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 |  | Buying time: Israel’s rogue attack on Qatar Israel’s strikes across the Middle East have become less about security and more about keeping war alive - and Netanyahu out of jail. By Binoy Kampmark - 15/9/2025 | 7 | 7 hours ago |
| | Canal prosperity – can Albo get it? Waterway transportation costs just 3–5% of road transport, with far lower emissions - the economics of bulk freight alone would justify such an investment. By Stuart Ballantyne - 15/9/2025 | 4 | 5 hours ago |
| | Senator Nampijinpa Price faces political irrelevancy Because Price failed to make a clear and immediate apology, a minor misstep became a public display of Coalition disunity. By Scott Prasser - 12/9/2025 | 38 | 21 mins ago |
| | Israeli & Saudi solutions can resolve Judea & Samaria claims The Smotrich–Shihabi plan would consign the UN’s two-state solution to the diplomatic graveyard. By David Singer - 12/9/2025 | 1 | 3 days ago |
| | Importing a Tasmania’s worth of people every year Pause the intake until housing, infrastructure and services catch up. That’s not xenophobia - it’s common sense. By Graham Young - 11/9/2025 | 21 | 33 hours ago |
| | Africa is pioneering nuclear innovation as it faces a dire electricity crisis To address global electricity demands, Africa is partnering with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to support nuclear energy development in developing countries. By Ronald Stein, Robert Jeffrey and Olivia Vaughan - 11/9/2025 | 4 | 3 days ago |
| | Selling out our boys Australia is facing a growing crisis in boys’ education - the social justice issue nobody is talking about. By Bettina Arndt - 10/9/2025 | 4 | 2 days ago |
| | ‘Never again’ has tragically lost its moral weight The genocidal war in Gaza should put the whole world on notice that this is now simply another episode in the moral collapse of our humanity, as 'never again' has lost its moral weight. By Alon Ben-Meir - 10/9/2025 | 15 | 4 days ago |
| | China’s climate confidence trick China’s climate strategy is a confidence trick - boasting clean energy leadership while building more coal plants than the rest of the world combined. By Tom Harris - 9/9/2025 | 5 | 5 days ago |
| | The threats of standing armies Policing by consent was once the standard - ‘the police are the public and the public are the police’ - but during COVID that principle was abandoned. By David Leyonhjelm - 9/9/2025 | 3 | 4 days ago |
| | Dan Andrews appearance at Chinese 80th Victory Commemoration a sign of Australian foreign policy change The September 3 parade unveiled weapons that render the strategic logic of AUKUS obsolete. By Murray Hunter - 8/9/2025 | 2 | 6 days ago |
| | 300 stand in defiance For Melburnians, Day 101 of lockdown was not just about COVID rules — it became a stand against government overreach. By Michael Viljoen - 5/9/2025 | 23 | 3 days ago |
| | Article 80 consigns UN conjectural State of Palestine to shredder Facts always beat conjecture - yet the UN prepares to recognise a ‘conjectural State of Palestine’ in violation of its own Charter. By David Singer - 5/9/2025 | 12 | 7 days ago |
| | Nuclear snobbery and atomic anniversaries The tragic lesson of the June attacks on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure is that not having such weapons may be more dangerous than pursuing them. By Binoy Kampmark - 4/9/2025 | 3 | 7 days ago |
| | Failures of the renewables transition era are insults to taxpayers The worlds’ population depends on insulation, wires, computers, and fertilizers that 'renewables' cannot provide. By Ronald Stein - 4/9/2025 | 6 | 11 days ago |
| | ‘You’re a racist’ remains Albo’s No 1 alibi for the endless immigration/housing pain March for Australia demonstrates the necessity of pushing back the ‘you’re a racist’ slur habitually deployed by the all-powerful minority – our mega-migration lobby. By Stephen Saunders - 3/9/2025 | 2 | 12 days ago |
| | Wanting to preserve the Australian identity isn’t xenophobic – it’s essential Integration should not mean cultural erasure; it should mean civic belonging – understanding our history, respecting democratic values, and committing to a shared future. By Aarushi Malhotra - 2/9/2025 | 20 | 7 days ago |
| | The making of culture The culture we make today – whether one of tolerance or corruption, inclusion or exclusion – shapes the society we will inhabit tomorrow. By Kausar Khan - 2/9/2025 | 3 | 9 days ago |
