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 |  | ANU and Western civilisation course: time to punish unis that limit freedom of thought The Australian National University's decision to cancel plans for a bachelor of Western civilisation has highlighted the rampant anti-Western bias that exists at many Australian universities. By James Paterson - 19/6/2018 | 8 | 2 hours ago |
| | Can Saudi Arabia prevent the next oil shock? Some insiders have, however, been opening up some doors, indicating that Aramco could have hit a possible production ceiling. By Cyril Widdershoven - 19/6/2018 | 4 | 8 mins ago |
| | Meanwhile in Sweden... The organisers found that while very few transgender people were making use of the program, the pool was invaded by men and boys taking the opportunity to perv on naked women. By Russell Grenning - 19/6/2018 | 3 | 7 hours ago |
| | Western Civilization, the media, and political irresponsibility For the first time that I can remember, though, we are on the cusp of a sustained national conversation about the place of the humanities in higher education and in Australian culture. By Dirk Moses - 18/6/2018 | 14 | 11 hours ago |
| | Erdogan's 'Trojan Horse' in Macedonia For more than a decade, Turkey's dictator has been courting Macedonia's Albanian Muslim minority. By Alon Ben-Meir and Arbana Xharra - 18/6/2018 | 3 | 33 hours ago |
| | Liberalism: a joke, literally It's dangerously naïve to believe more-of-the-same secular liberalism, with or without Donald Trump, will eventually win out. By Mark Christensen - 15/6/2018 | 9 | 2 days ago |
| | Net interstate migration to Queensland is on the rise. Does this mean we are about to boom? For net interstate migration to have a similar economic impact relative to the existing population, that 1.7% would today need to equate to 85,000 people per annum. By Ross Elliott - 15/6/2018 | 11 | 2 days ago |
| | Preparing for death We live in a time of crisis in meaning. Without a robust practice of faith we find ourselves in bondage to the primal fear: nonexistence. By Peter Sellick - 15/6/2018 | 23 | 5 hours ago |
| | Is Western Civilisation worth studying? Today's universities, wherever they are, and there are about 24,000 of them, have been heavily influenced in notions of scholarship and research, in what they teach and how they teach it, by Western examples. By Don Aitkin - 14/6/2018 | 35 | 2 hours ago |
| | Banning the burka is an accelerating trend The Danish Parliament has voted, by an overwhelming vote of 75 to 30, to ban the Islamic burka and the niqab. By Russell Grenning - 14/6/2018 | 18 | 12 hours ago |
| | How to foster famine Today's warm climate is very farm-friendly and tends to have most effect on the cold lands of the northern hemisphere, thus increasing the acreage and productivity. By Viv Forbes - 14/6/2018 | 7 | 3 days ago |
| | No freedom to choose And it's not just government departments who are guilty of it. Influential celebrities sometimes lever their popularity to try and change us for the better. By Nicola Wright - 13/6/2018 | 10 | 2 days ago |
| | Community currencies Community currencies help energize the local community (as distinct from the speculation and paper-shuffling of much of the high-end banking sector). By Keith Suter - 13/6/2018 | 5 | 5 days ago |
| | What must we pay for our renewables protection policy? Australian politicians are 'doubling down' again on their energy costs gamble. When their gambling goes awry, punters, and, inevitably, the economy, will pay. By Geoff Carmody - 13/6/2018 | 13 | 5 days ago |
| | The two 'fatal flaws lurking in American leftist politics': a humble attempt to help Jordan Peterson with his challenge Most of the acts that cause subjective harm are verbal. My attitude towards what you say to me determines how much pain it will cause me. By Izzy Kalman - 12/6/2018 | 5 | 6 days ago |
| | The food of movement: Anthony Bourdain's Universal Eater He also offers the advice that should be part of any diner's canon: avoid ordering fish on Mondays like the plague. By Binoy Kampmark - 12/6/2018 | 3 | 7 days ago |
| | Christian origin of Australian financial institutions The bank was to be a bulwark against exploitation and corruption, for the common good. By Michael Jensen - 12/6/2018 | 13 | 4 days ago |
| | What should be in a study of Western Civilisatisation? The problem is that the word ‘civilisation’, let alone western civilisation, is very difficult to define, not least because it is not so much a thing as something which develops over time. By Gregory Melleuish - 11/6/2018 | 18 | 7 days ago |
| | Senate crossbench Each of the senators who changed seats left a party that was not grounded in clearly defined principles. By David Leyonhjelm - 11/6/2018 | 5 | 8 days ago |
| | Elite atrocities: Australia's Special Forces in Afghanistan Bensouda concluded 'that all legal criteria required under the Rome statute [of the ICC] to commence an investigation have been met'. By Binoy Kampmark - 11/6/2018 | 17 | 5 days ago |
