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View commentsView articleGout Gout and global sprinting success
The hype around Gout Gout is justified. The assumption of inevitable global success is not.
By Chris Lewis - 1/4/2026
217 hours ago
View commentsView articleBring on the Iranian nuke
Iran’s destruction teaches the lesson non-proliferation was meant to prevent: in today’s world, only nuclear weapons seem to guarantee survival.
By Binoy Kampmark - 1/4/2026
17 hours ago
View commentsView articleAutism isn’t the problem. The system is.
The multi-billion-dollar autism bill is not the disease, but a symptom of a system that rewards diagnosis over disability and expansion over recovery.
By Steven Schwartz - 31/3/2026
22 days ago
View commentsView articleSolidarity and education - essential  pillars  of the future
As multilateralism frays, the UN has quietly found consensus on something basic: solidarity and education still underpin social justice.
By Ioan Voicu - 31/3/2026
222 hours ago
View commentsView articleAn ominous reckoning for the Gulf states
Trump's Iran war has left the Gulf shattered: US bases turned into targets, economies battered, and the 'oasis' myth destroyed.
By Alon Ben-Meir - 30/3/2026
53 days ago
View commentsView articleDemocracy undermined: South Australia is like a one party state
One Nation’s surge has not just crushed the Liberals in South Australia - it has crippled the opposition function democracy depends on.
By Scott Prasser - 30/3/2026
53 days ago
View commentsView articleOperation Epic Fury and US unreadiness for war
The myth of US military invincibility collides with a harder reality: unreadiness, depleted stockpiles, and a war exposing the limits of power.
By Binoy Kampmark - 27/3/2026
224 days ago
View commentsView articleThe Lollipop Ladies
Six-figure traffic controllers, union rules, and DEI quotas - Australia’s construction problem is hiding in plain sight.
By Bettina Arndt - 27/3/2026
15 days ago
View commentsView articleWhat happens to centre-right politics if One Nation continues to grow?
One Nation channels right wing fury, but ironically, can it ever do more than increase Labor's chances at every election it contests?
By Graham Young - 26/3/2026
124 days ago
View commentsView articleSilence the doctors, harm the children
When ethics becomes dissent: why doctors must be free to speak for patient safety
By Kara Thomas and Andrew McIntyre - 25/3/2026
18 days ago
View commentsView articleFastest, cheapest, best
'Fastest, cheapest, best'? The numbers suggest Australia’s energy transition may be none of the above.
By Tom Biegler - 24/3/2026
63 days ago
View commentsView articleA coalition of 3? Just go for it!
One Nation, Nationals and Liberals united? It may be the only path to ending Labor-Greens dominance.
By Stuart Ballantyne - 23/3/2026
68 days ago
View commentsView articleTremors in MAGA: Joe Kent, the Iran War and the antisemitism smear
Joe Kent backed Trump. Now he’s resigned, warning the Iran war betrays 'America First'.
By Binoy Kampmark - 23/3/2026
110 days ago
View commentsView articleDo we live in Bizarro World now?
In the comic book Bizarro World, all the traditional virtues and verities are turned on their head: good is bad, lies are truth, and villains are heroes. Moreover, this inverted reality is accepted as the norm.
By Gary Banks - 20/3/2026
35 days ago
View commentsView articleTrump & Netanyahu need to agree on future of Judea and Samaria
It beggars belief that President Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can agree on prosecuting a war against Iran but have been unable to agree on the way forward to ending the Arab-Jewish conflict in Judea and Samaria (West Bank).
By David Singer - 20/3/2026
89 days ago
View commentsView articleKey government infrastructure investments are ending up as super-expensive white elephants
If these projects made sense, politicians would invest their own money. Instead, taxpayers are left footing the bill.
By Brendan O'Reilly - 19/3/2026
1311 days ago
View commentsView articleChanging work and changing demography = changing cities
What happens to cities when office work disappears? AI and demography are already forcing an answer.
By Ross Elliott - 19/3/2026
114 days ago
View commentsView articleReforming Australian defence: from Cold War relics to an affordable, independent missile and drone deterrent
Ukraine and Iran show a new reality: cheap drones can destroy expensive platforms. Is Australia building the wrong defence force?
By Murray Hunter - 18/3/2026
514 days ago
View commentsView articleNew energy policies in California threatening America’s national security
No refineries, no fuel. How does California sustain America's military and ports as local supply disappears?
By Ronald Stein and Mike Umbro - 18/3/2026
115 days ago
View commentsView articleThe Liberal Party should trial community primaries
Australia’s political parties are confronting a long-standing issue that has been gradually worsening over many years: the decline in party membership and the diminishing local political machinery that historically supported them.
By Graham Young and Gary Johns - 17/3/2026
1011 days ago
View commentsView articleCostly and depleting: the growing problems of Operation Epic Fury
Iran’s drones cost $35,000. America’s missiles cost millions. The war’s economics are starting to look ugly.
