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 |  | How wokeness weakens the West but empowers China Interviewed July 2025 on his Australian book-tour, US sociologist Musa al-Gharbi waxed eloquent on wokeness and inequality, on US and China. Though I failed to subvert his next book. By Stephen Saunders - 18/7/2025 | 7 | 6 mins ago |
| | California continues to devastate its economy for a net-zero dream world California’s passion to achieve net-zero emissions at the expense of its citizens has devastated its economy. By Ronald Stein and Michael Mische - 17/7/2025 | 1 | 2 days ago |
| | An historic commemoration in favour of multilateralism The foundation of multilateralism upon which the United Nations sits is increasingly shaken by rivalries, eroding trust and a retreat from collective problem‑solving. By Ioan Voicu - 17/7/2025 | 1 | 2 days ago |
| | K-Defense Day: pimping for the arms dealers President Lee doesn’t want to be seen as an arms dealer – just the head of a nation competing to out-export everyone else in submarines and artillery. By Binoy Kampmark - 16/7/2025 | 3 | 2 days ago |
| | Massive Australian bushfire impacts: it's our fault Fire shaped this continent. But in failing to manage it, we have turned it into a destroyer. By John O'Donnell - 15/7/2025 | 6 | 4 days ago |
| | Trump prepares to ditch two-state solution The two-state solution is dead and buried. A Jordan–Israel agreement may be the last untested path to peace. By David Singer - 11/7/2025 | 31 | 4 days ago |
| | Kosovo’s leadership failure: a dangerous hijacking of democracy It is hard to imagine how a small country experiencing significant economic hardship and in constant conflict with its neighbor is still under a caretaker government four months after the national elections. By Alon Ben-Meir - 15/7/2025 | 2 | 4 days ago |
| | Between patience and fortitude In an age of noise and urgency, the library is a quiet kind of miracle. By Steven Schwartz - 14/7/2025 | 3 | 4 days ago |
| | Trump’s immigration plan is a human and economic disaster It is hard to assess the disastrous impact of Trump's immigration policy on our economy and its horrific human rights violations. By Alon Ben-Meir - 8/7/2025 | 6 | 5 days ago |
| | Death by fungi: cashing in on Erin Patterson If attempting to kill four people using fungi is a symptom of average, female ordinariness, we all best start making our own meals. By Binoy Kampmark - 14/7/2025 | 2 | 5 days ago |
| | Australian science has gone overboard for ‘climate action’ Of all ways to ‘rescue’ the environment, climate-action looks the most elitist and least promising. By Stephen Saunders - 10/7/2025 | 4 | 8 days ago |
| | The economic imperative for nuclear power Electricity from nuclear power sources is a necessity to ensure future balanced economic growth that is a lifeline out of poverty and instability for citizens in both developed and developing economies. By Ronald Stein, Robert Jeffrey and Olivia Vaughan - 10/7/2025 | 2 | 8 days ago |
| | Dear God - it’s 2028 Stuart Ballantyne, imagines a conversation with God in 2028 By Stuart Ballantyne - 9/7/2025 | 4 | 10 days ago |
| | Nanny state meets the matriarchy We’ve gone from patriarchy to matriarchy — or maybe something worse: the rise of the feminarchy. By Graham Young - 7/7/2025 | 8 | 10 days ago |
| | Payback for false allegations Perjury is a crime. But when it happens in domestic violence cases, the courts look the other way. By Bettina Arndt - 9/7/2025 | 1 | 10 days ago |
| | Operation Midnight Hammer: were Iran’s nuclear facilities damaged? Trump declared obliteration. The data suggest disruption — temporary, limited, and legally reckless. By Binoy Kampmark - 8/7/2025 | 1 | 11 days ago |
| | Selling renewables – a marketer's dream At current growth rates, Australia won’t reach its clean energy target for 50 to 100 years - if ever. By Tom Biegler - 7/7/2025 | 3 | 12 days ago |
| | A vassal’s impulse: Australia backs US strike on Iran Wong's shift from constipated caution to free-flow approval for the US attack was a craven capitulation to the warmonger class. By Binoy Kampmark - 30/6/2025 | 7 | 13 days ago |
