Bret Walker has denounced lawyers who are picking holes in the referendum proposal for the Voice to Parliament as purveyors of “doomsday scenarios”. https://t.co/8k9jQIzT8t
We have reached the point where scientists are warning not only that we are facing a mass extinction event, but that one is already under way.
Can history — and not only human history — help us frame a response to the climate concerns of the modern age? https://t.co/E9mdTFAmYv
The #AbrahamicFamilyHouse has been inaugurated with an opening ceremony.
People are welcome to come and practice faith in the three houses of worship from 16 February. Access to the forum and guided tours will be available to visitors from 1 March 2023.
“We Indians seem to have rejected Gandhi, as we once rejected the Buddha; no matter, humans elsewhere will take up and nobly affirm the ideals of those we have so cruelly and carelessly discarded” https://t.co/E5axeF4EmR
Richard Powers: A character in my novel ‘The Overstory’ comes to realize that nothing in this living world has an independent existence. As she puts it, “Everything in the forest is the forest.”
https://t.co/uCf4twGa7t
“…if the political experience of the last decade has taught us anything, it is that whether the world as a whole is richer than it was 50 years ago matters much less to the people on it today than who got those gains…” https://t.co/v2EiT4LgVe
We are delighted to announce the winner of the Business Book of the Year 2022 is Chris Miller with Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology!
Congratulations to our winner!
@FletcherSchool@SimonBooks, @ScribnerBooks, @crmiller1#BBYA22
BREAKING: Our historic First Home Buyer Choice legislation has passed the NSW Parliament.
This will unlock the opportunity of home ownership for generations of young people and families.
Helping people get the keys to their first home will change lives.
"America is now pledged to do everything short of fighting an actual war to stop China’s rise." Me on Biden's huge step to decapitate China's advanced chips sector that has had remarkably little media attention. https://t.co/m0mZ14YhWr
"Iran is a society in which:
- maternal mortality is lower than in the US...but only 5% of seats in parliament are taken by women
- women in university outnumber males
- ...But it also a society in which female participation in the formal labour market runs to only 14 percent".
From @WSJopinion: JFK came to understand the need to be "disciplined in self-restraint," as he put it in a 1963 speech, writes @Peggynoonannyc https://t.co/Rj90qImrcP
#India stocktake. India has replaced the UK as the world’s 5th biggest economy. India is expected to overtake Germany by 2027. By then 3 of the 4 top national economies are expected to be in the Indo-Pacific region: China, Japan & India. https://t.co/acOmhP6Z6N
On almost every measure of educational success from pre-K to postgrad, boys and young men now lag well behind their female classmates. But there’s a simple way to help boys do better, @RichardvReeves argues: Start them a year later than girls. https://t.co/6VwZWh8ldG