| | An open letter to Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar All this bloody mayhem could have been avoided had you concluded long ago that the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict rests on ending all violence and no longer perpetuating demands such as the right of return. By Alon Ben-Meir - 11/6/2018 | 9 | 33 hours ago |
| | An open letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu Not a single Israeli or Palestinian should die in a blood-soaked conflict that has not and will never yield any tangible or lasting gain for either side. By Alon Ben-Meir - 8/6/2018 | 17 | 9 days ago |
| | The only real regulation reform is deregulation Deregulation is about reducing the economic and ethical burdens on businesses and consumers. This is done through removing both elements of, and entire, regulations. By Darren Nelson - 8/6/2018 | 7 | 9 days ago |
| | The Italian populist government – a crisis still waiting to happen The Italian President created constitutional crisis by taking umbrage to a Plan B from a notable economist. By Michael Knox - 7/6/2018 | 6 | 12 days ago |
| | Facing up to Facebook Facebook shifted its business operations to Ireland in 2010 and, surprise surprise, laws protecting data in Ireland are 'widely considered' to be less stringent than anywhere else. By Russell Grenning - 7/6/2018 | 4 | 11 days ago |
| | Reasonableness and citizenship The world is moving slowly and perhaps hesitantly to recognising that a person can 'belong' to two nations in a positive way, and act as a citizen in each. By Don Aitkin - 6/6/2018 | 19 | 8 days ago |
| | Do terrorists view us as human? Who - or what - do jihadis think we are? Less than human? Or human and a threat to the values they cherish. By Shane Satterley - 6/6/2018 | 15 | 6 days ago |
| | Regulations are down but not out The EPA, as well as other agencies and departments of the Trump Administration, should continue to focus on reducing, not ‘improving’, regulations in 2018 like they did in 2017. By Darren Nelson - 6/6/2018 | 3 | 13 days ago |
| | Giant referendum Voters have given up trying to find the right leader. So, their only hope lies in changing the rules under which Parliament operates. By Everald Compton - 5/6/2018 | 10 | 10 days ago |
| | Germany's rising anti-Semitism Ms Merkel has never ever reconciled herself to the fact that inviting some one and a half million Muslim refugees to Germany she was also inviting a new virulent antisemitism. By Russell Grenning - 5/6/2018 | 6 | 13 days ago |
| | Emerging market meltdown could undermine oil rally The evidence is growing by the day. Turkey's currency, the lira, has lost 20 percent of its value over the past two months. Argentina is seeking a bailout from the IMF. By Nicholas Cunningham - 5/6/2018 | 1 | 14 days ago |
| | It’s time to cut union influence over government in Queensland In the past 18 months, the union's Queensland branch has been hit with fines totalling $2.4 million after losing 10 cases brought by the Australian Building and Construction Commission. By Deb Frecklington - 4/6/2018 | 5 | 14 days ago |
| | Libertarianism and optimism When you look at nations that slash government red tape, protect private property rights and safeguard civil liberties, you see societies where opportunity abounds, people escape from poverty, and civil society flourishes. By David Leyonhjelm - 4/6/2018 | 9 | 14 days ago |
| | Why US must expand forces in Syria The US cannot impact the development of events in Syria without a credible and strong military backing to deter any adversary. By Alon Ben-Meir - 4/6/2018 | 7 | 13 days ago |
| | A genuine left would support Western Civilisation I guess we are supposed to look back lovingly at all those civilisations that crumbled in the face of the western onslaught, for example, Czarist Russia, Qing China, Mughal India, Ottoman MENA and Aztec Mesoamerica. By David McMullen - 1/6/2018 | 19 | 11 days ago |
| | Let's establish a Makarrata Commission We can design and create a Makarrata Commission that's a democratically elected, non-legislative body speaking on behalf of all our nation's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples By Rodney Crisp - 1/6/2018 | 51 | 13 days ago |
| | Review: A Genuinely Theological Church Keeping the substance of the gospel before us is not an easy task in an age flooded with ideology, cultural warfare, rampant populism and political correctness. By Peter Sellick - 1/6/2018 | 3 | 17 days ago |
| | How collaborative consumption will help solve our modern day dilemmas Collaborative consumption is a powerful cultural and economic force, emphasising on not what we consume, but how we consume our goods or services. By Michael Eddy - 31/5/2018 | 10 | 14 days ago |
| | No, it wasn't Bolton who screwed up the North Korea summit It was a pair of jaw-dropping televised gaffes by the president and vice-president that sent the Trump-Kim lovefest into a downward spiral. By Gary Gambill - 31/5/2018 | 20 | 16 days ago |
| | Universities, branding and Saudi Arabia Scruples are best left to others, and most certainly not university managers, who prefer counting the sums rather than pondering deontological principles. By Binoy Kampmark - 31/5/2018 | 2 | 19 days ago |
