Victoria’s Premier Daniel Andrews wants parliament to agree on a 12-month extension of the state’s emergency powers. This is unlikely to pass the Legislative Council. These powers have made the …

Many attempts to develop artificial intelligence are powered by powerful systems of mathematical logic. They tend to produce results that make logical sense to a computer program — but the …

In 131AD, while on tour in Greece, Philhellenic Roman emperor Hadrian, who like all emperors since Augustus revered classical Greek culture and appropriated it in order to legitimise and provide …

Victorian communities have seen their elderly suffer immensely with a large number of deaths. But before we lay the entire blame for these failures at the feet of the Andrews …

Australia prides itself on being a successful multicultural society. Yet Australian television does not reflect the make-up of the wider community. This in turn means many stories of multicultural Australians …

The drama and tragedy of the coronavirus victims – deaths, inflictions, agony and terror – swiping millions of people, even in our own Melbourne, could have been avoided or at …

The worsening stand-off in the eastern Mediterranean, frequently described as a gas conflict, has been gaining momentum. Yet it is a strange time to be fighting over gas when prices …

Don’t be a sucker again and start costly DIY projects that flop, online courses you’ll never finish and binge watching that makes you dumb and numb. Instead, channel the ancient …

In 2006, Victorian Member of Parliament and then parliamentary secretary for justice Jenny Mikakos did an inordinately brave thing. She stood on the floor of the Upper House and spoke …

Germany’s leading business daily, Handelsblatt, reports that Greece has sold 101 Soviet-made BMP-1 armoured infantry combat vehicles to Egypt, which the paper says Berlin is finding hard to explain. In …