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 |  | Private sector debt is a burden, not an economic benefit Australian private debt is now 200% of GDP some four times the level of public borrowing. Does this private sector debt affect economic growth? By David Kauders - 24/2/2021 | 37 | 67 mins ago |
| | Blaming the victim It would have been fairer to all concerned, if these complaints had been properly investigated by police and (if merited) tried in a court. By Brendan O'Reilly - 1/3/2021 | 16 | 3 hours ago |
| | A personal tribute to Grand Chief Rt Hon Sir Michael Somare the founding father of Papua New Guinea While I never worked for him in his office as Prime Minister I did form a good association with him over the years since I first went to PNG in 1978. By Jeffrey Wall - 26/2/2021 | 4 | 11 hours ago |
| | SCOTUS ensures 2020 US election results remain a burning issue '[B]oth before and after the 2020 election, nonlegislative officials in various States took it upon themselves to set the rules instead.' By David Singer - 1/3/2021 | 4 | 11 hours ago |
| | Australian unions see flying ‘gig’ pigs landing from the UK You may have seen reports that the UK's top court has decided that Uber drivers are not independent contractors. Australian unions are excited by this. By Ken Phillips - 26/2/2021 | 13 | 33 hours ago |
| | The Pacific needs our help – and it needs it now The first step needs to be to enable travel between Australia and regional neighbours where Covid-19 numbers are very low to resume as soon as possible. The most obvious example is Fiji. By Jeffrey Wall - 24/2/2021 | 11 | 2 days ago |
| | Is Dave Pellowe happy to be photographed with members of the Proud Boys? I've previously responded to the initial criticism of this photo by better characters, and I do not presume to do so again every time some clown critiques my Christianity. By David Pellowe - 26/2/2021 | 4 | 3 days ago |
| | In defence of Eddie McGuire Rather, a balanced report should recognise the strengths, weaknesses and limitations of the Club’s recent response to racism. By Chris Lewis - 19/2/2021 | 54 | 3 days ago |
| | Turkish prisons are beyond the pale of inhumanity The US and the EU will make a mockery out of the virtues of morality and human rights they preach unless they stop Erdogan's outrageous criminal treatment of his own people. By Alon Ben-Meir - 25/2/2021 | 11 | 3 days ago |
| | Refriended in defeat: Australia strikes a deal with Facebook It has puzzled and alarmed the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee for 'breaching a fundamental principle of the web by requiring payment for linking between certain content online'. By Binoy Kampmark - 25/2/2021 | 5 | 4 days ago |
| | No dancing past the fact we’ll have to live with Covid As COVID-19 trudges through endless revisions of rules and regulations, Australia's response to the virus is beginning to resemble the blackest of farces. By Steven Schwartz - 23/2/2021 | 12 | 5 days ago |
| | Reclaiming Eden There are many cultural narratives that tell of a golden age when humans lived in peace and harmony but which would eventually give way to times of strife and suffering. By Peter McMahon - 22/2/2021 | 17 | 5 days ago |
| | Facebook unfriends Australia: the triumph of epistemic chaos Creepy and ruthless Facebook has again impressed with its steely indifference to civic responsibility, as if a company established by a sociopath could ever be a model of human improvement. By Binoy Kampmark - 23/2/2021 | 8 | 6 days ago |
| | Do emus bury their heads in the sand? Too many Australian politicians appear to be stuck in the 'Denial' phase of the Kubler-Ross change curve – unable or unwilling to accept the reality of climate change. By Campbell Macpherson - 18/2/2021 | 44 | 6 days ago |
| | Addressing the threat of pandemics If nothing else coronavirus brings to the fore how poorly we are adapted to dealing with epidemic and pandemic outbreaks of infectious disease. By Peter Curson - 22/2/2021 | 16 | 6 days ago |
| | A magic medicine journey Taking an illegal substance had never occurred to me until I stumbled across Michael Pollan's article in The New Yorker. By Tania de Jong - 19/2/2021 | 7 | 7 days ago |
| | Bob Brown legal challenge shines a light on decades of environmental misinformation Following the court's decision, Brown indicated that his Foundation's activists will continue protesting in the forests while its lawyers will appeal the decision in the High Court. By Mark Poynter - 16/2/2021 | 15 | 7 days ago |
| | Is Premier Dan Andrews Australia's most dangerous man? The first lockdown, lasting 112 days in 2020 and costing 801 lives resulted directly from disastrously incompetent mismanagement of hotel quarantine by the government. By Ken Phillips - 18/2/2021 | 16 | 7 days ago |
| | Australia's PNG policy must be big and bold If you go to the AIFF website you will be disappointed. The project is there, but the AIFF contribution has not been determined and effectively NOTHING has happened! By Jeffrey Wall - 17/2/2021 | 15 | 8 days ago |
| | The City of Darwin: honouring a blatant racist So Darwin asserts that both human-like (anthropomorphus) apes and 'savage races' like Negros and Australian Aborigines, whose evolutionary status is not far above a gorilla, will be 'exterminated' by Caucasians. By Andrew Kulikovsky - 2/2/2021 | 145 | 8 days ago |
| | Trump leaves stage but tune still reverberates President Trump has gone, but the rise of China and Trump's call to put America first remains a wake up call for all liberal democracies. By Chris Lewis - 15/2/2021 | 23 | 9 days ago |
