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Antisemitism is a despicable phenomenon with a long and dismal history, sadly promoted by significant elements in Christianity for many centuries as well as by other secular ideologies, and we do well to guard against it.
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Misgivings in the heart of the defence state
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A Joycean defence of Harvard (and Australia’s universities?) from Trump’s derangement Part 2 of 2
In the context of President Donald Trump’s all-embracing appetites and hatreds, Harvard being under attack by his administration should, almost reflexively, be easy to defend.
11 June 2025
Trump’s attacks on Harvard: Cardinal Wolsey and the prologue to an Australian encounter? Part 1 of 2
The White House is now more accurately described as an Imperial War Room: from it, President Trump directs indiscriminate attacks on whatever is enraging him.
8 June 2025
Grounds for optimism over bilateral ties with China
As living in another country shows, mutual understanding is built on respect and openness.
5 June 2025
When education funds genocide: students raise their voices in defiance
For more than a year, the world has been witnessing the genocidal massacres committed by Israel against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, where tens of thousands have been killed, including university students and teachers, and academic institutions have been completely destroyed.
3 June 2025
Conflation and controversy over antisemitism definition
Antisemitism did not spring up here as suddenly and as localised as a field of mushrooms. It is, above all, a by-product of Israel’s endless onslaught on the people of Gaza which one and all can watch as a daily horror show.
31 May 2025
Brian Schmidt on securing Australia’s sovereign research capability
Brian Schmidt and Richard Holden addressed the National Press Club jointly this week. The following are full transcripts of the speeches. Let me take you back to February 1940 to the University of Birmingham. World War II had just broken out, and 38-year-old Marc Oliphant, an Australian-born physicist, who went on later in life to found the ANU Physics department and the Australian Academy of Science, had just had his lab invent the modern microwave resonant cavity, that could create incredibly intense radio-waves in a device of a size such that you could hold it in your hands.
31 May 2025
Richard Holden on securing Australia’s sovereign research capability
Richard Holden and Brian Schmidt addressed the National Press Club jointly this week. The following are full transcripts of the speeches. The Economic Value of Ideas Beginning in the 1990s, economists developed a framework for articulating the economic value of ideas.
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Cultural institutions are policing Palestine solidarity. Karen Wyld is just the latest target
Last week, Martu writer Karen Wyld was stripped of a literary fellowship just hours before she was due to receive it, not because of the quality of her work, but because of her expressions of solidarity with Palestine.
27 May 2025
Inaction also speaks louder than words
The focus of my work, over more than half a century, has been on getting good things to happen and/or preventing harm from happening. It has been a mixed history that includes both successes and failures; victories and defeats.
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