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 |  | Christian liberty: are you serious?? Christianity is by-far-and-away the most compatible religious faith or spiritual belief with Liberty. By Darren Nelson - 11/5/2018 | 73 | 24 hours ago |
| | Nuclear necessity The problem with any discussion on nuclear power is that it is fraught with misinformation promoted by hysterical nuclearphobes. By David Leyonhjelm - 24/4/2018 | 67 | 4 days ago |
| | Why aren’t more people 'factful'? Every group Rosling sought answers from saw the world as 'more frightening, more violent, and more hopeless - in short, more dramatic - than it really is'. By Don Aitkin - 3/5/2018 | 46 | 9 days ago |
| | The grip of feminist ideology on our key institutions I am orchestrating a campaign to protest the dismissal of Rob Tiller who was forced out of his job for posting on his private Facebook page an article I wrote on domestic violence. By Bettina Arndt - 18/5/2018 | 34 | 4 hours ago |
| | Why isn’t more research reproducible? At the heart of the problem is a failure both to follow good research design practices and to understand statistics properly. By Don Aitkin - 30/4/2018 | 28 | 13 days ago |
| | Genderbread Person is a bad fairy tale that furthers LGBTIQ rainbow ideology No one is denying that gender dysphoria is real and students who identify on any spectrum must be treated with respect and yes, love! By Wendy Francis - 26/4/2018 | 19 | 22 days ago |
| | Should religious protection extend to the marketplace? Bigotry is bad business, so why not let the consumer determine who gets away with what in the marketplace. By Chris Fotinopoulos - 18/5/2018 | 17 | 11 hours ago |
| | Decertifying the Iran deal is dangerously reckless It is dangerous that neither Trump nor Netanyahu appears to fully grasp the dire regional and international implications of the unilateral decertification of the deal by the US. By Alon Ben-Meir - 10/5/2018 | 17 | 6 days ago |
| | The dying in Syria rest on the conscience of the West eclaring mission accomplished in the context of the continuing unfolding tragedy being inflicted on the Syrian people is cynical and disheartening at best. By Alon Ben-Meir - 1/5/2018 | 16 | 15 days ago |
| | Balance the key to CDP bungle The 'work-like' activities undertaken by CDP participants creates a façade of employment, which ignores the fact that in the majority remote areas in which the program operates there are very little prospects. By Charles Jacobs - 8/5/2018 | 16 | 9 days ago |
| | Budget cover-ups When someone does something they shouldn't, it's often the cover-up that heralds their downfall rather than the original error. By David Leyonhjelm - 14/5/2018 | 12 | 4 days ago |
| | The reality of our northern cattle industry belies popular rhetoric Three years after opening its $100 million abattoir (employing about 200 people), AACo has launched a review into the underperforming asset. By Brendan O'Reilly - 20/4/2018 | 12 | 28 days ago |
| | Is Trump rational? Importantly, the White working class is also the largest block of Democratic Party voters. Unfortunately, Hillary Clinton only won 28% of White working class votes. By Michael Knox - 1/5/2018 | 11 | 12 days ago |
| | Artificial Intelligence: making the rich richer and the poor poorer Underemployment and unemployment are being affected by growing use of artificial intelligence in the workplace. By Tania de Jong - 26/4/2018 | 11 | 25 days ago |
| | Israel at seventy: time to celebrate and time to lament The country is consumed by internal conflict and beleaguered by a dysfunctional political system, while its citizens live with a heightened sense of insecurity. By Alon Ben-Meir - 17/5/2018 | 10 | 12 mins ago |
| | 2018 Budget: party like it’s 1999! A much deeper issue is how the Australian economy can evolve to grow in a more balanced manner and reduce its exposure to falling commodity prices. By Andreas Chai - 8/5/2018 | 10 | 13 days ago |
| | Curing depression Antidepressants come with side effects ranging from weight gain and hair loss through to suicide and various kinds of persistent or permanent disablement. By John Murray - 3/5/2018 | 9 | 14 days ago |
