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 |  | Despite 1m migrants in 2022-24, the Budget barely slackens the war on voters. Under hapless Jim Chalmers, population growth is beating GDP growth. Budget surplus or not, no voter bribes or band-aids can rectify a Budget persisting with immigration at 3-5 times sustainable levels. By Stephen Saunders - 17/5/2024 | 7 | 47 mins ago |
| | Supermarket profiteering and price gouging As a supplier, I have had extensive dealings with supermarkets and other chain stores in Britain, South Africa and Australia. By Guy Hallowes - 17/5/2024 | 5 | 2 days ago |
| | A triple ‘F’ rating for this federal budget Is this the future of Australia? Fat, flaccid, and foolish? By Graham Young - 16/5/2024 | 7 | 10 hours ago |
| | US support for Israel: what do you think? Former President Donald Trump, the Republican candidate for the 2024 election, called the campus protest situation 'a mess' as he walked into the second day of his criminal trial in New York. By Peter Bowden - 16/5/2024 | 3 | 11 hours ago |
| | Dodging the issue: the Biden administration report on Israel’s use of us weapons In a pitiful dodge, the report claims it is 'difficult to determine facts on the ground in an active war zone', a state of mind that is bound to lend itself to justifications. By Binoy Kampmark - 15/5/2024 | 2 | 4 days ago |
| | UN General Assembly embraces a phantom 'State of Palestine' HKOPS meets the requirements of the Montevideo Convention and article 4 of the UN Charter - whilst trashing the General Assembly's phantom 'State of Palestine'. By David Singer - 15/5/2024 | 2 | 4 days ago |
| | Problems with cutting student debt The treasurer should have stayed the course. He needs to save every bit of money he can. By Graham Young - 14/5/2024 | 4 | 20 hours ago |
| | The carbon capture con Underground disposal of CO2 requires it to be pumped AGAINST the pressure of whatever fills the pore space of the rock formation. These pressures can be substantial. By Viv Forbes - 14/5/2024 | 4 | 5 days ago |
| | The thing about hydrogen….. Primarily, hydrogen energy has already been a By Tom Biegler - 13/5/2024 | 6 | 4 days ago |
| | A clubbable admission: Palestine's case for UN membership The United Nations, yet another, albeit larger club, functions on similar principles. Do you have the right credentials to natter, moan and partake in the body's constituent parts? By Binoy Kampmark - 13/5/2024 | 14 | 5 days ago |
| | Cancer is not just bad luck I am a 'cancer survivor'. I achieved this not by surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, but by starving the cancer of the toxins I had been feeding it until it shrivelled up and died. By Melissa Karydas - 10/5/2024 | 6 | 9 days ago |
| | Trump writes off UN two-state solution 'There was a time when I thought two states could work. Now I think two states is going to be very, very tough. I think it's going to be much tougher to get.' By David Singer - 10/5/2024 | 8 | 7 days ago |
| | Covid is not a specific disease As we all know, this terminology has caused plenty of unnecessary fear. Over more than three years, it has also caused societal hypervigilance and political hysteria. By Manfred Horst - 9/5/2024 | 2 | 10 days ago |
| | Winning over young men Message to our politicians: If you have deluded yourself that you could ever harness the angry women's vote, take a good look at the Albanese debacle last week. By Bettina Arndt - 9/5/2024 | 8 | 7 days ago |
| | Made in Australia? Unlikely, under ‘United Nations’ Albanese. Albanese’s population and environment policies riff on UN policy. His Made in Australia launch seems to propose a similar template for industry. By Stephen Saunders - 8/5/2024 | 5 | 9 days ago |
| | The UN climate body does not back climate alarmist claims Climate alarmists often tell us that their frightening forecasts are backed up by the best available science. In particular, they point to the IPCC reports. By Tom Harris - 8/5/2024 | 6 | 10 days ago |
| | Labor, how do I loathe thee? I'm probably not alone in finding it surprising that Federal Labor still had around 30 to 32 percent primary support in recent polls - an all-time low. But how low can they go? By John Mikkelsen - 7/5/2024 | 20 | 8 days ago |
| | Can Erdogan shed his duplicity and do something right? Turkey's President Erdogan could have emerged from the Israel-Hamas war as a peacemaker. Instead, being absorbed by fake piety, hypocrisy, and folly, he chose to fan the flames of the horrific war. By Alon Ben-Meir - 7/5/2024 | 1 | 12 days ago |
| | Before we call it a ‘crisis,’ what is the true situation behind domestic violence? The issue of domestic violence dominated headlines this past week, but is there more to the story? By Graham Young - 6/5/2024 | 13 | 7 days ago |
| | Record business collapses – why am i not surprised? 300 staff, an asset base of $14m, a full order book of small ship design and builds worth $12m, all approved by the Government’s Export Finance department and an interest rate at the time of 22% for an overdraft, what could possibly go wrong? By Stuart Ballantyne - 3/5/2024 | 4 | 12 days ago |
