EDITORIAL – Pragmatism needs to take precedence in the myriad of politics and electioneering – opinion polls cannot be relied on. Last Wednesday, we published an analysis of the election looking at the state of the polls. We wrote the following: As Keating’s re-election in … Continue readingWE TOLD YOU SO – VICTORY IS NEVER A SURE THING
A man who cast a shadow above all those around him and has forever left a mark on Australia—our country would not be the same without his immense contribution. The 23rd and the longest serving Labor Prime Minister, from 1983 to 1991, Bob Hawke pioneered … Continue readingVALE BOB HAWKE: A TRIBUTE TO AUSTRALIA’S 23RD PRIME MINISTER
EDITORIAL – “The gods may throw a dice Their minds as cold as ice And someone way down here Loses someone dear The winner takes it all The loser has to fall It’s simple and it’s plain Why should I complain” ABBA The Winner Takes … Continue readingTHE WINNER TAKES IT ALL… THE LOSER STANDING SMALL
The above image is by artist Bindi Cole Chocka who successfully sued Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt for breaches to the Racial Discrimination Act. “Democracy may stand as something unique in history, a political premise designed wholly to pander to the dichotomous mind”, Boyd Rice … Continue readingTHE BIGOTRY OF TOLERANCE
Imagine it is the late 2020’s and Autonomous vehicles are a fact of life. No one you know or interact with owns a car and in one way or another you utilise self-driving transportation. There are few vehicles on the road and they are all … Continue readingSELF-DRIVEN PROGRESS OR DRIVE TO DOOM?
BY ZACH ELSBURY – The current state of British politics needs little introduction. A polity, once seen by foreign correspondents as dull, uneventful, and stable is now the complete constantly evolving, febrile, and flirting with total collapse. European integration has always been a vexed question … Continue readingLOOKING BACK TO MOVE FORWARD
One year ago, Brexit was still unresolved, the US pulled out the Iran deal, China was threatening the US with a trade war, democratic nations feared Russian intervention in their elections, and we here at Pivot published our first article. On this, our first birthday, … Continue readingELECTIONS, COUPS AND ABDICATIONS – HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY PIVOT
Twenty-nineteen is shaping up to be a pivotal year for the modern-day, billionaire-fuelled Space Race in the private spaceflight industry , known as “NewSpace”. With emerging private companies taking huge strides in space travel technologies, there could soon be a dynamic shift where space travel … Continue readingTO INFINITY & BEYOND: THE MODERN SPACE RACE
As celebrations for Easter Sunday were commencing around the world, news began trickling in that there was a devastating attack in Sri Lanka that had killed, maimed and also instilled a climate of fear in the country. Initially, a series of eight simultaneous suicide bombings … Continue readingSRI LANKA’S TRAGEDY: OVER 300 REASONS TO MOURN
EDITORIAL – Thursday, an anti-climactic day in U.S. politics. Attorney General William Barr approached a podium flanked by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, to announce that President Trump committed no crimes during the 2016 U.S. Election regarding democratic interference. Announced prior to the report’s delivery … Continue reading“I’M F**KED” – IT ISN’T GAME OVER YET MR. PRESIDENT