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Leave Avocado Toast Out of This: There’s Plenty For Us to Be Angry About |...
Remember when an entitled white man somewhere said something along the lines of ‘millennials could afford to buy a house if they stopped spending so much money on avocado toast’? While roasting him...
View ArticleListen to Your Grandmother: Heuristics as a Weapon Against Shoddy Thinking |...
Combatting the onslaught of low quality or outright false analysis circulating online means wielding simple, effective tools – not complex appeals to the rational mind. It is unreasonable for any...
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Tension and Uncertainty in the South China Sea | Fred Johnston
Recently, a Chinese warship came within 40 metres of colliding with a US Navy vessel. The catalyst of the incident stems from military posturing and territorial disputes in the South China Sea. But why...
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When Snowflakes Melt: Humour And Offence | James Dance
Laughing at ourselves and with others about our experiences and idiosyncrasies holds a special place in human nature. It keeps us honest, grounded and aware of who we fundamentally are – irreversible...
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Hosting the Olympics: Is it Worth the Money? | Adrian Yeung
The Olympic Games seem to have only one purpose: to remind humankind once every four years that we can’t have nice things. Despite being an international sporting event, the media usually seems more...
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Shenzhen: China’s Lesser Known Megacity | Joe Sutcliffe
It is now merely a statement of fact to call China a dominant force in global economics. A globally integrated China has begun to pose the very real possibility of economic dominance shifting from the...
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Massacre or Revolution? Sudan’s Uprising and the Fight for a Civilian...
It is the 8th of April. A woman stands on top of a white car. She wears a white thoub, the traditional dress that signifies the professional Sudanese woman, heralding back to the Queens of Kandaka. A...
View ArticlePlaying Catch-Up: The Conundrum Facing Australian Education | Ailish Parr
A fourteen-year-old wonders why a monologue from Macbeth is used to determine their “intelligence” in English; a sixteen-year-old ponders why integration in maths class is so significant for later on...
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China and Hong Kong: One Country, Many Predicaments | Adrian Yeung
During the height of the Umbrella Movement protests in 2014, I made an attempt to predict the fate of Hong Kong after the expiry of Beijing’s ‘one country, two systems’ approach to governing the city...
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FriendlyJordies and the War of New Media | Elroy Rosenberg
With the arrest on June 4 of Kristo Langker, producer and journalist for YouTuber Jordan Shanks (who works and publishes under the moniker FriendlyJordies), it has become clear that the defamation...
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