The Pause

This hospital has a long history of taking on challenges. It’s coped with AIDS. Coped with SARS. Coped with Ebola. But right now, all hospitals in New York are pushed to their limits. The swell in numbers of confirmed cases is the problem. This virus is ‘out of control’.

The time of our lives

Listen to Editor Ashley Hay read her introduction ‘The time of our lives’. YEARS AGO, I read a book by Douwe Draaisma, a...

Science in an age of scepticism

The risk associated with trust is that a person or institution we trust may fail to behave as we expect or hope. This highlights the difference between trust and reliance: we can rely on inanimate objects, such as our car or phone, but strictly speaking we are not betrayed if they don’t work properly. The same is not true in trust-based relationship...

2020: The year of reckoning, not reconciliation

I refused to sing the Australian national anthem and honour a flag that showed the Union Jack, the symbol of another country. Searching for a sense of belonging in a system that routinely denied both my true identity and the history of my people was a constant battle of two worlds colliding. It is a perplexing experience to feel lost in your own country.

Foresight, hindsight and the present day

Click here to listen to Editor Ashley Hay read her introduction ‘Foresight, hindsight and the present day’. IN 2013, US-based Chinese visual artist...

Ministry of Truth 20/20

Active citizens, constructive answers

IN THE DAYS after Labor’s unexpected defeat at the May 2019 federal election, a social media storm raged. ‘What...

Remembering who you report to

EARLY IN MY career as a Queensland public servant, I attended a workshop with the renowned Professor Patrick Weller,...

Towards a reconception of power

IT WOULD BE disconcerting to wake up one day and discover that everything we thought was real in the...

Negotiating the grey zone

WHILE SUCCESSIVE AUSTRALIAN governments spent the past decade focused on their budget deficits, another deficit quietly opened: one of...

Co-operation, mutualisation, innovation

THE MURMURED ANTIPHONY of counsels assisting, witnesses and the commissioner that fills the bulk of any public hearing is...

‘Imagine us as part of you’

LIKE MOST VISITS to ‘the future’ of anything, the wonders of a trip to Australia’s most advanced digital hospital...