A brief journey in search of trusted information
Andrew Jaspan
One of the most serious problems facing the world today is the over-abundance of unreliable information, a condition sometimes referred to as info-obesity. Not good. In Too Big To Know, ...
A Writing Career
Louise Milligan
I grew up in Legoland writ large. Big brick veneer houses on small blocks treed with conifers and covered with tan bark. It was a happy place, but Wantirna, in ...
Adblocking and Media Automation: Anti-Advertising and Industry Disruption
Julian Thomas
Apple’s 2015 decision to allow ad-blocking apps on the iOS App Store sparked a larger debate — ‘a kind of war’, in the words of one developer. At issue were ...
Affordable Housing
Julian Disney
Affordable housing of a reasonable standard is crucial to a country and its people. Without it, people are impoverished, families and communities eroded, jobs lost, the economy weakened and the ...
Australia’s Children and Youth
Fiona Stanley
Putting children in the centre of our society acknowledges that all aspects of our future capacity depends upon us having the majority of our children and youth able to participate ...
Australian Architecture: Expressionism tendencies in the twentieth century
Ava Clifforth
Australian architects of the twentieth century were bound by a common thread — the search for a national style and identity. During the post-war period, immigration and mass production meant ...
Rob Adams
Transforming Australian Cities
More than 80% of Australians and over half of the world’s population now live in cities: cities that are responsible, directly or indirectly, for nearly ...
Bibhu Aggarwal
The Bolt Case: Silencing Speech or Promoting Tolerance?
Words are powerful. They can forge bonds of mutual respect and understanding, as they did when a nation apologised to all Indigenous Australians for the ...
Belinda Barnet
Personalisation, Privacy, and Public Fragmentation
You are being followed. Not by a person — by the 800-odd cookies dropped by websites on your own machine, by GPS and the apps ...
Larissa Behrendt
Telling Stories
I was born into a culture that has a tradition of storytelling. Indigenous cultures across Australia have cultural on “Dreamtime” stories that explain our relationship ...
Larissa Behrendt
The Long Path to Reconciliation
We live in a world forever changed by the terrorist attacks in New York City on 11 September 2001 that made people feel vulnerable in ...
Bill Birnbauer
Umpire, Where’s the Line? Reporting the Private Lives of Footballers
Terry Wallace was a tough footballer. During his time playing for the Hawthorn Football Club he was called ‘the Plough’ for his ability to burrow ...