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WALKING ACROSS THE scorched lawns of the quadrangle of a major university, not so long ago when this was...

THE MONSTROUS WAVE that engulfed the north-east coast of Japan, sweeping the means and products of decades of industrial...

By Julianne Schultz

NEVER BEFORE IN human history has so much been known about so many by so many.The social media revolution...

By Julianne Schultz

THE TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION had scarcely begun to gather momentum when management consultants, alert as ever to an emerging opportunity,...

By Julianne Schultz

THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY has continued as it started – jittery and uncertain. As the countdown to the new century...

By Julianne Schultz

IN THE LEAD-UP to Christmas 2011 the usual mix of tension and excitement was underpinned by a new level...

By Julianne Schultz

THERE ARE THREADS that run like arteries through a nation and in this country one is the land. It...

By Julianne Schultz

AT THE END of last century I was charged, for a short time, with helping a major media organisation...

By Julianne Schultz

IT'S A GOOD question. How many people in the world travelled as tourists last year? With the global population...

By Julianne Schultz

AS WELL AS producing suffering, adversity can spark genius. And works of genius – paintings, writing, music, science, even...

By Julianne Schultz

WHEN WE AWOKE to the new century on January 1, 2000, after fireworks had ricocheted around the globe for...

By Julianne Schultz

TASMANIA OCCUPIES A unique place in the national imagination. It is different in so many ways to the vast,...

By Julianne Schultz