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 |  | Malaysian prime minister’s own political party is in collapse Anwar, the leader of ‘reformasi’, once leading massive street protests against the government is now getting protests in the streets asking him to resign. By Murray Hunter - 4/7/2025 | 2 | 90 mins ago |
| | How much should we pay our pollies? If entering politics was motivated by service rather than career, it would attract people who have done more than just climb the party ladder. By David Leyonhjelm - 3/7/2025 | 6 | 19 hours ago |
| | Layers of political reality It is not a matter of a lack of political will, strategy, or resources in the first place; rather, it is the futility of trying to change things thoroughly because the innermost core does not allow it to happen. By Mamtimin Ala - 2/7/2025 | 6 | 2 days ago |
| | I refuse to defend the indefensible Israel's refusal to acknowledge Palestinian rights and humanity perpetuated a zero-sum narrative where Jewish safety is predicated on Palestinian dehumanization and death By Alon Ben-Meir - 1/7/2025 | 7 | 28 hours ago |
| | Staffing for parliamentarians - who should control their numbers and classification? There is a need for an independent review of staffing allocations—to replace opaque conventions with transparent standards. By Scott Prasser - 1/7/2025 | 1 | 3 days ago |
| | A vassal’s impulse: Australia backs US strike on Iran Wong's shift from constipated caution to free-flow approval for the US attack was a craven capitulation to the warmonger class. By Binoy Kampmark - 30/6/2025 | 6 | 4 days ago |
| | Hastie’s sensible advice: more transparency on US forces in Australia Australia’s sovereignty in terms of how the US conducts its operations has been spared? Given AUKUS, this is an unsustainable claim. By Binoy Kampmark - 27/6/2025 | 8 | 4 days ago |
| | Isolated Australia under the new world disorder Australia has no army, navy, or air force to speak about. Even our neighbours now have larger armed forces. By Murray Hunter - 26/6/2025 | 6 | 7 days ago |
| | The Trump administration advocates for nuclear power Affordable and reliable electricity from nuclear power sources is a necessity to ensure future balanced economic growth that is a lifeline out of poverty, and security for citizens around the world. By Ronald Stein, Oliver Hemmers and Steve Curtis - 26/6/2025 | 1 | 8 days ago |
| | The anti-feminist psychiatrist Under the guise of protecting girls, researchers exploit harmless male banter to incriminate boys and label them misogynists. By Bettina Arndt - 25/6/2025 | 2 | 9 days ago |
| | Revival: knowledge without wisdom Life, death, tragedy, love, beauty, courage, loyalty—all of these are omitted from our modern vocational curricula, and yet they are the only things that ever really matter. By Steven Schwartz - 25/6/2025 | 3 | 8 days ago |
| | Directive to Iran: retaliation bad; de-escalation good De-escalation has become one of those coarse words in severe need of banishment, best kept in an index used by unredeemable hypocrites. By Binoy Kampmark - 24/6/2025 | 3 | 10 days ago |
| | Australia: we have a city problem! (Part one) Even on the eve of Federation it was contended that the capitals were congested cesspools. Federation promised decentralisation. It didn’t deliver. By Ross Elliott - 24/6/2025 | 2 | 9 days ago |
| | CFMEU challenge ends but construction’s $60b problem remains If productivity growth in construction had kept pace with manufacturing, the economy would now be $60 billion better off every year. By Jon Davies - 23/6/2025 | 2 | 11 days ago |
| | 'Success leads many astray to their ruin' The ancient quote from the Greek philosopher Phaedrus, to not let success go to one's head and inflating one's ego, which can lead to terrible failure, is a timeless warning to Trump and Netanyahu. By Alon Ben-Meir - 23/6/2025 | 2 | 11 days ago |
