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 |  | Data-Driven you say? Well, allow the data to drive! The economic, social, physical, and mental cost of indefinite and harsh lockdown measures with a rinse-repeat cycle is threatening to have lifetime effects. Costs are mounting with each day. By Matthew Rehn - 11/8/2020 | 17 | 6 hours ago |
| | Jordan moves to resolve West Bank sovereignty problem it created Razzaz has raised the possibility of a 'one-state solution' to replace the 'two-state solution'. By David Singer - 11/8/2020 | 12 | 6 hours ago |
| | So many levers, why don’t we use them? In the pursuit of suburban and regional renewal, have we fallen into the trap of thinking this is a responsibility for local governments? By Ross Elliott - 12/8/2020 | 6 | 6 hours ago |
| | Will General Michael Flynn's 'Russiagate' prosecution be dismissed? Since late 2019, the main focus of Flynn's case has been the underlying relationship between sentencing judges and the dominant role of the prosecutor in the contemporary US criminal justice system. By Laurence Maher - 12/8/2020 | 2 | 7 hours ago |
| | Death from the sky: Hiroshima and normalised atrocities On a certain level, it was merely another weapon, one to use, a choice sample in the cabinet of lethal means and measures. By Binoy Kampmark - 10/8/2020 | 15 | 18 hours ago |
| | How did we get to this dire state of affairs? As I survey our state of the Union, I feel deeply troubled and dismayed, wondering why and how we here in America got to this dire state of affairs in which we find ourselves. By Alon Ben-Meir - 4/8/2020 | 31 | 2 days ago |
| | Hiroshima reconsidered The threats to world order are climate change and the coronavirus, not nuclear fission. The fear of nuclear energy should be exorcised. By Wade Allison - 10/8/2020 | 10 | 3 days ago |
| | What is morally wrong with discrimination? A Kantian analysis Consequences, intended or otherwise, are irrelevant in determining the moral worth of an action. By Sam Ben-Meir - 3/8/2020 | 17 | 3 days ago |
| | FSC forest certification: not the better standard In the most recent evolution of VicForests public bid for forest certification, the government forest agency has lodged a formal complaint against three directors of FSC for breaching standards and articles of constitution. By David Hutchens - 4/8/2020 | 4 | 3 days ago |
| | Victorian lockdown blues A Melburnians diary and ruminations of lockdown under Daniel Andrews, and not under Donald Trump. By Lyn Bender - 7/8/2020 | 27 | 3 days ago |
| | Mealy-mouthed universities: academic freedom and the Pavlou problem down under Overt political opinions, notably when expressed in a manner that might threaten brands and compromise lines of funding, are being hunted down by cadres of paranoid officials. By Binoy Kampmark - 7/8/2020 | 15 | 4 days ago |
| | China-India standoff: a perspective from the Great Indian Mutiny of 1857 In early July 2020, Chinese and Indian forces clashed in the Galwan Valley on the disputed border between the two countries at the edge of the remote Aksai Chin Plateau. By Warren Reed - 6/8/2020 | 3 | 4 days ago |
| | Is Trump going the way of Herbert Hoover? I would then joke that, despite his brilliant business career, Hoover presided over the slide into the Great Depression. Would Trump go the same way? By Keith Suter - 29/7/2020 | 17 | 5 days ago |
| | Pulling out of Germany: Trump adjusts the military furniture One noisy theme in the Donald Trump Disruption Show in an otherwise chaotic assemblage of messages has remained fairly constant: winding back US troop commitments. By Binoy Kampmark - 3/8/2020 | 26 | 5 days ago |
| | The pandemic of racism In America We are now reaping the harvest of the seeds of racism and discrimination - the devaluation of black life. By Alon Ben-Meir - 21/7/2020 | 20 | 5 days ago |
| | The new uni-fees schedule rates a 'C' for economics and equity Dan Tehan's new uni-fees arrangements are (a) increasingly onerous for students (b) inconsistent in government contributions (c) shallow in economic rationales and (d) not serious about equity issues. By Stephen Saunders - 5/8/2020 | 17 | 5 days ago |
| | Common sense: quarantine is for sick people At no stage did we ever think lock down was a sustainable measure. We were told we only had to flatten the curve. By David Pellowe - 6/8/2020 | 29 | 7 days ago |
| | The facts don't matter 'A quantitative, scientific method for deriving estimates of koala populations and trends was possible, in the absence of empirical data on abundances.' By Vic Jurskis - 5/8/2020 | 13 | 7 days ago |
| | Man and God: Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now The book also counters many of the Gospel and secular truths that many people hold. Income inequality for example is not that bad. By David Hale - 30/7/2020 | 12 | 9 days ago |
| | This is not the time for Australia to reduce its aid to PNG and the South Pacific As the federal government prepares to hand down its pandemic-delayed national budget in October, it will be looking for areas in which spending can be cut. By Jeffrey Wall - 30/7/2020 | 9 | 9 days ago |
| | Preposterous political posturing I just couldn't believe it. 'Coon' is no longer to be the name of a well-known style of cheese. By Don Aitkin - 31/7/2020 | 56 | 10 days ago |
| | Singapore electoral results an opposition golden opportunity A closer analysis of the polls has unsettling implications for the party now that the Lee family is slowly drifting away from power. By Murray Hunter - 31/7/2020 | 3 | 12 days ago |
| | Britain shamefully betrays the Jewish People again The architect of the San Remo Resolution and Treaty of Sevres in 1920 has yet again shamefully betrayed the Jewish People by warning Israel not to extend its sovereignty into Judea and Samaria. By David Singer - 22/7/2020 | 14 | 14 days ago |
