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 |  | Our 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 | 5 | 3 hours ago |
| | 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 | 11 | 13 hours ago |
| | Adjusting 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 | 4 | 2 days ago |
| | UN 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 | 19 | 2 mins ago |
| | UN 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 | 8 | 4 days ago |
| | Nuclear 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 | 4 | 4 days ago |
| | A 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 | 5 | 4 days ago |
| | Celebrating 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 | 10 | 5 days ago |
| | A 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 | 10 | 5 days ago |
| | The 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 | 8 | 6 days ago |
| | Misusing 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 | 3 | 8 days ago |
| | Israel 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 | 5 | 9 days ago |
| | Big 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 | 3 | 10 days ago |
| | When 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 | 2 | 12 days ago |
| | Electricity 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 | 19 | 10 days ago |
| | Western 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 | 33 | 7 days ago |
| | Manifestations 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 | 4 | 14 days ago |
| | How 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 | 9 | 16 days ago |
| | The 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 | 73 | 2 days ago |
| | Don’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 | 5 | 16 days ago |
| | Small 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 | 3 | 14 days ago |
| | Can 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 | 15 | 5 days ago |
| | Propaganda 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 | 2 | 21 days ago |
| | Damaging feminist disinformation How femocrats fake data and research to promote anti-male policies. By Bettina Arndt - 21/7/2025 | 2 | 16 days ago |
| | An 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 | 10 | 20 days ago |
| | How 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 | 15 | 23 days ago |
| | California 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 | 1 | 26 days ago |
| | An 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 | 3 | 16 days ago |
| | K-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 | 3 | 26 days ago |
| | Massive 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 | 6 | 28 days ago |
| | Kosovo’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 | 2 | 28 days ago |
| | Between patience and fortitude In an age of noise and urgency, the library is a quiet kind of miracle. By Steven Schwartz - 14/7/2025 | 3 | 28 days ago |
| | Death 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 | 2 | 29 days ago |