsky-Korsakov
The Arts - 4/09/2018 - 17 comments |
Electric vehicles again
Environment - 28/08/2018 - 20 comments |
Perhaps the worst policy botch ever
Nation Building - 23/08/2018 - 8 comments |
Waste not, water not
Environment - 14/08/2018 - 13 comments |
The changing Australian culture
Society - 3/08/2018 - 26 comments |
Understanding Donald Trump
International - 22/06/2018 - 47 comments |
Is Western Civilisation worth studying?
Education - 14/06/2018 - 37 comments |
Reasonableness and citizenship
Law & Liberties - 6/06/2018 - 19 comments |
Three cheers for Pollyanna
Political Philosophy - 16/05/2018 - 3 comments |
Well, is the world improving or not?
Economics - 10/05/2018 - 9 comments |
Why aren’t more people 'factful'?
Science & Technology - 3/05/2018 - 46 comments |
Why isn’t more research reproducible?
Science & Technology - 30/04/2018 - 28 comments |
The #MeToo phenomenon and what, if anything, anyone can do about it
Law & Liberties - 13/03/2018 - 11 comments |
Whose universities are they, anyway?
Education - 28/02/2018 - 9 comments |
The power of grant money
Education - 31/01/2018 - 6 comments |
Heretical thoughts about science and society
Science & Technology - 15/12/2017 - 26 comments |
Is comedy still possible?
Law & Liberties - 6/12/2017 - 8 comments |
The dual citizenship scandal/imbroglio/fiasco
Law & Liberties - 24/11/2017 - 24 comments |
Climate change and electric vehicles
Environment - 10/11/2017 - 22 comments |
The sad, sad story of the NBN
Nation Building - 2/11/2017 - 10 comments |
NEG: the energy policy you have when you aren’t having an energy policy
Nation Building - 24/10/2017 - 7 comments |
The future for Australia’s Aboriginal people
Indigenous Affairs - 12/10/2017 - 29 comments |
Australia Day and other great issues
Indigenous Affairs - 12/09/2017 - 30 comments |
The scary stories get scarier
Environment - 24/07/2017 - 69 comments |
Where is our politics going?
Political Philosophy - 20/07/2017 - 11 comments |
What does the future hold?
Science & Technology - 12/07/2017 - 3 comments |
What should former PMs do?
Domestic Politics - 6/07/2017 - 18 comments |
Can blog posts be better than journal articles?
Education - 2/06/2017 - 10 comments |
Social justice
Political Philosophy - 17/05/2017 - 22 comments |
How much inequality is enough
Political Philosophy - 16/05/2017 - 10 comments |
Mathematics, my father and me
Education - 30/03/2017 - 2 comments |
A final thought on 2016 Australian warming
Environment - 14/03/2017 - 81 comments |
Standing up against Nannies
Law & Liberties - 10/03/2017 - 37 comments |
Mr Abbott as class bad boy
Political Philosophy - 3/03/2017 - 23 comments |
What is it all for?
Society - 15/02/2017 - 5 comments |
Mating, the core of it all
Society - 10/02/2017 - 29 comments |
In terms of temperature, what sort of a year did we have in Australia?
Environment - 8/02/2017 - 32 comments |
A good news story about Australia’s past
Science & Technology - 19/01/2017 - 11 comments |
Truthiness and factiness
Political Philosophy - 5/01/2017 - 30 comments |
Two more books, on an important union, and on climate change
Environment - 8/12/2016 - 11 comments |
‘Global warming’ or 'climate change'?
Environment - 27/10/2016 - 43 comments |
The apparent and real growth of dementia
Health - 20/10/2016 - 4 comments |
A less than usual election coming up
Domestic Politics - 12/09/2016 - 10 comments |
The distinction between true scepticism and denial
Environment - 8/09/2016 - 121 comments |
Left and Right in Australian politics
Political Philosophy - 17/08/2016 - 6 comments |
The moral basis of the Right
Political Philosophy - 15/08/2016 - 25 comments |
The moral basis of the Left
Political Philosophy - 3/08/2016 - 42 comments |
It doesn’t have to be a circus
Domestic Politics - 8/07/2016 - 47 comments |
The race to be the silliest: alternative energy and the election
Environment - 10/06/2016 - 49 comments |
What sort of election campaign are we having?
Domestic Politics - 18/05/2016 - 17 comments |
‘But aren’t 97 per cent of climate scientists sure that humans are causing global warming?’
Environment - 22/04/2016 - 58 comments |
Kill Climate Deniers!: more on public funding of the arts
The Arts - 20/04/2016 - 7 comments |
Who to vote for? That is the question
Domestic Politics - 15/04/2016 - 34 comments |
On the freeness of speech
Law & Liberties - 4/04/2016 - 11 comments |
If the science is settled, why do we need all these people working at it?
Environment - 9/02/2016 - 33 comments |
What should we do about the United Nations?
