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 |  | Flexible and sly: Indonesian Defence policy, Russia and Australian anxiety The frazzled response in Australia to the possibility of a Russian presence on Indonesian soil betrays its presumption. By Binoy Kampmark - 17/4/2025 | 2 | 14 hours ago |
| | Domestic violence delusions: feminists pull the wool over our eyes 'You can't hand out domestic violence orders like parking tickets.' Well, that's exactly what they have in mind for residents of our Deep North. By Bettina Arndt - 17/4/2025 | 2 | 10 hours ago |
| | Debunking the climate change consensus – part 1 Iit is a stupid statement that means nothing. Most scientists are not expert in the causes of climate change - people like biologists, particle physicists, material scientists, you name it - so most of their opinions don’t really matter. By Tom Harris - 16/4/2025 | 15 | 3 hours ago |
| | The challenges of decoupling manufacturing from China As corporation profits soared, the towns and cities that once supported these corporation's factories became desolate wastelands. America is full of 'almost' ghost-towns that have become ghettos for the unemployed. By Murray Hunter - 15/4/2025 | 7 | 23 hours ago |
| | Dutton's WFH backdown highlights the Coalition's policy flaws The working from home issue is more complex than a simple on or off. What the Coalition's original announcement showed was a lack of understanding of how the public service operates. By Scott Prasser - 15/4/2025 | 4 | 2 days ago |
| | Adam Bandt tempts Albo with a couple of housing treats If PM Albanese does not immediately and outright reject Adam Bandt’s demand he ditch negative gearing and the proposed doubling of Capital Gains Tax it will be a tacit admission a Labor government will succumb in government. By Graham Young - 14/4/2025 | 4 | 3 days ago |
| | Junk science and bad policing: the homicide prediction project Also included are such matters as 'health markers which are expected to have predictive power', be they on mental health, addiction issues, suicide, self-harm and disability. By Binoy Kampmark - 14/4/2025 | 3 | 3 days ago |
| | Policies for the Opposition Leader: three paths to electoral success Although they have been disappointingly ineffective for as long as I can remember, I broadly prefer the Coalition in government to Labor. By David Leyonhjelm - 11/4/2025 | 8 | 3 days ago |
| | Israel stakes claim while Trump takes aim Israel signals intent to assert sovereignty in West Bank as Trump delays his long-promised announcement. By David Singer - 11/4/2025 | 13 | 5 days ago |
| | Ethnic bells tolling under the white Southern Cross The redemptive features of proportional representation have been well canvassed by acknowledged scholars over the past decade. By Chek Ling - 10/4/2025 | 9 | 7 days ago |
| | Demand in U.S. electricity elevates the risk of wind/solar & highlights need for nuclear power The best chance for affordable, reliable, and clean electricity for all is through nuclear power technology. By Ronald Stein, Oliver Hemmers and Steve Curtis - 9/4/2025 | 45 | 14 hours ago |
| | Who is afraid of AI? AI may not immediately replace some industries or jobs involving creativity, complexity, imagination, and emotions. However, its self-learning and self-improvement capabilities are gradually being developed to dominate these areas. By Mamtimin Ala - 8/4/2025 | 3 | 10 days ago |
| | Sea life – Albo back? Time to leave! Migrants came to Australia for the opportunity. As Albo takes it away, there's no reason for them to stay. By Stuart Ballantyne - 8/4/2025 | 6 | 8 days ago |
| | Putin’s claim his prime objective is to rid Ukraine of Nazism Putin said there were two major objectives for the special military operation in Ukraine. The first objective that has been primarily achieved, was the de-militarization of Ukraine. The second objective is to de-Nazify Ukraine. By Murray Hunter - 7/4/2025 | 15 | 4 days ago |
| | Better together A pluralistic society requires citizens who can engage across differences, not just coexist in parallel worlds. If universities do not model this, who will? By Steven Schwartz - 7/4/2025 | 4 | 11 days ago |
| | Secrecy and virtue signalling: another view of Signalgate There has been a fascinating, near unanimous condemnation among the cognoscenti about the seemingly careless addition of Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic to the chat chain of Signal by US National Security Advisor Michael Waltz. By Binoy Kampmark - 4/4/2025 | 19 | 10 days ago |
| | When public trust erodes A trust-based society operates democratically, primarily grounded in the principles of contract theory, as John Locke and others postulated. By Mamtimin Ala - 4/4/2025 | 1 | 14 days ago |
| | Labor clueless on foreign affairs Goodness knows why the Chinese government would want to put pressure on the Albanese government during an election campaign, but that’s what they are doing. By Graham Young - 3/4/2025 | 7 | 12 days ago |
| | Artificial intelligence and university degrees AI will probably force a 'back to the future' approach to university assessments as AI improves at writing essays. By Keith Suter - 3/4/2025 | 1 | 15 days ago |
| | Australia’s GST carve-up is perverting economic development Australia's states and territories are at it again, locked in the ritualistic squabble with the Commonwealth Grants Commission (CGC) – and each other – over the GST revenue distribution. By Joe Branigan - 2/4/2025 | 1 | 16 days ago |
