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View commentsView articleFee fantasies and false openings: Trump’s Hormuz delusions continue
It costs ten times more to pay the policeman than the gangster in the Strait of Hormuz. Why?
By Binoy Kampmark - 17/7/2026
436 days ago
View commentsView articleImmigration: a tool for vested interests
The immigration system no longer exists to serve the country. The country increasingly serves the immigration system.
By Tim Butler - 24/7/2026
2725 hours ago
View commentsView article'A Fair Go' for all
Australia lacks an emotionally satisfying founding event and as a result an expression of national identity.
By Graeme Couch - 8/7/2026
2521 days ago
View commentsView articleResults of a YouGov survey concerning religious belief and citizenship
What does it mean when someone puts their beliefs ahead of their allegiance to their country.
By Max Wallace - 27/7/2026
1024 hours ago
View commentsView articlePolitical disarray in Australia
If politics is about 'The Economy Stupid' then Australia is actually suffering from a lot of stupid and even more confusion..
By Ben Rees - 10/7/2026
920 days ago
View commentsView articleProperty investors have gone on strike, and who can blame them?
Property investors are also considered fair game for a litany of special charges including a 0.5% p.a. impost on their borrowings relative to owner-occupiers.
By Brendan O'Reilly - 13/7/2026
819 days ago
View commentsView articleFeminist media manipulation
What does Albo's descent into locker room banter tell us about weaponised feminism?
By Bettina Arndt - 15/7/2026
713 days ago
View commentsView articleEnrichment antics: Trump’s Saudi nuclear deal
The Israelis had their jaws dropping and dragging on the grounds. The Saudis were cock-a-hoop. The Trump administration remains, as it always does, streaky and fickle.
By Binoy Kampmark - 28/7/2026
73 days ago
View commentsView articleA new political party – why?
Modern democracies need less permanent campaigning and more permanent problem-solving.
By Luca Belgiorno-Nettis - 3/7/2026
627 days ago
View commentsView articleThe ABC of misinformation coming to a library near you
A government-funded exercise in 'Do as I say, not what I do', coming to a library near you.
By John Mikkelsen - 21/7/2026
56 days ago
View commentsView articleScrutinising the unpardonable: the AUKUS public inquiry so far
Will Australia get submarines, or simply become America's southern naval base?
By Binoy Kampmark - 8/7/2026
424 days ago
View commentsView articleAmerica at 250: a reckoning and a call to conscience
What hunger in the human soul chooses chains over courage, a demagogue over the demanding art of freedom?
By Alon Ben-Meir - 10/7/2026
421 days ago
View commentsView articleAfrica just showed the world how fast nuclear can move
With Data Centers, industry, and people demanding a surge in continuous electricity, regulators continue to make themselves a bottleneck rather than a conduit to abundant electricity.
By Ronald Stein, Olivia Vaughan and Steve Curtis - 16/7/2026
314 days ago
View commentsView articleArtificial intelligence and the elephant in the data room
AI can be shameless - make a mistake and it will correct itself and then continue as though it had never been wrong.
By John Mikkelsen - 17/7/2026
315 days ago
View commentsView articleActing the goose: Pauline Hanson's tour of Old Blighty
The biggest threat to Pauline Hanson may not be Labor, but success.
By Binoy Kampmark - 20/7/2026
313 days ago
View commentsView articleAustralia doesn't have a housing crisis, it has an innovation crisis
A brand new two-bedroom house for $380,000? Tell them they're joking.
By Peter Simms - 21/7/2026
212 days ago
View commentsView articleThe economic benefits of prescribed burning across Australia
It's winter and bushfires are rare, which is just the time when we should worry about them the most.
By John O'Donnell - 22/7/2026
23 days ago
View commentsView articleAustralia’s anti-corruption commissions have gone too far
The CFMEU has been a running sore for decades, and which anti-corruption commission has acted to cauterise it?
By Scott Prasser - 23/7/2026
28 days ago
View commentsView articleNation building: how not to nation build
Australia's regions are struggling, not because they have nothing to offer, but because what they have to offer is often vandalised by government.
By John O'Donnell - 15/7/2026
218 days ago
View commentsView articleRemove the crude oil, and you do not merely dim the lights,you dismantle society!
Wind turbines and solar panels only generate electricity - they cannot make anything.
By Ronald Stein and Yoshihiro Muronaka - 3/7/2026
230 days ago
View commentsView articleThe irreversible bloat of bureaucracy
Imagine an economy where nobody ever gets fired; the unemployment rate is always low; GDP always goes up. How wonderful - and even better - we're living in it.
By Tim Butler - 13/7/2026
217 days ago
View commentsView articleThe domestic violence triage system
Buried in this feminist report is something genuinely radical: a campaign to redefine due process itself as misconduct.
By Bettina Arndt - 6/7/2026
224 days ago
View commentsView articleDiscrimination is not always the moral and commercial wrong it is made out to be
In effect, anti-discrimination laws and expensive associated entitlements are promoting the very type of discrimination they seek to prevent.
By Brendan O'Reilly - 7/7/2026
226 days ago
View commentsView articleFrom utopia to branding: what happened to the fairy tale?
The greatest fantasy changes how we see reality. Today's often just changes the merchandise.
By Sam Ben-Meir - 7/7/2026
126 days ago
View commentsView articleThe respectable corruption of Australia
Australians believe that trade-offs don't really matter. This is false. Australia is still a constrained system, and we are testing limits.
By Tim Butler - 6/7/2026
127 days ago
View commentsView articleAustralia's property obsession is ending. The next generation of wealth builders is already looking elsewhere.
What happens when Australia's favourite investment stops making financial sense?
By Alex Jamieson - 9/7/2026
124 days ago
View commentsView article1776 against 1787: constituent power and the forgotten meaning of American democracy
The Declaration didn't just create America. It created a permanent revolution.
By Sam Ben-Meir - 16/7/2026
117 days ago
View commentsView articleTrump’s authoritarian play against foreign journalists
For nearly a century, foreign correspondents have come to the United States precisely because this country prided itself on welcoming scrutiny. Now, the Trump administration proposes to turn that legacy on its head.
By Alon Ben-Meir - 27/7/2026
16 days ago
View commentsView articleBeyond net zero: toward a carbon symbiosis society
Why the future depends on balancing human prosperity, energy security, and environmental stewardship.
By Ronald Stein and Yoshihiro Muronaka - 22/7/2026
111 days ago
View commentsView articleMagnifica Humanitas: hope in the age of AI
Hope isn't optimism. It's acting as if a better future is possible.
By Craig Thompson - 28/7/2026
15 days ago
View commentsView articleThe GAFG connectivity doctrine: From corridors to governance ecosystems
Physical infrastructure may look impressive, but when it crosses national borders, governance matters more than concrete.
By Fernando Messias - 20/7/2026
113 days ago
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