International - 18/01/2016 - 3 comments |
Could a Paris agreement on climate change be like the Montreal Protocol on CFCs?
Environment - 30/10/2015 - 31 comments |
Who are ‘we’?
Political Philosophy - 14/10/2015 - 13 comments |
Who wants small government?
Economics - 8/10/2015 - 31 comments |
If 2015 is the hottest year since whenever, what will that mean?
Environment - 30/09/2015 - 87 comments |
Why the Abbott era came to an end
Domestic Politics - 24/09/2015 - 36 comments |
Can we sue our government over 'climate change'?
Law & Liberties - 15/09/2015 - 59 comments |
Expectations in health
Health - 25/08/2015 - 14 comments |
Beware! The crisis is coming!
Environment - 17/08/2015 - 37 comments |
Tilting at windmills
Environment - 28/07/2015 - 19 comments |
Climate change and the Fabian Society
Political Philosophy - 14/07/2015 - 21 comments |
The ABC in deepest, darkest doo-doo land
Media - 30/06/2015 - 48 comments |
'the right to know'
Law & Liberties - 26/06/2015 - 18 comments |
Oh, for some real climate science!
Science & Technology - 16/06/2015 - 13 comments |
How (and why) to be a publisher
The Arts - 28/05/2015 - 4 comments |
The ethics of expertise: in financial and medical advice, climate and everything
Law & Liberties - 15/05/2015 - 15 comments |
Humanism versus environmentalism
Environment - 23/04/2015 - 13 comments |
What is it about coal-seam gas?
Environment - 13/04/2015 - 9 comments |
What is so special about ‘science’?
Science & Technology - 13/03/2015 - 45 comments |
When you have nothing left with which to argue, please avoid the smear…
Environment - 10/03/2015 - 19 comments |
Death for drugs?
Law & Liberties - 16/02/2015 - 74 comments |
Do we want 'truth' or 'truthiness'?
Political Philosophy - 6/02/2015 - 19 comments |
Does Australia have a 'political crisis'?
Political Philosophy - 3/02/2015 - 11 comments |
The coming death of the oceans
Environment - 30/01/2015 - 28 comments |
'The political system is failing to deliver'
Political Philosophy - 20/01/2015 - 18 comments |
Will 2014 be the hottest year ever?
Environment - 16/12/2014 - 19 comments |
What sort of higher education system does Australia need?
Education - 12/12/2014 - 17 comments |
Science fiction and prediction
Science & Technology - 1/12/2014 - 11 comments |
Is poverty increasing, or are we getting wealthier?
Economics - 13/11/2014 - 19 comments |
Computer models in climate science
Environment - 3/11/2014 - 19 comments |
The passing of Gough Whitlam
Domestic Politics - 22/10/2014 - 10 comments |
On 'divestment'
Political Philosophy - 21/10/2014 - 6 comments |
Should the world try to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius?
Environment - 8/10/2014 - 100 comments |
Is alternative energy worth it?
Environment - 1/10/2014 - 26 comments |
Top down or bottom up?
Political Philosophy - 26/09/2014 - 4 comments |
The language of the extreme
Media - 9/09/2014 - 88 comments |
How can we usefully make judgements about science? Part 2
Science & Technology - 22/08/2014 - 49 comments |
How can we usefully make judgments about science?
Science & Technology - 19/08/2014 - 12 comments |
After so much corruption, where can NSW politics go?
Domestic Politics - 18/08/2014 - 9 comments |
The climate change refugees are coming!
Environment - 15/08/2014 - 21 comments |
What (if anything) can be done about the IPCC?
Environment - 8/08/2014 - 93 comments |
Israel and Palestine
International - 1/08/2014 - 83 comments |
Does Australia need a 'climate policy' at all?
Environment - 22/07/2014 - 94 comments |
Are we in the midst of a crime wave?
Law & Liberties - 10/07/2014 - 7 comments |
Progress gives with one hand, and takes away with the other
Economics - 2/07/2014 - 16 comments |
Conservatism and climate science
Political Philosophy - 24/06/2014 - 169 comments |
The problem of research funding
Science & Technology - 18/06/2014 - 35 comments |
What the prime minister might have said
Domestic Politics - 12/06/2014 - 15 comments |
Inequality and poverty
Economics - 22/05/2014 - 40 comments |
Free speech
Law & Liberties - 29/04/2014 - 37 comments |
The IPCC now says it’s OK to adapt to ‘climate change’
Environment - 11/04/2014 - 136 comments |
The Senate tries its hand at climate science
Environment - 31/03/2014 - 39 comments |
Building a good society
Political Philosophy - 18/03/2014 - 27 comments |
Is this the last gasp from the Climate Change Authority?
Environment - 4/03/2014 - 63 comments |
The end of the Australian car industry
Economics - 26/02/2014 - 6 comments |
Nutrition, and 'climate change'
Environment - 18/02/2014 - 2 comments |
Should we be worried about ‘peak oil’?
