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 |  | What economy is RBA Deputy Governor Andrew Hauser talking about? Deputy governor Andrew Hauser likened Australia’s economy to a racehorse ready to sprint — but beneath the rhetoric lies stagnating productivity, rising business closures, and jockeys that keeps flogging the same tired mount. By Graham Young - 14/11/2025 | 5 | 13 hours ago |
| | Crunch time for Trump on Judea and Samaria (West Bank) With Israel rejecting a Palestinian state and Saudi Arabia demanding one, Trump may turn to a revived Saudi proposal that redraws borders without moving a single resident. By David Singer - 14/11/2025 | 5 | 8 hours ago |
| | The 2026 US midterm elections and the future of American support for Ukraine The 2026 midterms won’t remove Trump, but they could neutralise his foreign-policy agenda. A Democratic Congress would have the power - and the motive - to restore robust US backing for Ukraine. By Yuri Koszarycz - 13/11/2025 | 7 | 7 hours ago |
| | Coalition marriage hits the rocks As the Liberals face a defining choice on net zero, the century-old partnership with the Nationals is straining under the weight of conflicting values and diverging electorates. By Scott Prasser - 12/11/2025 | 8 | 25 hours ago |
| | Hey ho, CORSIA has gotta go (too)! Stay Grounded accused the aviation industry of being 'a greenwashing best practice case' because 'CORSIA covers only a tiny part of aviation emissions'. By Darren Nelson - 12/11/2025 | 1 | 3 days ago |
| | 'Wrong Think' in Australia: when opinions become a crime In Western Australia, gun owners are losing their licences not for breaking laws but for holding the 'wrong' opinions - a troubling echo of Orwell’s 1984, where dissent itself is the offence. By David Leyonhjelm - 10/11/2025 | 3 | 5 days ago |
| | From a beacon of democracy to authoritarian rule There is a growing consensus among many notable political scientists and historians that America is at a perilous crossroads: Trump has chosen the road that leads to disastrous authoritarianism. By Alon Ben-Meir - 10/11/2025 | 6 | 3 days ago |
| | Did the events at Pinjarra WA in 1834 merit yet another official apology to Aboriginal people? A modern Governor says sorry for an 1834 conflict under British administration. Is that accountability - or branding? By Brendan O'Reilly - 7/11/2025 | 19 | 3 days ago |
| | UN, UNRWA, Jordan & Egypt complicit in Gaza civilian casualties While Albanese accused Israel of genocide, the United Nations, UNRWA, Egypt and Jordan stand condemned for materially contributing to Gaza’s suffering. By David Singer - 7/11/2025 | 24 | 28 hours ago |
| | You can check out any time you like but …. For many dementia and aged-care patients, Australia’s end-of-life laws make escape impossible. When mercy becomes illegal, cruelty becomes policy. By Max Wallace - 6/11/2025 | 13 | 8 days ago |
| | Chatbot dystopia: the quick march of AI sycophancy In Huxley’s future, pleasure pacified the masses. In ours, the machines do it - one sycophantic sentence at a time. By Binoy Kampmark - 5/11/2025 | 2 | 10 days ago |
| | Getting dumber: the reverse Flynn effect and the politics of denial For decades, humanity appeared to be getting smarter. Then, inconveniently, it wasn’t. IQs are now sliding backwards. By Steven Schwartz - 4/11/2025 | 7 | 3 days ago |
| | Yet another US pivot to Asia Like Obama’s before it, Trump’s 'pivot' faltered - revealing an America no longer the unchallenged power in a changing East Asia. By Murray Hunter - 3/11/2025 | 4 | 9 days ago |
| | Nothing sexy about this sticky tax web When Queensland’s Revenue Office treated a husband and wife differently over the same property, it raised an unexpected question: has bureaucracy finally outpaced biology? By John Mikkelsen - 3/11/2025 | 4 | 12 days ago |
| | Queensland’s Energy Roadmap is more likely to be first steps than a completed journey The Crisafulli government’s roadmap is a welcome correction — more reliable and less reckless than Labor’s plan - but electricity won’t be getting any cheaper. By Graham Young - 30/10/2025 | 14 | 9 days ago |
| | Hey ho, IMO has gotta go! The IMO’s bid to impose a worldwide carbon levy on shipping has been postponed after U.S. opposition, but few believe the UN will abandon its net-zero crusade. By Darren Nelson - 29/10/2025 | 3 | 14 days ago |
