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View commentsView articleSquabbling siblings: India, Pakistan and Operation Sindoor
Prime Minister Modi, despite his grander visions for India, is a sectarian fanatic. History shows that fanaticism tends to shrink, rather than enlarge the mind.
By Binoy Kampmark - 28/5/2025
12 days ago
View commentsView articleWhat if Australia had rejected net zero?
The countries still pursuing net zero represent less than 40% of global emissions. Even if they all reach their targets - and there is zero possibility of that - it is even more pointless.
By David Leyonhjelm - 28/5/2025
968 mins ago
View commentsView articleEconomic prosperity demands continuous and uninterruptible electricity
The intermittent electricity from so-called renewables cannot support AI and Datacenters.
By Ronald Stein and Dick Storm - 27/5/2025
253 mins ago
View commentsView articleIsrael at the crossroads: occupation, genocide, and the death of a vision
The country that rose from the ashes of millions of Jews who perished in the Holocaust will not survive on the ashes of the Palestinians.
By Alon Ben-Meir - 27/5/2025
52 days ago
View commentsView articleOf saints and sinners
If Francis is to become a saint, he has to produce two miracles… after his death. Milei is already well on the way to more than two miracles, well before his.
By Graham Young - 26/5/2025
53 days ago
View commentsView articleThe age of bullshit
In a world of 'frameworks', 'stakeholders', and 'outcomes' public language is losing its grip on meaning.
By Steven Schwartz - 26/5/2025
712 hours ago
View commentsView articleThe morning after the democracy sausage sizzle
To be blunt, what the Teals and Greens have achieved is akin to renovating the interior of an old heritage mansion, while leaving the rotting foundations untouched.
By Chek Ling - 23/5/2025
27 days ago
View commentsView articleNewsom relinquishing control to China to meet the energy demands of Californians?
While the economy demand continues to increase for products and fuels, Newsom continues to destroy the supply of oil and refining to meet those demands – China coming to the rescue!
By Ronald Stein and Mike Umbro - 22/5/2025
27 days ago
View commentsView articleUnited Nations readies to increase Jew-hatred worldwide
The world cannot afford to watch the two-State solution disappear. Political leaders face clear choices – the choice to be silent, the choice to acquiesce, or the choice to act.
By David Singer - 22/5/2025
172 days ago
View commentsView articleWe need to talk about Jamie Miller
Not since Lionel Shriver’s novel We Need to Talk About Kevin has a work of fiction provided such a confronting and disturbing insight into the adolescent mind.
By Jean Yates - 21/5/2025
38 days ago
View commentsView articleTrump, planes and the Arabian Gulf tour
Forget the security implications and brazen corruption... all the parties concerned could gloat without consequential censure.
By Binoy Kampmark - 21/5/2025
39 days ago
View commentsView articleTrump’s budget cuts - a gamble that will sow global chaos
Trump’s rampage against international organizations is an assault on every individual, the poor, the despondent, and the needy, whose only lifeline to survive is American aid.
By Alon Ben-Meir - 20/5/2025
29 days ago
View commentsView articleThe geopolitical future of Ukraine – four possible scenarios for 2025–2026
The most probable outcome for 2025–2026 is a continued stalemate, where neither Ukraine nor Russia achieves a decisive military victory.
By Yuri Koszarycz - 16/5/2025
42 days ago
View commentsView articleTasmanian police resist feminist weaponisation of DV laws
How's that for a toll of violence against men – all in the news in the same week as women march in the streets claiming women are the only victims?T
By Bettina Arndt - 16/5/2025
214 days ago
View commentsView articleThe modern art of bullying
Thanks to digital technology and social media, children no longer have the option of leaving their bullies at the school gate.
By Jean Yates - 15/5/2025
314 days ago
View commentsView articleWho was Australia’s best prime minister?
Historians picked Curtin. The public picked Howard. But who really made Australia better?
By Peter Bowden - 15/5/2025
1912 days ago
View commentsView articleStep by step, moment by moment, breath by breath
If nothing really matters, then why does it matter that nothing matters?
By Steven Schwartz - 14/5/2025
915 days ago
View commentsView articleAn existential choice
The two-party system masks itself in different names and faces—offering only the illusion of opposition.
By Mamtimin Ala - 13/5/2025
217 days ago
View commentsView articleGender-affirming care for minors under fire
When medical interventions pose unnecessary, disproportionate risks of harm, healthcare providers should refuse to offer them—even when requested.
