humphery / Shutterstock.com
Making products in our new economic age is fast becoming a partnership with customers, not just a transaction.
Was Liberal backbencher Craig Kelly right about the relative cost of electricity in Australia and the US?
AAP Image/Lukas Coch
Liberal MP Craig Kelly said businesses and households in Australia are paying twice as much as Americans for their electricity. Is that true?
E One
As the film descends into intoxication, viewers are likely to be sobered by glimpses of a badly damaged America.
John Gast’s ‘American Progress’ (1872), depicting the US’s westward expansion.
Jared Farmer/Wikimedia Commons
The ideology of ‘manifest destiny’ has underpinned centuries of discriminatory legislation and violence against the US’s indigenous people.
Patrick/Flickr
Modesty in your spending (and half an eye on the future) could make you very cheerful indeed.
Oops.
PA images
Some will be hoping that Trump’s phone call with Taiwan’s leader was a wrong number.
Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by police after refusing to give up her seat.
Gene Herrick AP/Press Association Images
How far we’ve really come since two very different individuals took a stand against racism 60 years ago.
Michael Hogan/Flickr
Leadership is an odd thing in a world where people only want their echo chamber defended. The power, and the responsibility, starts to lie elsewhere.
A billboard of US president-elect Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Danilovgrad, Montenegro.
Reuters/Stevo Vasiljevic
The world needs great leaders who thrive on making a positive difference to people’s lives and not on festering fear and war mongering.
Clockwise, from left: White nationalist William Pierce, domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh, white nationalist Richard Spencer, British journalist Milo Yiannopoulos, professor Kevin MacDonald, and Breitbart News founder Andrew Breitbart.
Nick Lehr/The Conversation
An academic who has studied the American far right explores whether the alt-right can become a sustained political force.
The United States and Australia should abandon the TPP and focus their efforts on trade deals that take a prudent approach to market access.
Mark Kauzlarich/Reuters
The United States and other countries are right to reject the TPP, but President-elect Donald Trump’s claims about it are misguided.
How might US president-elect Donald Trump address Obamacare’s rising costs?
from www.shutterstock.com
Alternatives to Obamacare look to address rising premiums and less consumer choice. What options does the US have and how could they work?
Commonwealth Bank is just one of a few Australian businesses that have faced shareholder votes against executive pay.
Tony McDonough/AAP
Two experts debate whether or not Australian executive pay should be benchmarked against that of US companies.
More than 70 years after the Hiroshima bombing, a majority of countries are pushing for a legally-binding treaty against nuclear weapons.
Tim Wright/ICAN/Flickr
In early December, the nations of the world are poised to take an historic step on nuclear weapons. Yet Australia sticks out like a sore thumb among Asia-Pacific nations in arguing against change.
Though daunting, the challenge of a Trump presidency is pregnant with possibilities.
EPA/SHAWN THEW
The outcome of this election may depend more on what we make of it than on what Trump and his advisers intend. Though daunting, the challenge is pregnant with possibilities.
Michael Hogan
The US election confirmed the death of an extraordinary economic era. Now, control of the next must be wrested from the emboldened nationalists.
A supporter of Hillary Clinton reacts as Australians watch the results of the U.S. presidential election at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Jason Reed/Reuters
Scholars from the U.S., Ireland, Australia and France provide perspective on President-elect Donald Trump.
Anthony Eden at the BBC before delivering a message to the nation.
PA Archive PA Archive/PA Images
British prime minister Anthony Eden justified attacking Egypt as necessary to restrain the country’s ‘dangerous’ leader. We still hear similar things before every Western intervention.
A March 21, 2014 photograph of asylum seekers behind a fence at the Manus Island detention centre.
AAP/Eoin Blackwell
The government’s message to asylum seekers is already clear: you are not welcome, and you will not be resettled in Australia. Surely that message does not need to be any harsher.
A pickup truck from the Department of Health fumigates in San Juan, Jan. 27, 2016.
Alvin Baez/Reuters
It’s hard to contain a mosquito-borne infection like Zika when the conditions are ideal for it to spread.