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 |  | Green aluminium? Tell Albo he’s dreaming There’s no limit to what the Labor Government will do in an attempt to achieve the unachievable. By John Mikkelsen - 23/1/2025 | 3 | 8 hours ago |
| | Ecologists effectively advocating destruction of Australian forests Denial, ignorance and ideology lie behind dangerous thinking on fire management. By Mark Poynter - 23/1/2025 | 4 | 13 hours ago |
| | Addressing climate change strengthens rather than stifles economic growth Climate change deniers, including President Trump, insist that there is no such thing as climate change and that measures taken to combat it only decrease economic productivity and stifle growth. By Alon Ben-Meir - 22/1/2025 | 3 | 2 days ago |
| | Beware of predictions about Australian elections from the UK's Economist magazine The latest report, however, in the The Economist about the impending Australian federal election casts strong doubts about the journal's knowledge and understanding of Australian politics. By Scott Prasser - 22/1/2025 | 3 | 2 days ago |
| | Bitter harvests: the Gaza ceasefire Incoming US President Donald Trump claimed the lion's share. And why not? With his inauguration on January 20, the timing of the ceasefire, with Israel finally relenting, was no coincidence. By Binoy Kampmark - 21/1/2025 | 4 | 3 days ago |
| | Housing crisis: more of the same in 2025? Weeks become months and months become years in this real-life version of the Utopia TV series. By Ross Elliott - 21/1/2025 | 6 | 3 days ago |
| | The Herculean task facing the new Syrian government Recognizing the horror the Syrian people have endured over the past 14 years, the question is, will Hayat Tahrir al-Sham leader Ahmed al-Sharaa follow through on his public promises to transform Syria. By Alon Ben-Meir - 20/1/2025 | 4 | 4 days ago |
| | To win the climate debate, we must use the same tools that were used to defeat science and common sense One of the reasons conservatives have steadily lost power to the left over the past 50 years is because we have not made a proper study of the tools used against us. By Tom Harris - 20/1/2025 | 6 | 2 days ago |
| | Take your money and shove it: the second long telegram, US aid, and Russia’s economic trauma The 70-paragraph telegram from the US Embassy in Moscow, which has assumed the status of legend, came from analyst E. Wayne Merry in March 1994. By Binoy Kampmark - 17/1/2025 | 7 | 5 days ago |
| | There are two sides to the Israeli Gaza conflict Any solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, if ever one is to present itself, must always address the need for Israel to defend itself. By Peter Bowden - 17/1/2025 | 17 | 2 hours ago |
| | AUKUS: flawed and sinking Australia has yet to see the fabled white elephants of the sea and remains at the mercy of the US Congress. By Binoy Kampmark - 16/1/2025 | 5 | 7 days ago |
| | Voters spoilt for choice: Peter Albanese or Anthony Dutton Regardless of the 2025 election, voters get duopoly dinner: environmental and energy sellout, regressive education, unfair taxation, mega migration, housing hunger games. By Stephen Saunders - 15/1/2025 | 10 | 6 days ago |
| | Shutting down debate on abortion is a concern for us all This means that the Queensland parliament cannot discuss, ask questions, make representations, draft amendments or even accept citizens’ petitions expressing concerns about its own legislation on abortion. By Scott Prasser - 15/1/2025 | 10 | 7 days ago |
| | An era of vertigo In short, we gradually find ourselves in a globalising society where many values have been entirely or partly upended, turned inside out, and starkly contrasted to what we once considered commonsensical and reasonable. By Mamtimin Ala - 14/1/2025 | 24 | 3 days ago |
| | Rethinking the global electricity debate: why reliable power matters for economic growth From the discovery of fire to the Industrial Revolution, each leap in energy transformation has reshaped societies, increasing productivity, reducing poverty, and improving living standards. By Ronald Stein, Robert Jeffrey and Olivia Vaughan - 14/1/2025 | 2 | 10 days ago |
| | Clean energy for Australia: the elegant solution Long ago, in high school maths, I was taught about the value of 'elegant solutions'. A correct answer might be good; an elegant correct one is better. By Tom Biegler - 13/1/2025 | 11 | 4 days ago |
