The looming question for me and my partner is “where might we live as we grow older and frailer?” For us, the ideal place is likely to be a retirement village. But at what cost? Continue reading »
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Back in 1987, when no one knew that the Cold War was just about to end, the Canadian Government signed up to build ten nuclear-powered submarines. That submarine program lasted for all of two years before being cancelled in 1989. No nuclear Canadian sub ever even began construction, let alone gettin Continue reading »
Speaking recently on the ABC, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz claimed that Australia was ‘giving away its natural resources’. This he found ‘mind-boggling’. Would a sovereign mining company have made a difference? Continue reading »
As China commemorates the 120th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping’s birth, the Post examines his legacy across generations. In the final part of a three-part series, we look at Deng’s vision for Hong Kong and how much of it has been realised. Here is part one and two. In late 1991, Hong Kong businessman Frederick Ma Si-hang desperately wanted Continue reading »
Australia’s experience over the past three years of the highest inflation in 35 years is in large part — as it has been in other countries — the result of producers of goods and services, in both the private and public sectors, being able to pass on increases in costs to their customers or clients Continue reading »
Our understanding of the darker foundations of US thinking about the US China relationship is obscured by the public utterances of Presidents, politicians and public policy commentators. This is the froth and bubble of policy but it does little to reveal the foundations of this visceral fear of Ch Continue reading »
A government is in trouble when it has to utter the banal and reiterate the damnably obvious. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is certainly struggling of late, a state of affairs all the more unspeakable given the calibre of his opponent. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton barely makes the grade of a two-dimensional politician, but has Continue reading »
Sometime in 2016 , soon after I’d joined the Northern Beaches Committee for Palestine, a group of us visited the then premier of New South Wales in his Manly electorate office. It would be safe to say that there weren’t many people on the Northern Beaches then who knew much about Palestine, or cared, but Continue reading »
The Opposition’s shadow minister for home and foreign affairs, Barnaby Joyce, made sure to thank his traditional owner, Gina Rinehart, before delivering his speech at the Bush Summit that was held this week. ”I’m an old fashioned bloke who believes... Read More ›
Kamala Harris’s campaign asks: Who is a normal American now?
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