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 |  | The Lord’s Prayer is inclusive. Acknowledgement of Country is not If the Lord's Prayer is removed from parliamentary sessions it will leave a secular prayer in place which is not fit for purpose. By Graham Young - 28/8/2026 | 20 | 6 days ago |
| | The spirit of Cain The left built its entire moral authority on grievance. It taught a generation that resentment is a credential, that envy is conscience, that hatred is permitted so long as the target is sufficiently fortunate. By Jafar Jalili - 18/8/2026 | 17 | 14 days ago |
| | For the right the next election is about renovation One Nation and the Coalition aren't enemies, they are competitors, and competition is the best way to bring renewal. By Graham Young - 19/8/2026 | 14 | 14 days ago |
| | Coming from Mean Albo, immigration 'cuts' have little credibility Since 2006, Big Australia has sailed on through seven prime ministers. But Albo’s taken the numbers to totally another level – likewise the denigration of his own people. By Stephen Saunders - 7/8/2026 | 12 | 26 days ago |
| | Australia’s energy transition: how’s it going? The politicians say the energy transition is going great, but numbers don't lie. By Tom Biegler - 1/9/2026 | 10 | 3 days ago |
| | The Bureau of Meteorology has bombed out yet again Long term weather forecasts show little skill and great potential to disrupt farming economies. By Brendan O'Reilly - 17/8/2026 | 8 | 20 days ago |
| | Double standards and hypocrisy abound in the Sydney Swans' sex scandal Is the shakedown becoming the most popular sport for Australians and ambulance-chasing lawyers? By Brendan O'Reilly - 31/8/2026 | 7 | 4 days ago |
| | From confrontation to cooperation The institutions built to keep enemies talking are still there. What’s disappearing is the political will to use them. By Lamberto Zannier - 26/8/2026 | 7 | 8 days ago |
| | The real secret of Secret Harbour The story so far is that around half the Liberal vote has decamped to One Nation, but that's not what happened in the Secret Harbour byelection. By Graham Young - 3/9/2026 | 6 | 2 hours ago |
| | The alibi of skill Spain's border failed in front of the cameras last week. Australia's border never fails, which is exactly why our numbers deserve a harder question. By Jafar Jalili - 13/8/2026 | 6 | 24 days ago |
| | Is the South China Sea moving from a ‘zone of peace’ towards the next conflict area? While US officials frame the carrier’s presence as routine freedom of navigation and support for allies, the timing amplifies perceptions of strategic strain on Washington. By Murray Hunter - 14/8/2026 | 5 | 15 days ago |
| | Sharks having a whale of a time? Is it time to rethink our attitudes to protecting great whites? Has conserving whales boosted the number of predators in our waters? Maybe a cull is called for? By Graham Young - 25/8/2026 | 5 | 11 days ago |
| | Where there is no vision, the people will perish Spectator at large, Stuart Ballantyne, watches Australia go down the gurgler at the hands of bedwetters with absolutely no vision. By Stuart Ballantyne - 24/8/2026 | 4 | 11 days ago |
| | Why parents are turning to tutoring, and it is no longer just about better marks Tutoring used to be the preserve of students who were struggling, but it is growing beyond that. Why? By Michael Black - 26/8/2026 | 4 | 10 days ago |
| | Fagan’s damning verdict: vandalism and antisemitism down under Judge rules that the definition of antisemitism being used by the Royal Commission is too broad, stigmatising legitimate criticism of Israel. By Binoy Kampmark - 27/8/2026 | 4 | 10 days ago |
| | When parliament has nowhere to turn The Commonwealth has the power to determine who is, or is not, a citizen, but where does that power come from? By Philip Heiner - 20/8/2026 | 4 | 17 days ago |
| | The coming fuel crisis: what Ukraine and California have in common Russian transportation fuel shortages are caused by Ukraine drone attacks, while California shortages are directly related to political over regulations. By Ronald Stein and Mike Ariza - 13/8/2026 | 4 | 24 days ago |
| | Australia will not get an AI productivity boom by training workers alone Australia's artificial intelligence debate keeps circling around skills. Train more workers. Teach people to prompt. Build digital literacy. Those are sensible goals, but they leave out one group. By Gleb Tsipursky - 10/8/2026 | 4 | 24 days ago |
| | Wrongly accused The public narrative is entirely captured by persistent complaints about the justice system's treatment of rape victims. There's little tolerance for muddying the waters by looking at what the same system does to wrongly accused men. By Bettina Arndt - 11/8/2026 | 3 | 26 days ago |
