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Over the last 12 months, development applications in Canberra’s RZ2 (suburban core) areas appear to have slowed almost to a standstill.  RZ2 policy

Q: So what is Tony Trobe going to be banging on about today? TT: Well I thought we could talk a little bit about

The philosopher Arthur Koestler wrote a book called The Ghost in the Machine in 1967 which conjures up the notion that the mind is

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About 7 years ago in the Sydney Morning Herald in an article in Canberra by Judith Ireland the following paragraph appeared; “More recently, Canberra

Socrates, the champion the examined life, thought democracy was ‘The least bad system available’. Fighting from within the system however he described the role

Isaac Newton famously said, “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants”. Giants are not to

I have been in Australia for over half my life thus by pure maths I am now more Australian than English yet

On Saturday I formed part of the devoted Bill Bryson flock accompanied by a packed crowd of equally eager-eared, Zimmer frame pushing, grey-hairs.

Q: I have just bought an expensive Fluffy block, am thinking of building a new home and have been getting wildly differing

A slightly odd vice of mine is an appreciation of the joy of acronyms. Some might consider this an annoying affectation

Q: So Tony here we are once more, with you talking to yourself again. TT: Indeed, I feel like a bit of