NCC policy proposals for building Australia’s strategic industries, presented to the recent Defence Strategic Review (DSR), remarkably parallel America’s economic policies reset in the face of Beijing’s belligerence and Putin’s aggression in Ukraine. Driven by new global strategic challenges, Washington says that the deep globalisation (the old “Washington Consensus”) policies of recent decades are finished. The United States priority is strategic concerns over…

With benefit of time, it is becoming more and more apparent that the level of hysteria that occurred over the Brittany Higgins saga is another stark example in recent times of how easily the justice system can be bent and manipulated for political purposes in the social-media era. It is a case where no one comes out well, neither the politicians, the media,…

There are many films out there, but not all of them can be well-managed in a single review. Either there’s too much in them, or too little, or perhaps what makes them interesting is their side themes or their background. Marlowe, for instance, is an interesting film. It has a good cast and a good crew. It is engaging enough, but there is…