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View commentsView articleOur daily bread (and other dangerous substances)
Your dinner doesn't need an app or a PhD, just something to eat, something to drink, and a little gratitude. This is a story about science, food, and how we're ruining both in the name of wellness.
By Steven Schwartz - 11/8/2025
47 hours ago
View commentsView article Bridge our differences: Australians march for Palestine
Amid pouring rain, our grief and hope mixed to something beautiful: kindness and compassion.
By Wasim El-Haj - 11/8/2025
115 hours ago
View commentsView articleAdjusting the temperature: climate change and international law
Courts are turning climate inaction into an internationally wrongful act — and fossil fuel states are in the dock.
By Binoy Kampmark - 8/8/2025
428 hours ago
View commentsView articleUN self-destructing in pursuit of dead two-state solution
Ignoring a century-old legal mandate, the UN has chosen politics over the charter it swore to uphold.
By David Singer - 8/8/2025
1611 hours ago
View commentsView articleUN climate-czar abuses Australia, cossets leviathan China
Despite July’s highly aggressive return-visit from UNFCCC bovver-boy Simon Stiell, the coalition seems unlikely to seriously challenge Labor’s net-zero cult.
By Stephen Saunders - 7/8/2025
83 days ago
View commentsView articleNuclear power in a free enterprise environment is the pathway to abundant low-cost electricity.
Getting Government, mandates, and subsidies out-of-the-way will benefit humanity and allow creative free enterprise to succeed in delivering electricity to the world.
By Ronald Stein, Oliver Hemmers and Steve Curtis - 7/8/2025
43 days ago
View commentsView articleA proposal for the antithesis of the Nobel peace prize
If we honour peacemakers, why not also name the architects of discord?
By John Töns - 7/8/2025
53 days ago
View commentsView articleCelebrating 140 years of the Fabians
Democracy has become a zero-sum game — but the Fabians still believe another world is possible.
By John Töns - 6/8/2025
104 days ago
View commentsView articleA little rebellion
To understand political debates, it helps to have a view as to where we derive our liberties.
By David Leyonhjelm - 6/8/2025
104 days ago
View commentsView articleThe moral cost of Jewish leaders’ silence
The war crimes perpetrated by the Netanyahu government against Palestinians have seriously harmed Jews around the world, as many Jewish leaders remained silent in the wake of these crimes.
By Alon Ben-Meir - 5/8/2025
85 days ago
View commentsView articleMisusing the children: The UK Online Safety Act, privacy and censorship
Many seem to want censorship as a form of stand-in parenting—leaving children permanently immature and unspoiled by the richer, more complicated life.
By Binoy Kampmark - 4/8/2025
37 days ago
View commentsView articleIsrael paves way for Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution
RIP two-state solution – Israel’s Knesset buries it while reviving a Jordanian alternative.
By David Singer - 1/8/2025
58 days ago
View commentsView articleBig tech says AI could boost Australia’s economy by $115 billion a year. Does the evidence stack up?
The Australian government must resist the temptation to let Silicon Valley write our digital future.
By Uri Gal - 31/7/2025
39 days ago
View commentsView articleWhen Israelis call it out: finding genocide in Gaza
Genocide tends to be recognised only after a significant portion of the targeted group has already been destroyed.
By Binoy Kampmark - 31/7/2025
211 days ago
View commentsView articleElectricity generated from wind and solar cannot replace fossil fuels!
Eliminating fossil fuels without practical alternatives risks societal regression.
By Ronald Stein and Yoshihiro Muronaka - 30/7/2025
199 days ago
View commentsView articleWestern powers are complicit in crimes against humanity in Gaza
The West, led by the Trump administration, has enabled the Netanyahu government to commit crimes against humanity and became complicit in the unfathomably horrific disaster that is being inflicted on the Palestinians in Gaza.
By Alon Ben-Meir - 29/7/2025
336 days ago
View commentsView articleManifestations of declining nationalism
These three key aspects of a nation are clear signs of the gradual decline of nationalism in the West, which does not die overnight; instead, it has a slow, agonising death until it collapses suddenly.
