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 |  | Sudan’s civil war ravages the core of our humanity The Sudanese civil war is one of the greatest tragedies we are witnessing today. The international community is disgraceful for sitting on its hands, watching with indifference this ongoing humanitarian catastrophe. By Alon Ben-Meir - 28/11/2025 | 2 | 7 hours ago |
| | Australia’s pandemic inquiry doesn’t pass the pub test. Here’s why you should care The UK’s COVID-19 Inquiry is laying bare the chaos, mistakes, and political dysfunction of its pandemic response. Australia, by contrast, settled for an inquiry without teeth. By Scott Prasser - 27/11/2025 | 2 | 2 days ago |
| | California Governor Newsom remains oblivious that electricity came about after oil All the parts and components to generate electricity are based on oil derivatives refined from raw crude oil. By Ronald Stein - 27/11/2025 | 10 | 5 hours ago |
| | Contract bikies and bribed politicians: Australia’s Nauru refugee deal A labour-hire firm led by a bikie gang boss. Inflated contracts. Luxury assets bought with taxpayer funds. New testimony reveals the disturbing machinery behind Australia’s Nauru deal. By Binoy Kampmark - 26/11/2025 | 8 | 15 hours ago |
| | Alain Badiou, truth, and the moral permissibility of abortion Badiou never addressed abortion, but his philosophy leads somewhere unmistakable: denying reproductive autonomy betrays a universal truth. By Sam Ben-Meir - 24/11/2025 | 8 | 4 days ago |
| | Net-zero or none, Ley's still backing Albanese's severe immigration/housing crunch The Coalition's touted policy-shifts enable Albanese to sail on, with massive immigration, historic rental/housing unaffordability, and steepling power-bills. By Stephen Saunders - 21/11/2025 | 10 | 5 days ago |
| | Trump’s ill-considered nuclear decision Donald J. Trump’s decision to restart nuclear testing erodes U.S. moral authority, heightens global nuclear tensions, empowers proliferators, and reintroduces serious environmental dangers, representing a reckless departure from long-standing restraint. By Liang Nah - 21/11/2025 | 4 | 5 days ago |
| | Competing for emissions: the COP candidate contest Two of the world’s biggest fossil-fuel cheerleaders—Australia and Türkiye—are scrambling to host the planet’s biggest climate-talks juggernaut. COP26 déjà vu: massive costs, massive emissions, minimal progress. By Binoy Kampmark - 20/11/2025 | 3 | 6 days ago |
| | Discrimination is mostly a matter of personal freedom From Janis Joplin’s taste in men to apartheid’s brutality, not all discrimination is the same. So why does modern law treat every private choice as a public offence? By David Leyonhjelm - 20/11/2025 | 16 | 5 days ago |
| | The true source of civilization’s future is energy wisdom Energy wisdom-not energy denial-is the foundation of sustainable civilization. Three industry leaders share their individual thoughts on the state of energy, and then collectively join forces for a powerful conclusion. By Armando Cavanha, Ronald Stein and Yoshihiro Muronaka - 19/11/2025 | 3 | 9 days ago |
| | The Taliban are erasing women from public life The call by many heads of state to end human rights violations often rings hollow as the violators in so many countries continue to commit such crimes with impunity. By Alon Ben-Meir - 19/11/2025 | 12 | 7 days ago |
| | What does it mean to be a libertarian? Bike-helmet rules, speech policing, safety mandates: harmless on their own, dangerous as a pattern. A warning against the slow erosion of adult freedom. By David Leyonhjelm - 18/11/2025 | 11 | 8 days ago |
| | Dangerous edits: the BBC’s foolish gift to Donald Trump The BBC’s “error of judgment” in editing Trump footage has handed his legal team new ammunition - and raised hard questions about trust, bias, and the future of public broadcasting. By Binoy Kampmark - 17/11/2025 | 2 | 12 days ago |
| | What economy is RBA Deputy Governor Andrew Hauser talking about? Deputy governor Andrew Hauser likened Australia’s economy to a racehorse ready to sprint — but beneath the rhetoric lies stagnating productivity, rising business closures, and jockeys that keeps flogging the same tired mount. By Graham Young - 14/11/2025 | 6 | 14 days ago |
