An article by David Sanger of the New York Times 20 August 2020 Four years after 50 of the nation’s most senior Republican national security officials warned that Donald Trump “would be the most reckless president in American history,” they are back with a new letter, declaring his presidency worse than they had imagined and urging voters to support former…
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Rio Tinto admits it ‘missed opportunities’ to save heritage site
By Nick Toscano, The Age An article by Nick Toscano, The Age 4 August 2020 Miner Rio Tinto has acknowledged it missed a series of opportunities to better communicate with traditional landowners or pause to rethink a proposed mine expansion that might have prevented the destruction of a 46,000-year-old Aboriginal site in Western Australia. Rio Tinto, Australia’s second-largest miner, has faced a storm…
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Rio Tinto looks to shelter from self-detonation
An article by Elizabeth Knight Business Columnist of The Age 4 August 2020 As the adage goes: “when you are in a hole stop digging”. Amended for Rio Tinto it would read “when you are in a cave stop blasting”. For the past few months the pressure has been mounting on Rio’s management and board. But on Friday, when a…
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What would we go without to properly fund the ABC? Try one less submarine
This article was written by Warwick McFadyen, desk editor for The Age, Melbourne, Australia – 27 June 2020 Perhaps only someone of a fair degree of accounting naivety can ask this question, so here goes: why can’t we – as in we’re all in this together, Australia – do with one less submarine so that we can properly fund the ABC? No…
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Transcript of the keynote speech delivered by HRH The Prince of Wales at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on 22 January 2020.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am most touched that Professor Klaus Schwab should have invited me to be with you as we mark the 50th anniversary of the World Economic Forum and its mission to “improve the state of the world”. It is this mission, and the urgent need to shape the next 50 years, that has inspired me to be…
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Tim Berners-Lee unveils global plan to save the web
An article by Ian Sample, Science Editor of The Guardian published 25 November 2019 ……………………………………………………………………………………. The inventor of the world wide web calls on governments and firms to safeguard it from abuse and ensure it benefits humanity. Sir Tim Berners-Lee has launched a global action plan to save the web from political manipulation, fake news, privacy violations and other malign forces that threaten…
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‘We keep men’s secrets’: sleazy politicians and crude bosses still plague us by Virginia Trioli published 9 November 2019 in the Sydney Morning Herald
Virginia Trioli is host of Mornings on ABC Radio Melbourne, and was a founding co-anchor of ABC TV’s News Breakfast. Generation F: Why We Still Struggle With Sex and Power (Simon & Schuster, $25) is an update of her 1996 book, Generation F, and is out 15 November 2019. It was a table for two, tucked down the back of a discreet and exclusive restaurant perched…
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BOOK REVIEW: A City Lost & Found by Robyn Annear: Whelan the Wrecker’s Melbourne –Black Inc 2006
Someone recently gave me A City Lost & Found as a birthday present. That is not a valid motive for writing a review of a book published more than a decade ago. But in this case there are good reasons for reviewing it now. One is that it is a remarkable historical work which is now available as an ebook. (The…