| | Adam Smith 'blesses' Trump tariffs The president’s executive order cites the same three exceptions to free trade as did Adam Smith — in the same order. By Darren Nelson and James Carter - 19/6/2025 | 6 | 13 days ago |
| | No one left behind: a new mandate for multilateralism in crisis The 2025 High Level Political Forum is not just another forum - it is a test of whether the UN can live up to its founding principles amid deepening global crises. By Ioan Voicu - 19/6/2025 | 2 | 13 days ago |
| | The greatest oxymoron statement of all time – ‘Renewable Energy’ So-called renewables like wind and solar, 100% made from fossil fuels, only generate electricity occasionally. By Ronald Stein and Roger Caiazza - 18/6/2025 | 23 | 6 days ago |
| | Productivity? Government is a dead weight on the economy Past performance is the best predictor of future performance, so the business chiefs heading to Anthony Albanese’s Productivity Summit should know they are about to be carved up and handed to the union movement. By Graham Young - 17/6/2025 | 8 | 14 days ago |
| | The fraying of reality Is a fake summer reading list a harmless AI 'hallucination' or a glimpse of something more troubling: a culture slowly surrendering to the smooth, convincing voice of unreality? By Steven Schwartz - 13/6/2025 | 4 | 14 days ago |
| | The Liberal Party’s future can’t be teal progressivism The advice they are providing is about as delusional as saying the royals need to become more like Meghan Markle to save the monarchy. By Dan Ryan - 13/6/2025 | 21 | 12 days ago |
| | UN must urgently focus on Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has falsely claimed there is no alternative solution to the creation of a Palestinian Arab state between Israel and Jordan (two-state solution). By David Singer - 12/6/2025 | 5 | 15 days ago |
| | The Biden years: when America started to resemble the late-stage USSR How did the United States, with all its checks and balances, end up with a gerontocratic shadow government? By Vitaly Ryumshin - 11/6/2025 | 2 | 22 days ago |
| | The Harvard complex America must be afraid of itself, of its once trusted institutions grooming their impressionable and impetuous youth to become useful tools for counter-hegemony. By Mamtimin Ala - 10/6/2025 | 2 | 22 days ago |
| | The inevitable souring: Elon Musk falls out with Donald Trump Musk, compromised in his support and having second thoughts, can only go noisily into the confused night By Binoy Kampmark - 10/6/2025 | 1 | 24 days ago |
| | Oh, hapless Liberals, learn from Disraeli Liberalism and Conservatism are indeed very distinct philosophical and political traditions whose differences should not be underestimated. By Dan Ryan - 9/6/2025 | 18 | 22 days ago |
| | With a government review underway, we have to ask why children bully other kids Some children bully for fun. Others do it to stay on top. The reasons matter – because they shape the solutions. By Marilyn Campbell and Shannon O'Brien - 6/6/2025 | 3 | 26 days ago |
| | If this isn’t genocide, what is? For over a year, I refused to ascribe Israel's war against Hamas and the reign of horror it is inflicting on the Palestinians in Gaza as genocide, but now I feel shaken to the core. By Alon Ben-Meir - 5/6/2025 | 33 | 23 days ago |
| | Fewer sitting days for federal parliament: issues for democracy Albanese Government hits the ground strolling - the problems of not recalling federal parliament sooner By Scott Prasser - 5/6/2025 | 5 | 29 days ago |
| | Off to war we go: Starmer’s Strategic Defence Review Despite a mammoth majority, the Prime Minister acts like a man permanently besieged, his Labour Party seemingly less popular than Typhoid Mary. By Binoy Kampmark - 4/6/2025 | 3 | 26 days ago |
| | Woodside’s 2050 aide-memoire: fake ‘net-zero’ is another scam for the political classes Here’s Mr Albanese, pretending to re-fly the Coalition’s east-coast gas-reservation, outing his 40-year emissions-rich ‘surprise’ for Woodside NW Shelf gas, while smirking ‘it’s net zero, not zero’. By Stephen Saunders - 4/6/2025 | 27 | 19 days ago |