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 |  | Fee fantasies and false openings: Trump’s Hormuz delusions continue It costs ten times more to pay the policeman than the gangster in the Strait of Hormuz. Why? By Binoy Kampmark - 17/7/2026 | 40 | 18 hours ago |
| | 'A Fair Go' for all Australia lacks an emotionally satisfying founding event and as a result an expression of national identity. By Graeme Couch - 8/7/2026 | 25 | 14 days ago |
| | Immigration: a tool for vested interests The immigration system no longer exists to serve the country. The country increasingly serves the immigration system. By Tim Butler - 24/7/2026 | 13 | 17 mins ago |
| | Can Angus Taylor rekindle the romance? Conservatives are in the middle of a marriage breakdown. Half of Coalition voters have left. By Graham Young - 29/6/2026 | 12 | 24 days ago |
| | Political disarray in Australia If politics is about 'The Economy Stupid' then Australia is actually suffering from a lot of stupid and even more confusion.. By Ben Rees - 10/7/2026 | 9 | 13 days ago |
| | Property investors have gone on strike, and who can blame them? Property investors are also considered fair game for a litany of special charges including a 0.5% p.a. impost on their borrowings relative to owner-occupiers. By Brendan O'Reilly - 13/7/2026 | 8 | 12 days ago |
| | The price of miscalculation A war launched to reshape the Middle East has instead exposed the limits of force - and the cost of misunderstanding a nation that has spent millennia learning how to endure. By Alon Ben-Meir - 26/6/2026 | 8 | 25 days ago |
| | Feminist media manipulation What does Albo's descent into locker room banter tell us about weaponised feminism? By Bettina Arndt - 15/7/2026 | 7 | 6 days ago |
| | A new political party – why? Modern democracies need less permanent campaigning and more permanent problem-solving. By Luca Belgiorno-Nettis - 3/7/2026 | 6 | 20 days ago |
| | Is One Nation trolling the Coalition? Labor says Australia is a hotel. One Nation says it's a monoculture. Where does the Coalition stand? By Graham Young - 2/7/2026 | 5 | 24 days ago |
| | The West's circular firing squad - or is it a daisy chain? Why does the conservative commentariat scrutinise populists more fiercely than the establishment that failed? By Scott Heathwood - 2/7/2026 | 4 | 23 days ago |
| | The AUKUS spectre Is AUKUS just another expression of long-held Australian xenophobia or racism towards the Chinese? By Chek Ling - 30/6/2026 | 4 | 26 days ago |
| | America at 250: a reckoning and a call to conscience What hunger in the human soul chooses chains over courage, a demagogue over the demanding art of freedom? By Alon Ben-Meir - 10/7/2026 | 4 | 14 days ago |
| | Scrutinising the unpardonable: the AUKUS public inquiry so far Will Australia get submarines, or simply become America's southern naval base? By Binoy Kampmark - 8/7/2026 | 4 | 17 days ago |
| | The ABC of misinformation coming to a library near you A government-funded exercise in 'Do as I say, not what I do', coming to a library near you. By John Mikkelsen - 21/7/2026 | 4 | 4 days ago |
| | Acting the goose: Pauline Hanson's tour of Old Blighty The biggest threat to Pauline Hanson may not be Labor, but success. By Binoy Kampmark - 20/7/2026 | 3 | 6 days ago |
| | Africa just showed the world how fast nuclear can move With Data Centers, industry, and people demanding a surge in continuous electricity, regulators continue to make themselves a bottleneck rather than a conduit to abundant electricity. By Ronald Stein, Olivia Vaughan and Steve Curtis - 16/7/2026 | 3 | 7 days ago |
| | Artificial intelligence and the elephant in the data room AI can be shameless - make a mistake and it will correct itself and then continue as though it had never been wrong. By John Mikkelsen - 17/7/2026 | 3 | 8 days ago |
| | Climate chaos: planetary dangers and humanitarian emergency Treat fossil fuels like nuclear weapons: phase them out through a global non-proliferation treaty. By Evaggelos Vallianatos - 1/7/2026 | 3 | 25 days ago |
| | Soccer is just one of four beautiful football codes in Australia SBS champions 'wog ball' but when it comes to sport, diversity really is our strength. By Chris Lewis - 1/7/2026 | 3 | 25 days ago |
