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Pentagon Swoops In to Buy Last-of-Kind Chips for B-2, Destroyer
(Bloomberg) — The Pentagon plans to place as much as $2 billion in rush orders by early March for customized…
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France flexes muscle, puts warship in eastern Mediterranean
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — France showcased its military muscle Monday with a tour of its new frigate Auvergne in the…
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Israel rejects Joe Biden’s plan to reopen US consulate for Palestinians in Jerusalem
Under former president Donald Trump, Washington delighted Israelis and outraged Palestinians by closing the Jerusalem consulate and placing its staff…
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‘You never forget the knock at the door’: why families of child sex abuse material offenders need more help
Last year, authorities in the United States received a record-breaking 21.7 million reports of child abuse material. Authors The Conversation This…
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On the intimate and character-revealing photographs of Linda McCartney – Paul’s wife, and a stunning artist
The Linda McCartney Retrospective has toured the world, taking on a new life in each location, morphing and connecting to…
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We choose our history to suit who we are, but ‘the great Australian’ silence is slowly being broken
Its eyes are forever turned backwards to a time of catastrophe which defines everything that comes after. Stan Grant ABC…
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Henry Kissinger’s Last Crusade: Stopping Dangerous AI
He became intrigued after being persuaded by Eric Schmidt, who was then the executive chairman of Google, to attend a…
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COP26 has been a ‘failure’ and ‘greenwashing festival’, Greta Thunberg tells mass protest
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has branded the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow a “failure” during a mass protest in…
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Getting Conflict into the Global Climate Conversation
In this Q&A, Crisis Group experts Ulrich Eberle and Andrew Ciacci explain why these discussions cannot neglect questions of war…
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Outside theatre: why it mustn’t stop after the pandemic
Despite audiences being inscrutable in masks, I’ve seen two packed shows and begun to believe that theatres are finally recovering…
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How poetry can help us understand the urgency of the climate crisis
My garden hedge was stuffed with sparrows who seemed to always be singing. Christina Thatcher The Conversation I expected to…
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Vital Signs: Borrowing from King Solomon, economists are getting closer to working out how good leaders can make good decisions
It’s from the First Book of Kings, Chapter 3, starting at Verse 16. Richard Holden The Conversation Two women came before…
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Why the fate of our planet’s environment depends on the state of its soil
“The nation that destroys its soils destroys itself,” he wrote, highlighting what remains a fundamental truth: that the state of…
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Federal Government prevents medical community from assisting refugees
Watching the COVID-19 outbreak unfold in the Park hotel, Melbourne, it is hard not to feel disillusionment as a medical…
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Booker Prize won by South African writer Damon Galgut for The Promise
The 57-year-old, who has been shortlisted twice previously, won the 50,000-pound ($91,783) prize against a shortlist that included Pulitzer Prize winner Richard…
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Voter ID is a bad idea. Here’s why
But it is still an unnecessary idea at an inappropriate time. Graeme Orr The Conversation Countries like Australia, New Zealand…
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