My final ABC column for the year, on what I think were the biggest stories of 2025 - the stockmarket bubble, and what's behind it - AI and robots, which have brought humanity to a turning point in history. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Today's column for ABC news: the strange macho appeal of fossil fuels. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

After the magnet shock of 2025, who gets to have the rare earths version of the North Sea (the oil shock of 1973 led to North Sea oil, enriching Norway). Will it be Australia this time? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Deb Forster has published another short story on her website, called Wings. It's wonderful imho deborahforster.com.au

Deb Forster - @Oliveforster - has posted another short story on her website, called Butter Menthols. It's a story about a mother who takes her kids to a refuge to escape a violent drunk, for a better life. It's great. deborahforster.com.au

In this week's ABC column I preview the Government's 2035 emissions reduction target: if it's worthwhile, we'll need a carbon tax, and probably nuclear generation as well. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Deborah Forster (@Oliveforster) has published a new work of fiction on her website. It's called "Ozone", a story about a girl growing up. deborahforster.com.au/stories/cate...

My wife Deb has decided to post some of her fiction for you to read. The first is a short story called Ada Sharon Adams, and like most of her work is about the lives of girls and women. deborahforster.com.au

Last night's piece for ABC TV news previewing tomorrow's RBA interest rate decision. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

This week's column for ABC News - In the early 1980s, Australia had as big a trade deficit as the United States has now — around 3 to 4 per cent of GDP. But the two solutions to the same problem could not be more different. Read on... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

This morning's column for the ABC: Australia's illegal tobacco problem has made the proverbial transition from tragedy to farce. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

My video piece for last night's @abcnews: we're not going reach net zero by 2050 and we won't prevent global warming in time. It's China's fault. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Last night's @abcnews finance report, in case you missed it www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Last night's @abcnews finance bit, icymi www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

This morning's @abcnews column, in which I discuss how AI has become part of the geopolitical contest between China and America, not just a race to AGI among a few billionaires. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

This week's column for ABC , on Anthony Albanese's green iron sales pitch in China last week and why it's a big deal. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Last night's ABC news finance bit, ICYMI www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

"Real men burn stuff": America's acts of self-harm while China - a ruthless autocracy - builds the future. This week's column for the ABC www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Last night's @abcnews finance bit in case you missed it www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

My column for @abcnews - where are we going to find 34 sq kms of land per year in the suburbs to build houses? Golf courses? Parks? Race tracks? Boosting supply alone is not the answer to affordability. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

I did

did a "My 2 Cents" for Life Matters on Radio national. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Deb's @debfor.bsky.social‬ winter solstice column: Our new garden is a bog, the dullness of puddles has taken it and sunken it into wet grass, but there are three foxgloves shooting up and two pink dogwoods and a crab-apple all doing well. So come on spring! deborahforster.com.au

This week Deb @Oliveforster has written about dullness, and it's not dull! deborahforster.com.au

Deb @Oliveforster has written about a beloved friend who died recently. It moved me to tears. deborahforster.com.au

It looks like only the courts will hold Trump to account... if his regime chooses to obey them, which it probably won't. My column for @abcnewsbot.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

Last night's @abcnews piece on the transmission cost blowout, and the need to shift the energy transition to more rooftop solar, with batteries. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCjb...

Last night's TV piece for @abcnews, in which I wonder who pays tax ion an automated world, and suggest that the extra tax on $3m+ super balances is a toe in the wealth tax water. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

My column for @abcnews : history is repeating on housing. Interest rates are coming down, affordability is improving and prices are rising. Accessibility is getting worse. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Some reflections on life, death and getting old, from Deborah Forster @Oliveforster deborahforster.com.au

Last night's finance report icymi, with a bit about Moody's downgrade of America's credit rating, a graph of house price gains two years after the start of a rate cut cycle, and some graphs of percentage of homes worth $1m or more. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

This week's ABC column, in which I pinpoint the day the Liberal party began to die - July 17 2014, when they repealed the Clean Energy Act of 2011 - and suggest they can't now have an electable climate policy and stay in coalition with the Nationals. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Deb's latest: All My Changes Were There. It's about how things happen to us, when we think we are in control. She hopes you like it. deborahforster.com.au

This morning's @abcnews column, in which I wonder whether Jim Chalmers is up for the reform agenda that Paul Keating had, and whether Albanese would support him as Hawke did Keating, because the country needs it again. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Deb on her love for Stevie Ray Vaughan, and the importance of music in her life. deborahforster.com.au

Last night's piece for @abcnews TV on the two post-election priorities for the Government, housing and productivity. They will require hard, thankless, grinding policy work, for the full three years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEw3...

This week's column for ABC: Why Trump has become toxic for conservatives everywhere. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Deb's reflections on voting yesterday: Come Gather Round People. The times definitely are changing. deborahforster.com.au

Today's ABC column, about the healthcare revolution taking place in the Melbourne suburb of Kew. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

This morning's @abcnews column: it's a housing election, but both parties' housing policies are inadequate and, in the case of the Coalition, also terrible. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

Last night's video piece for @abcnews on productivity, and robots. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

Deb @Oliveforster has an Easter murmuration. deborahforster.com.au

Deb on marvellous Melbourne - let's gather round it! And, of course, grandchildren. deborahforster.com.au

My drop in the ocean of commentary about Trump's tariffs, for ABC this morning: America's having a holiday from reality and reason. We should move on. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

This week Deb has written about rejections from publishers (she's had a few), and of course a bit about family. deborahforster.com.au

Last night's piece for @abcnews in which I do the sums on housing approvals and migration and conclude that in January, housing demand was more than twice supply. iview.abc.net.au/video/KOHL20...

This week's @abcnews column: the election is a contest of band-aids. No-one is seriously tackling Australia's two big shortages, housing and productivity. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

Deb @Oliveforster has written about the loneliness for her of our time in Sydney, and how she discovered the refuge of David Jones. deborahforster.com.au

This is a time when clear political vision and decisive leadership is called for, when the stakes for the coming election couldn't be higher. Not that you would know it from the grubby squabbles that pass for national debate these days. @AlanKohler.bsky.social #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

Alan Kohler book club is back! Uprising by Stephen Gapps, People Power by George Williams and David Hume (great read) and What Trump’s Second Term Means For Australia by Bruce Wolfe. And a pilea. @alankohler.bsky.social