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 |  | Operation Epic Fury and US unreadiness for war The myth of US military invincibility collides with a harder reality: unreadiness, depleted stockpiles, and a war exposing the limits of power. By Binoy Kampmark - 27/3/2026 | 22 | 10 hours ago |
| | The Lollipop Ladies Six-figure traffic controllers, union rules, and DEI quotas - Australia’s construction problem is hiding in plain sight. By Bettina Arndt - 27/3/2026 | 1 | 2 days ago |
| | What happens to centre-right politics if One Nation continues to grow? One Nation channels right wing fury, but ironically, can it ever do more than increase Labor's chances at every election it contests? By Graham Young - 26/3/2026 | 12 | 11 hours ago |
| | Silence the doctors, harm the children When ethics becomes dissent: why doctors must be free to speak for patient safety By Kara Thomas and Andrew McIntyre - 25/3/2026 | 1 | 5 days ago |
| | Fastest, cheapest, best 'Fastest, cheapest, best'? The numbers suggest Australia’s energy transition may be none of the above. By Tom Biegler - 24/3/2026 | 4 | 5 days ago |
| | A coalition of 3? Just go for it! One Nation, Nationals and Liberals united? It may be the only path to ending Labor-Greens dominance. By Stuart Ballantyne - 23/3/2026 | 6 | 5 days ago |
| | Tremors in MAGA: Joe Kent, the Iran War and the antisemitism smear Joe Kent backed Trump. Now he’s resigned, warning the Iran war betrays 'America First'. By Binoy Kampmark - 23/3/2026 | 1 | 7 days ago |
| | Do we live in Bizarro World now? In the comic book Bizarro World, all the traditional virtues and verities are turned on their head: good is bad, lies are truth, and villains are heroes. Moreover, this inverted reality is accepted as the norm. By Gary Banks - 20/3/2026 | 3 | 2 days ago |
| | Trump & Netanyahu need to agree on future of Judea and Samaria It beggars belief that President Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can agree on prosecuting a war against Iran but have been unable to agree on the way forward to ending the Arab-Jewish conflict in Judea and Samaria (West Bank). By David Singer - 20/3/2026 | 8 | 6 days ago |
| | Key government infrastructure investments are ending up as super-expensive white elephants If these projects made sense, politicians would invest their own money. Instead, taxpayers are left footing the bill. By Brendan O'Reilly - 19/3/2026 | 13 | 8 days ago |
| | Changing work and changing demography = changing cities What happens to cities when office work disappears? AI and demography are already forcing an answer. By Ross Elliott - 19/3/2026 | 1 | 11 days ago |
| | Reforming Australian defence: from Cold War relics to an affordable, independent missile and drone deterrent Ukraine and Iran show a new reality: cheap drones can destroy expensive platforms. Is Australia building the wrong defence force? By Murray Hunter - 18/3/2026 | 5 | 11 days ago |
| | New energy policies in California threatening America’s national security No refineries, no fuel. How does California sustain America's military and ports as local supply disappears? By Ronald Stein and Mike Umbro - 18/3/2026 | 1 | 12 days ago |
| | The Liberal Party should trial community primaries Australia’s political parties are confronting a long-standing issue that has been gradually worsening over many years: the decline in party membership and the diminishing local political machinery that historically supported them. By Graham Young and Gary Johns - 17/3/2026 | 10 | 8 days ago |
| | Costly and depleting: the growing problems of Operation Epic Fury Iran’s drones cost $35,000. America’s missiles cost millions. The war’s economics are starting to look ugly. By Binoy Kampmark - 17/3/2026 | 6 | 11 days ago |
| | Detective work on the real causes of Earth's temperature changes beginning to bear fruit What if CO₂ isn’t the main culprit in warming the oceans? New research points to a different suspect: clouds. By Tom Harris - 16/3/2026 | 10 | 12 days ago |
| | Trump’s aura of invincibility is disintegrating Trump still dominates Republican politics. But behind the scenes, cracks are widening over tariffs, war with Iran, and presidential power. By Alon Ben-Meir - 16/3/2026 | 3 | 14 days ago |