Environment - 12/02/2014 - 24 comments |
Professor Chubb responds to Maurice Newman
Environment - 23/01/2014 - 19 comments |
More bread and circuses, but this time Perth misses out
Sport - 19/12/2013 - 2 comments |
The ABC and the coalition
Media - 5/12/2013 - 48 comments |
Does Government 'meddle' with business?
Economics - 3/12/2013 - 5 comments |
Arguing about models and observations, with respect to global warming
Environment - 21/10/2013 - 58 comments |
even bigger rorts
Domestic Politics - 14/10/2013 - 10 comments |
'travel rorts'
Domestic Politics - 11/10/2013 - 96 comments |
Salvo three: Dr Judith Curry
Environment - 27/09/2013 - 60 comments |
The second salvo in the IPCC countdown - Roy Spencer
Environment - 26/09/2013 - 34 comments |
The IPCC countdown - first salvo (Ross McKitrick)
Environment - 25/09/2013 - 8 comments |
Academics and the policy context for the Abbott Government
Political Philosophy - 16/09/2013 - 4 comments |
Who wants to bet on the election outcome?
Domestic Politics - 27/08/2013 - 8 comments |
The Precautionary Principle bites the dust
Political Philosophy - 23/08/2013 - 34 comments |
A rancorous mood overtakes the country
Domestic Politics - 15/08/2013 - 24 comments |
How important is this election?
Domestic Politics - 8/08/2013 - 41 comments |
Mr Rudd or 'Mr President'?
Domestic Politics - 24/07/2013 - 10 comments |
On 'negativity' in our politics
Domestic Politics - 17/07/2013 - 12 comments |
What has happened to the humanities?
Education - 15/07/2013 - 16 comments |
On philanthropy, especially in Australia
Society - 10/07/2013 - 11 comments |
It's 'social justice' time
Political Philosophy - 2/07/2013 - 15 comments |
The history of global warming
Environment - 30/05/2013 - 64 comments |
A sane view on the 'climate change' issue
Environment - 24/05/2013 - 60 comments |
'Climate change' gets the heave-ho in the Budget
Environment - 17/05/2013 - 55 comments |
Should local government be in the Australian constitution?
Domestic Politics - 14/05/2013 - 23 comments |
An unusual election budget awaits us
Economics - 3/05/2013 - 14 comments |
What does it mean to be 'Australian'?
Society - 29/04/2013 - 9 comments |
What price carbon?
Environment - 19/04/2013 - 20 comments |
Education: robbing Peter to pay Paul
Education - 16/04/2013 - 31 comments |
The complex Margaret Thatcher
Political Philosophy - 12/04/2013 - 26 comments |
Pride and Prejudice is 200 - well, sort of
Society - 5/04/2013 - 4 comments |
The 'radical scholar' in today's universities
Education - 27/03/2013 - 9 comments |
Why is Paul Ehrlich so extraordinarily sure about everything?
Economics - 19/03/2013 - 37 comments |
The Greens/Labor divorce
Domestic Politics - 25/02/2013 - 5 comments |
Of mice and men: when peer review fails
Science & Technology - 18/02/2013 - 54 comments |
On 'excellence' in research
Education - 13/02/2013 - 18 comments |
The longest election campaign ever?
Domestic Politics - 1/02/2013 - 32 comments |
The cry for ‘jobs’, and where it led us
January 2013 Feature - 21/01/2013 - 1 comment |
On ‘belief’ and ‘denial’
Environment - 27/12/2012 - 277 comments |
Perhaps more CO2 is good for us
Environment - 12/12/2012 - 59 comments |
Is solar power the answer?
Environment - 7/12/2012 - 56 comments |
Economic growth: is it worth having?
Economics - 22/11/2012 - 32 comments |
(Why) (Do) Politicians Lie (?)
Political Philosophy - 14/11/2012 - 13 comments |
Voting for the king
International - 7/11/2012 - 14 comments |
Language and the Asian century
International - 1/11/2012 - 13 comments |
Natural disasters: be careful when predicting them!
Law & Liberties - 29/10/2012 - 44 comments |
Extreme weather in Australia
Environment - 19/10/2012 - 37 comments |
Mr Abbott and women voters
Domestic Politics - 11/10/2012 - 14 comments |
Team Australia
February 2012 Feature - 14/02/2012 - 10 comments |
The endemic problems of the Gillard Government
Domestic Politics - 19/12/2011 - 10 comments |
The Arts, and Government
November 2010 Feature - 15/11/2010 - 12 comments |
An initial reaction to Garnaut
Environment - 15/07/2008 - 76 comments |
Much needed due diligence on climate change
Environment - 10/04/2008 - 24 comments |
Rethinking Education - Part 2
Education - 4/05/2005 - 15 comments |
Rethinking education - Part one
Education - 15/04/2005 - 13 comments |