By Maryanne Demasi - 13/5/2025
616 days ago
View commentsView articleWhite smoke and speculation: the election of Pope Leo XIV
The one rare occasion in the twenty-first century where ancient ceremony, the old boy network – many presumptive virgins – along with festive dressing up, were seen with admiration rather than suspicion.
By Binoy Kampmark - 12/5/2025
915 days ago
View commentsView articleThe good, the bad, and the ugly, of electric vehicles
Is it ethical and moral for wealthy countries to subsidise 'green' energy while encouraging exploitation and environmental degradation in the developing world?
By Ronald Stein - 12/5/2025
218 days ago
View commentsView articleThousands of scientists contest the climate scare
Scientific theories are never proven by a show of hands - if they were, the Earth would still be flat.
By Tom Harris - 9/5/2025
320 days ago
View commentsView articleThe selling of America: ending the US dollar’s exorbitant privilege
Trump’s economic chaos is rattling markets and breaking the dollar’s spell.
By Binoy Kampmark - 9/5/2025
121 days ago
View commentsView articleTrump was not a significant factor, and that matters
Post election there is always jockeying to write the narrative. Frequently these are either complete fantasy, or 'faction' – fiction based on fact.
By Graham Young - 8/5/2025
221 days ago
View commentsView articleWinning the suburbs is the key to winning elections.
Worried about the cost of electricity? No, they can afford it – but are more worried about carbon emissions and climate change – so the very high cost of energy transition is worth it.
By Ross Elliott - 7/5/2025
123 days ago
View commentsView articleThe equity illusion: why lowering standards doesn't help the disadvantaged
Fairness is not about everyone getting the same outcome. It's about everyone having a fair chance to reach their potential.
By Steven Schwartz - 6/5/2025
123 days ago
View commentsView articleAnother refinery closure in California increases the states' dependency on China
With an upcoming Valero Refinery closure in California, the 5th largest economy in the world will be more dependent of China for its demands for transportation fuels and oil derivatives to make products.
By Ronald Stein and Kasun Ubayasiri - 6/5/2025
124 days ago
View commentsView articlePrivate residential landlords are unfairly demonised
If the trend of landlord-bashing by government continues, investors will simply walk away from the rental housing market.
By Brendan O'Reilly - 5/5/2025
225 days ago
View commentsView articleVoters voted for the real deal, not the cross-dressing political party
Each of these leaders won by sharpening the difference between them and their opponents. Peter Dutton and this lot of LNP leaders tried to minimise the difference.
By Graham Young - 5/5/2025
1516 days ago
View commentsView articleVoting independent? It can be a risky move
While the latest polls suggest Labor might scrape into forming a majority government, a minority government, propped up by the Greens, is still a real possibility.
By Scott Prasser and Nicholas Aroney - 2/5/2025
228 days ago
View commentsView articleThe nanny state infests our world
Nanny state rules often owe their origins to moral panics. These are defined as a widespread fear that some evil person or thing threatens the values, interests, or well-being of a community or society.
By David Leyonhjelm - 2/5/2025
628 days ago
View commentsView articleVoting Green may be the greatest act of self-harm by a generation ever
Why would a party whose voters are younger and disproportionately likely to rent propose policies that could see rents increase on average by another $83 per week, as well as seeing as many as 450,000 homes disappearing from the rental market?
By Graham Young - 1/5/2025
927 days ago
View commentsView articleTrump is ushering in a national disaster
The Republican Party has lost its moral compass and its spine, and it will pay dearly for empowering Trump, who brought America to the precipice of a national disaster.
By Alon Ben-Meir - 1/5/2025
421 days ago
View commentsView articleAnzac Day
We owe our ancestors a country that believes in itself.
By Steven Schwartz - 30/4/2025
629 days ago
View commentsView articleCalifornia NetZero leaders want to shutter their only zero emissions electricity generating plant
California is being lobbied to import much of its electricity demands from out-of-state emission generating coal fired power plants, despite the 70-year safety record of the Navy with nuclear generated electricity.
By Ronald Stein and Gene Nelson - 30/4/2025
828 days ago
View commentsView articleMethods of electricity generation
Many believe that ideology and laws are stronger than the laws of Nature if forced. The reality is the reverse.
By Charles Hemmings - 29/4/2025
1226 days ago
View commentsView articleSome pets now get better medical treatment than their owners
While there are inherent differences between the two, animals in Britain are increasingly likely to receive more timely and readily accessible medical treatment than their human counterparts, albeit often at a direct financial cost to their owners.
By Ivor Campbell - 29/4/2025
231 days ago
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