Google’s recent sacking of James Damore for circulating a memo will do the tech giant more harm than good. Not only has the memo been incorrectly dubbed “anti-diversity”, but a majority of Google employees surveyed in a recent poll disagreed with the decision to fire Damore.

A more productive response to the memo would have been...

Michelle Grattan discusses the week in politics with the University of Canberra’s deputy vice-chancellor, Nicholas Klomp.

Topics of discussion include:

• the postal ballot to change the Marriage Act to allow same-sex marriages;

• the differences in Malcolm Turnbull’s and Bill Shorten’s “yes” campaigns;

• the...

This article is part of the Democracy Futures series, a joint global initiative between The Conversation and the Sydney Democracy Network. The project aims to stimulate fresh thinking about the...