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 |  | Bottom-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 | 6 | Less than 1 minute ago |
| | Immigrants are what made America great Trump's immigration policy is destroying America's greatness. By Alon Ben-Meir - 23/2/2026 | 5 | 2 hours ago |
| | Can 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 | 3 | 4 hours ago |
| | Pressure 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 | 2 | 5 hours ago |
| | Shamed 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 | 2 | 4 days ago |
| | Blind 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 | 3 | 3 days ago |
| | '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 | 19 | 34 hours ago |
| | Is 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 | 17 | 19 hours ago |
| | Misplaced 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 | 3 | 5 days ago |
| | Why 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 | 4 | 6 days ago |
| | Trump 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 | 11 | 6 days ago |
| | Iran, 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 | 2 | 7 days ago |
| | 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 | 5 | 9 days ago |
| | Soothsaying 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 | 7 | 9 days ago |
| | Hoplophobia – 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 | 11 | 9 days ago |
| | The 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 | 9 | 10 days ago |
| | Why 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 | 9 | 11 days ago |
| | The 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 | 1 | 13 days ago |
| | When universities forgot how to say no Academic freedom is inseparable from professional responsibility. By Steven Schwartz - 9/2/2026 | 17 | 12 days ago |
| | Ukraine-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 | 4 | 14 days ago |
| | Beyond the lease: a new framework for systemic housing certainty Renters fear the next email. Investors fear the long run. New evidence suggests they’re trapped by the same broken housing structure and points to a different way forward. By Andrew Walton - 6/2/2026 | 5 | 13 days ago |
| | Dooming the Chagos deal: the Diego Garcia dilemma A deal meant to close a colonial wound is now hostage to Donald Trump and the Chagossians remain spectators to their own fate. By Binoy Kampmark - 6/2/2026 | 2 | 15 days ago |
| | Guterres and UN prolong Jewish-Arab conflict rather than ending it The UN insists the two-state solution still works. What if that fixation guarantees endless war and blinds the world to a viable alternative? By David Singer - 6/2/2026 | 5 | 16 days ago |
| | Scott Morrison almost got it right Scott Morrison finally names the problem of Islamic extremism, then reaches for the one solution liberals should fear most: regulation. By Graham Young - 5/2/2026 | 9 | 16 days ago |
| | Nuclear is the most reliable path to affordable electricity Continuous electricity is skyrocketing, driven by the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence, data centers, and electrification across industries, nuclear power appears to be the affordable choice for all 8 billion on this planet. By Ronald Stein, Olivia Vaughan and Steve Curtis - 5/2/2026 | 5 | 9 days ago |
| | Hedonism’s dance: how the governing classes fell for Jeffrey Epstein Millions of emails, thousands of images, endless excuses. Jeffrey Epstein’s afterlife is a masterclass in elite moral collapse. By Binoy Kampmark - 4/2/2026 | 3 | 17 days ago |
| | Fermi, on firming the grid: 'Are you all crazy?' Australia says renewables are cheapest. GenCost data plus AI tell a different story once firming enters the equation. By Tom Biegler - 4/2/2026 | 35 | 9 days ago |
| | Coming for the boys From universities to ASIO, misogyny is being reframed as extremism. The result: ideological schooling, boys in the crosshairs, and real threats left unspoken. By Bettina Arndt - 3/2/2026 | 3 | 17 days ago |
| | Focus on what you have, not what you don’t have PM Albanese we have a fabulous country that is in a financially difficult time and we just need you to focus on what we have. By Stuart Ballantyne - 3/2/2026 | 5 | 19 days ago |
| | Bondi Massacre aftermath After Bondi, Scott Morrison challenges Islam’s leaders to police extremism. AFIC says no. What does that mean for Australia’s social contract? By Howard Dewhirst - 2/2/2026 | 19 | 11 days ago |
| | Assault or diplomacy: Washington’s deliberate mixed signals to Tehran Washington is pressuring Iran with warships and words. But without a clear endgame, coercive diplomacy risks signaling resolve and confusion at the same time. By Syafruddin Arsyad - 2/2/2026 | 3 | 21 days ago |
| | Albanese ploys betray Bondi victims Albanese’s responses to Bondi hew to a script. Unpopular mass migration must continue – at any cost. Citizens must be socially 'cohesive' - else we’re racist. By Stephen Saunders - 30/1/2026 | 4 | 21 days ago |
| | Albanese must reverse his recognition of the State of Palestine If Albanese’s apology to Jewish Australians is sincere, why does his government still recognise a Palestinian state that does not exist? By David Singer - 30/1/2026 | 25 | 21 days ago |
| | Energy wisdom needed with candidates running for public office Open-ended questions will stimulate Energy Wisdom conversations among the press, candidates, and all public debates. By Ronald Stein and Yoshihiro Muronaka - 29/1/2026 | 4 | 24 days ago |
| | Are there 10 courageous Republicans who can save America? A republic survives only when lawmakers choose country over career. What happens when they do not? By Alon Ben-Meir - 29/1/2026 | 3 | 20 days ago |
| | Learning from Menzies about coalition relations Coalition Relations and Menzies - lessons to be remembered from the founder of the Liberal Party By Scott Prasser - 28/1/2026 | 3 | 25 days ago |
| | Libertarianism and Trump’s Venezuela intervention Libertarianism is all about the freedom of individuals from coercion, based on JS Mill’s harm principle. By David Leyonhjelm - 28/1/2026 | 28 | 22 days ago |