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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
2822 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
1321 days ago
View commentsView articleAre independent schools really just for rich kids?
Jane Caro is a well-known opponent of private schools receiving any government money, and she relies on fiction rather than fact to prove her point.
By Scott Prasser - 11/6/2026
1310 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
1226 days ago
View commentsView articleLet voting be voluntary
Compulsory voting empowers the disengaged and lets safe-seat politicians take supporters for granted.
By David Leyonhjelm - 15/6/2026
1010 days ago
View commentsView articleAustralia need not fear foreign workers: we remain in control
Australia needs foreign workers, but what lessons can we learn from other countries with large worker populations, like Singapore?
By Chris Lewis - 24/6/2026
102 days ago
View commentsView articleRoll over Banjo, they're culling your brumbies
Brumbies in the Australian Alps face a death sentence, despite their romantic legacy, while predators are protected.
By John Mikkelsen - 18/6/2026
94 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
918 days ago
View commentsView articleThe Iran conflict and the potential collapse of the ‘Greater Israel’ vision
As global support wanes and America looks inward, Israel faces a fateful choice between expansion and integration.
By Murray Hunter - 12/6/2026
813 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
720 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
617 days ago
View commentsView articleSecuring the South Pacific's uncertain future
The South Pacific risks becoming a battleground when it wants to remain a Zone of Peace.
By Simon Hutagalung - 17/6/2026
510 days ago
View commentsView articleThe price of miscalculation
A war launched to reshape the Middle East has instead exposed the limits of force - and the cost of misunderstanding a nation that has spent millennia learning how to endure.
By Alon Ben-Meir - 26/6/2026
411 hours ago
View commentsView articleInterpreting the Holocaust from a range of historiographical perspectives: a brief overview
The Holocaust has become more than a history of Nazi Germany. It is an inquiry into modern civilisation itself.
By John Ebel - 19/6/2026
46 days ago
View commentsView articleTrump and the aestheticization of fear
Rather than enabling genuine democratic participation, fascist movements transform politics into a spectacle.
By Sam Ben-Meir - 23/6/2026
45 days ago
View commentsView articleClash of sexual civilisations - mass immigration, sex crimes and female empowerment
Europe's rape statistics tell two stories: imported misogyny and ever-expanding definitions of sexual crime.
By Bettina Arndt - 24/6/2026
419 hours ago
View commentsView articleLicense to inflate: the One Nation surge and political astrology
One Nation's rise may be real. The commentary surrounding it often borders on performance art.
By Binoy Kampmark - 8/6/2026
420 days ago
View commentsView articleThe integration of drones into modern warfare
A $5,000 drone can destroy a $50 million tank. Warfare has entered a new age.
By Murray Hunter - 10/6/2026
418 days 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
425 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
421 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
325 days ago
View commentsView articleThe truth is out there, Donald
Too little to confirm, too much to dismiss. The almost quantum physical world of the USA and UFOs.
By John Mikkelsen - 9/6/2026
313 days ago
View commentsView articleGrok AI and the new era of AI-enabled warfare: US drone targeting and operations in Iran and Ukraine
While Pope Leo frets that AI might be used autonomously to target military personnel, reality has leapfrogged him.
By Murray Hunter - 23/6/2026
35 days ago
View commentsView articleNew geography of global trade: the Oceans Bridge - Africa
World trade is dominated by naval chokepoints, but there are ways to go around them.
By Jesinta Adams - 19/6/2026
39 days ago
View commentsView articleAustralia's failed suicide policies
Male suicide in Australia is to be addressed by teaching boys about gender equity - because male suicide is a form of female oppression?
By Bettina Arndt - 11/6/2026
319 hours ago
View commentsView articlePsychology: help yourself to a secure life
Notable new psychology-primer, Secure, urges the use of tools and techniques from attachment theory, to create a healthier and more secure life.
By Stephen Saunders - 22/6/2026
25 days ago
View commentsView articleLion’s den politics: Pauline Hanson at the National Press Club
Pauline Hanson has spent 30 years attacking the establishment. What happens if she becomes part of it?
By Binoy Kampmark - 22/6/2026
26 days ago
View commentsView articleWhat it really takes to meet the materialistic demands of the modern world
The next generation is inheriting an exciting world facing enormous decisions, not just about energy, but about prosperity, inequality, technology, sustainability, and societal and political stability.
By Ronald Stein and Lars Schernikau - 10/6/2026
218 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
221 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
221 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
230 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
124 days ago
View commentsView articleAfter recognition - what happens to survivors of wartime sexual violence thirty years after the wars?
The Balkan wars ended thirty years ago. For many survivors of sexual violence, the struggle did not.
By Wioletta Rebecka - 25/6/2026
13 days ago
View commentsView articleCalifornia ports expose the state as a national security risk to America
With more in-state refinery closures eminent, California Ports are incapable of importing the large volumes of transportation fuels demanded by the 4th largest economy in the world.
By Ronald Stein and Mike Ariza - 25/6/2026
13 days ago
View commentsView articleRepetitive folly: Israel’s futile war in Lebanon deepens
Israel's war in Lebanon was meant to weaken Hezbollah. Instead, Hezbollah is adapting and the war is spreading.
By Binoy Kampmark - 12/6/2026
116 days ago
View commentsView articleAustralian digital sovereignty
The EU is no longer just regulating Europe. It is exporting its digital rules to the world.
By John Töns - 16/6/2026
112 days ago
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