As the world confronts unprecedented threats from the belligerent, totalitarian superpowers of China and Russia, Australia faces national security threats not experienced for 80 years. Yet, these issues are being sidelined at this important federal election. Time to bring them into focus.Ironically, if Australia had a national defence and resilience strategy to confront these global threats to the nation, then many voters’ major…

The most important question voters should be asking themselves going into the May 21 election is this: which party is likely to be most favoured by Xi Jinping and the People’s Republic of China? This is because the greatest existential threat over the next decade to Australia is not climate change, for which Australia can do practically nothing in and of itself anyway,…

The Northman is a phenomenal – and phenomenally violent – film. It’s what would happen if Vikings made a movie about Vikings from a completely Viking perspective. Taking its inspiration from Hamlet’s origin story, The Northman is a brutal, bloody, and beautiful immersion in a world at once familiar and yet deeply alien. Its very existence is a reminder that no matter how…