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 |  | Academic program on Western Civilisation University staff are openly liberal, and are likely to reject proposals that have such a conservative background. By Peter Bowden - 18/1/2019 | 9 | 4 hours ago |
| | US and Israel quit over UNESCO’s love affair with 'Palestine' '[Palestine] is not a state… It does not meet the customary international law test of statehood. It doesn't control defined boundaries. It doesn't fulfill the normal functions of government...' By David Singer - 17/1/2019 | 7 | 11 hours ago |
| | Canadian government’s April Fools Day hoax The fear is that if you don't act, the sky will fall. The guilt is that your behavior is part of how humans are destroying the planet. By Tim Ball and Tom Harris - 17/1/2019 | 7 | 2 days ago |
| | Productivity Commission super report: apply the Medicare approach to super Where governments are invested in providing services exclusively to some special group, anyone should have (unsubsidised) access to them. By Nicholas Gruen - 16/1/2019 | 4 | 2 days ago |
| | A former dean of St George’s cathedral runs afoul of the evangelicals Before we discuss the culture wars it is useful to examine the claim that the bible must be read literally ie without the aid of analogy and metaphor. By Peter Sellick - 15/1/2019 | 44 | 13 hours ago |
| | A robot tax punishes people The Labor Party is tipped to back a new 'robot tax' which flies in the face of human progress and promises to constrain the ever-rising living standards the past few hundred years have brought us. By Cian Hussey - 14/1/2019 | 18 | 3 days ago |
| | Corruption in the Balkans is impeding EU membership The EU should also insist on greater transparency and accountability, which would curtail pervasive corruption by elected officials. By Alon Ben-Meir and Arbana Xharra - 11/1/2019 | 10 | 5 days ago |
| | Mathematical modelling illusions Although one of the most active areas for mathematical modeling is the economy and the stock market, no one has ever succeeded in getting it right. By Jay Lehr and Tom Harris - 11/1/2019 | 27 | 19 hours ago |
| | Inequality Echoing the rhetoric of Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn, Bill Shorten recently claimed in a speech that rising inequality was the single biggest threat to Australia's social cohesion and the economy. By David Leyonhjelm - 10/1/2019 | 24 | 2 days ago |
| | Biting into Apple: the giant's revenues fall The United States has not made matters easy for the Apple bottom line in its trade war spat with Beijing. By Binoy Kampmark - 10/1/2019 | 2 | 9 days ago |
| | Labor’s housing affordability mess: profit for the few, pain for the many Labor's two-pronged housing affordability package has them rowing the same boat in both directions, expending a lot of taxpayer dollars and going nowhere. By Graham Young - 9/1/2019 | 4 | 9 days ago |
| | Travel by car is getting safer Total road fatalities across Australia peaked in the 1970s and have trended down sharply since then. By Ross Elliott - 9/1/2019 | 12 | 8 days ago |
| | Human rights fatigue Now there is a new mentality: people are more complacent. The post-war generation of human rights activists are dying off. By Keith Suter - 8/1/2019 | 16 | 5 days ago |
| | Oil is at the mercy of financial markets In December, Saudi Arabia slashed oil exports by roughly 500,000 bpd, according to Bloomberg. By Nicholas Cunningham - 7/1/2019 | 4 | 11 days ago |
| | Windpower and Sydney to Hobart: reaching the limits The race combines disdain for cost with leading edge technology so has to be at one of the pinnacles of windpower. By Graham Young - 4/1/2019 | 29 | 9 days ago |
| | Agreed rules, COP24 and climate change protest Little progress was actually made on the issue of commitments to cut emissions, even if there was, in principle, an agreement on a set of rules. By Binoy Kampmark - 3/1/2019 | 27 | 6 days ago |
| | The Christmas 1914 truce The gestures were repeated along the Western Front in pockets of small 'truces'. British, German and French soldiers, in open defiance of orders, went to No Man's Land. By Binoy Kampmark - 2/1/2019 | 2 | 17 days ago |
| | UN hit list can bypass Congress and fund Trump border wall 21 Nations that received almost $14 billion in US foreign aid in 2017 could become the key to unlocking the White House confrontation between President Trump and Democrat leaders. By David Singer - 2/1/2019 | 44 | 11 days ago |
| | Coral can take the heat, unlike experts crying wolf This is why corals are one of the least likely species to be affected by climate change, irrespective of whether you believe the climate is changing by natural fluctuations or because of human influence. By Peter Ridd - 31/12/2018 | 13 | 14 days ago |
| | Cooking books and limiting responsibility: Goldman Sachs in Malaysia Goldman Sachs is the sort of institution which has thrived on the largesse of government assistance - the old socialise your losses but privatise your gains sort of philosophy. By Binoy Kampmark - 31/12/2018 | 2 | 18 days ago |
| | 2019 will be better than expected The world economy will continue to produce healthy growth in 2019. We are ending 2018 with equities markets that are undervalued both in the US and in Australia. By Michael Knox - 28/12/2018 | 24 | 13 days ago |
| | Season’s greetings Tuvalu, and thank you Mr Kelly A recent article at the ABC news website correctly explained that in the four decades to 2014, Tuvalu has actually grown by 73 hectares. By Jennifer Marohasy - 28/12/2018 | 12 | 19 days ago |
| | Budget cuts? You must be kidding. If the Government’s financial statements were subject to the same rules as a private company, Treasurer Frydenberg and Finance Minister Cormann would be at risk of going to jail. By David Leyonhjelm - 27/12/2018 | 9 | 21 days ago |
| | Trump's New Year's gift to Putin, Rouhani, and Erdogan Trump's decision to withdraw US forces from Syria is extremely reckless and is bound to backfire in more than one way. By Alon Ben-Meir - 27/12/2018 | 7 | 21 days ago |
| | The miracle of Christmas The celebration of Christmas is based on a miracle; the incarnation of the Eternal Word of God as the man Jesus. By Peter Sellick - 24/12/2018 | 62 | 18 days ago |
| | Make-believe and celebrations: Christmas message ignored Let's clear away some debris. December 25 is not the date of Jesus' birth. There is no biblical mention of the exact day of his birth. By Spencer Gear - 24/12/2018 | 38 | 2 days ago |
| | The year that never was It was just a boring time of decadent politics and absent ethics in which not one inspiring thing happened and there was much to lament. By Everald Compton - 21/12/2018 | 27 | 20 days ago |
| | Running from the shadow of the yield curve In recent days the equity market has appeared to take fright at a change in the difference between the yield US long term interest rates and the yield on short term us interest rates. By Michael Knox - 21/12/2018 | 4 | 20 days ago |
| | What's going wrong with our boys? It may puzzle parents to read that many academics seem to think that it just doesn't matter. By Peter West - 20/12/2018 | 116 | 11 days ago |
| | Neoliberalism is alive and kicking. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet! Despite emerging acknowledgement of the miserable failure of neoliberalism, at least in some circles, it will carry on as a dominant force in western ideology and policy formation. By Rob Stewart - 20/12/2018 | 6 | 25 days ago |
| | May days in Britain If there is a good reason to be suspicious of a second referendum, former Prime Minister Tony Blair's endorsement of it would be one. By Binoy Kampmark - 19/12/2018 | 10 | 29 days ago |
| | Universities more concerned about brand reputation than freedom It is not unknown for fractious individuals on campus to exploit the opaque nature of the rules and to institute vexatious proceedings against those with whom they disagree. By Gregory Melleuish - 19/12/2018 | 5 | 24 days ago |