| | Let them in: opening Gaza to the foreign press corps Since the Gaza war began, more journalists have been killed there than in any other conflict in recent history – yet Israel continues to justify their deaths with the weary formula of calling them militants. By Binoy Kampmark - 1/9/2025 | 12 | 13 days ago |
| | Useful expedient: expelling Iran’s Ambassador to Australia Iran has bigger fish to fry; why would it waste resources targeting Australia’s Jewish community, a country so far from its interests as to be satirically irrelevant? By Binoy Kampmark - 29/8/2025 | 7 | 13 days ago |
| | Trump: ditch UN, Hamas, PLO and focus on Israel & Jordan The two-state solution is not rooted in international law but flagrantly violates it, while a practical alternative — the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine plan — is ignored. By David Singer - 29/8/2025 | 4 | 15 days ago |
| | Midterms 2026: the Democrats' last stand against Trump The results of next year’s midterm election will demonstrate whether or not the Democratic Party has what it takes to save the nation from Trump’s march toward the abyss. By Alon Ben-Meir - 28/8/2025 | 12 | 12 days ago |
| | Anticipating the biggest event in the sphere of multilateral diplomacy By omitting multilateralism and offering only a token nod to solidarity, the UN’s flagship report weakens its own narrative at a time of unprecedented global interdependence. By Ioan Voicu - 28/8/2025 | 1 | 17 days ago |
| | Casino Royale? Flushed? The cargo cult mentality seems irrevocably welded to big shiny things that promise to ‘put our city on the map’ – yet time and again, the promise collapses into pokies for pensioners. By Ross Elliott - 27/8/2025 | 2 | 18 days ago |
| | Think tanker demands for AUKUS: What Australia should do with US submarines The nuclear subs program, still a chimera, is already distorting Australia’s defence budget - consuming billions while delivering nothing for decades. By Binoy Kampmark - 27/8/2025 | 4 | 17 days ago |
| | President Trump, you must stop Netanyahu’s second genocide in Gaza President Trump, you are the only leader who can stop Netanyahu from committing another genocide in Gaza. The whole world is watching. Do not allow yourself to become an accessory. By Alon Ben-Meir - 26/8/2025 | 15 | 16 days ago |
| | Digging deeper on community radio: Triple R and indispensable airwaves The streaming behemoths have created an odd sense of detachment, and certain listeners are seeking grassroot comforts that only community radio can provide. By Binoy Kampmark - 25/8/2025 | 4 | 21 days ago |
| | Will the Xi Jinping era come to a quiet end? A 'military mutiny' has already taken place, and a 'political coup' is underway. By Wu Zuolai - 25/8/2025 | 5 | 21 days ago |
| | Albanese's 'productivity' summit: a political show with no substance Rather than attend, the Opposition should have run its own summit — a true government-in-waiting would set the agenda, not follow it. By Scott Prasser - 22/8/2025 | 16 | 19 days ago |
| | A tale of two tipping points The geological record shows higher CO₂ and hotter climates - but no tipping points, and life flourished. By Rafe Champion - 21/8/2025 | 6 | 24 days ago |
| | Wind turbines and solar panels only generate electricity Wind turbines and solar panels are incapable of making any of the products or transportation fuels demanded by the 8 billion on this planet. By Ronald Stein and Yoshihiro Muronaka - 21/8/2025 | 4 | 22 days ago |
| | The US faces a perilous crossroad If Trump is allowed to continue fully executing his destructive socio-economic and political agenda, he will destroy what America stands for, and permanently extinguish its global leadership. By Alon Ben-Meir - 20/8/2025 | 8 | 25 days ago |
| | On being far right According to some people, Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro and his supporters are 'far-right'. By David Leyonhjelm - 19/8/2025 | 30 | 25 days ago |
| | Diplomatic merchandise: exploiting the issue of Palestinian recognition Recognition saves no lives, feeds no families, and rebuilds no schools — but it soothes consciences in Paris, London and Ottawa. By Binoy Kampmark - 18/8/2025 | 6 | 25 days ago |
| | Have we got a deal for Donald!!! Queensland, the NT and WA are the only parts worth saving — the rest can be sold off as ‘Greensland’ for $38. By Stuart Ballantyne - 18/8/2025 | 4 | 25 days ago |