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 |  | Schemes of bankruptcy: The United Nations, funding dues and human rights As Washington freezes contributions and Beijing and Moscow stall payments, the UN enters a liquidity spiral that threatens its human-rights work, peacekeeping, and even its basic survival. By Binoy Kampmark - 12/12/2025 | 1 | 20 hours ago |
| | The pandemic revealed the most cowardly society of all time Covid reshaped society on a scale unseen since World War II - but instead of sparking cultural transformation, it left fear, obedience, and a troubling silence in its wake. By Filipe Rafaeli - 11/12/2025 | 3 | 21 hours ago |
| | Concerns in relation to bushfire preparedness across SE Australia for the 2025/ 26 season and ongoing seasons South-east Australia is heading into another fire season dangerously underprepared, with high fuel loads, minimal mitigation, and communities and firefighters exposed to avoidable risk. By John O'Donnell - 11/12/2025 | 3 | 2 days ago |
| | The ghost in the machine Why we keep talking as if we have two minds — and why it matters. By Steven Schwartz - 9/12/2025 | 4 | 2 days ago |
| | Schelling's philosophy of nature and the renewal of the earth Schelling saw nature not as object but as subject - a creative force we belong to, not command. His vision may be the ecological imagination our age lacks. By Sam Ben-Meir - 9/12/2025 | 4 | 2 days ago |
| | Experiments in futility: Australia’s teenage social media ban approaches As Australia moves to ban under-16s from major social platforms, teens, regulators and civil libertarians collide in a brewing legal and political battle over digital freedom. By Binoy Kampmark - 8/12/2025 | 11 | 3 days ago |
| | Activists, media, and politicians infected with dangerous overconfidence on climate change Are climate activists victims of the Dunning–Kruger effect? Many scientists say uncertainty is vast, CO₂ impacts are limited, and costly climate alarmism is dangerously overconfident. By Tom Harris - 5/12/2025 | 4 | 20 hours ago |
| | Trump hoodwinked by MBS in White House meeting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman played coy on Palestinian statehood with Trump - despite quietly backing a radically different 'Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine' plan since 2020. By David Singer - 5/12/2025 | 1 | 5 days ago |
| | On the buses Why do planners chase rail fantasies when buses already carry twice the passengers? Southeast Queensland’s real transit workhorse is on the road, not rails. By Ross Elliott - 4/12/2025 | 4 | 8 days ago |
| | Trump must be stopped from destroying our democracy Trump has chosen the path of disastrous authoritarianism. What would it take to stop him from destroying our democracy and replacing it with a dictatorship? By Alon Ben-Meir - 4/12/2025 | 19 | 5 days ago |
| | Nuclear-generated electricity overshadows government-subsidized wind and solar If electricity drives prosperity, nuclear drives the future. Safe, dense, reliable power outclasses subsidised wind and solar. By Ronald Stein and David Amerine - 3/12/2025 | 7 | 7 days ago |
| | Fossil fuels at COP30: sacred, profane and unmentioned After three decades of climate summits and ever-larger crowds of well-funded delegates, Belém produced only platitudes, voluntary roadmaps, and a sacred silence around the very fuels it claims are cooking the planet. By Binoy Kampmark - 2/12/2025 | 2 | 8 days ago |
| | Human CO2 emissions Two centuries of climate data tell an awkward story: global temperatures don’t move in step with human CO₂. If correlation is absent, what exactly is Net Zero meant to fix? By Howard Dewhirst - 1/12/2025 | 9 | 11 days ago |
| | 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 | 4 | 11 days 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 | 16 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 | 12 | 14 days 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 | 21 | 10 days 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 | 18 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 | 19 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 | 19 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 | 20 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 | 19 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 | 23 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 | 21 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 | 22 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 | 26 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 | 28 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 | 26 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 | 20 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 | 29 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 | 31 days ago |