February
Lee Child retired, but Jack Reacher kept calling
On the eve of a third season for the streaming drama based on his sleuth hero, the author talks his coffee addiction and why he left America the day Trump won.
January 2023
Is ChatGPT a form of magic or the apocalypse?
The new generation of artificial intelligence has ingested an internet’s worth of data and generates content that appears to be magical. It might also be a form of creative bankruptcy from which humans never recover.
July 2022
Why handwritten letters and cards are one of your most powerful tools
Forget emails, texts or social media posts. There are some situations where a personal letter is the best form of communication.
January 2022
Why you can now repurpose ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’ for free
A.A. Milne’s beloved children’s book and Ernest Hemingway’s classic novel The Sun Also Rises’, along with films starring Buster Keaton and Greta Garbo, are among the works from 1926 whose US copyrights expired on January 1.
November 2020
How Donald Trump killed off principled conservatism
The US President parades his shameless behaviour as moral courage. That is part of his true creed of anti-liberalism and self-interest.
July 2020
Cormann's exit ramp highlights tax reform dead ends
With Mathias Cormann poised to leave politics by the end of the year, the government will be left with a heavy budget workload that will make it even more risk-averse on tax.
May 2020
Now is the time to reform stamp duty
The virus has given Australian governments the chance to lower the tax burden and lift the handbrake on the economy.