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 |  | Australia needs to reduce oil imports What's cheap in the short term can be very expensive in the long term, and unreliable. By Tim Butler - 7/10/2026 | 29 | 13 days ago |
| | Don't be Hastie, the joke's on you Some people can't take a joke, but it's not unusual for whole groups of people to miss a joke entirely. By Graham Young - 2/10/2026 | 25 | 16 days ago |
| | Just call Brodie ‘King of the Mountain’ Motor sport can be dangerous for drivers and spectators, on and off the course. By John Mikkelsen - 14/10/2026 | 14 | 8 days ago |
| | Introducing the new Queensland premier – me! I was promoting evil and nasty policies such as a Gold Coast Cruise terminal, elimination of payroll tax, cutting red, green and black tape for small and medium businesses. By Stuart Ballantyne - 12/10/2026 | 10 | 6 days ago |
| | The Narcissist in Chief When a president confuses personal loyalty with public duty and self-glorification with leadership, democracy pays the price. By Alon Ben-Meir - 20/10/2026 | 5 | 5 days ago |
| | Attempted assassinations: the attack on Helen Haines The public discourse narrative suggests that Australian politicians and public figures are themselves responsible for evocations of violence, a normalising tendency inspired by the United States. By Binoy Kampmark - 23/10/2026 | 5 | 28 hours ago |
| | COP31’s inconvenient truth: the world still runs on oil Worldwide economies depend on transportation fuels and products manufactured from crude oil, in addition to electricity. By Ronald Stein and Yoshihiro Muronaka - 23/10/2026 | 4 | 28 hours ago |
| | The pathetification of Australia New laws will take the larrikin out of Australia and replace self regard with self pity. By Jafar Jalili - 22/10/2026 | 4 | 28 hours ago |
| | Alarmist ‘Newspeak’ is poisoning the climate debate George Orwell's insight was that while the reality behind words doesn't change, the words we use may limit how we can think about it. By Tom Harris - 5/10/2026 | 4 | 20 days ago |
| | When everything becomes a mental illness Mental health may indeed be one of medicine’s great remaining frontiers. But acknowledging uncertainty is part of understanding the problem. By David Leyonhjelm - 25/9/2026 | 3 | 30 days ago |
| | Trump’s energy deal with Russia raises difficult questions for Europe Trump’s Russian diesel deal exposes a widening divide between Washington and Europe over how to end the war in Ukraine - and whose security comes first. By Nicholas Lovric - 21/10/2026 | 3 | 4 days ago |
| | Forget AI: offshoring is the real threat to Australian jobs Be careful what you wish for. If work from home works for your busines home doesn't need to be in Australia, and the worker doesn't need to be earning Australian wages. By Ivan Trajkovski - 15/10/2026 | 3 | 10 days ago |
| | Males accused of violence are typically treated more harshly than their female counterparts When ideology shapes public conversations, how is an adequate diagnosis to be made? By Brendan O'Reilly - 16/10/2026 | 3 | 7 days ago |
| | The language of extermination: NAZA, artificial intelligence and Gaza The IDF has marshalled its own response in a document accusing the filmmakers of presenting 'a distorted, misleading and disingenuous picture of the IDF's target planning and striking process'. By Binoy Kampmark - 19/10/2026 | 2 | 6 days ago |
| | Treasury’s massive ‘intergenerational’ immigration crushes democracy Imagine a calmer and safer post-Bondi Australia. Immigration is low, and less divisive. Government need not lie about it all the time, nor continually attack citizen-voters. By Stephen Saunders - 29/9/2026 | 2 | 26 days ago |
| | The rate is normal; the debt isn't If the rate is ordinary and the pain is extraordinary, the rate is the trigger, not the cause. By Anish Puri - 30/9/2026 | 2 | 25 days ago |
| | Gangsterism runs unchecked, while our governments largely refuse to act Union corruption inflates building costs while tobacco taxes feed a violent black market. Australia’s gangster problem demands a change of policy - and perhaps a change of government. By Brendan O'Reilly - 1/10/2026 | 2 | 24 days ago |
| | Weaponised domestic violence orders - state sanctioned parental alienation A civil penalty can morph into a crime at the same time denying a parent access to their children on the basis of no evidence. By Bettina Arndt - 6/10/2026 | 1 | 18 days ago |
| | AI: the regulators want a kill switch, the investors want to restrict competition Artificial intelligence has been under development for 70 years. Why, just as it becomes commercially valuable, are we suddenly being told it could extinguish humanity? By Murray Hunter - 28/9/2026 | 1 | 27 days ago |
| | The demographics of war Does war serve a purpose to nature that makes it inevitable rather than senseless? By Peter Curson - 28/9/2026 | 1 | 27 days ago |
| | Blue Waterways: reconnecting Europe through its rivers Europe's rivers have provided connection over centuries, but the modern world requires more than just water. By Marija Cekmariova - 29/9/2026 | 1 | 26 days ago |
| | Four Corners and the decline of an icon of Australian media A television program that once forged Australian media culture has now surrendered autonomy and found a worked-out doctrine. By David Hutchens - 30/9/2026 | 1 | 25 days ago |
| | Intelligence agencies, AI, and the new battlefield for public opinion What begins as a neutral tool quickly becomes attuned to the data it encounters. This adaptability is now being exploited in a systematic manner. By Murray Hunter - 30/9/2026 | 1 | 25 days ago |
| | Japan on the road to remilitarization India, Russia, both Koreas and others are also asserting greater roles. The old binary is giving way to a more crowded and fluid strategic landscape. By Murray Hunter - 13/10/2026 | 1 | 12 days ago |
| | When did obesity become a drug deficiency? I treating the symptoms better than treating the cause? Can the cause be treated? By Joseph Varon - 8/10/2026 | 1 | 16 days ago |
| | Reconciling creation with sustainable development Of all the lessons learned from the successes and failures of global development since the Second World War, community participation in the determination of development projects is the key factor. By Yossef Ben-Meir - 14/10/2026 | 1 | 11 days ago |
| | The Fifth Estate is becoming the only trusted truth This new ecosystem carries its own set of values, broadly anti-establishment and oriented toward truth-seeking through investigative work. By Murray Hunter - 19/10/2026 | 1 | 6 days ago |
| | Testing ASEAN’s resilience amid the global debt surge The IMF Fiscal Monitor April 2026 estimates that gross global government debt had reached nearly 94% of GDP in 2025 and, under current fiscal policies, could touch 100% of GDP by 2029. By Eko Setiobudi - 16/10/2026 | 1 | 9 days ago |
| | The Muscat process: making dialogue a security capability Gulf governments know how to threaten each other. But when an accident looks like an attack, do they know whom to call? By Ana Birchall - 15/10/2026 | 1 | 10 days ago |
| | Dancing the macarena with an AI bot You can get AI to mark your politics homework, but is it unbiased enough to get one hundred percent? By John Mikkelsen - 22/10/2026 | 1 | 3 days ago |