| | Well, is the world improving or not? News that the world's human peoples seem to be steadily improving their lot in life ought to reduce our fears of angry mobs invading our shores because we have it and they don't. By Don Aitkin - 10/5/2018 | 9 | 10 days ago |
| | A new lithium war is about to begin It's the modern gold rush. Around the world, the most sought-after mineral isn't a precious metal, nor is it oil and gas…it's lithium. By James Stafford - 27/4/2018 | 8 | 12 hours ago |
| | Why Trump's problems in Washington mean problems for Australia. A distracted president has the potential to leave power vacuums which will be filled by others. This is not in Australia's interest. By Daniel Steedman - 23/4/2018 | 8 | 27 days ago |
| | 'Return of the Mummy': Mahathir Mohamad and the Malaysian elections This election result is only surprising if one considers the seemingly immutable nature of BN's rule, which has lasted six decades and resisted change with studied fanaticism. By Binoy Kampmark - 11/5/2018 | 8 | 8 days ago |
| | The march of the politically correct – reshaping our language It is so extraordinarily Orwellian that even its own President Mark Huddleston has admitted that he is 'troubled by many things' that it contains. By Russell Grenning - 7/5/2018 | 8 | 6 days ago |
| | Is parting such a sweet sorrow? A very long list of so-called celebrities announced prior to the presidential election in 2016 that they would leave the USA if Trump won. By Russell Grenning - 15/5/2018 | 7 | 4 days ago |
| | 'The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui' It is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade. By Chris Golis - 24/4/2018 | 7 | 25 days ago |
| | Sugar demons, sweet lobbies and taxes Christensen's individualist acceptance is standard form for industries that have found certain costs and regulations unnecessary and damaging to the purse strings. By Binoy Kampmark - 2/5/2018 | 7 | 14 days ago |
| | No more secret science, needs no more secret economics 'The rule will ensure that the regulatory science underlying Agency actions is fully transparent, and that underlying scientific information is publicly available in a manner sufficient for independent validation.' By Darren Nelson - 9/5/2018 | 6 | 12 days ago |
| | Science should save lives, not take them Lab workers addict monkeys to drugs, drill holes into their skulls, burn off the skin of sheep and pigs, crush rats' spinal cords...and give rats seizures. By Emma Hurst - 24/4/2018 | 6 | 17 days ago |
| | 'Bracket creep' and better budget benchmarks With a 'progressive' income tax scale, and fixed $ values for tax bracket thresholds, a taxpayer's average tax rate increases for every extra taxable dollar received. By Geoff Carmody - 15/5/2018 | 6 | 6 days ago |
| | Marvel Infinity War villain is lefty green do-gooder The Economics Infinity War, in a nutshell, is a story of do-gooders versus good-doers of the economic variety. The former are all about intentions, the latter results. By Darren Nelson - 18/5/2018 | 6 | 2 days ago |
| | Why does Mayor Tom Tait have a problem with Disney? Having Disney as a constituent business would be a gold mine, I presumed, and something any Mayor would give their eye teeth for. By Ross Elliott - 17/5/2018 | 5 | 2 days ago |
| | If the model is broken, fix it UBI may not work in practice, but at least it is addressing the right problem, and there is enough money to take this approach. By Gwynne Dyer - 7/5/2018 | 5 | 14 days ago |
| | These ARE our issues! ‘Srebrenica’ no more! We are all one. R2P was and is a step in the right direction, as it openly challenges the previously sacred notion of 'national sovereignty'. By Barry York - 27/4/2018 | 5 | 22 days ago |
| | Regulated public utility monopolies are not 'natural' These pseudo-taxes are almost always on the rise like real taxes (as per the diagram below), and also like the latter include all of the predictable inefficiencies associated with government. By Darren Nelson - 27/4/2018 | 5 | 24 days ago |
| | Albania must choose between the EU and Turkey Albanian citizens must realize that Erdogan's investments in their economy are but a façade to cover his larger goal of making the Balkans increasingly dependent on Turkey. By Alon Ben-Meir and Arbana Xharra - 4/5/2018 | 5 | 16 days ago |
