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View commentsView articleAI and the failure of economics
AI will impact our unemployment level, but we gauge our inflation from unemployment, so what effect will it have on central banks?
By Ben Rees - 9/3/2026
218 hours ago
View commentsView articleLoony bin rationales: the continuing war on Iran
From 'imminent threat' to 'Israel would strike anyway': the story keeps shifting.
By Binoy Kampmark - 9/3/2026
415 hours ago
View commentsView articleTrump and Netanyahu are chasing an illusion in Iran
A war launched for regime change may end with neither regime change nor peace.
By Alon Ben-Meir - 6/3/2026
287 hours ago
View commentsView articleSaudi Arabia may soon be joining the Abraham Accords
Could war with Iran push Saudi Arabia into the Abraham Accords?
By David Singer - 6/3/2026
24 days ago
View commentsView articleVoters will keep voting Labor, even when dissatisfied
When Coalition voters prefer Pauline Hanson to their own leader, something has broken.
By Graham Young - 5/3/2026
1121 hours ago
View commentsView articleGoing native in the Trump jungle: how it became legal to attack Iran
Ukraine’s sovereignty matters. Iran’s apparently does not. Welcome to the Trump Jungle.
By Binoy Kampmark - 5/3/2026
123 days ago
View commentsView articleLeaking the Liberals' post-election analysis - another act of betrayal
Leaking the election review won’t rebuild the Liberals. It may bury them deeper.
By Scott Prasser - 4/3/2026
65 days ago
View commentsView articleThe mental health system is making us sicker
The 20th century was the age of diagnosis. The 21st must become the age of recovery, measured not by how many people we enrol in the mental health system, but by how many no longer need it.
By Steven Schwartz - 3/3/2026
17 days ago
View commentsView articleSpiralling national debts may well result in many years of high inflation
High debt, weak growth, rising interest bills. The reckoning rarely arrives politely.
By Brendan O'Reilly - 3/3/2026
37 days ago
View commentsView articleMendacious rationales: the lies behind Operation Lion’s Roar
Imminent threat, regime change, decisive strikes. Haven’t we heard this before?
By Binoy Kampmark - 2/3/2026
75 days ago
View commentsView articleDr Willie Soon reveals the real driver of climate change in new video
Is climate science ignoring the obvious? A 12-minute case for the Sun as the main driver.
By Tom Harris - 2/3/2026
206 days ago
View commentsView article Waltzing Matildas
Asian Cup on home soil: revival moment or reality check for the Matildas?
By David Rowe - 27/2/2026
39 days ago
View commentsView articleTrump’s Board of Peace scraps United Nations two-state solution
From Arab Peace Initiative to Rafah Road Map: a decisive break with two-state orthodoxy.
By David Singer - 27/2/2026
227 days ago
View commentsView articleDeath by a thousand bureaucuts
When forecasts fail and rulebooks quadruple, maybe it’s time to ask who’s steering the ship.
By Stuart Ballantyne - 26/2/2026
116 days ago
View commentsView articleOne battle after another and the seduction of endless struggle
Resistance can be enjoyed. Endurance can replace change. Žižek and Badiou on our politics of repetition.
By Sam Ben-Meir - 26/2/2026
112 days ago
View commentsView articleGlobal elites who cling to green policies are clueless about how to sustain life as we know it
Today’s elected politicians must possess energy wisdom to understand 'how and why' life as we know it has changed over 200 years.
By Ronald Stein and Yoshihiro Muronaka - 25/2/2026
1111 days ago
View commentsView articleNot forgetting the victims: Club Epstein and crimes against humanity
Three and a half million Epstein files, and still no justice. Who is this process really protecting?
By Binoy Kampmark - 25/2/2026
313 days ago
View commentsView article‘Ideally, you’d know nothing about the game’: festival censorship and the short memory of arts reporting
From Patrick White to 2026, Adelaide keeps censoring. The real scandal is that few journalists remember.
By Adele Chynoweth - 24/2/2026
314 days ago
View commentsView articleThe Royal Australian Navy is unwilling to listen to its own advice
Australia ignored its own superior landing vessel design. Now we’ve spent $1.1 billion on something inferior.
By Stuart Ballantyne - 24/2/2026
214 days ago
View commentsView articleBottom-up budgeting: a path to public sector efficiency
Most governments in the western democracies are facing a dilemma – how to rein in spending without losing voter support.
By David Leyonhjelm - 23/2/2026
615 days ago
View commentsView articleImmigrants are what made America great
Trump's immigration policy is destroying America's greatness.
By Alon Ben-Meir - 23/2/2026
714 days ago
View commentsView articleCan the new Federal Coalition be an effective Opposition and start acting like a 'government in waiting' ready to lead?