| | How much should we pay our pollies? If entering politics was motivated by service rather than career, it would attract people who have done more than just climb the party ladder. By David Leyonhjelm - 3/7/2025 | 9 | 13 days ago |
| | Malaysian prime minister’s own political party is in collapse Anwar, the leader of ‘reformasi’, once leading massive street protests against the government is now getting protests in the streets asking him to resign. By Murray Hunter - 4/7/2025 | 2 | 15 days ago |
| | I refuse to defend the indefensible Israel's refusal to acknowledge Palestinian rights and humanity perpetuated a zero-sum narrative where Jewish safety is predicated on Palestinian dehumanization and death By Alon Ben-Meir - 1/7/2025 | 7 | 16 days ago |
| | Layers of political reality It is not a matter of a lack of political will, strategy, or resources in the first place; rather, it is the futility of trying to change things thoroughly because the innermost core does not allow it to happen. By Mamtimin Ala - 2/7/2025 | 6 | 17 days ago |
| | Staffing for parliamentarians - who should control their numbers and classification? There is a need for an independent review of staffing allocations—to replace opaque conventions with transparent standards. By Scott Prasser - 1/7/2025 | 1 | 18 days ago |
| | Hastie’s sensible advice: more transparency on US forces in Australia Australia’s sovereignty in terms of how the US conducts its operations has been spared? Given AUKUS, this is an unsustainable claim. By Binoy Kampmark - 27/6/2025 | 8 | 19 days ago |
| | Isolated Australia under the new world disorder Australia has no army, navy, or air force to speak about. Even our neighbours now have larger armed forces. By Murray Hunter - 26/6/2025 | 6 | 22 days ago |
| | Revival: knowledge without wisdom Life, death, tragedy, love, beauty, courage, loyalty—all of these are omitted from our modern vocational curricula, and yet they are the only things that ever really matter. By Steven Schwartz - 25/6/2025 | 3 | 23 days ago |
| | The Trump administration advocates for nuclear power Affordable and reliable electricity from nuclear power sources is a necessity to ensure future balanced economic growth that is a lifeline out of poverty, and security for citizens around the world. By Ronald Stein, Oliver Hemmers and Steve Curtis - 26/6/2025 | 1 | 23 days ago |
| | The anti-feminist psychiatrist Under the guise of protecting girls, researchers exploit harmless male banter to incriminate boys and label them misogynists. By Bettina Arndt - 25/6/2025 | 2 | 24 days ago |
| | Australia: we have a city problem! (Part one) Even on the eve of Federation it was contended that the capitals were congested cesspools. Federation promised decentralisation. It didn’t deliver. By Ross Elliott - 24/6/2025 | 2 | 24 days ago |
| | Directive to Iran: retaliation bad; de-escalation good De-escalation has become one of those coarse words in severe need of banishment, best kept in an index used by unredeemable hypocrites. By Binoy Kampmark - 24/6/2025 | 3 | 25 days ago |
| | CFMEU challenge ends but construction’s $60b problem remains If productivity growth in construction had kept pace with manufacturing, the economy would now be $60 billion better off every year. By Jon Davies - 23/6/2025 | 2 | 26 days ago |
| | 'Success leads many astray to their ruin' The ancient quote from the Greek philosopher Phaedrus, to not let success go to one's head and inflating one's ego, which can lead to terrible failure, is a timeless warning to Trump and Netanyahu. By Alon Ben-Meir - 23/6/2025 | 2 | 26 days ago |
| | No one left behind: a new mandate for multilateralism in crisis The 2025 High Level Political Forum is not just another forum - it is a test of whether the UN can live up to its founding principles amid deepening global crises. By Ioan Voicu - 19/6/2025 | 2 | 28 days ago |
| | Adam Smith 'blesses' Trump tariffs The president’s executive order cites the same three exceptions to free trade as did Adam Smith — in the same order. By Darren Nelson and James Carter - 19/6/2025 | 6 | 28 days ago |