In Fichte's political philosophy, the state arises as the institutional embodiment of reciprocal recognition. The state is not primarily an apparatus of coercion, nor a mere social contract; it is the ...

Australia is already spending $50–70bn a year buying imported fuel. We need to ask how much additional cost is economically rational to pay to reduce strategic risk attached to that dependence, and ...

Newspeak's purpose was to restrict vocabulary, eliminate nuance, and embed ideology directly into the words we use. In contemporary Western discourse, no government has imposed an official Newspeak, ...

Smaller states can contribute at every stage of crisis: At the prevention stage, they can provide early-warning channels and maintain contacts that larger powers may find politically difficult to ...

It is hard to identify much effective action by governments but, without policy change, the problem will remain and communities will feel increasingly unsafe. In Australia, the economic impact of ...

When it had seemed the Dockers held a winning lead over the Lions, the fans were dancing and cheering in the street over in West Australia, and the celebratory tune Wharfies Time started booming over ...

Artificial intelligence possesses a dramatic capacity to learn. Regular users already notice how chatbots attune their responses to the patterns and preferences revealed in conversation. What begins ...

Tuning in to Four Corners Timber Turmoil a few weeks ago, I wasn't expecting a pro-forestry view to emerge – still, the opening statement was insightful – and left no one in any doubt as to where we ...

The demographer is interested in war from a number of perspectives. These include, firstly population dynamics and distribution and the role they play in causing collective violence and aggression.

It is time to bring Europe’s blue waterways back to the centre of its connectivity agenda.

Overall, the core question is what to do to rid Australia of our serious gangster problem. I think the solution ultimately lies with the voting public. It would be fair to say that in both Queensland ...

Five men, initially detained on suspicion of committing offences under the Explosives Act, then arrested on suspicion of preparation of a terrorist act. Residents of 85 households in the Cotswolds ...