| | Crunch time for Trump on Judea and Samaria (West Bank) With Israel rejecting a Palestinian state and Saudi Arabia demanding one, Trump may turn to a revived Saudi proposal that redraws borders without moving a single resident. By David Singer - 14/11/2025 | 8 | 12 days ago |
| | The 2026 US midterm elections and the future of American support for Ukraine The 2026 midterms won’t remove Trump, but they could neutralise his foreign-policy agenda. A Democratic Congress would have the power - and the motive - to restore robust US backing for Ukraine. By Yuri Koszarycz - 13/11/2025 | 18 | 6 days ago |
| | Coalition marriage hits the rocks As the Liberals face a defining choice on net zero, the century-old partnership with the Nationals is straining under the weight of conflicting values and diverging electorates. By Scott Prasser - 12/11/2025 | 8 | 15 days ago |
| | Hey ho, CORSIA has gotta go (too)! Stay Grounded accused the aviation industry of being 'a greenwashing best practice case' because 'CORSIA covers only a tiny part of aviation emissions'. By Darren Nelson - 12/11/2025 | 1 | 17 days ago |
| | 'Wrong Think' in Australia: when opinions become a crime In Western Australia, gun owners are losing their licences not for breaking laws but for holding the 'wrong' opinions - a troubling echo of Orwell’s 1984, where dissent itself is the offence. By David Leyonhjelm - 10/11/2025 | 5 | 12 days ago |
| | From a beacon of democracy to authoritarian rule There is a growing consensus among many notable political scientists and historians that America is at a perilous crossroads: Trump has chosen the road that leads to disastrous authoritarianism. By Alon Ben-Meir - 10/11/2025 | 6 | 17 days ago |
| | Did the events at Pinjarra WA in 1834 merit yet another official apology to Aboriginal people? A modern Governor says sorry for an 1834 conflict under British administration. Is that accountability - or branding? By Brendan O'Reilly - 7/11/2025 | 21 | 13 days ago |
| | UN, UNRWA, Jordan & Egypt complicit in Gaza civilian casualties While Albanese accused Israel of genocide, the United Nations, UNRWA, Egypt and Jordan stand condemned for materially contributing to Gaza’s suffering. By David Singer - 7/11/2025 | 24 | 15 days ago |
| | You can check out any time you like but …. For many dementia and aged-care patients, Australia’s end-of-life laws make escape impossible. When mercy becomes illegal, cruelty becomes policy. By Max Wallace - 6/11/2025 | 13 | 22 days ago |
| | Chatbot dystopia: the quick march of AI sycophancy In Huxley’s future, pleasure pacified the masses. In ours, the machines do it - one sycophantic sentence at a time. By Binoy Kampmark - 5/11/2025 | 2 | 24 days ago |
| | Getting dumber: the reverse Flynn effect and the politics of denial For decades, humanity appeared to be getting smarter. Then, inconveniently, it wasn’t. IQs are now sliding backwards. By Steven Schwartz - 4/11/2025 | 7 | 17 days ago |
| | Yet another US pivot to Asia Like Obama’s before it, Trump’s 'pivot' faltered - revealing an America no longer the unchallenged power in a changing East Asia. By Murray Hunter - 3/11/2025 | 4 | 23 days ago |
| | Nothing sexy about this sticky tax web When Queensland’s Revenue Office treated a husband and wife differently over the same property, it raised an unexpected question: has bureaucracy finally outpaced biology? By John Mikkelsen - 3/11/2025 | 4 | 26 days ago |
| | Queensland’s Energy Roadmap is more likely to be first steps than a completed journey The Crisafulli government’s roadmap is a welcome correction — more reliable and less reckless than Labor’s plan - but electricity won’t be getting any cheaper. By Graham Young - 30/10/2025 | 14 | 23 days ago |
| | Hey ho, IMO has gotta go! The IMO’s bid to impose a worldwide carbon levy on shipping has been postponed after U.S. opposition, but few believe the UN will abandon its net-zero crusade. By Darren Nelson - 29/10/2025 | 3 | 28 days ago |