Short story review – Evan Shapiro’s The Counting
The Counting (Cilento Publishing, 2020, 33 pages) This story may be set in the future, but its themes are very contemporary, and a...
The Current Political Climate – limited opportunities
One of the most valuable principles to have emerged from the 130-year history of sociology as an academic discipline concerns a causal...
The whispering of orchids
If orchids could speak what would they say? Would they, exuding pheromones, sound like teenagers in heat, or other animals in must? Would...
Getting the Band Back Together Again – about school reunions
Telling one’s own story has become recognised as therapeutic – particularly in the context of ageing and palliative care. Indeed, older...
Is our land in good hands?
Some survey findings should really make politicians sit back and take note – particularly when they concern farmers’ observations and...
Why unknown unknowns may save us yet
Donald Rumsfeld, when he was US Secretary of State for Defence, once famously stated: ‘There are known knowns. There are things we know...
The Power of New Technology
When Australia’s Chief Scientist presents his considered view on the future of artificial intelligence in Australia it is worth paying...
The Demise of Private Self
The recent theft and misuse of personal data by Cambridge Analytica and Facebook has stimulated public outrage about loss of ‘privacy’....
Economics in an Anthropocene era
The sound of growing economies is deafening. So complete is the fascination of the roar of money to Australian politicians that they are...
The new epoch is Anthropocene
The declaration of a new age or era is a popular tactic for those keen to make the invisible visible and promote change; this tactic...
