If you want to measure the real speed of modern change, don’t look at the size and complexity of new headers or how Al is every student’s best friend. Look instead at the three oldest bits of civic infrastructure we all grew up with: the post office, the banknote and
Every time Australia is struck by an act of mass violence, the political reflex is immediate and reassuringly familiar. Governments reach for gun law reform. It looks decisive. It sounds compassionate. It creates the impression that something concrete is being done. What it rarely does is confront the deeper causes
The Americans had Apollo. The Soviets had Soyuz. The Chinese have Tiangong. And Australia? We now have the world’s first taxpayer-funded attempt to guide space exploration using songlines. It’s as if the nation looked up at the stars, ignored four centuries of physics, and concluded that what satellite design really
Another week, another glossy press release announcing that regenerative agriculture has once again rediscovered the secret to farming profitability. This time it arrives wrapped in the language of “Natural Capital Accounting,” pushed proudly by Perth NRM, RegenWA and their national partners, and backed by a study now published in the
Like every parent watching their adult kids edge toward the real estate market, I look at the numbers with growing alarm. In 25 years, Perth house prices have jumped from roughly $200,000 to close to $900,000 — a three-to-fivefold increase — while wages have barely doubled from $50,000 to $100,000.
“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Mark Twain A century divides the Roaring Twenties from today’s so-called Turbulent Twenties, yet the distance feels strangely compressed. As we limp toward the midpoint of our own decade, the parallels grow sharper and harder to ignore — reminders that our present
