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View commentsView articleDid the events at Pinjarra WA in 1834 merit yet another official apology to Aboriginal people?
A modern Governor says sorry for an 1834 conflict under British administration. Is that accountability - or branding?
By Brendan O'Reilly - 7/11/2025
117 hours ago
View commentsView articleUN, UNRWA, Jordan & Egypt complicit in Gaza civilian casualties
While Albanese accused Israel of genocide, the United Nations, UNRWA, Egypt and Jordan stand condemned for materially contributing to Gaza’s suffering.
By David Singer - 7/11/2025
106 hours ago
View commentsView articleYou can check out any time you like but ….
For many dementia and aged-care patients, Australia’s end-of-life laws make escape impossible. When mercy becomes illegal, cruelty becomes policy.
By Max Wallace - 6/11/2025
1310 hours ago
View commentsView articleChatbot dystopia: the quick march of AI sycophancy
In Huxley’s future, pleasure pacified the masses. In ours, the machines do it - one sycophantic sentence at a time.
By Binoy Kampmark - 5/11/2025
23 days ago
View commentsView articleGetting dumber: the reverse Flynn effect and the politics of denial
For decades, humanity appeared to be getting smarter. Then, inconveniently, it wasn’t. IQs are now sliding backwards.
By Steven Schwartz - 4/11/2025
69 hours ago
View commentsView articleYet another US pivot to Asia
Like Obama’s before it, Trump’s 'pivot' faltered - revealing an America no longer the unchallenged power in a changing East Asia.
By Murray Hunter - 3/11/2025
42 days ago
View commentsView articleNothing sexy about this sticky tax web
When Queensland’s Revenue Office treated a husband and wife differently over the same property, it raised an unexpected question: has bureaucracy finally outpaced biology?
By John Mikkelsen - 3/11/2025
45 days ago
View commentsView articleQueensland’s Energy Roadmap is more likely to be first steps than a completed journey
The Crisafulli government’s roadmap is a welcome correction — more reliable and less reckless than Labor’s plan - but electricity won’t be getting any cheaper.
By Graham Young - 30/10/2025
142 days ago
View commentsView articleHey ho, IMO has gotta go!
The IMO’s bid to impose a worldwide carbon levy on shipping has been postponed after U.S. opposition, but few believe the UN will abandon its net-zero crusade.
By Darren Nelson - 29/10/2025
37 days ago
View commentsView articleIf 'business as usual' is so utterly broken, why do we keep doing it?
We’ve diagnosed the disease but keep prescribing the same medicine. Why Australia’s planning and infrastructure systems can’t stop doing what doesn’t work.
By Ross Elliott - 28/10/2025
149 days ago
View commentsView articleFichte and the right to be well: a philosophical case for universal healthcare
Fichte’s radical idea - that freedom is a shared condition, not a private possession - makes universal healthcare not charity, but justice.
By Sam Ben-Meir - 28/10/2025
54 days ago
View commentsView articleMarches for Australia are becoming the only 'opposition' to unpopular mass-migration
As Labor-Liberal institutionalises mass-migration and fake net-zero, March for Australia protests continue. After October 19, the next one is Australia Day.
By Stephen Saunders - 24/10/2025
911 days ago
View commentsView articleTrump & Bibi bury Biden/UN 'State of Palestine' in Gaza’s rubble
The Trump Declaration speaks of peace and prosperity but offers Palestinians no state, only the faint promise of reform and remote self-determination.
By David Singer - 24/10/2025
82 days ago
View commentsView articleWe stopped practicing capitalism
True capitalism mirrors nature: earning your place through contribution, not coercion.
By Mollie Engelhart - 23/10/2025
87 days ago
View commentsView articleTrump’s assault on the UN is self-defeating
It is hard to imagine that there is not a single adult in Trump’s orbit to tell him that withdrawing from the many UN agencies that provide critical humanitarian services undermines rather than advances the US’ national interest and global standing
By Alon Ben-Meir - 23/10/2025
413 days ago
View commentsView articleHow many hospitals will an extra 1 million people need?
Everyone talks about housing for Australia’s growing population, but who’s counting the hospitals, schools and water needed for another million people? The numbers don’t add up.
