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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 | 20 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 | 12 | 14 days ago |
| | The 6,000 reasons the world can’t simply quit oil Are we addicted to fossil fuel or is it a functional necessity? By Ronald Stein and Yoshihiro Muronaka - 10/9/2026 | 9 | 5 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 | 18 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 | 22 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 | 14 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 - 9/9/2026 | 6 | 2 hours ago |
| | GST carve-up leaves Qld, WA short-changed In the carving up of GST share, one state’s costly mistakes can become everybody else’s fiscal problem. By Graham Young - 17/9/2026 | 5 | 2 hours 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 | 25 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 | 25 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 | 24 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 | 4 | 14 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 | 4 | 14 days ago |
| | The stockpile is over: why Australian businesses are rethinking the role of inventory Australian manufacturers have slashed the stock on their shelves. Is this newfound efficiency - or the quiet removal of their last buffer against disruption? By Jarrod Adam - 16/9/2026 | 4 | 4 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 | 24 days ago |
| | The volcanic escalation on Java is a threat of potential regional chaos 150 million people live on Java, the most heavily populated island in the world. A the consequences of a volcanic disaster for them wouldn't be confined to Indonesia. By Murray Hunter - 11/9/2026 | 4 | 6 days ago |
| | Has ANZUS turned Australia into a target From a Chinese strategic perspective, as one analyst put it, Australia is less a host of US bases than a US base in its own right, a significant piece of real estate in America’s Pacific warfighting architecture. By Murray Hunter - 14/9/2026 | 3 | 6 days 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 | 18 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 | 18 days ago |
| | Politicians discover men When Colin from Accounts is onto it you know that it is going to only get bigger. By Bettina Arndt - 8/9/2026 | 3 | 12 days ago |
| | The ‘invisible Greeks’: Hollywood, the Odyssey, and the question of cultural identity Christopher Nolan's Odyssey continues an entrenched Western tradition of culturally appropriating ancient cultures and eviscerating them. By Arthur Saniotis - 9/9/2026 | 3 | 11 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 | 29 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 | 24 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 | 26 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 | 19 days ago |
| | From the evil genius to the digital leviathan Like the sovereign described by Thomas Hobbes, this system encompasses and organizes collective life. But unlike Hobbes's Leviathan, it does not command from above. By Sam Ben-Meir - 7/9/2026 | 1 | 13 days ago |
| | Battle for the Gulf tomorrow: between a Hobbesian and a Kantian world The Gulf now faces a historic opportunity to become an active producer rather than a passive consumer of regional security. By Vladimir Norov - 7/9/2026 | 1 | 13 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 | 26 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 | 16 days ago |
| | A topical task of multilateral diplomacy The UN wants to revive the dream of a new international economic order. Can it turn half-century-old promises into action? By Ioan Voicu - 16/9/2026 | 1 | 4 days ago |