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Songlines, space stations and the slow decline of science

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 needs is a smoking ceremony and a cultural consultation workshop. According to the project brief, “learning from songlines, creation stories and deep cultural connections between people

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The parallels between the Roaring 1920s and the Turbulent 2020s

“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 upheavals are rarely as unique as we like to believe. Historians are rightly suspicious of neat analogies, but here the similarities are too blunt to

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