Imagine you are sailing a ship through dense fog, looking out for land. Your lookout spots species of birds typically found offshore. It now seems likely that you are approaching land, but it is impossible to know for sure until you see the coastline. If a US recession is land, the “birds” are already swooping […]

Can you spoil something that happened four years ago? That’s been a major conversation this week, following a huge moment that aired Sunday night on the most recent episode of The Last of Us—but which dramatized something that happened in the video game it’s based on in 2020. It’s been a heated discussion that I’ve […]

It was 12 January – 75 days before the federal election would be called – and Peter Dutton was literally feeling the heat. As the opposition leader addressed a Liberal party rally from a stuffy room in the Melbourne suburb of Mount Waverley, visible beads of sweat ran down his forehead. Dutton made it through […]

The Coalition would not cut working holiday visas as part of its promise to reduce migration, senior Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie says. The Coalition has been under pressure to release further details about which immigration streams it would target in government. Peter Dutton has claimed the increase in immigration of the past two years has […]