25 August 2024

Gongs and butterflies

Twice a year – on Australia Day and the King’s Birthday – Australia honours those among us who have gone the extra mile. And twice a year there is dismay and confusion in the press and social media that some of the awards have gone to people who are patently unworthy – party hacks of the right or left, shady businessmen or union officials who have channelled money or influence or votes to their side of politics, and so on.

18 March 2023

"Billion-dollar coffins": detection tech to render AUKUS submarines useless

Speaking at a summit in San Diego on Monday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a decades-long strategy to deliver the most costly defence project in Australias history.