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 |  | Omicron a dud sequel as COVID 'franchise' runs down The James Bond franchise is up to 25 movies. Fast and Furious will have 10 to its credit in 2023. The COVID-19 franchise is already looking tired after only 5 iterations. By Graham Young - 3/12/2021 | 1 | 2 days ago |
| | The Solomon Islands intervention is a high risk strategy The issues at play are long standing, and to an extent remain By Jeffrey Wall - 3/12/2021 | 1 | 2 days ago |
| | Unhealthy public health People who work in public health, especially at the policy level, typically assume we all want to live forever and their mission is to ensure we do. By David Leyonhjelm - 3/12/2021 | 5 | 4 hours ago |
| | On being trans youth Detransition: Beyond Before and After. An edited extract. By Max Robinson - 2/12/2021 | 2 | 3 days ago |
| | Reducing US greenhouse emissions 50 per cent by 2030: is it likely? As it stands, the US only reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 2 per cent from 1990 to 2019. By Chris Lewis - 2/12/2021 | 8 | 2 days ago |
| | Social economists’ advice brings national ruin Seventeen Nobel US based economists have said that the Biden Administration's $1.7 trillion 'Build Back Better' program, will increase growth without inflation. By Alan Moran - 1/12/2021 | 1 | 2 days ago |
| | Science without humanity, knowledge without character Amazon may soon offer an end-of-the-university-as-we-know-it box set. (E-books, no doubt.) By Steven Schwartz - 30/11/2021 | 9 | 5 days ago |
| | Coalition’s latest failure to ‘fix’ the ABC The proposed Senate inquiry was questionable because it indicated a lack of trust by the Coalition parties in the ABC’s process. By Scott Prasser - 30/11/2021 | 24 | 23 hours ago |
| | Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 will secure protection from state-based discrimination laws The religious discrimination legislation doesn't go far enough, and further action needs to be taken to deal with religious hate crimes. By Syed Atiq ul Hassan - 29/11/2021 | 5 | 6 days ago |
| | UN anti-Jewish bias hinders end to Arab-Jewish conflict The continuing flagrant violation of Article 80 of the UN's own 1945 Charter by its member states highlights the rapidly-increasing anti-Jewish bias that is infecting the UN and its agencies. By David Singer - 29/11/2021 | 10 | 4 days ago |
| | Pandemic isolation puts PNG-Australia wider engagement at risk Australia can help the PNG Covid response by directly supporting the Christian churches that provide health services to the people By Jeffrey Wall - 26/11/2021 | 6 | 7 days ago |
| | Australia shredded all decency in the persecution of Bernard Collaery Our spying against Timor-Leste and persecution of a whistleblower and his lawyer reads like a tawdry thriller that would embarrass James Bond. By Susan Connelly - 26/11/2021 | 23 | 5 days ago |
| | Is the return of inflation the cost of coping with covid? Inflation has not been around in western countries for some decades but now there is concern that inflation could return. Governments are printing unprecedented sums of money to pay for COVID recovery plans. By Keith Suter - 25/11/2021 | 9 | 5 days ago |
| | Totalitarian cyber-creep: Mark Zuckerberg in the metaverse Zuckerberg and his minions seek to corporately control the metaverse, using VR and AR to identify behavioural biometrics unique to each user. By Binoy Kampmark - 25/11/2021 | 2 | 10 days ago |
| | Australia could be the long-term winner worldwide 'We could power the entire world five times over from the Australian sun… It's a good measure of how large our country is, and how much great sun we have.' By Peter Bowden - 24/11/2021 | 32 | 6 days ago |
| | Westminster confusion in South Australia The duty of the premier in these circumstances as the chief adviser to the governor is to inform the incumbent of Parliament's decision and in line with Westminster conventions, that Chapman's commission as minister be withdrawn. By Scott Prasser - 24/11/2021 | 6 | 10 days ago |
| | Can the retreat of democracy be reversed? I do not expect revolutionary and immediate measures to be adopted at the summit to save democracies from their rapid erosion in so many countries. By Alon Ben-Meir - 23/11/2021 | 8 | 11 days ago |
| | The Zimbabwe-ization of Malaysia Life’s fine under the palm trees at the beach. By Murray Hunter - 23/11/2021 | 3 | 6 days ago |
| | Voluntary assisted dying is an immoral act To end life voluntary or assisted suicide or euthanasia is legal in many countries but at the same time illegal in most countries. By Syed Atiq ul Hassan - 22/11/2021 | 15 | 6 days ago |
| | Carbon dioxide, lifeblood of our planet That's carbon dioxide as we breathe out. In at 400ppm and out at 4000, CO2 is an essential part of our life. By Ken Calvert - 22/11/2021 | 23 | 6 days ago |
| | China’s troubling influence in the Solomon Islands One would have thought that despite Sogavare's hostility to RAMSI, Australia would have retained at least some influence in the Solomon Islands. By Jeffrey Wall - 19/11/2021 | 5 | 15 days ago |
| | COP26 media-spin is a woke love-in to save the planet They will expect us to subsidise their: NZE carbon offset airline tickets; Tesla electric cars; the free infrastructure and electricity to charge them and; solar panels/batteries. By Charles Essery - 19/11/2021 | 39 | 14 days ago |
| | Gasbagging in Glasgow: COP26 and phasing down coal COP26 president Alok Sharma called the outcome 'a fragile win', the outcome of 'hard work' and 'great cooperation' from the parties. By Binoy Kampmark - 18/11/2021 | 12 | 16 days ago |