| | The morality of taxation The 'ability to pay principle' is no principle at all. It is a euphemism for 'take what you can get' and 'might is right'. By David Leyonhjelm - 30/5/2018 | 24 | 14 days ago |
| | Europe and Asia: together for a more secure world Collectively, the EU and its Member States have the second largest defence budget in the world; the potential of greater European cooperation on defence matters is immense. By Frederica Mogherini - 30/5/2018 | 9 | 13 days ago |
| | Is Snowy 2.0’s call to can coal an own-goal? Increasingly, Australia’s total power supply is intermittent and either unreliable or more expensive, or both. We’ll pay more for power, not less. By Geoff Carmody - 30/5/2018 | 19 | 20 days ago |
| | When is a woman a woman? David is only a transwoman on Wednesdays so there is no point his meeting Jeremy on any other day of the week, is there? By Russell Grenning - 29/5/2018 | 29 | 13 days ago |
| | Subtle shifts in concern While there is a strong expectation that Labor could win the next election, it is a rebuttable presumption. By Graham Young - 29/5/2018 | 12 | 20 days ago |
| | Buy fantasy fun, light up, die young More than 180 countries have banned tobacco advertising, but not Indonesia, where advertising agencies use every persuasive weapon in their arsenal to entice the young to smoke that first cigarette. By Duncan Graham - 28/5/2018 | 6 | 22 days ago |
| | Let's teach history in a different and better way As it is taught today, history is a chronicle of power struggles and war, told from a biased national standpoint. But the true history of humanity is a history of ideas, inventions, progress, shared knowledge, shared culture and cooperation. By John Avery - 28/5/2018 | 17 | 18 days ago |
| | Trump, Middle East and conservative Christians Trump is, for them, a flawed warrior of Christ. He has immense moral imperfections but he can still also be a vehicle for God's plans. By Keith Suter - 25/5/2018 | 78 | 5 days ago |
| | The IAAF decision to limit female testosterone levels for certain female track events is stupid The focus on certain events is ridiculous given that testosterone helps all events that rely greatly on muscular power. By Chris Lewis - 25/5/2018 | 9 | 20 days ago |
| | Serbia, Turkey, and Russia: alarm bells for Europe Erdogan has made his unscrupulous position clear to Western powers, stressing that Turkey will become as powerful and influential as the Ottoman Empire was during its heyday. By Alon Ben-Meir and Arbana Xharra - 25/5/2018 | 10 | 13 days ago |
| | Don't ban donations, ban donations from crooks While there is a suspicion that some property development donations are corrupt (73 per cent), the suspicion is even higher for gaming (76 per cent) and still very high for unions (63 per cent), alcohol (60 per cent) and lawyers (51 per cent). By Graham Young - 24/5/2018 | 9 | 25 days ago |
| | The digital crack down on crypto: what does the future hold? Here in Australia, a financial scandal involving the Commonwealth Bank of Australia sparked reforms to strengthen the anti-money laundering laws to include the likes of Bitcoin. By Jessica Foreman - 24/5/2018 | 8 | 5 days ago |
| | Macron, Merkel and May should adopt Trump policy on Jerusalem Refusing to move the French Embassy to Israel's designated capital now is bowing to the dictates and diplomatic blackmail of an illegal and undemocratic entity. By David Singer - 24/5/2018 | 15 | 22 days ago |
| | Postcapitalising post carbon for the win Postcapitalism is not about inventing something new or imposing unrealistic utopias but is about building on existing movements, emerging successes and resilient ecosystems. By Karun Cowper - 23/5/2018 | 17 | 25 days ago |
| | Conservatism and the demise of Israel Once Iran has a missile and a nuclear warhead, they will be launched. Israel has atomic bombs also. By Peter Bowden - 23/5/2018 | 13 | 24 days ago |
| | Which politician do we want to lead the country? We do not want the Coalition to govern the country, but we prefer its leader, the current Prime Minister, to govern in preference to the leader of the alternative political party. By Peter Bowden - 22/5/2018 | 23 | 22 days ago |
| | IEA: high oil prices 'taking a toll' on demand The inventory surplus has vanished, and more outages could push oil prices up even higher. By Nicholas Cunningham - 22/5/2018 | 3 | 27 days ago |
| | It's a marriage not just a carnival A royal wedding offers a unique opportunity to celebrate the bonds that tie a society together and particularly the deepest of these, the family. By Mal Fletcher - 21/5/2018 | 7 | 29 days ago |
| | A very republican sickness: loving royal weddings Black spirituality tagged on to exaggerated feminist values mixed with traditional forms certainly gave an impression of difference, but these were daubs rather than extensive splashes. By Binoy Kampmark - 21/5/2018 | 3 | 27 days ago |
| | Kim Jong-Un’s survival strategy North and South Korea had to convince Donald Trump that a small achievement is a grand victory. By Felix Imonti - 21/5/2018 | 21 | 21 days ago |