| | The colour of racism When the country was founded and its constitution was created, a clause was inserted restricting citizenship to just those of African descent and to create 'a refuge and a haven for freed men of colour'. By Russell Grenning - 14/5/2018 | 5 | 7 days ago |
| | It’s time, again, if Shorten has the fortitude The time is right for a reformist government. Is there any chance that we will get a reformist ALP government? By John Murray - 14/5/2018 | 5 | 6 days ago |
| | Enoch Powell: blood speeches and anniversaries Despite his exit from the front bench, Powell haunted conservative immigration policy sufficiently to influence Heath when in government to pass the 1971 Immigration Act. By Binoy Kampmark - 26/4/2018 | 4 | 22 days ago |
| | The Australian budget emerges from 'dog days' The budget combines good luck with good management. By Michael Knox - 10/5/2018 | 4 | 9 days ago |
| | Reforming the revolving door between banks, regulators and legislators The banks and the media outlets who carry their advertising can no longer fool us into believing that their interests are identical with our own. By John Murray - 24/4/2018 | 4 | 27 days ago |
| | How did the Qld government accumulate so much debt? Trad needs to show how she can reduce state debt from its current level of $71 billion, or at least prevent it from blowing out to nearly $81 billion, as currently projected for 2020-21. By Gene Tunny - 16/5/2018 | 4 | 5 days ago |
| | The commercial heavens: the new Australian space agency Space has been turned into patriotism, cash and incentives; and there is a sense that Australia has been lagging. By Binoy Kampmark - 16/5/2018 | 3 | 6 hours ago |
| | Three cheers for Pollyanna What has been most interesting has been the determination to continue to see the world as bad, dangerous, awful in the face of good global data that say the opposite. By Don Aitkin - 16/5/2018 | 3 | 5 days ago |
| | Cities can still grow without getting us stuck in traffic Governments have a long history of spending billions to knowingly build ‘roads to nowhere’ when they could have built efficient infrastructure instead. By Vladimir Vinokurov - 23/4/2018 | 3 | 28 days ago |
| | China is opening its economy to imports and foreign ownership - but why? China's government wants its people to spend their money and invest inside China, rather than foreign countries. That's why it's going to lower tariffs and liberalize foreign ownership rules. By Zegang Ren - 10/5/2018 | 3 | 7 days ago |
| | How singing together changes more than the brain When many diverse voices come together as 'one voice' on a regular basis the outcomes are transformational. By Tania de Jong - 2/5/2018 | 3 | 19 days ago |
| | Trust fades away The rotten core that is at the heart of the banking industry is just the tip of the iceberg. The decay in honesty and integrity is evident throughout the entire business world. By Everald Compton - 30/4/2018 | 2 | 20 days ago |
| | Arab Summit helps Trump break Jordan-PLO-Israeli impasse The Summit's declared By David Singer - 4/5/2018 | 2 | 17 days ago |
| | PLO dumps Trump easing way for Jordan-Israel negotiations Protecting the Hashemite regime and Jordan's borders - coupled with massive injections of American financial aid - could see Jordan replacing the PLO as Israel's Arab partner. By David Singer - 9/5/2018 | 1 | 12 days ago |
| | Dumping on industry The obvious conclusion is that the price was deliberately supressed in order to encourage a favourable anti-dumping decision and to highlight material injury. By David Leyonhjelm - 30/4/2018 | 1 | 21 days ago |
| | The bullish and bearish case for oil While Barclays believes the risk of a disruption of Iranian supply is overblown, Goldman Sachs has a more nuanced take. By Nicholas Cunningham - 20/4/2018 | 1 | 31 days ago |
| | Is the North Korea-USA summit over before it begins? The US State Department in the immediate aftermath of the North Korean announcement said it had no information from North Korea about any threat to cancel the 12 June summit. By Russell Grenning - 17/5/2018 | 1 | 4 days ago |