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View commentsView articleDo we live in Bizarro World now?
In the comic book Bizarro World, all the traditional virtues and verities are turned on their head: good is bad, lies are truth, and villains are heroes. Moreover, this inverted reality is accepted as the norm.
By Gary Banks - 20/3/2026
23 hours ago
View commentsView articleTrump & Netanyahu need to agree on future of Judea and Samaria
It beggars belief that President Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can agree on prosecuting a war against Iran but have been unable to agree on the way forward to ending the Arab-Jewish conflict in Judea and Samaria (West Bank).
By David Singer - 20/3/2026
125 hours ago
View commentsView articleKey government infrastructure investments are ending up as super-expensive white elephants
If these projects made sense, politicians would invest their own money. Instead, taxpayers are left footing the bill.
By Brendan O'Reilly - 19/3/2026
115 hours ago
View commentsView articleChanging work and changing demography = changing cities
What happens to cities when office work disappears? AI and demography are already forcing an answer.
By Ross Elliott - 19/3/2026
12 days ago
View commentsView articleReforming Australian defence: from Cold War relics to an affordable, independent missile and drone deterrent
Ukraine and Iran show a new reality: cheap drones can destroy expensive platforms. Is Australia building the wrong defence force?
By Murray Hunter - 18/3/2026
52 days ago
View commentsView articleNew energy policies in California threatening America’s national security
No refineries, no fuel. How does California sustain America's military and ports as local supply disappears?
By Ronald Stein and Mike Umbro - 18/3/2026
13 days ago
View commentsView articleThe Liberal Party should trial community primaries
Australia’s political parties are confronting a long-standing issue that has been gradually worsening over many years: the decline in party membership and the diminishing local political machinery that historically supported them.
By Graham Young and Gary Johns - 17/3/2026
93 days ago
View commentsView articleCostly and depleting: the growing problems of Operation Epic Fury
Iran’s drones cost $35,000. America’s missiles cost millions. The war’s economics are starting to look ugly.
By Binoy Kampmark - 17/3/2026
62 days ago
View commentsView articleDetective work on the real causes of Earth's temperature changes beginning to bear fruit
What if CO₂ isn’t the main culprit in warming the oceans? New research points to a different suspect: clouds.
By Tom Harris - 16/3/2026
103 days ago
View commentsView articleTrump’s aura of invincibility is disintegrating
Trump still dominates Republican politics. But behind the scenes, cracks are widening over tariffs, war with Iran, and presidential power.
By Alon Ben-Meir - 16/3/2026
35 days ago
View commentsView articleOpen-borders Australia learns nothing from Carney visit
Leaving Albanese as a world outlier, Carney has stymied Canada’s population growth, to ease the housing pain. Sigh, his Australian visit was all framed around 'middle powers' vs Trump.
By Stephen Saunders - 13/3/2026
37 days ago
View commentsView articleTrump and Netanyahu pave way to end Arab-Jewish conflict
After Iran and Gaza, the old two-state formula looks finished. Is it time to rethink how the Arab-Jewish conflict is actually resolved?
By David Singer - 13/3/2026
173 days ago
View commentsView articleChalmers has never met a tax he didn’t like
Labor says higher CGT will help housing. The real effect may be higher rents and weaker growth.
By Graham Young - 12/3/2026
29 days ago
View commentsView articleThe Liberals, the senate, and preferences
The Liberals changed the Senate voting system to help themselves. Instead, they helped the Greens.
By David Leyonhjelm - 12/3/2026
25 days ago
View commentsView articleMiddle power nonsense: Australia, Canada and capitulating to the Iran War
Mark Carney talks of “middle-power leadership”. Yet when the US and Israel bomb Iran, Canada and Australia follow.
By Binoy Kampmark - 12/3/2026
29 days ago
View commentsView articleElectricity is about to become the most valuable commodity on earth
Thirty years and $8 trillion on renewables – yet fossil fuels still dominate. Why won’t politicians talk about nuclear power?
By Ronald Stein, Olivia Vaughan and Steve Curtis - 11/3/2026
15 days ago
View commentsView articleObserve the economic fallout six years later
From jobs to inflation to energy, the aftershocks of lockdowns still ripple through the economy.
By Jeffrey Tucker - 10/3/2026
195 days ago
View commentsView articleTelevision becomes our feminist preacher
Restorative justice may help victims more than prison. Why is feminism resisting it?
By Bettina Arndt - 10/3/2026
39 days ago
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
212 days 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
412 days 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
305 days 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
215 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
1112 days 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
1214 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
616 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
118 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
318 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
716 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
2017 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
320 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
2218 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
1117 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
123 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
1122 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
324 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
325 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
225 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
626 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
725 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
525 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
226 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
230 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
329 days ago
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