Dave Sharma was Australia's ambassador to Israel from 2013 to 2017. Now a member of Australia's House of Representatives, he chairs the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties.
Robert Harris's 2019 novel The Second Sleep opens with a scene that reads like the Middle Ages. Someway into the novel, we realize that it is actually set 800 years into the future, around 2800 AD. In 2025, an event that our descendants refer to as the Apocalypse, our civilization collapsed.
