Fear of “innumerate and illiterate” asylum seekers arriving in Australia is immigration minister Peter Dutton’s latest broadside in the ongoing to-and-fro over asylum seeker policy.

Unfortunately for the asylum debate, numeracy is rather lost. In this regard, we can all learn something from the 1938 Physics Nobel Laureate Enrico...

Negative and positive advertisements were quick to hit the airwaves in the early days of the election campaign. With many more weeks to come, one might be tricked into thinking the major parties can’t keep going at this...

Incredulousness is these days a fairly common state of being – it seems that everyone, many times a day, is lol whut, omfg, and truly, madly, deeply outraged.

I’m a part of this body politic – multiple and continual drip feeds of news...