By Ross Elliott - 22/10/2025
312 days ago
View commentsView articleDisability inclusion in early education can’t just be promised – it has to be practised
Every time a child with disability is turned away from early education, they hear: you don’t belong here. Inclusion on paper isn’t enough - it has to start in practice.
By Monique Power - 22/10/2025
117 days ago
View commentsView articleThe great narco pretext: Trump readies for regime change in Venezuela
Trump’s ‘war on cartels’ looks less like drug enforcement and more like old-fashioned imperial policing - with airstrikes, bounties, and CIA operations leading the charge.
By Binoy Kampmark - 21/10/2025
717 days ago
View commentsView articleWhy does the world insanely ignore nuclear power?
We’ve spent $5 trillion chasing the wind, when slightly used nuclear fuel could power the world for a cent per kilowatt-hour - if government stopped smothering free enterprise.
By Ronald Stein, Oliver Hemmers and Steve Curtis - 21/10/2025
1412 days ago
View commentsView articleMarch for Australia
Behind the March for Australia was quiet frustration — families struggling with rent, young men losing ground, and a country wondering who’s really being heard.
By Bettina Arndt - 20/10/2025
94 days ago
View commentsView articleHome truths about wind and solar power
The Senate’s hunt for climate misinformation could start closer to home - with the myths about free wind, green energy, and endless sunshine.
By Rafe Champion - 20/10/2025
314 days ago
View commentsView articleTrump’s Gaza Peace Plan takes one giant step forward for mankind
Trump’s Gaza peace plan has cleared its first major hurdle, with Israel and Hamas signing on to key steps for ending the war - but the road ahead remains perilous.
By David Singer - 17/10/2025
416 days ago
View commentsView articleCan Asia reinvigorate multilateralism?
As wars, inequality, and climate threats deepen, Asian leaders told the UN it must reform or risk irrelevance - solidarity, they warned, is the only way forward.
By Ioan Voicu - 17/10/2025
520 days ago
View commentsView articleCharlie Kirk and Socrates
From Socrates to Charlie Kirk, those who dare to speak truth to power risk martyrdom — and reveal the enduring struggle between reason and tyranny.
By Bert Olivier - 16/10/2025
2721 days ago
View commentsView articleOutsized and eccentric: the farce behind the Nobel Peace Prize
From Kissinger to Machado, the Nobel Peace Prize keeps honouring warriors in diplomats’ clothing.
By Binoy Kampmark - 16/10/2025
323 days ago
View commentsView articleWe pretend to teach, and students pretend to learn
In our brave new AI world, academics pretend to teach, students pretend to learn and administrators pretend it all adds up to something called higher education.
By Steven Schwartz - 15/10/2025
521 days ago
View commentsView articleThe inescapable reality the Israelis must face
The ceasefire agreement and the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners is only the first step on the long and treacherous road that could end the calamitous, decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
By Alon Ben-Meir - 14/10/2025
824 days ago
View commentsView article'Green energy' opponents ignore the elephant in the room
Critics fight wind farms and solar panels, but few dare name the elephant in the room - what if the climate crisis isn’t real?
By Tom Harris - 13/10/2025
1423 days ago
View commentsView articleTrump sets road map for Gaza but still silent on Judea & Samaria
From UN walkout to global backing: Trump and Netanyahu’s Gaza plan flips the script in 72 hours.
By David Singer - 10/10/2025
1522 days ago
View commentsView articleWhy does our energy transition seem so slow? Because it is.
Government hype says Australia’s renewables are booming - but official data shows growth so slow it will take 70 years to finish the ‘transition’.
By Tom Biegler - 10/10/2025
1028 days ago
View commentsView articleThe challenge for the opposition has never been harder: here's why
Australia is drifting toward one-party rule - not by suppression, but by Labor’s mastery of the political game.
By Scott Prasser - 9/10/2025
526 days ago
View commentsView articleApprehending Dezi Freeman: ‘Something has to be done’
The costly manhunt for Dezi Freeman risks repeating the same mistakes as past bush fugitives — massive effort, minimal result.
By Brendan O'Reilly - 9/10/2025
130 days ago
View commentsView articleAustralian teachers are some of the highest users of AI in classrooms around the world - new survey
Top of the class on AI, bottom on stress: what a global survey reveals about Australia’s teachers.
By Robin Shields - 8/10/2025
428 days ago
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