Can the Federal Coalition become a real opposition, develop policy and be ready for office?
By Scott Prasser - 20/2/2026
514 days ago
View commentsView articlePressure Jordan - not Israel - to end the Jewish-Arab conflict
As Arab states reaffirm the two-state formula, a shelved proposal to merge Jordan and Palestine resurfaces. Is the region ignoring its own alternative?
By David Singer - 20/2/2026
215 days ago
View commentsView articleShamed Scottish judges
Doctored CCTV, edited texts, and barred lines of defence: a Supreme Court warning shot over Scotland’s rape prosecutions. Could Australia be next on the same track?
By Bettina Arndt - 19/2/2026
219 days ago
View commentsView articleBlind and deaf to AUKUS: Australian planners and elusive submarines
$368 billion for AUKUS, and what does Australia really control? A US congressional report suggests the Virginia-class submarines may never be ours in more than name.
By Binoy Kampmark - 19/2/2026
318 days ago
View commentsView article'Net-zero' is not affordable by the 6 billion living in poverty
Shockingly, 80% of the 8 billion on planet Earth, or more than 6 billion, are living on less than $10/day.
By Ronald Stein and Nancy Pearlman - 18/2/2026
1916 days ago
View commentsView articleIs the MAHA movement building a genuine counter-elite?
Covid shattered trust in our elites. Now MAHA seeks not power for its own sake, but a politics restrained by Orwell’s 'common decency'.
By Renaud Beauchard - 17/2/2026
1716 days ago
View commentsView articleMisplaced mourning: farewelling the CIA World Factbook
Were we all crazy to rely on demographic information from a book compiled by a spy agency?
By Binoy Kampmark - 17/2/2026
320 days ago
View commentsView articleWhy are leaders still important in modern day politics?
Attrition, ambush or resignation. Leadership spills now define Australian politics. The Liberals’ crisis is less anomaly than symptom.
By Scott Prasser - 16/2/2026
421 days ago
View commentsView articleTrump has scrapped the long-standing legal basis for tackling climate emissions
Even if Trump leaves office his changes to the EPA's endgangerment finding will make it almost impossible for the USA to limit CO2 emissions.
By Robyn Eckersley - 16/2/2026
1121 days ago
View commentsView articleIran, war, and the illusion of control
A US attack on Iran promises regime change. History suggests something else: regional escalation, oil shocks, and a rally-around-the-flag effect that entrenches the very regime Washington seeks to weaken.
By Alon Ben-Meir - 13/2/2026
222 days ago
View commentsView article UN Secretary-General Guterres tops list of world’s Jew-haters
The UN Secretary-General insists Gaza “must remain” part of a Palestinian state. But does his prescription breach Article 80 and override rights preserved from the 1922 Mandate for Palestine?
By David Singer - 13/2/2026
524 days ago
View commentsView articleSoothsaying and the sampling referendum: the heralded rise of One Nation
Polls crown Pauline Hanson ascendant, but beware the sampling referendum. When pundits anoint insurgents, they risk mistaking protest heat for electoral firepower.
By Binoy Kampmark - 12/2/2026
724 days ago
View commentsView articleHoplophobia – our national illness
Is Australia’s gun policy driven by facts or emotion? Three decades after Port Arthur, fear still shapes laws that facts struggle to penetrate.
By David Leyonhjelm - 12/2/2026
1124 days ago
View commentsView articleThe future of California’s energy infrastructure is fragile
Net zero sounds clean until you ask an awkward question: what actually powers hospitals, planes, ports, and armies when electricity alone isn’t enough? California has no answer.
By Ronald Stein and Catherine Reheis-Boyd - 11/2/2026
925 days ago
View commentsView articleWhy Crisafulli should study Borbidge govt, not Newman government
Queensland history offers a warning: competent one-term governments still lose. Borbidge shows how silence, One Nation, and misread voters can undo reform—unless Crisafulli learns the right lesson.
By Graham Young - 10/2/2026
926 days ago
View commentsView articleThe democrats need a concrete governing agenda
Outrage isn’t a governing strategy. If Democrats want to win and govern, they must offer voters something rarer than resistance: a credible plan for power, prosperity, and unity.
By Alon Ben-Meir - 10/2/2026
128 days ago
View commentsView articleWhen universities forgot how to say no
Academic freedom is inseparable from professional responsibility.
By Steven Schwartz - 9/2/2026
1727 days ago
View commentsView articleUkraine-Russia war in 2026 – where do we now stand?
Four years in, Ukraine’s war looks less like a turning point than a test of endurance, diplomacy, and winter survival. January 2026 tells the story.
By Yuri Koszarycz - 9/2/2026
429 days ago
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