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Why the Australia-France submarine deal collapse was predictable

  Aerial-motion/ShutterstockAustralia’s unilateral cancellation of its contract to purchase French submarines and sign up for the AUKUS security pact constitutes a slap in the face for...

Incomplete strategy and niche contributions — Australia leaves Afghanistan after 20 years

  Picture: Department of Defence/AAPPrime Minister Scott Morrison has declared Australia will withdraw its remaining 80 troops from Afghanistan by September, marking the end of its...

Trump has changed America by making everything about politics, and politics all about himself

Graphic:Wes Mountain/The Conversation On October 14, Donald Trump held a rally attended by several thousand in Iowa, despite White House guidelines that gatherings...

‘Backwards’ federal budget: Morrison government never fails to disappoint on climate action

Image: Shuttlestock When it comes to action on climate change, Tuesday’s federal budget delivered by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg was a real – though not unexpected –...

US coronavirus data will now go straight to the White House. Here’s what this means for the world

Picture: John Amis/EPA Led by physicians, scientists and epidemiologists, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is one of the most reliable sources of...

In many countries the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating, not slowing

A mass grave in Manaus, Brazil. The country now has the second-most coronavirus cases and deaths in the world.  Sandro Pereira/Fotoarena/Sipa USA Around the world,...

Is America a ‘failing state’? How a superpower has been brought to the brink

Picture: AAP/EPA/Albert Halim After the collapse of the Soviet Union, there was a sense history had ended, and that the United States represented a supreme...

POTATO JACK

Potato Jack often left home without his jacket on. His mum warned him he’d catch his death, but she was wrong. Just like she...

THE FINAL STAGE – Adrian Rawlins review of what he called “My lost masterpiece”.

It started out like a normal day for the man of the house. He had breakfast with his wife. She was no warmer or...

THE DEAD AND THE DYING

The heavy decrepit bodies of the great and not so, mingled with their offsprings, children too young to realise that this too would be...
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Mick created TAGG - The Alternative Gig Guide in 1979 with Helmut Katterl, the world's first real Street Magazine. He had been involved with his fathers publishing business, Toorak Times and associated publications since 1972. Mick was also involved in Melbourne's music scene for a number of years opening venues, discovering and managing bands and providing information and support for the industry.Mick has also created a number of local festivals and is involved in not for profit and supporting local charities.