The 2022 budget will be a stark reminder of the long-term “cost” of saving the Australian economy from the ravages of the Government’s response to the threat of covid19. As Josh Frydenberg brings down his fourth budget on Tuesday March 29, a central question that will be asked is: did we spend too much on JobKeeper and other government supports to keep the…

Vladimir Putin was convinced that Europe could not function without the Russian oil and gas that has funded his huge military rebuild for the reclaiming of territories lost with the 1988-91 dissolution of the Soviet Union. He enticed Europe into helping fund his grand plan to recreate the great Russian Empire. As Europe suddenly reacts to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, with plans to…

A motion picture was released in Germany one hundred years ago that would go on to haunt the cinema for the next century – Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror. This film stakes its claim as the primordial vampire picture, and just like an actual vampire, is cursed by its origin. Directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, one of the greatest masters of moviemaking, the…