| | No principles in the firearms policies of political parties As most sporting shooters are well aware, the major parties have little to no interest in the shooting sports. By David Leyonhjelm - 21/8/2026 | 3 | 15 days ago |
| | Saving lives should not require permission Protocols can be the saviour of lives until the point where they interfere with the need for judgment. By Joseph Varon - 4/9/2026 | 3 | 2 days ago |
| | The limit of coercion: Israel’s strategic delusion Comparative conflict analysis reveals clear conditions under which weaker actors concede. The Palestinian case meets none of them, underscoring Israel’s strategic futility in expecting capitulation in the absence of a political settlement. By Alon Ben-Meir - 4/9/2026 | 3 | 21 hours ago |
| | Youth will pay price for WFH Past Labor premiers have managed to make other people pay the price of their policies. This time it is the young workers. By James Mathias - 2/9/2026 | 3 | 4 days ago |
| | No Swans song Five men in a hotel room, but a whole team and gender is on trial, and for what exactly? By Bettina Arndt - 2/9/2026 | 3 | 4 days ago |
| | A prisoner, a peacemaker, and Israel’s defining choice What if the man Israel has imprisoned for murder is also the only Palestinian capable of delivering peace? Marwan Barghouti embodies a paradox at the heart of the conflict: legitimacy born of resistance, yet committed to coexistence. By Alon Ben-Meir - 31/8/2026 | 2 | 5 days ago |
| | California is running out of refineries – and running out of time Allowing foreign-flagged tankers to move transportation fuel from the US Gulf Coast to West Coast Ports is only a band aid for California’s humongous demands for transportation fuels. By Ronald Stein and Mike Ariza - 27/8/2026 | 2 | 10 days ago |
| | Charlatans in academe: when Jason Arday went too far Fabulist and conman Jason Arday was not so much the exception to the rule as the rule taken to its logical conclusion. By Binoy Kampmark - 24/8/2026 | 2 | 12 days ago |
| | Drone Defence in ASEAN - better present than absent Air power used to be the preserve of rich states. A $30,000 drone has changed the arithmetic. By Liang Nah - 17/8/2026 | 2 | 20 days ago |
| | Netanyahu’s challengers are selling the same poison The men who could replace Netanyahu know the truth and refuse to say it. A Palestinian state is not an existential threat to Israel; the endless denial of one is. By Alon Ben-Meir - 11/8/2026 | 2 | 26 days ago |
| | The ugliness of the west: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and the ideological closure of capitalism Bond is kinetic, charismatic, and sexually triumphant. Smiley is sedentary, melancholy, and painfully aware that his wife repeatedly betrays him. By Sam Ben-Meir - 10/8/2026 | 2 | 27 days ago |
| | Solemn anniversaries: the UN Refugee Convention turns 75 At 75, the Refugee Convention remains a noble promise, increasingly observed in the breach rather than the observance. By Binoy Kampmark - 12/8/2026 | 2 | 25 days ago |
| | Giving a smile back: reflections on a craniofacial fellowship in Canada A smile is something most of us never think about. So when one half of the face stops moving, the loss goes far beyond the physical. By David Sparks - 7/8/2026 | 1 | 30 days ago |
| | From central to distributed business districts A look at global office vacancy rates suggests the impacts of WFH have been unevenly felt, while the impacts of Ai on central office demand are possibly yet to be felt. By Ross Elliott - 14/8/2026 | 1 | 23 days ago |
| | Some things are just plain wrong The Commission spent almost no time asking why universities find it difficult to say that some behaviours and ideas are just plain wrong. By Steven Schwartz - 12/8/2026 | 1 | 25 days ago |
| | The geopolitics of railroads: Europe's decoupling doctrine The twenty-first century will not belong to the economies that simply produce more energy. It will belong to those that require less imported energy to generate greater prosperity. That is the true meaning of decoupling. By Maren Liedtke - 19/8/2026 | 1 | 18 days ago |
| | Electricity policy is economic policy: the race for reliable power Abundant power leads to expanding industry, economic growth, and thriving communities. By Ronald Stein, Olivia Vaughan and Steve Curtis - 20/8/2026 | 1 | 17 days ago |
| | Wars, inequality, and poverty no longer confined to faraway places Fragmented power, deepening inequality, climate stress, dying democracies, and weaponized information have fused into one global crisis; we can break the cycle if we only summon the will. By Alon Ben-Meir - 25/8/2026 | 1 | 12 days ago |
| | California is handing control of its fuel supply to foreign refineries The State supports the exodus of the in-state manufacturers of the fuels to foreign refineries, threatening national energy security and global stability. By Ronald Stein and Mike Ariza - 3/9/2026 | 1 | 2 days ago |