The conversations rumbling around Australia about nuclear power are a small victory for pro-nuclear advocacy. Long dormant, the nuclear debate, has recently reinvented itself for a new era. This time, it is to fix climate change. The win is only “small” because Australia is a long way from building and operating a nuclear power facility. … Read more
The media industry has changed enormously since David Armstrong began his career as a junior reporter for The Australian newspaper in Sydney in 1969, and not for the better. Superficiality and a “gotcha” mentality by too many journalists, he says, has lowered the bar in Australia. But he also says there are bright spots in … Read more
Australia has a problem with illegal migration. Well, no, not a collapse of Operation Sovereign Borders, or the offshore processing laws that will cost the taxpayer AU$485 million this year, but with how it reacts to a group of asylum seekers arriving by boat on a West Australian beach. Australia’s law hasn’t changed in more … Read more