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View commentsView articleSorry, PM: full Bondi inquiry can be short, sharp
More than half of Australia’s federal royal commissions have reported in under twelve months - many in just weeks.
By Scott Prasser - 7/1/2026
94 hours ago
View commentsView articleThe Don-roe Doctrine in action: Trump's gangster intervention in Venezuela
It was clear after the release of the 2025 National Security Strategy that this administration was going to shred the inhibitions imposed by international law and opt for the more liberating costumery of gangsterism.
By Binoy Kampmark - 6/1/2026
99 hours ago
View commentsView articleThe Bondi Massacre: bungling all round with gun owners (and taxpayers) now set up as scapegoats
Authorities should be targeting knife crime and unlicensed guns, not licensed law-abiding gun owners.
By Brendan O'Reilly - 6/1/2026
531 hours ago
View commentsView articleWhatever happened to 'Keeping the bastards honest'?
Bondi, Anika Wells, and a Prime Minister caught misstating the facts. When Albanese spins, why does the press gallery look away?
By John Mikkelsen - 5/1/2026
2131 mins ago
View commentsView articlePolicies and programmes involving youth- a priority item for the United Nations
A sweeping UN youth resolution promises empowerment, jobs and inclusion. But are governments prepared to turn lofty commitments into real opportunities for a generation at risk?
By Ioan Voicu - 5/1/2026
611 hours ago
View commentsView article14 Nations continue to fuel Jew-hatred around the world
The two-state mantra no longer delivers peace, but Western governments repeat it anyway, heedless of history, law, or consequences.
By David Singer - 2/1/2026
533 hours ago
View commentsView articleThe world’s population explosion demands new energy and electricity channels
Utilizing but not replenishing the natural resources of Planet Earth has limitations.
By Ronald Stein and Nancy Pearlman - 31/12/2025
159 hours ago
View commentsView articleDespite Bondi, Australia will remain a world-outlier on mass-migration
On its triennial immigration-stats, Albanese Australia is a radical outlier not the cautious reformer of embedded media-narrative. Not even Bondi can budge him much.
By Stephen Saunders - 30/12/2025
66 days ago
View commentsView articleSanctioning fever: the United States, European Union and free speech
When Brussels and Washington start banning critics from crossing borders, free speech stops being a principle and becomes a geopolitical weapon.
By Binoy Kampmark - 30/12/2025
18 days ago
View commentsView articleThe Democrats' greatest challenge ever
This is not a culture war election but a survival one: bread-and-butter politics versus unchecked executive power.
By Alon Ben-Meir - 29/12/2025
72 days ago
View commentsView articleIslam is the root cause as Islamism is a product of Islam
The Islamic community needs to own the Bondi massacre. While individual Muslims are not responsible, Islamism rises from Islam, and has been allowed to fester in the community.
By Graham Young - 24/12/2025
225 days ago
View commentsView articleAlbanese must call a royal commission into Bondi terror and antisemitism
Antisemitism is a national issue. So our federal government needs to step up to the challenge, as this is too big a topic to be left to a NSW inquiry.
By Scott Prasser - 24/12/2025
613 days ago
View commentsView articleIt is time for good people to act
Australia did not fail the Jewish community at Bondi. It failed them earlier, when hatred was tolerated, justified and allowed to grow unchecked.
By Julie Claridge - 23/12/2025
145 days ago
View commentsView articleBrazen lies told to the public: Why do so many people suspend disbelief, and authorities do nothing?
When governments, universities and media protect falsehoods instead of facts, deception becomes policy and dissent becomes heresy. Australia is living the consequences.
By Brendan O'Reilly - 23/12/2025
326 days ago
View commentsView articleRectitude
From the Opera House steps to Bondi’s dead, Australia’s crisis is not sudden violence but the long habit of leaders refusing to name it.
By Tania Cleary - 22/12/2025
1312 days ago
View commentsView articleNet zero on energy promises
Labor promised cheaper power and delivered higher bills, deeper subsidies and rising debt, all in pursuit of an energy transition that keeps missing its own targets.
By John Mikkelsen - 22/12/2025
18 days ago
View commentsView articleMassacre of the Jewish community by Islamist terrorists on Bondi Beach
Sixteen Australians are dead. Antisemitism surged for years, warnings were issued, a plan was delivered, and government inaction followed. The massacre did not come without notice.
By Sev Ozdowski - 19/12/2025
2110 days ago
View commentsView articleFrom tolerance to terror
Bondi was not a random act of madness. It was the predictable outcome of years of official denial about radical Islamist ideology and the steady normalisation of anti-Semitism in Australia.
By Josh Frydenberg - 18/12/2025
3012 days ago
View commentsView articleThe threat we refuse to name
You can screen luggage, weapons and criminal records. You cannot screen worldviews that rank collective loyalty above individual life - and no amount of security theatre can compensate.
By Anonymous Writer - 18/12/2025
1411 days ago
View commentsView articleThe Coalition’s chaos has become a self-writing political satire
From public leaks to policy confusion and theatrical defections, the federal Coalition now looks less like an opposition-in-waiting than a political circus.
By Scott Prasser - 17/12/2025
121 days ago
View commentsView articleTrump for Dummies
Australia’s real security risk isn’t China, but a growing distrust of its principal ally. Misreporting Trump distorts reality, weakens alliance confidence, and leaves Australia dangerously exposed if crisis comes.
By Graham Young - 15/12/2025
4014 days ago
View commentsView articleAustralia's feminised politics need masculine balance
Australia’s politics has elevated compassion over wisdom, optics over outcomes. The result is drift, debt and disorder - and a growing hunger for firmer leadership and moral balance.
By Jafar Jalili - 15/12/2025
422 days ago
View commentsView articleSchemes 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
223 days ago
View commentsView articleThe 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
525 days ago
View commentsView articleConcerns 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
327 days ago
View commentsView articleThe ghost in the machine
Why we keep talking as if we have two minds — and why it matters.
By Steven Schwartz - 9/12/2025
427 days ago
View commentsView articleSchelling'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
427 days ago
View commentsView articleExperiments 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
1128 days ago
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