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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 | 27 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 | 21 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 | 12 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 | 25 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 | 21 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 | 7 days 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 | 7 days ago |
| | Armageddon and artificial intelligence Fears that AI is primed to wipe out humanity exist in the realm of fantasy, meanwhile in real life there are limits. By John Mikkelsen - 21/9/2026 | 5 | 4 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 | 21 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 | 21 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 | 13 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 | 11 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 | 13 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 | 25 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 | 25 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 | 19 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 | 18 days ago |
| | Governments ignored scientists warning that climate scare was based on implausible scenarios It's a failure of economics more than it is a failing of climate science. By Tom Harris - 23/9/2026 | 3 | 30 hours ago |
| | Reconstituting the United Nations for collective security – we need a popular campaign! A UN which carried a big stick. Now that would change international relations. By Barry York - 23/9/2026 | 3 | 2 days ago |
| | When everything becomes a mental illness Mental health may indeed be one of medicine’s great remaining frontiers. But acknowledging uncertainty is part of understanding the problem. By David Leyonhjelm - 25/9/2026 | 3 | 2 days ago |
| | Counterfeit righteousness: Anthropic, AI and the pacing fallacy The architects of artificial superintelligence now warn that it could escape control, cripple the internet and even extinguish humanity. So why did they develop it? By Binoy Kampmark - 22/9/2026 | 2 | 5 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 | 26 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 | 20 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 | 20 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 | 23 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 | 11 days ago |
| | Economics says Australia should have negative migration Elected members imagine themselves trapped between an economy needing immigrants and a public wanting fewer. It’s time they questioned their assumptions. By Cathal Leslie - 24/9/2026 | 1 | 3 days ago |
| | Throwing the first stone When does your past stop being your present and future? By John Mikkelsen - 22/9/2026 | 1 | 5 days ago |
| | Australia can’t outbid a blockade Rich countries are insulated from the worst of commodity markets, but there are some things money can't buy. By Tim Butler - 21/9/2026 | 1 | 6 days ago |