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 |  | Detective 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 | 6 | 3 hours ago |
| | Trump’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 | 3 | 4 hours ago |
| | Open-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 | 3 | 2 days ago |
| | Trump 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 | 13 | 23 hours ago |
| | Chalmers 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 | 2 | 4 days ago |
| | The 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 | 2 | 15 hours ago |
| | Middle 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 | 2 | 4 days ago |
| | Electricity 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 | 1 | 12 hours ago |
| | Observe 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 | 19 | 5 hours ago |
| | Television becomes our feminist preacher Restorative justice may help victims more than prison. Why is feminism resisting it? By Bettina Arndt - 10/3/2026 | 3 | 4 days ago |
| | AI 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 | 2 | 7 days ago |
| | Loony 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 | 4 | 7 days ago |
| | Trump 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 | 30 | 15 hours ago |
| | Saudi 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 | 2 | 10 days ago |
| | Voters 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 | 11 | 7 days ago |
| | Going 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 | 12 | 9 days ago |
| | Leaking 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 | 6 | 11 days ago |
| | The 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 | 1 | 13 days ago |
| | Spiralling 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 | 3 | 13 days ago |
| | Mendacious 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 | 7 | 11 days ago |
| | Dr 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 | 20 | 12 days ago |
| | Waltzing Matildas Asian Cup on home soil: revival moment or reality check for the Matildas? By David Rowe - 27/2/2026 | 3 | 15 days ago |
| | Trump’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 | 22 | 13 days ago |
| | Death 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 | 11 | 12 days ago |
| | One 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 | 1 | 18 days ago |
| | Global 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 | 11 | 17 days ago |
| | Not 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 | 3 | 19 days ago |
| | ‘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 | 3 | 20 days ago |
| | The 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 | 2 | 20 days ago |
| | 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 | 21 days ago |
| | Immigrants are what made America great Trump's immigration policy is destroying America's greatness. By Alon Ben-Meir - 23/2/2026 | 7 | 20 days 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 | 5 | 20 days 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 | 21 days 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 | 25 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 | 24 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 | 22 days 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 | 22 days 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 | 26 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 | 27 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 | 27 days ago |