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Jamie SeidelContributor

After evolving a digital heart (not the pacemaker kind) out of inky veins, Jamie just wants an excuse to learn something new. But he’s fully aware his 32 years’ experience in the news industry has given him just enough knowledge to be dangerous. International affairs. History. Defence. Science. Space. Technology. He has a fascination for them all – particularly when it comes to social fallout. Translating tough concepts into common terms is his craft. His passion is to explore the big picture encompassing world events.

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The arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has sparked an explosive debate over whether he’s a “free speech martyr” - or villainous “profiteer”.

Tech billionaire’s stunning downfall

The arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has sparked an explosive debate over whether he’s a “free speech martyr” – or villainous “profiteer”.

AnalysisMining

An autonomous haul truck dumps a load of rock in the mine pit at Rio Tinto Group's Gudai-Darri iron ore mine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, Australia, on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023. Rio Tinto is preparing for trials of battery-powered locomotives in Australia, where it uses giant autonomous trains — the world’s largest and longest robots — to transport iron ore across the vast Outback. Photographer: Carla Gottgens/Bloomberg

Aussie mining boss confirms worst fears

One of the country’s biggest and most lucrative companies has sounded the alarm as Beijing turns its back on Australia’s top export.

Sydney downtown, blurred intersection people and traffic in a sunny day at dusk

‘Economic tsunami’ coming for Aussies

Australians are anxiously awaiting the fallout from an “economic tsunami” – and a new move from China has caused fresh panic.

AnalysisEurope

President Vladimir Putin’s future may hinge on Chechnya’s governor Ramzan Kadyrov.

‘Barbarian’ who could decide Putin’s future

Russian President Vladimir Putin is clearly in trouble – and his future may hinge on an ambitious governor from a “terrorist” state.

Australia’s prosperous Iron Age is well and truly over. A new age is dawning. But will it be an economic Stone Age?

‘Not Australia’: Grim sign we missed the boat

Australia’s iron ore golden age is well and truly over. A new age is dawning – but it looks like the country may have already missed the boat.

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Decoded omen tablets predict grim future

Ancient astronomers of Babylon appear to have been poetically on the money when it comes to foretelling the future, and it makes worrying reading.

China news we didn’t want to hear

China news we didn’t want to hear

The unsteady future of former cash cow iron ore has transfixed Australians for more than a year. But now reality has finally hit. Hard.

AnalysisAsia

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JANUARY 13: (CHINA AND HONG KONG-OUT) Funeral workers load bodies into vans to be taken for cremation at a busy local funeral home on January 13, 2023 in Shanghai, China.Chinas health care system has been struggling to cope with a surge of COVID-19 infections since the government ended nearly three years of tough zero COVID controls. At least 900 million people have been infected, according to a Peking University study, and authorities have reported 60,000 COVID-related deaths in hospitals alone in the past month. Infections have peaked in major cities including Beijing and Shanghai, but a second wave is expected to hit in rural areas with hundreds of millions of people traveling to their hometowns during the Lunar New Year holiday. Health officials are concerned that rural populations tend to be older, and the medical system in smaller towns and villages are not as well-resourced as bigger cities.(Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

China’s sick body-snatching scandal explodes

Outrage is growing after sick details of the harvesting of human body parts – without the deceased’s consent – emerged out of China.

This picture taken on November 18, 2022 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on November 19, 2022 shows the test-firing of the new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)

South Korea toys with the unthinkable

Amid worrying times, South Korea is considering building nuclear weapons of its own in what could create a “balance of terror”.

Palestinian toddler Rim Abu Hayya, the sole survivor from her family after they were killed by reported Israeli bombardment that hit their house in the east of Khan Yunis, is carried by her aunt Ayat in a tent shelter west of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on August 13, 2024 amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. (Photo by Bashar TALEB / AFP)

Horror as ‘inevitable war’ looms

The world is watching on in horror as all-out-war draws ever nearer – but is there actually an end game in the Middle East?

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