Failure


Mythbusters’ Adam Savage: “failure is always an option”

Savage on some of the most unmitigated, colossal failures he’s experienced during his career.

10 new reasons to read that card with the brace position

The volume of persistent and troubling air safety incidents in Australia is without precedent. It cannot be explained by growth alone, writes Ben Sandlilands.

Mungo MacCallum: Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups

Howard and the leadership … Nobody messes with Bennelong’s Granny Smith Festival … Queensland, Beattie and Bligh … education or security? … The Housemartins …

If Pearson had the guts he’d turn against the Intervention too

Judging by the numerous reports and excerpts of Noel Pearson’s speech at the Melbourne Writers Festival, it would seem that Pearson is already preparing his excuses for the failure of the “national emergency,” writes Guy Rundle.

Bracks shows the way to go out

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs,” or so Enoch Powell’s famous maxim goes.