History Never Ended is a Substack trying to make sense of the chaotic present by reaching back into the misremembered past. Click to read History Never Ended, by Nick Bryant, a Substack publication wi...

The former prime minister Kevin Rudd has warned that there is an urgent need for intergovernmental regulation of AI. Ahead of next week's meeting in Washington between Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, wh...

Footnotes #9: Tribal politics in an age of AI.

BYV: words that feel good, so you stop asking what they mean.

People Power, Chapter 2: A pay cheque, a nursing home bed, a childcare place, a power bill, a vet bill, a GP appointment. Once a person becomes a number, someone else decides what that number is worth

BYV: the label built to end an argument before it starts.

When politicians make announcements wearing hi-vis and hard hats they are making a terrible miscalculation about who Australian voters really are, says one of Australia's great journalists George Mega...

One Nation’s historic victory in the once safe Labor seat of Secret Harbour was of no more surprise than their recent defeat of the Liberals in the Farrer by-election, but the failure of the Greens to...

BYV: The indexation increase is real. So is the deeming increase that quietly offsets it.

Tim Wilson sent one number from a release with two. He's the man who wants to run the country's finances. Small business in Australia grew last year. He didn't mention that either.

Part Three of four: materialism isn't a wealth problem, it's a cycle that runs on insecurity at every income level, and gratitude is one of the only things research shows can interrupt it

BYV: The money isn't taken from one state and handed to another. It comes from the federal budget, and that distinction is where most of the confusion starts.

BYV: A damning report doesn't change a single dollar. Only Federal Cabinet can do that, and it can wait until after the next election