| | Open-borders Australia learns nothing from Carney visit Leaving Albanese as a world outlier, Carney has stymied Canada’s population growth, to ease the housing pain. Sigh, his Australian visit was all framed around 'middle powers' vs Trump. By Stephen Saunders - 13/3/2026 | 3 | 16 days ago |
| | Trump and Netanyahu pave way to end Arab-Jewish conflict After Iran and Gaza, the old two-state formula looks finished. Is it time to rethink how the Arab-Jewish conflict is actually resolved? By David Singer - 13/3/2026 | 17 | 12 days ago |
| | Chalmers has never met a tax he didn’t like Labor says higher CGT will help housing. The real effect may be higher rents and weaker growth. By Graham Young - 12/3/2026 | 2 | 18 days ago |
| | The Liberals, the senate, and preferences The Liberals changed the Senate voting system to help themselves. Instead, they helped the Greens. By David Leyonhjelm - 12/3/2026 | 2 | 14 days ago |
| | Middle power nonsense: Australia, Canada and capitulating to the Iran War Mark Carney talks of “middle-power leadership”. Yet when the US and Israel bomb Iran, Canada and Australia follow. By Binoy Kampmark - 12/3/2026 | 2 | 18 days ago |
| | Electricity is about to become the most valuable commodity on earth Thirty years and $8 trillion on renewables – yet fossil fuels still dominate. Why won’t politicians talk about nuclear power? By Ronald Stein, Olivia Vaughan and Steve Curtis - 11/3/2026 | 1 | 14 days ago |
| | Observe the economic fallout six years later From jobs to inflation to energy, the aftershocks of lockdowns still ripple through the economy. By Jeffrey Tucker - 10/3/2026 | 19 | 14 days ago |
| | Television becomes our feminist preacher Restorative justice may help victims more than prison. Why is feminism resisting it? By Bettina Arndt - 10/3/2026 | 3 | 18 days ago |
| | AI and the failure of economics AI will impact our unemployment level, but we gauge our inflation from unemployment, so what effect will it have on central banks? By Ben Rees - 9/3/2026 | 2 | 21 days ago |
| | Loony bin rationales: the continuing war on Iran From 'imminent threat' to 'Israel would strike anyway': the story keeps shifting. By Binoy Kampmark - 9/3/2026 | 4 | 21 days ago |
| | Trump and Netanyahu are chasing an illusion in Iran A war launched for regime change may end with neither regime change nor peace. By Alon Ben-Meir - 6/3/2026 | 30 | 14 days ago |
| | Saudi Arabia may soon be joining the Abraham Accords Could war with Iran push Saudi Arabia into the Abraham Accords? By David Singer - 6/3/2026 | 2 | 24 days ago |
| | Voters will keep voting Labor, even when dissatisfied When Coalition voters prefer Pauline Hanson to their own leader, something has broken. By Graham Young - 5/3/2026 | 13 | 10 hours ago |
| | Going native in the Trump jungle: how it became legal to attack Iran Ukraine’s sovereignty matters. Iran’s apparently does not. Welcome to the Trump Jungle. By Binoy Kampmark - 5/3/2026 | 12 | 23 days ago |
| | Leaking the Liberals' post-election analysis - another act of betrayal Leaking the election review won’t rebuild the Liberals. It may bury them deeper. By Scott Prasser - 4/3/2026 | 6 | 25 days ago |
| | The mental health system is making us sicker The 20th century was the age of diagnosis. The 21st must become the age of recovery, measured not by how many people we enrol in the mental health system, but by how many no longer need it. By Steven Schwartz - 3/3/2026 | 1 | 27 days ago |
| | Spiralling national debts may well result in many years of high inflation High debt, weak growth, rising interest bills. The reckoning rarely arrives politely. By Brendan O'Reilly - 3/3/2026 | 3 | 27 days ago |
| | Mendacious rationales: the lies behind Operation Lion’s Roar Imminent threat, regime change, decisive strikes. Haven’t we heard this before? By Binoy Kampmark - 2/3/2026 | 7 | 25 days ago |
| | Dr Willie Soon reveals the real driver of climate change in new video Is climate science ignoring the obvious? A 12-minute case for the Sun as the main driver. By Tom Harris - 2/3/2026 | 20 | 26 days ago |
| | Waltzing Matildas Asian Cup on home soil: revival moment or reality check for the Matildas? By David Rowe - 27/2/2026 | 3 | 29 days ago |
| | Trump’s Board of Peace scraps United Nations two-state solution From Arab Peace Initiative to Rafah Road Map: a decisive break with two-state orthodoxy. By David Singer - 27/2/2026 | 22 | 27 days ago |