Jan 13, 2025 · Long ago, in high school maths, I was taught about the value of "elegant solutions". A correct answer might be good; an elegant correct one is better. What is "elegant"? In common usage – graceful, stylish, sophisticated, attractive. In technical innovation – a simple, neat, clever, efficient ...

Jan 14, 2025 · The impact of increased available of products and electricity on human productivity was unprecedented. The increase came from the enormous increase in energy available per person. When these processes were successfully implemented, the entire population benefitted from substantial increases in the standard of living, resulting in …

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Jun 28, 2024 · Media commentary is dominated by "experts" pontificating over climate change, cost of living, homelessness, gender politics, and the RBA. Politicians look seriously at cameras; but, have no answers to declining living standards confronting low to middle income groups saddled with rising food prices, mortgages, and rental costs.

Jul 8, 2024 · Australia's official power generation statistics make it obvious that we have no chance of meeting the clean energy needs of an all-electric fossil-fuel-free modern industrialised economy.

Nov 12, 2024 · Kamala Harris appears to have failed in her efforts to win the Presidency; at least in part because American men have had enough. For months leading up to the election, the media was full of stories about the Democrat's Man Problem, as polls revealed what was widely touted as the biggest gender gap in history.

Oct 23, 2024 · The problem: There is cognitive dissonance between the launch in February 2024 in the Australian Parliament of the whole-of- nation approach to Australian foreign policy and the lived experience of most informed Australians and multicultural communities.

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Jul 4, 2008 · Robert Manne first took up cudgels against Burchett in 1985, in an article published in Quadrant, which awarded him a prize for it.There he accused Burchett of a multitude of sins: working as a KGB agent; a Korean War torturer and brainwasher of POWs; black-marketeer; black-mailer; black-guard; womaniser; alcoholic; Soviet agent of influence; and fabricator of germ warfare propaganda stories ...

Jan 22, 2024 · Compiled from RBA Statistical Tables online. Monetary policy in Australia has come under criticism over recent months. As portrayed in the Chart 1, monetary policy appears impotent and unable to provide stability to an economy experiencing long term decline since 2007.