| | An easier way for Trump to show illegals the door A recent article in the Wall Street Journal reported that attorneys-general of many blue states are not going to give up quietly when Donald Trump, as President, begins to honour his election promises, such as the mass deportation of illegals. By Philip Lillingston - 13/1/2025 | 2 | 6 days ago |
| | Arctic politics are getting warmer The Trump comment has focussed attention on the growing importance generally of the Arctic region for global politics. By Keith Suter - 10/1/2025 | 3 | 11 days ago |
| | Happy Epiphany! Wokeism is not post-modern Marxism, but heretical Christianity If you want to fight back against Wokeism, the most successful and potent arguments are more likely to be found in the writings of Paul the Apostle than anyone from the Enlightenment. By Graham Young - 10/1/2025 | 10 | 11 days ago |
| | The clean, green energy illusion, electricity reality, and baseless political ideology Energised electrons (electricity) are devout followers of the Laws of Nature; they do not bend to any ideology, fashion nor to any act of a parliament. Ideologies have to bend to the Laws of Nature not the reverse. By Charles Hemmings - 9/1/2025 | 5 | 15 days ago |
| | Will Trump seize the opportunity for an Israeli-Palestinian breakthrough Trump must know that denying the Palestinian right to statehood and conceding further Palestinian land to Israel is a recipe for the next horrific inferno. By Alon Ben-Meir - 8/1/2025 | 4 | 16 days ago |
| | Ending wars My suggestion is that Australia start a movement to strengthen UN peacekeeping. By Peter Bowden - 8/1/2025 | 25 | 9 days ago |
| | Will BOM bomb its forecasts and could AI do better? As we head into 2025 with Australia living up to its reputation of a land of huge weather contrasts, our farmers are not the only people wondering if our national weather forecaster, the Bureau of Meteorology, will get it right this year. By John Mikkelsen - 7/1/2025 | 7 | 5 days ago |
| | ASEAN will be an irrelevant sideshow with all the action in BRICS In 2025, Malaysia became the chair of ASEAN, taking over from the Lao PDR. At the same time, Malaysia becomes a partner country under the new tier below full membership in BRICs. By Murray Hunter - 7/1/2025 | 1 | 17 days ago |
| | The myth of the sustainable enterprise The reality is that such organisations rarely exist, and those that do aren't sustainable. By Murray Hunter - 6/1/2025 | 5 | 17 days ago |
| | New Year's message of 2025 from the Federation for a Democratic China The Tiananmen Massacre of 1989 marked the end of any prospects for top-down political reforms toward democratic constitutionalism under the CCP's rule. By Chin Jin - 6/1/2025 | 3 | 17 days ago |
| | Jesting on the environment: Australian mining gets a present There would be no need either for new oil and natural gas fields beyond current approvals, or new coal mines or mine extensions. Dare one but dream. By Binoy Kampmark - 3/1/2025 | 2 | 20 days ago |
| | Fake history is flourishing across the West. Just consider these three cases Prime ministers, archbishops, academics, editors and public broadcasters are all in the business of exaggerating the colonial sins of their own countries against noble (not-so-very) savages – from Vancouver to London to Sydney. Why? By Nigel Biggar - 2/1/2025 | 9 | 9 days ago |
| | A non-interventionist approach in Syria is extremely dangerous Given its geostrategic interest and the security of its allies in the Middle East, the US has no choice but to intervene constructively in Syria by extending a helping hand to the new regime to stabilize the country. By Alon Ben-Meir - 31/12/2024 | 6 | 15 days ago |
| | Renewable energy finally sails off into the past None of these solutions are yet commercially realistic for production designs, but they do tick the box for the company's corporate image in window dressing, striving towards the hallowed zero emissions. By Stuart Ballantyne - 30/12/2024 | 12 | 24 days ago |
| | Why I am (or at least try to be) a libertarian In a world driven by fear, division, and creeping authoritarianism, libertarianism offers a belief in the dignity of the individual, voluntary cooperation and the power of accountability. By Steven Schwartz - 24/12/2024 | 28 | 26 days ago |