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View commentsView articleIt’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
537 days ago
View commentsView articleTrump needs to end negotiating with Iran
Trump’s Middle East coalition may think it is negotiating peace. Tehran appears to think it is negotiating time.
By David Singer - 29/5/2026
2815 hours ago
View commentsView articleIntergenerational 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
1621 days ago
View commentsView articlePollster Kos Samaras: electoral soothsayer for endless immigration
Sure, Albanese’s crush-loading ethnic immigration at unprecedented levels, to help Labor win. The Budget has highlighted Samaras, as a crucial analyst of this un-democracy.
By Stephen Saunders - 29/5/2026
125 days ago
View commentsView articleOne Nation and coalitions
Many people on the anti-Labor side of politics believe the only way to remove Labor from government is for the Liberal Party and Nationals to work with One Nation.
By David Leyonhjelm - 2/6/2026
112 days ago
View commentsView articleThe 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
917 days ago
View commentsView articleNo 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
715 days ago
View commentsView articleAustralia imagined
Australians get one day of political power every three years. What if voters had a voice in between?
By Ian Bowrey - 4/6/2026
72 days ago
View commentsView articleNBN: 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
620 days ago
View commentsView articleOf 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
516 days ago
View commentsView articleThe failure of Jim Chalmers
Jim Chalmers complained about the economy he inherited - too much debt, chronic deficit, low productivity - so what is the point of his last budget?
By Graham Young - 5/6/2026
420 hours ago
View commentsView articleThe law beneath the law
How common law made the Anglosphere - and why it still matters
By Howard Dewhirst - 1/6/2026
44 days ago
View commentsView articleThe end of higher education
Universities have discovered their ideal academic: a machine that believes nothing, has read everything, and can produce infinite quantities of fluent slop on demand. And they have offered it tenure.
By Steven Schwartz - 27/5/2026
47 days ago
View commentsView articleTrump reaches historic agreement with Xi on handling Iran
Is a civilised bipolar world possible?
By David Singer - 22/5/2026
415 days ago
View commentsView articleJudges who think they know better
The doctrine of separation of powers is central to Australia’s constitutional system. Parliament makes laws, the executive administers them, and the judiciary interprets and applies them.
By David Leyonhjelm - 25/5/2026
412 days ago
View commentsView articleMagnifica Humanitas: the human person in the age of artificial intelligence
In May 2026, Pope Leo XIV issued his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas (
By Yuri Koszarycz - 2/6/2026
35 days ago
View commentsView articleInternational 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
318 days ago
View commentsView articleWhy 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
319 days ago
View commentsView articleThe 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
327 days ago
View commentsView articleModern society runs on refined oil products, can California keep ignoring reality?
Australia shows the future for California, as refineries close down and fuel security recedes with them.
By Ronald Stein and Jonathan J. Ariel - 3/6/2026
34 days ago
View commentsView articleOur 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
220 days ago
View commentsView articleChild 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
226 days ago
View commentsView articleCoastal 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
224 days ago
View commentsView articleAs 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
223 days ago
View commentsView articleHere comes a very fast train! (Please, save us!)
Big promises, bigger price tag: the fast train debate returns.
By Ross Elliott - 7/5/2026
231 days ago
View commentsView articleOil 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
213 days ago
View commentsView articleWhite elephant in space: the extortionate expense of Golden Dome
After the Iran war exposed the limits of high-tech warfare, Washington wants even more expensive toys.
By Binoy Kampmark - 26/5/2026
211 days ago
View commentsView articleHistory will not yield to power
For decades, Israel and the Palestinians have tried to bend reality to their will. But reality does not yield to force, memory does not fade on command, and justice cannot be indefinitely deferred
By Alon Ben-Meir - 27/5/2026
211 days ago
View commentsView articleThe Iran war exposes the illusions of energy policy
In addition to electricity, the world depends on transportation fuels and products made from fossil fuels.
By Ronald Stein and Yoshihiro Muronaka - 28/5/2026
29 days ago
View commentsView articleNot much to see: the release of the UFO files
UFO enthusiasts wanted disclosure. What they got was grainy footage, old reports and more unanswered questions.
By Binoy Kampmark - 1/6/2026
16 days ago
View commentsView article Turkey's egregious human rights violations are beyond the pale
Turkey's human rights record has crossed from troubling to indefensible. Behind the language of counterterrorism and national security lies a systematic campaign that has dismantled the rule of law.
By Alon Ben-Meir - 3/6/2026
14 days ago
View commentsView articleTrump using Iran-delay to help him win mid-term elections
Trump wants America thinking about itself for a little while, and is happy to keep the Mullahs on simmer for now.
By David Singer - 5/6/2026
12 days ago
View commentsView articlePhoenix rising: women, AI, and the architecture of a world that cares
The future of AI may depend less on engineers than on the women who understand care, vulnerability and survival.
By Katrina Fotovat - 4/6/2026
13 days ago
View commentsView articleMirrors 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
118 days ago
View commentsView articleWhy 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
123 days ago
View commentsView articleHow 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
124 days ago
View commentsView articleEpic nonsense: Trump shelves Project Freedom
Another Middle East operation, another collision between imperial rhetoric and strategic limits.
By Binoy Kampmark - 11/5/2026
127 days ago
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