| | Trump: Expectations, reality, and everything in-between Some see havoc, confusion, chaos, and amateurism, while others see Trump fulfilling his promises. By Murray Hunter - 2/4/2025 | 5 | 16 days ago |
| | Earth has limited natural resources to continually support the generation of electricity Earth’s natural resources are being extracted at alarming rates but not being replenished. The 4-billion-year-old planet's 'wells' will run dry at some time. By Ronald Stein and Cleveland Jones - 1/4/2025 | 5 | 13 days ago |
| | Trump seems set to end Jew-hatred at United Nations We know that the UN is a den of antisemitism ...I will stand up for President Trump's America First, peace through strength policies and bring moral truth and crystal clear moral clarity at the United Nations on Day One... By David Singer - 1/4/2025 | 10 | 15 days ago |
| | Five reasons why Ukraine will win this war, even without US support Ukraine will win-because victory depends on more than just money and missiles. By Yuri Koszarycz - 31/3/2025 | 24 | 9 days ago |
| | The topical challenge of multilateralism In the opinion of France 'At a time when global governance is being challenged by the proliferation of crises, we must not give in to the temptation of unilateralism'. By Ioan Voicu - 31/3/2025 | 5 | 17 days ago |
| | Dutton fires gun on the election Anthony Albanese may think he's being smart by announcing the election the day after Peter Dutton's reply-to-the-budget speech, but because the decision has leaked, he's handed the starters gun, and a lot of the advantage, to Peter Dutton. By Graham Young - 28/3/2025 | 8 | 17 days ago |
| | The death of trust Trust in vaccines is collapsing, fuelled by political failures, corporate greed, and scientific conflicts of interest. By Steven Schwartz - 28/3/2025 | 13 | 16 days ago |
| | Trump buries UN & EU calls for new state between Israel & Jordan The G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America – with the High Representative of the EU also attending - made no mention of the two-state solution in their final communique. By David Singer - 28/3/2025 | 15 | 18 days ago |
| | Self defence: an original right Australians may never embrace the use of guns for self-defence, but they also never agreed to being rendered defenceless. By David Leyonhjelm - 27/3/2025 | 19 | 17 days ago |
| | The post-lockdown disorientation in the arts Snow White, the live-action version cobbled together by Disney, opened over the weekend with devastating reviews and empty theaters coast to coast. By Jeffrey Tucker - 27/3/2025 | 3 | 20 days ago |
| | Out of ideas and full of fiscal analgesics Keating predicted a Banana Republic and it is gradually coming true. By Graham Young - 26/3/2025 | 9 | 20 days ago |
| | Masking during Covid was nothing to do with public health Commonsense should have alerted many people to the perils of public wearing masks for any length of time. By Murray Hunter - 25/3/2025 | 1 | 24 days ago |
| | Careless people, Meta and restricting the digital town square The portrait of Meta that emerges is disturbing, as have been the company's efforts to silence Wynn-Williams, who has registered as a whistleblower with the US Securities and Exchanges Commission. By Binoy Kampmark - 24/3/2025 | 3 | 25 days ago |
| | Memo to Coalition: maybe next time Major-party election-offerings are unsympathetic to ordinary voters. Coalition indolence (and overstated Trump fears) may well re-elect Labor or (heavens no) Labor-Greens. By Stephen Saunders - 21/3/2025 | 5 | 25 days ago |
| | Elon Musk’s Grok 3 backs Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution The Hashemit Kingdom of Palestine is at least a virtual reality. By David Singer - 21/3/2025 | 7 | 28 days ago |
| | Sporting contradictions: athletes, the Olympics and climate change That they think their views make the slightest difference is almost charming. That they pick climate change as the issue suggests they have slumbered in a deep, uninterrupted sleep. By Binoy Kampmark - 20/3/2025 | 1 | 29 days ago |
| | Trump’s betrayal of America’s social contract and global standing Trump’s betrayal of the ideals and values that America has embraced and which made it an unrivaled nation is tragic. Every Republican with a conscience should rise and put America first. By Alon Ben-Meir - 20/3/2025 | 15 | 27 days ago |
| | Scorched earth disease control There is one fatal flaw in the scorched earth disease control so loved by the bureaucracy – it fails to encourage the survival and multiplication of resistant individuals. By Viv Forbes - 19/3/2025 | 3 | 30 days ago |
| | Bogus myths created to promote renewables All the parts and components of the net zero emissions fantasy from wind turbines and solar panels are 100% dependent on the oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil, the same oil that net zero enthusiasts want to rid the world of. By Ronald Stein - 19/3/2025 | 13 | 24 days ago |
| | Aggrieved speculation: the Trump illness hypothesis Having failed in spectacular fashion, along with fellow pundits, to read the premonitory signs of a Trump victory over Kamala Harris, he has returned to the theme of the mad man, or at least the ill man. By Binoy Kampmark - 18/3/2025 | 2 | 31 days ago |