Weekend Open Forum
The weather is warning up and so is the poilitical temperature. Here's the place to start the conversation.
The failed cultural heritage laws of Western Australia provide a guide to how the Voice might work and what will be their primary motivation.
The High Court of Australia is taking a more activist legal line. That heralds danger if they are asked to rule on any constitutionally enshrined powers of a race-based Voice.
The government's proposed reforms to higher education miss the mark, but they also identify just how our entire education system is failing our children.
Millions are giving up their most precious private data for a few digital baubles. It's the ultimate long-term move by authoritarians looking to enslave us.
The report into the conduct of Shane Drumgold is damning. However, it also raises important questions. Primarily, Is our justice system really blind?
We are being asked to reject the foundations of our civilisation in favour of cultures and traditions that have little (if any) relevance to contemporary society.
Regular people are finally finding their voice and speaking against the toxic proposal to divide our country along racial lines.
When you institutionalise identity politics the beginning is often benign but there are some terrible examples of where it usually ends up.
The Chinese have taken citizen surveillance to a scary new level. The real question is how long before our governments justify using similar technology here.
The days of simply accepting claims of identity must come to an end. That will happen when we stop giving preference on racial grounds rather than merit.
Far from just ticking a diversity box, a recent Apple store experience opened my mind to the art of the possible.
While we struggle to meet existing electricity demands, there is a continuing push to move ever more toward the grid. What if it's about much more than saving the planet?