| | If 'business as usual' is so utterly broken, why do we keep doing it? We’ve diagnosed the disease but keep prescribing the same medicine. Why Australia’s planning and infrastructure systems can’t stop doing what doesn’t work. By Ross Elliott - 28/10/2025 | 14 | 16 days ago |
| | Fichte and the right to be well: a philosophical case for universal healthcare Fichte’s radical idea - that freedom is a shared condition, not a private possession - makes universal healthcare not charity, but justice. By Sam Ben-Meir - 28/10/2025 | 7 | 7 days ago |
| | Marches for Australia are becoming the only 'opposition' to unpopular mass-migration As Labor-Liberal institutionalises mass-migration and fake net-zero, March for Australia protests continue. After October 19, the next one is Australia Day. By Stephen Saunders - 24/10/2025 | 9 | 18 days ago |
| | Trump & Bibi bury Biden/UN 'State of Palestine' in Gaza’s rubble The Trump Declaration speaks of peace and prosperity but offers Palestinians no state, only the faint promise of reform and remote self-determination. By David Singer - 24/10/2025 | 8 | 9 days ago |
| | We stopped practicing capitalism True capitalism mirrors nature: earning your place through contribution, not coercion. By Mollie Engelhart - 23/10/2025 | 8 | 14 days ago |
| | Trump’s assault on the UN is self-defeating It is hard to imagine that there is not a single adult in Trump’s orbit to tell him that withdrawing from the many UN agencies that provide critical humanitarian services undermines rather than advances the US’ national interest and global standing By Alon Ben-Meir - 23/10/2025 | 4 | 20 days ago |
| | How many hospitals will an extra 1 million people need? Everyone talks about housing for Australia’s growing population, but who’s counting the hospitals, schools and water needed for another million people? The numbers don’t add up. By Ross Elliott - 22/10/2025 | 3 | 19 days ago |
| | Disability inclusion in early education can’t just be promised – it has to be practised Every time a child with disability is turned away from early education, they hear: you don’t belong here. Inclusion on paper isn’t enough - it has to start in practice. By Monique Power - 22/10/2025 | 1 | 24 days ago |
| | The great narco pretext: Trump readies for regime change in Venezuela Trump’s ‘war on cartels’ looks less like drug enforcement and more like old-fashioned imperial policing - with airstrikes, bounties, and CIA operations leading the charge. By Binoy Kampmark - 21/10/2025 | 7 | 24 days ago |
| | Why does the world insanely ignore nuclear power? We’ve spent $5 trillion chasing the wind, when slightly used nuclear fuel could power the world for a cent per kilowatt-hour - if government stopped smothering free enterprise. By Ronald Stein, Oliver Hemmers and Steve Curtis - 21/10/2025 | 14 | 19 days ago |
| | March for Australia Behind the March for Australia was quiet frustration — families struggling with rent, young men losing ground, and a country wondering who’s really being heard. By Bettina Arndt - 20/10/2025 | 9 | 11 days ago |
| | Home truths about wind and solar power The Senate’s hunt for climate misinformation could start closer to home - with the myths about free wind, green energy, and endless sunshine. By Rafe Champion - 20/10/2025 | 3 | 21 days ago |
| | Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan takes one giant step forward for mankind Trump’s Gaza peace plan has cleared its first major hurdle, with Israel and Hamas signing on to key steps for ending the war - but the road ahead remains perilous. By David Singer - 17/10/2025 | 4 | 23 days ago |
| | Can Asia reinvigorate multilateralism? As wars, inequality, and climate threats deepen, Asian leaders told the UN it must reform or risk irrelevance - solidarity, they warned, is the only way forward. By Ioan Voicu - 17/10/2025 | 5 | 27 days ago |
| | Charlie Kirk and Socrates From Socrates to Charlie Kirk, those who dare to speak truth to power risk martyrdom — and reveal the enduring struggle between reason and tyranny. By Bert Olivier - 16/10/2025 | 27 | 28 days ago |
| | Outsized and eccentric: the farce behind the Nobel Peace Prize From Kissinger to Machado, the Nobel Peace Prize keeps honouring warriors in diplomats’ clothing. By Binoy Kampmark - 16/10/2025 | 3 | 30 days ago |
| | We pretend to teach, and students pretend to learn In our brave new AI world, academics pretend to teach, students pretend to learn and administrators pretend it all adds up to something called higher education. By Steven Schwartz - 15/10/2025 | 5 | 28 days ago |