| | Singapore hanging would be ‘tantamount to executing a child’ An intellectually disabled man on death row in Singapore has won another short reprieve, but the global campaign to save him is growing. By Peter Murphy - 18/11/2021 | 12 | 13 days ago |
| | Building a successful tribe The Liberal Party wants exclusive ownership of the word liberal. Needless to say, the tribe will not benefit. By David Leyonhjelm - 17/11/2021 | 7 | 13 days ago |
| | Why do our governments and public institutions defame Australia by embracing an embellished 'Stolen Generations' narrative? Every nation has a skeleton or three in its history cupboard. Australia is no different, except that in recent decades we have not only proclaimed our culpability to the world but have also exaggerated our crimes. By Brendan O'Reilly - 17/11/2021 | 26 | 14 days ago |
| | Nuclear waste and nuclear medicine in Australia Claims that the Australian government's proposed national nuclear waste storage and disposal 'facility' near Kimba in South Australia is required to support nuclear medicine are not supported by the facts. By Jim Green - 16/11/2021 | 12 | 16 days ago |
| | Political Christians or Christians in politics? The attacks on the recently elected NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet have once raised the media bias against Christians in politics. By Greg Bondar - 16/11/2021 | 15 | 19 days ago |
| | Australia's strong recovery from shutdown We think GDP will rise by 5.0% in the year to Q3 2022. By Michael Knox - 15/11/2021 | 2 | 19 days ago |
| | Lying in public life: the Scott Morrison formula Prior to heading to Glasgow, Morrison, having done his bit of crossdressing on the climate change front, was coy. He refused to reveal the modelling that went into the fabulous predictions of net-neutral utopia. By Binoy Kampmark - 15/11/2021 | 9 | 20 days ago |
| | Why what our kids are taught could be a vote changer Education wasn't an issue because it was under-resourced, it was an issue because of progressive agendas like Critical Race Theory, and radical Gender Theory, being force-fed to kids. By Graham Young - 12/11/2021 | 24 | 20 days ago |
| | Australia needs to support Andrew Forrest’s energy ambitions for Papua New Guinea If Papua New Guinea is to really develop economically, and the living standards of the nine million people genuinely advance, Purari offers the best hope of delivering both. By Jeffrey Wall - 12/11/2021 | 11 | 21 days ago |
| | Beijing power struggle sinks Red Princess's HK firm A property company controlled by a niece of former Chinese Vice President Zeng Qinghong is sinking deeper in default. By John Bethlesen - 11/11/2021 | 2 | 24 days ago |
| | Race relations in the United States: education and wealth disparity remain a key impediment Blacks and Hispanics have the lowest levels of bachelor degree or higher attainment despite all groups improving in percentage terms from 2010 to 2019. By Chris Lewis - 11/11/2021 | 53 | 16 days ago |
| | More trees, less grass, no food Artificial carbon capture is an unnecessary waste - the grasslands, forests, crops and continental shelf of Australia sequester far more carbon dioxide than Australia emits from all energy, transport, agriculture and mining sources. By Viv Forbes - 10/11/2021 | 14 | 24 days ago |
| | UN and EU semantic war in Judea and Samaria backfires Many travel agents, tour operators and airlines seem to have been unwittingly caught up in the Arab-Jewish conflict including Qantas. By David Singer - 10/11/2021 | 4 | 17 days ago |
| | Climbing on furniture and talking too much could lead to a psychiatric diagnosis for your child Recommended unscientific mental health screening of 1.8 million Australian children under 5 years old places them at risk of psychiatric drugs. By Shelley Wilkins - 9/11/2021 | 2 | 25 days ago |
| | Climate retreat may be one too many for the Nationals None of this will make it any easier for the Nationals to repel the independents and other parties nibbling at their homeland seats, or mitigate their growing reputation as just another bunch of politicians. By Scott Prasser - 9/11/2021 | 9 | 26 days ago |
| | Hypersonic panic and competitive terror Undeterred by any rival capability, Trump claimed in May 2020 that the US military had come up with a By Binoy Kampmark - 8/11/2021 | 10 | 26 days ago |
| | Mountains of glass and pools of plastic? The western world is being pressurised to reduce its use of disposable plastic at the same time as our news media tell us that 90% of the plastic in the sea comes out of 10 rivers in Asia and Africa. By Ken Calvert - 8/11/2021 | 10 | 26 days ago |
| | Glasgow confirms Australia’s South Pacific influence has never been weaker, and China’s never stronger Prime Minister Marape recently demanded that developed countries (including Australia) 'apologise' for their emission levels! Climate change did not rate as much as a full sentence in the PRC statement! By Jeffrey Wall - 5/11/2021 | 9 | 28 days ago |
| | A net-zero target means net-zero development A Liberal-National Party government should strive for more jobs, not just different jobs. By Matthew Canavan - 5/11/2021 | 56 | 22 days ago |
| | The world’s media is focused on Net-Zero emissions…what about Net-Zero discharges of waste water? Sydney discharges more water into our rivers and oceans than it consumes through our water supply. There is no water shortage. By Charles Essery - 5/11/2021 | 26 | 24 days ago |