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Holding the line 27 Aug 2013 | 01:55 pm
Falling standards? Chinese Central TV presenters Li Wenjing (left) and Zhang Xiao. Richy!/ Flickr Two Billion Eyes: The Story of China Central Television By Ying Zhu New Press | $39.95 IT’S A PITY ...
Delaying the nuclear-free zone in the Pacific 27 Aug 2013 | 12:47 pm
Opération Canopus, France’s first two-stage thermonuclear test, on 24 August 1968 at Fangataufa atoll. AT THE height of the nuclear arms race between the United States and Soviet Union, a treaty to c...
The rising costs of the great Australian dream 27 Aug 2013 | 11:46 am
LisaInGlasses/ iStockphoto ONE of my regular neighbourhood walks takes me past a fine example of Queen Anne architecture. The elegant family home has three sculptural red-brick chimney stacks towerin...
Winning the battle of ideas 26 Aug 2013 | 05:54 am
A stark choice: Kevin Rudd campaigning at the Royal Queensland Show on 14 August. FusionVision/ Flickr PAUL Keating famously said that if you change the government you change the country. In the case...
The war that isn’t going to happen 25 Aug 2013 | 11:22 am
Bridging the divide: author Thomas Rid discusses Cyber War Will Not Take Place during a seminar at NATO headquarters earlier this year. Photo: NATO Cyber War Will Not Take Place By Thomas Rid Hurst...
China’s first top-100 global brand? 25 Aug 2013 | 11:20 am
Overtaking Facebook: WeChat founder Pony Ma. TechCrunch/ Flickr ALTHOUGH China is the world’s second largest economy, 94 per cent of Americans can’t identify a single Chinese brand. In fact, there is...
The war the bloggers won 23 Aug 2013 | 06:58 am
The polls were right: election night 2007. Ruben Schade / Flickr SOME people saw the arrival of political blogs in the early 2000s as the beginning of a war between the bloggers and the traditional m...
Magnetism and magic 22 Aug 2013 | 06:30 am
Sue Milliken’s productions include the long-underrated Bruce Beresford’s The Fringe Dwellers THERE were several very different communities of cinephiles and industry professionals involved in the res...
Winner’s curse? 22 Aug 2013 | 05:35 am
Trust and clarity: auctioneer Tobias Meyer takes a bid of US$14.5 million for Matisse’s Nu Couché Vu de Dos at Sotheby’s in New York in May 2006. Peter Foley/ EPA The Dynamics of Auction: Social Inte...
The land of the long white mirage 21 Aug 2013 | 09:08 am
Surplus at a cost: shadow treasurer Joe Hockey and opposition leader Tony Abbott campaigning in Launceston on 15 August. Alan Porritt/ AAP IN AN election campaign hinging on economic issues, the Coal...