| | Capitol Hill: call that a coup? What the Democrats are asking us to believe is that a man who can make billions in his lifetime doing intricate deals can't properly organise a coup. By Graham Young - 10/2/2021 | 81 | 9 days ago |
| | Information Interruptus: Bing, Google and the News Media Bargaining Code It's looking a touch quixotic, but the News Media Bargaining Code has become Australia's weapon of choice in attempting to redistribute proceeds from big tech into the coffers of a withering fourth estate. By Binoy Kampmark - 17/2/2021 | 4 | 11 days ago |
| | Bushfire 'experts' not helping us adapt to climate change According to Mackey's expert academics, mild burning can't prevent natural disasters such as Black summer. But there was nothing natural about it. By Vic Jurskis - 15/2/2021 | 10 | 12 days ago |
| | India's anti-BJP parties, disruptors of all stripes take over farmers' protests India's agricultural woes can only be solved if opposition political parties consider the national interest not their own partisan interests By Sudhanshu Tripathi - 16/2/2021 | 1 | 13 days ago |
| | Democrats impeaching Trump fuel hatred, division and violence The first unsuccessful impeachment of Trump was a major contributing factor in the Democrats seeing their 235-199 control of the House of Representatives reduced to 220-212. By David Singer - 9/2/2021 | 25 | 14 days ago |
| | Children must come before gender choice Katy Faust joins with Stacy Manning in their new book 'Them Before Us: Why We Need a Global Children’s Rights Movement'. By Edie Wyatt - 12/2/2021 | 17 | 14 days ago |
| | China sends Papua New Guinea a clear message on vaccines But on the very same day the ambitious By Jeffrey Wall - 12/2/2021 | 5 | 14 days ago |
| | Ode to Margaret The woke trolls are on a roll. They come in waves, for Christians who publicly proclaim their beliefs and defend Christian teachings. By Paul Collits - 8/2/2021 | 31 | 17 days ago |
| | 2021 boosting our northern border protection Defence, and Navy in particular during times of peace, is generally the first casualty in budget cuts. Alas there are enemies looming on the horizon. By Stuart Ballantyne - 11/2/2021 | 17 | 17 days ago |
| | Time for Kosovo to secure its true independence It’s time for the political leaders in Kosovo to provide a clear, cohesive, and consistent socio-economic and political program to put Kosovo on the path of recovery and progress and become a truly independent state. By Alon Ben-Meir - 10/2/2021 | 3 | 18 days ago |
| | Soft Power Review cancellation impact for Australia Soft power was defined in the document as the ability to influence the behaviour and thinking of others through the power of attraction and ideas. By Ordan Andreevski - 11/2/2021 | 2 | 18 days ago |
| | Climate Change and what we should do about it Surely it is not a big stretch to apply these principles (i e listening to the scientists) in dealing with Climate Change. By Guy Hallowes - 4/2/2021 | 27 | 19 days ago |
| | Restorative justice needs to be for victims too I agreed with our fundamental equality as human beings and Australian citizens, but I disputed that we had equally valid points of view in this meeting. By Natasha Cook - 9/2/2021 | 8 | 19 days ago |
| | Going airborne: Coronavirus and hotel quarantine COVID has caused a kerfuffle amongst authorities in the Australian state of Victoria, who are still keen to host an international tennis tournament at considerable risk. By Binoy Kampmark - 8/2/2021 | 6 | 21 days ago |
| | Google and Facebook should abandon Australian news Over the last 20 years I've seen legacy media make the most elementary mistakes which have contributed to the dumbing down of political culture and the hyper -sensationalising and -sexualising of media coverage. By Graham Young - 5/2/2021 | 16 | 21 days ago |
| | Jordan and Israel now the only viable two-state solution The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has unequivocally confirmed its rejection of an independent demilitarised state. By David Singer - 5/2/2021 | 10 | 22 days ago |
| | Porter's a reverse IR culture warrior The Industrial Relations Minister's third tranche of reforms threatens the LNP and its constituencies and advantages the ALP. By Graeme Haycroft - 3/2/2021 | 6 | 23 days ago |
| | Politics, evolution, and gender: A heterodox firestorm and lessons learned Dr. Tiger spoke for about 15 minutes on the topic and then the question/answer period began. It was kind of a blood bath. By Glenn Geher - 4/2/2021 | 7 | 23 days ago |
| | The pursuit of happiness The inclusion in the American Constitution of the right for free men to pursue happiness strikes me as naïve as Google's motto 'don't be evil'. By Peter Sellick - 3/2/2021 | 29 | 24 days ago |
| | Five questions on the Australian economy We'll have a stronger domestic economy and faster domestic growth because of what the RBA is doing. By Michael Knox - 2/2/2021 | 9 | 25 days ago |
| | Environmental acts of faith are seriously misdirecting public investment in our electricity sector Environmentalism, complete with fear of global-warming (a modern day reincarnation of Hell?), has now established itself as a major religion in developed countries. By Brendan O'Reilly - 1/2/2021 | 33 | 25 days ago |
| | Australia's unconstitutional border wars There are many reasons to question the interstate border shenanigans that have stopped Australians from returning home, divided families and sparked animosity among state premiers. By Sukrit Sabhlok - 1/2/2021 | 16 | 27 days ago |