By Mamtimin Ala - 28/7/2025
413 days ago
View commentsView articleHow not to reform a university: Trump’s Harvard obsession
Freedom of thought and speech are pillars of a functioning democracy — and they’re now at the heart of Harvard’s fight with the Trump administration.
By Binoy Kampmark - 25/7/2025
915 days ago
View commentsView articleThe great superiority delusion
By far the most dangerous people are those who are below average but do not recognise it.
By David Leyonhjelm - 24/7/2025
7333 hours ago
View commentsView articleDon’t eat the seed corn, Jim
Capital is the seed corn of future prosperity – tax it too heavily, and you discourage people from planting at all.
By Graham Young - 24/7/2025
515 days ago
View commentsView articleSmall Modular Reactors are a game-changer for Africa and the world
Africa deserves the same opportunity for development that the West took for granted, unburdened by a green agenda that keeps the continent energy-poor and dependent.
By Ronald Stein, Robert Jeffrey and Olivia Vaughan - 23/7/2025
313 days ago
View commentsView articleCan we solve Australia’s city problem? (Part two)
Seventy per cent of Australians now live in just eight cities – a concentration driving housing shortages, congestion and failing services, all fuelled by federal immigration policy.
By Ross Elliott - 22/7/2025
154 days ago
View commentsView articlePropaganda siren: silencing the Voice of America
The Voice of America was never just about news – it was born in the propaganda maelstrom of World War II and has always walked to the dictates of US foreign policy.
By Binoy Kampmark - 22/7/2025
220 days ago
View commentsView articleDamaging feminist disinformation
How femocrats fake data and research to promote anti-male policies.
By Bettina Arndt - 21/7/2025
215 days ago
View commentsView articleAn open letter to the Israelis: rise and save the soul of your country
I appeal to every Israeli - you have become the victims of deceptive and morally repugnant leaders who have systematically betrayed you by pursuing their treacherous messianic agenda.
By Alon Ben-Meir - 21/7/2025
1019 days ago
View commentsView articleHow wokeness weakens the West but empowers China
Interviewed July 2025 on his Australian book-tour, US sociologist Musa al-Gharbi waxed eloquent on wokeness and inequality, on US and China. Though I failed to subvert his next book.
By Stephen Saunders - 18/7/2025
1522 days ago
View commentsView articleCalifornia continues to devastate its economy for a net-zero dream world
California’s passion to achieve net-zero emissions at the expense of its citizens has devastated its economy.
By Ronald Stein and Michael Mische - 17/7/2025
125 days ago
View commentsView articleAn historic commemoration in favour of multilateralism
The foundation of multilateralism upon which the United Nations sits is increasingly shaken by rivalries, eroding trust and a retreat from collective problem‑solving.
By Ioan Voicu - 17/7/2025
315 days ago
View commentsView articleK-Defense Day: pimping for the arms dealers
President Lee doesn’t want to be seen as an arms dealer – just the head of a nation competing to out-export everyone else in submarines and artillery.
By Binoy Kampmark - 16/7/2025
325 days ago
View commentsView articleMassive Australian bushfire impacts: it's our fault
Fire shaped this continent. But in failing to manage it, we have turned it into a destroyer.
By John O'Donnell - 15/7/2025
627 days ago
View commentsView articleKosovo’s leadership failure: a dangerous hijacking of democracy
It is hard to imagine how a small country experiencing significant economic hardship and in constant conflict with its neighbor is still under a caretaker government four months after the national elections.
By Alon Ben-Meir - 15/7/2025
227 days ago
View commentsView articleBetween patience and fortitude
In an age of noise and urgency, the library is a quiet kind of miracle.
By Steven Schwartz - 14/7/2025
327 days ago
View commentsView articleDeath by fungi: cashing in on Erin Patterson
If attempting to kill four people using fungi is a symptom of average, female ordinariness, we all best start making our own meals.
By Binoy Kampmark - 14/7/2025
228 days ago
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