By Binoy Kampmark - 17/3/2026
614 days ago
View commentsView articleDetective work on the real causes of Earth's temperature changes beginning to bear fruit
What if CO₂ isn’t the main culprit in warming the oceans? New research points to a different suspect: clouds.
By Tom Harris - 16/3/2026
1015 days ago
View commentsView articleTrump’s aura of invincibility is disintegrating
Trump still dominates Republican politics. But behind the scenes, cracks are widening over tariffs, war with Iran, and presidential power.
By Alon Ben-Meir - 16/3/2026
317 days ago
View commentsView articleOpen-borders Australia learns nothing from Carney visit
Leaving Albanese as a world outlier, Carney has stymied Canada’s population growth, to ease the housing pain. Sigh, his Australian visit was all framed around 'middle powers' vs Trump.
By Stephen Saunders - 13/3/2026
319 days ago
View commentsView articleTrump and Netanyahu pave way to end Arab-Jewish conflict
After Iran and Gaza, the old two-state formula looks finished. Is it time to rethink how the Arab-Jewish conflict is actually resolved?
By David Singer - 13/3/2026
1715 days ago
View commentsView articleChalmers has never met a tax he didn’t like
Labor says higher CGT will help housing. The real effect may be higher rents and weaker growth.
By Graham Young - 12/3/2026
221 days ago
View commentsView articleThe Liberals, the senate, and preferences
The Liberals changed the Senate voting system to help themselves. Instead, they helped the Greens.
By David Leyonhjelm - 12/3/2026
217 days ago
View commentsView articleMiddle power nonsense: Australia, Canada and capitulating to the Iran War
Mark Carney talks of “middle-power leadership”. Yet when the US and Israel bomb Iran, Canada and Australia follow.
By Binoy Kampmark - 12/3/2026
221 days ago
View commentsView articleElectricity is about to become the most valuable commodity on earth
Thirty years and $8 trillion on renewables – yet fossil fuels still dominate. Why won’t politicians talk about nuclear power?
By Ronald Stein, Olivia Vaughan and Steve Curtis - 11/3/2026
117 days ago
View commentsView articleObserve the economic fallout six years later
From jobs to inflation to energy, the aftershocks of lockdowns still ripple through the economy.
By Jeffrey Tucker - 10/3/2026
1917 days ago
View commentsView articleTelevision becomes our feminist preacher
Restorative justice may help victims more than prison. Why is feminism resisting it?
By Bettina Arndt - 10/3/2026
321 days ago
View commentsView articleAI and the failure of economics
AI will impact our unemployment level, but we gauge our inflation from unemployment, so what effect will it have on central banks?
By Ben Rees - 9/3/2026
224 days ago
View commentsView articleLoony bin rationales: the continuing war on Iran
From 'imminent threat' to 'Israel would strike anyway': the story keeps shifting.
By Binoy Kampmark - 9/3/2026
424 days ago
View commentsView articleTrump and Netanyahu are chasing an illusion in Iran
A war launched for regime change may end with neither regime change nor peace.
By Alon Ben-Meir - 6/3/2026
3017 days ago
View commentsView articleSaudi Arabia may soon be joining the Abraham Accords
Could war with Iran push Saudi Arabia into the Abraham Accords?
By David Singer - 6/3/2026
227 days ago
View commentsView articleVoters will keep voting Labor, even when dissatisfied
When Coalition voters prefer Pauline Hanson to their own leader, something has broken.
By Graham Young - 5/3/2026
134 days ago
View commentsView articleGoing native in the Trump jungle: how it became legal to attack Iran
Ukraine’s sovereignty matters. Iran’s apparently does not. Welcome to the Trump Jungle.
By Binoy Kampmark - 5/3/2026
1226 days ago
View commentsView articleLeaking the Liberals' post-election analysis - another act of betrayal
Leaking the election review won’t rebuild the Liberals. It may bury them deeper.
By Scott Prasser - 4/3/2026
628 days ago
View commentsView articleThe mental health system is making us sicker
The 20th century was the age of diagnosis. The 21st must become the age of recovery, measured not by how many people we enrol in the mental health system, but by how many no longer need it.
By Steven Schwartz - 3/3/2026
130 days ago
View commentsView articleSpiralling national debts may well result in many years of high inflation
High debt, weak growth, rising interest bills. The reckoning rarely arrives politely.
By Brendan O'Reilly - 3/3/2026
330 days ago
View commentsView articleMendacious rationales: the lies behind Operation Lion’s Roar
Imminent threat, regime change, decisive strikes. Haven’t we heard this before?
By Binoy Kampmark - 2/3/2026
728 days ago
View commentsView articleDr Willie Soon reveals the real driver of climate change in new video
Is climate science ignoring the obvious? A 12-minute case for the Sun as the main driver.
By Tom Harris - 2/3/2026
2029 days ago
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