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 |  | Time for Trump to dictate terms of Iran’s surrender 'We have all the cards.' What comes after Trump walks away from talks? By David Singer - 1/5/2026 | 33 | 18 days ago |
| | Trump, Iran, and the folly of demanding surrender Trump's threats and maximalist demands ignore Iran's history, security fears, and distrust of Washington. A durable agreement requires time, restraint, and professional diplomacy. By Alon Ben-Meir - 29/4/2026 | 24 | 18 days ago |
| | Intergenerational inequity? The young have never had it so good The Albanese government’s catchcry should be rejected and seen for what it really is – an attempt to identify another societal victim that the Labor Party, can 'rescue' to gain votes. By Scott Prasser - 13/5/2026 | 16 | 6 days ago |
| | Trump positioning to end the US-Israel-Iran conflict From Tokyo Bay to Tehran? A 1945-style instrument of surrender is being floated as the only way to end the Iran war. By David Singer - 24/4/2026 | 11 | 26 days ago |
| | The minilateralist incentive: a climate change conference in Colombia From failed climate summits to energy shock: the Iran war is succeeding where COP negotiations haven’t. By Binoy Kampmark - 27/4/2026 | 10 | 23 days ago |
| | The one word missing from the budget There is one factor driving or worsening Australia's economic position. People are marching in the street about it. The treasurer couldn't even mention it. By Graham Young - 18/5/2026 | 9 | 2 days ago |
| | It’s not a lie, I just changed my position Your Honour Negative gearing survived termites, dodgy solicitors and bad builders. Then Labor came for it. By John Mikkelsen - 22/5/2026 | 9 | 5 hours ago |
| | No wonder men are opting out They are dropping out of work and marriage because the women aren't worth it. By Bettina Arndt - 19/5/2026 | 7 | 17 hours ago |
| | NBN: never been necessary Every now and then an act of government incompetence and waste is so egregious that it’s enough to wake the beast within. By Nicola Wright - 15/5/2026 | 6 | 5 days ago |
| | Of trust and trusts Our existing political elites fundamentally broke trust over the Covid debacle. They panicked, threw the manual out the window, and then used the full power of the state, and state adjacent institutions, to impose panic on the whole population. By Graham Young - 21/5/2026 | 5 | 31 hours ago |
| | Trump reaches historic agreement with Xi on handling Iran Is a civilised bipolar world possible? By David Singer - 22/5/2026 | 4 | 14 hours ago |
| | ‘Green energy’ is bringing back the atrocities of ‘blood diamonds’ The rare earth metals required to go 'green' are exploiting people in developing countries. By Ronald Stein and Frits Soepyan - 30/4/2026 | 4 | 23 days ago |
| | Fiendish feminists' suicide gotcha Call a suicide hotline. If you are male, get assessed as a potential perpetrator. By Bettina Arndt - 30/4/2026 | 4 | 18 days ago |
| | The five enablers of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict For decades, five powerful actors-the United States, the Arab states, the European Union, AIPAC, and Israel's own opposition - have all claimed to seek Israeli-Palestinian peace while enabling permanent occupation. By Alon Ben-Meir - 7/5/2026 | 3 | 12 days ago |
| | Albanese Labor: reshaping the population to its own ends In recent polling and research, the latter dislikes massive immigration, isn’t thrilled by progressive culture and the neoliberal agenda. By Stephen Saunders - 4/5/2026 | 3 | 19 days ago |
| | International Energy Agency wrong to forecast coal’s demise Coal is unfashionable, but still indispensable. The world’s energy numbers prove it. By Tom Harris - 19/5/2026 | 3 | 3 days ago |
| | Why the Communist idea still matters What if the real triumph of capitalism is convincing us no alternative is imaginable? By Sam Ben-Meir - 18/5/2026 | 3 | 4 days ago |
| | Here comes a very fast train! (Please, save us!) Big promises, bigger price tag: the fast train debate returns. By Ross Elliott - 7/5/2026 | 2 | 16 days ago |
| | As the definition of autism expands, are we losing sight of those with the greatest needs? There is an increasing awareness of autism, and a better appreciation of how widely dispersed it is, but does that obscure those in real need? By Andrew Whitehouse, David Trembath and Mirko Uljarevic - 14/5/2026 | 2 | 8 days ago |
| | Did we vote for that? From marriage equality to gender identity debates: where does 'reform' end? By David Leyonhjelm - 5/5/2026 | 2 | 17 days ago |
| | Dangers to the Fourth Estate: The 2026 World Press Freedom Index More than half the world now has 'difficult' or worse press freedom conditions. By Binoy Kampmark - 6/5/2026 | 2 | 17 days ago |
| | Historic flip on spending risks big tax increases More for everyone, paid by everyone. That’s the new budget strategy. By David Alexander - 29/4/2026 | 2 | 23 days ago |
| | Our fossil-fuelled world Queensland’s David [Crisafulli] is going to have to slay some federal and environmental Goliaths. By Graham Young and Carrie Schuler - 11/5/2026 | 2 | 5 days ago |
| | Child poverty in America One of the gravest injustices in America today persists not because it is hidden, but because it has been normalized - absorbed into daily life, tolerated in silence, and sustained by indifference where outrage should prevail By Alon Ben-Meir - 12/5/2026 | 2 | 11 days ago |
| | Coastal tourist dollars don’t stay local The tourist industry takes far more from regional Australia than it gives back. By Malcolm King - 12/5/2026 | 2 | 9 days ago |
| | How to transform Australian foreign, economic and defence policies from mindlessness to mindfulness? Has Australia become trapped in inherited alliances, elite thinking and failed orthodoxies? By Ordan Andreevski - 14/5/2026 | 1 | 9 days ago |
| | Epic nonsense: Trump shelves Project Freedom Another Middle East operation, another collision between imperial rhetoric and strategic limits. By Binoy Kampmark - 11/5/2026 | 1 | 12 days ago |
| | Cancelled Richardson review a better option to assess Bondi security Such an inquiry with informal processes would have better suited than the more vague and limited interim report of the royal commission. By Scott Prasser - 6/5/2026 | 1 | 17 days ago |
| | Why grief shouldn’t disappear when Mother’s Day does Grief is not a single day on the calendar - it lingers long after the tributes end. By Danielle Snelling - 15/5/2026 | 1 | 8 days ago |
| | Mirrors of greed: Elon Musk, OpenAI and the tech brat battle Behind the rhetoric about “humanity” sits a brutal struggle for money, control and dominance. By Binoy Kampmark - 20/5/2026 | 1 | 3 days ago |
| | Oil moves our machines, but electricity is the cornerstone of our quality of life Some of us confuse the discussion of 'energy' to mean 'electricity'. Energy is well over a trillion-dollar annual market in the US, but less than half of it is electricity. By Ronald Stein, Olivia Vaughan and Steve Curtis - 21/5/2026 | 1 | 2 days ago |