| | Qld Labor MP’s brazen attack on churches 'No money for state roads and now giving taxpayers' money to churches, who don't even pay taxes. Deb Frecklington thanks for the 2 free kicks today.' By David Pellowe - 29/7/2020 | 6 | 15 days ago |
| | Writing to the Queen One side of the dispute, which continues, says that they show how the Queen was deeply involved in the dismissal. The other says that the letters absolve the Palace from any involvement. By Don Aitkin - 28/7/2020 | 14 | 15 days ago |
| | Mephistopheles of Wall Street: Goldman Sachs, 1MDB and the Malaysian Settlement The very fact that the Malaysian government made a deal with Wall Street's Mephistopheles should have also done its bit to cause alarm. By Binoy Kampmark - 28/7/2020 | 2 | 16 days ago |
| | The hot response culture (why reason and compassion should prevail) According to a number of studies over the past decade, we may have become so enamoured with emotional over-reaction that we're permanently changing the way our brains work. By Mal Fletcher - 27/7/2020 | 6 | 16 days ago |
| | Reflections on some recent legal matters George Pell, Dyson Heydon: the church and the law, both human institutions, subject to human failings By Ian Keese - 27/7/2020 | 9 | 17 days ago |
| | Human nature What is human nature? Are we humans good or evil? To what extent is the character of a person produced by heredity, and to what extent by environment? By John Avery - 22/7/2020 | 17 | 17 days ago |
| | Squirreling away from truth According to progressives, the diagnosis of all societal inequality and injustice is due solely to institutional and systematic sins of patriarchy, racism, homophobia, islamophobia and transphobia. By Edie Wyatt - 24/7/2020 | 38 | 17 days ago |
| | How the idea of liberty became Liberalism The mechanisms of the free market were thought to be woven into the fabric of reality ie were part of God's plan for the universe. By Peter Sellick - 23/7/2020 | 10 | 18 days ago |
| | Time to play dirty? Lessons from the David Starkey affair Cancel culture is all around. It crushes rational debate and destroys freedom of thought and speech. The latest victim is the eminent British historian David Starkey. By Paul Collits - 21/7/2020 | 4 | 20 days ago |
| | Zombie seizures: the hacking of twitter The seized accounts were duly used to spread some fun in what transpired to be cryptocurrency scam centred on a Bitcoin account. By Binoy Kampmark - 24/7/2020 | 2 | 20 days ago |
| | Less transparency will worsen the pandemic Hospital data is now going directly to the Trump administration rather than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. By Sam Ben-Meir - 23/7/2020 | 13 | 20 days ago |
| | Should Australia's Liberal Party be more conservative? However, for the most part, the best way conservatives can contribute to influence the mainstream political parties is to keep utilising public forums to inform the public of its ideas. By Chris Lewis - 14/7/2020 | 55 | 23 days ago |
| | Black Summer whitewash – a preview of Armageddon Instead of sustainable management by mild burning across the landscape, ‘education’, emergency warnings and evacuations are the new deal. By Vic Jurskis - 20/7/2020 | 7 | 23 days ago |
| | Bunnings’ virtue signalling shows contempt for regional Australia ... merchandising director, Phil Bishop, noted that the retail giant had a “zero-tolerance approach” to illegally-logged timber By Mark Poynter - 17/7/2020 | 11 | 24 days ago |
| | The impossible claim A few years ago the ACT Government declared that it would so organise things that the ACT would be carbon-neutral before very long. By Don Aitkin - 20/7/2020 | 7 | 24 days ago |
| | We are killing more people because of lockdown than we are saving We’ve taken a radical, unconventional approach as a country. It’s past time to see what worked, what could have worked better, and then communicate to the people. By Graham Young - 13/7/2020 | 46 | 24 days ago |
| | Severe recession, huge debts: Australia's Covid-19 strategy The reason Australia has had low rates of Covid-19 infections to date is that we are an international travel backwaters. By Brendan O'Reilly - 16/7/2020 | 17 | 24 days ago |
| | The Black Death is here to stay The truth is that Bubonic Plague has never disappeared and is here to stay. In addition, believe it or not, Bubonic Plague is today more geographically widespread in our world than at any time in the previous 1000 years. By Peter Curson - 17/7/2020 | 18 | 24 days ago |
| | The problem with the police For libertarians, maintaining a criminal justice system, of which the police are a major component, is viewed as one of the few legitimate roles of government. By David Leyonhjelm - 13/7/2020 | 26 | 26 days ago |
| | Papua New Guinea sides with China on Hong Kong By voting to support the crushing of free speech and freedom of assembly, among other basic rights, PNG voted against the spirit of its own constitution, adopted at independence in 1975. By Jeffrey Wall - 16/7/2020 | 20 | 27 days ago |
| | A politically-correct guide to film censorship Of course, once the values of 2020 are obsolete, we must limit film choices further because the only way we are to progress as a society is if everyone thinks the same. By Tim O'Hare - 15/7/2020 | 13 | 27 days ago |
| | Bunnings: no one’s moral compass in timber retail Bunnings has announced they will stop selling Victorian native timber species after a Federal court decision against Vicforests – the state harvesting agency. By David Hutchens - 15/7/2020 | 7 | 29 days ago |
| | Spiteful authority: Malaysia goes for the journalists Gan and Malaysiakini are said to have permitted the publication of over five reader comments critical of the judiciary. By Binoy Kampmark - 14/7/2020 | 1 | 30 days ago |