In January 2022, the Australia Institute reported that: … the liquefied natural gas (LNG) is big business in Western Australia. In 2019–20, 47 million tonnes were sold generating sales revenue of $27 billion for multinational corporations like Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell […]

Late in 2021, we received an email from a reader of Agora who thought we had gone too far. The criticism was that in the last two editions we revealed ourselves as partisan and party political. We used Agora as […]

And so we say goodbye to 2021. And we’d like to end the year by acknowledging 2 very different individuals who have in very different ways made the world a better place. One The first is Ms Grace Tame. As […]

Last month, as a proof of why we must be extra careful when handling data, Professor Jeffrey Morris analysed if the 1984 movie Ghostbusters was killing people. In an exercise that demonstrates common errors of reasoning and analysis, Professor Morris […]

One The Future Fund invests on behalf of the Australian Government. In November 2021, journalists from the Guardian, Ben Butler and Ben Doherty, asked if the fund had invested in a weapons manufacturer that sold combat aircraft to the Myanmar […]