| | UN lobbies to recognize fictitious State of Palestine Why the UN is actively lobbying for the recognition of this fictitious state is a matter that Secretary General Antonio Guterres and Tor Wennesland need to explain and justify. By David Singer - 3/5/2024 | 2 | 14 days ago |
| | Wikipedia: another social media platform under control of the ‘spooks’ The case of intelligence community and leftist leadership giving Wikipedia a bias is serious. Wikipedia is where the young are getting their information. By Murray Hunter - 2/5/2024 | 5 | 12 days ago |
| | Locked up without a trial Forty-two percent of prisoners in NSW jails are on remand, jailed without a trial. By Bettina Arndt - 2/5/2024 | 6 | 12 days ago |
| | Labor's COVID-19 response inquiry lacks punch and transparency Many of the same Labor and Green members of that former Senate committee, including Senator Gallagher, that had advocated a royal commission, voted it down. By Scott Prasser - 1/5/2024 | 1 | 18 days ago |
| | A diesel in the shed When I was a kid living on a small dairy farm in Queensland, we relied on green energy - horses and human muscles provided most motive power; fire-wood and beeswax candles supplied heat and light. By Viv Forbes - 1/5/2024 | 8 | 9 days ago |
| | Why the ‘eKaren’ is trying to control content globally It's a mystery as to why Julie Inman Grant would attempt to ban a single blurry instance of terrorism while leaving most completely alone. By Graham Young - 30/4/2024 | 3 | 14 days ago |
| | Laughs, lies and lights out Forget 2050 or even the target of 82 percent renewables by 2030, ZEN's aim is to achieve By John Mikkelsen - 30/4/2024 | 7 | 13 days ago |
| | Lest we forget: reflections inspired by ANZAC Day dawn services The United States is on the path of decline, while Xi Jinping and his cohorts in Zhongnanhai foresee a 'rise in the East and fall in the West'. By Chin Jin - 29/4/2024 | 3 | 14 days ago |
| | Warring against encryption: Australia is coming for your communications This war of grinding, nannying censorship – which is what it is – was the prelude for other agents of information control and paranoia to join the fray. The Labour Albanese government, for instance. By Binoy Kampmark - 29/4/2024 | 1 | 20 days ago |
| | Supermarkets, shopping centres and the weaponisation of planning The current federal inquiry into anti-competitive practices of our large supermarket chains in Australia could do well to ask how planning schemes have been mercilessly weaponised to minimise competition. By Ross Elliott - 26/4/2024 | 6 | 21 days ago |
| | The end of summer - the liturgy of the seasons in Australia In this subtropical clime, there is a tail to the hot season, I think of it as the scorpion tail, as summer's end attenuates through March to Easter. By Sarah Flynn-O'Dea - 26/4/2024 | 3 | 21 days ago |
| | Censorship wars: Elon Musk, safety commissioners and violent content While there is much to take Elon Musk to task for, the hysteria regarding the refusal to remove images of a man in holy orders being attacked by his assailant suggests a lengthy couch session is in order. By Binoy Kampmark - 24/4/2024 | 17 | 23 days ago |
| | School funding caught in old shemozzle, not driven by evidence What makes this especially astonishing is how those same archbishops and school leaders sided with the Labor Party in 2017 over school funding using robocalls and letters to parents to campaign against the Turnbull Coalition government. By Scott Prasser - 24/4/2024 | 8 | 20 days ago |
| | Nuclear is essential Many citizens believe that 'renewables' are the answer to our energy future because they have been told that, and it gives them a nice cosy feeling. By Charles Hemmings - 23/4/2024 | 9 | 21 days ago |
| | The modern perils of getting laid Things got a bit more heated by the '80s when AC/DC belted out 'She Shook Me All Night Long' and Joe Cocker followed that up with the equally explicit 'You Can Leave Your Hat On … (yes, yes, yes )…'. By John Mikkelsen - 23/4/2024 | 10 | 12 days ago |
| | Wave goodbye to another set of freedoms with the new Digital Id In the 1980s, Australians fought hard against a similar national ID program, what has changed since then? By Graham Young - 22/4/2024 | 13 | 21 days ago |
| | Why the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide is only one piece of the puzzle PTSD is an accepted medical condition just like any other that a person could be diagnosed with – so why is the government allowing insurance companies to deny claims as though these families aren't plagued by real illness? By Brett Wild - 22/4/2024 | 1 | 27 days ago |
| | Why Israel should take its time to retaliate against Iran Iran’s unprecedented aerial attack on Israel has upended the shadow war between the two countries and created new opportunities to contain Iran while creating a new regional alliance. By Alon Ben-Meir - 19/4/2024 | 11 | 29 days ago |
| | Faulty assurances: the judicial torture of Assange continues Only this month, the near comatose US President, Joe Biden, made a casual, castaway remark that his administration was 'considering' the request by Australia that the case against Julian Assange be concluded. By Binoy Kampmark - 19/4/2024 | 3 | 30 days ago |