North Korea has launched its first ballistic missile since the start of Donald’s Trump’s presidency, just as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited the US to shore up support for […]

Walls have a strong political connotation in post-war Europe. The most tragically famous was the Berlin wall built in 1961 to prevent citizens of the DDR (otherwise known as East […]

Rickshaw poetry in Pakistan. D.Kazi, CC BY-NC-ND Whose mischief created a world of beseechers? Each petitioner is seen wearing a garment of paper This line from the famous Mughul poet […]

Energy and Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg speaking on Q&A. ABC The Conversation fact-checks claims made on Q&A, broadcast Mondays on the ABC at 9:35pm. Thank you to everyone who sent […]

Banks still holding out on Apple Pay Author The 3 major Australian banks have signalled that they have no intention of supporting Apple Pay any time soon with an updated […]

The Bartlett Head (Aphrodite) at The MIT Museum 1978, white light transmission hologram Kenneth Lu/flickr, CC BY-ND I have been editing the unfinished book of a poet friend who died […]

“I hope people will listen now” said Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), at the World Economic Forum in Davos last month. Lagarde was alluding […]

The effective ban on e-cigarettes in Australia forces people to access unregulated nicotine products to help them quit smoking. from www.shutterstock.com The Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration’s (TGA) recent interim decision […]

The first week of parliament for the new year was a noisy one. Cory Bernardi’s decision to leave the Liberal Party has created a flurry of speculation about whether this […]

One can find reading material to suit all tastes. Arif Akhtar/Flickr, CC BY-ND E L James’s Fifty Shades trilogy is a bona fide publishing, and now film, sensation. Along with […]