| | Remove the crude oil, and you do not merely dim the lights,you dismantle society! Wind turbines and solar panels only generate electricity - they cannot make anything. By Ronald Stein and Yoshihiro Muronaka - 3/7/2026 | 2 | 23 days ago |
| | The irreversible bloat of bureaucracy Imagine an economy where nobody ever gets fired; the unemployment rate is always low; GDP always goes up. How wonderful - and even better - we're living in it. By Tim Butler - 13/7/2026 | 2 | 10 days ago |
| | The domestic violence triage system Buried in this feminist report is something genuinely radical: a campaign to redefine due process itself as misconduct. By Bettina Arndt - 6/7/2026 | 2 | 17 days ago |
| | Discrimination is not always the moral and commercial wrong it is made out to be In effect, anti-discrimination laws and expensive associated entitlements are promoting the very type of discrimination they seek to prevent. By Brendan O'Reilly - 7/7/2026 | 2 | 19 days ago |
| | Australia doesn't have a housing crisis, it has an innovation crisis A brand new two-bedroom house for $380,000? Tell them they're joking. By Peter Simms - 21/7/2026 | 2 | 5 days ago |
| | Nation building: how not to nation build Australia's regions are struggling, not because they have nothing to offer, but because what they have to offer is often vandalised by government. By John O'Donnell - 15/7/2026 | 2 | 11 days ago |
| | Australia’s anti-corruption commissions have gone too far The CFMEU has been a running sore for decades, and which anti-corruption commission has acted to cauterise it? By Scott Prasser - 23/7/2026 | 2 | 26 hours ago |
| | 1776 against 1787: constituent power and the forgotten meaning of American democracy The Declaration didn't just create America. It created a permanent revolution. By Sam Ben-Meir - 16/7/2026 | 1 | 10 days ago |
| | Australia's property obsession is ending. The next generation of wealth builders is already looking elsewhere. What happens when Australia's favourite investment stops making financial sense? By Alex Jamieson - 9/7/2026 | 1 | 17 days ago |
| | The economic benefits of prescribed burning across Australia It's winter and bushfires are rare, which is just the time when we should worry about them the most. By John O'Donnell - 22/7/2026 | 1 | 4 days ago |
| | Beyond net zero: toward a carbon symbiosis society Why the future depends on balancing human prosperity, energy security, and environmental stewardship. By Ronald Stein and Yoshihiro Muronaka - 22/7/2026 | 1 | 4 days ago |
| | The GAFG connectivity doctrine: From corridors to governance ecosystems Physical infrastructure may look impressive, but when it crosses national borders, governance matters more than concrete. By Fernando Messias - 20/7/2026 | 1 | 6 days ago |
| | From utopia to branding: what happened to the fairy tale? The greatest fantasy changes how we see reality. Today's often just changes the merchandise. By Sam Ben-Meir - 7/7/2026 | 1 | 19 days ago |
| | The respectable corruption of Australia Australians believe that trade-offs don't really matter. This is false. Australia is still a constrained system, and we are testing limits. By Tim Butler - 6/7/2026 | 1 | 20 days ago |
| | Adding to failure: amending Australia's under-16 social media ban The observational study of 408 children between the ages of 12 and 17 found that over 85% of the participants 'reported using social media platforms subject to the Act at follow-up'.. By Binoy Kampmark - 29/6/2026 | 1 | 27 days ago |
| | From healing to harm The primary challenge is not merely the acquisition of new knowledge or technological advancement, but the preservation of the wisdom necessary to apply these capabilities judiciously. By Joseph Varon - 30/6/2026 | 1 | 26 days ago |
| | After recognition - what happens to survivors of wartime sexual violence thirty years after the wars? The Balkan wars ended thirty years ago. For many survivors of sexual violence, the struggle did not. By Wioletta Rebecka - 25/6/2026 | 1 | 31 days ago |
| | California ports expose the state as a national security risk to America With more in-state refinery closures eminent, California Ports are incapable of importing the large volumes of transportation fuels demanded by the 4th largest economy in the world. By Ronald Stein and Mike Ariza - 25/6/2026 | 1 | 31 days ago |