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 |  | Trump needs to end negotiating with Iran Trump’s Middle East coalition may think it is negotiating peace. Tehran appears to think it is negotiating time. By David Singer - 29/5/2026 | 28 | 16 hours ago |
| | The failure of Jim Chalmers Jim Chalmers complained about the economy he inherited - too much debt, chronic deficit, low productivity - so what is the point of his last budget? By Graham Young - 5/6/2026 | 4 | 21 hours ago |
| | Trump using Iran-delay to help him win mid-term elections Trump wants America thinking about itself for a little while, and is happy to keep the Mullahs on simmer for now. By David Singer - 5/6/2026 | 1 | 2 days ago |
| | Australia imagined Australians get one day of political power every three years. What if voters had a voice in between? By Ian Bowrey - 4/6/2026 | 7 | 2 days ago |
| | One Nation and coalitions Many people on the anti-Labor side of politics believe the only way to remove Labor from government is for the Liberal Party and Nationals to work with One Nation. By David Leyonhjelm - 2/6/2026 | 11 | 2 days ago |
| | Phoenix rising: women, AI, and the architecture of a world that cares The future of AI may depend less on engineers than on the women who understand care, vulnerability and survival. By Katrina Fotovat - 4/6/2026 | 1 | 3 days ago |
| | The law beneath the law How common law made the Anglosphere - and why it still matters By Howard Dewhirst - 1/6/2026 | 4 | 4 days ago |
| | Modern society runs on refined oil products, can California keep ignoring reality? Australia shows the future for California, as refineries close down and fuel security recedes with them. By Ronald Stein and Jonathan J. Ariel - 3/6/2026 | 3 | 4 days ago |
| | Turkey's egregious human rights violations are beyond the pale Turkey's human rights record has crossed from troubling to indefensible. Behind the language of counterterrorism and national security lies a systematic campaign that has dismantled the rule of law. By Alon Ben-Meir - 3/6/2026 | 1 | 4 days ago |
| | Magnifica Humanitas: the human person in the age of artificial intelligence In May 2026, Pope Leo XIV issued his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas ( By Yuri Koszarycz - 2/6/2026 | 3 | 5 days ago |
| | Pollster Kos Samaras: electoral soothsayer for endless immigration Sure, Albanese’s crush-loading ethnic immigration at unprecedented levels, to help Labor win. The Budget has highlighted Samaras, as a crucial analyst of this un-democracy. By Stephen Saunders - 29/5/2026 | 12 | 5 days ago |
| | Not much to see: the release of the UFO files UFO enthusiasts wanted disclosure. What they got was grainy footage, old reports and more unanswered questions. By Binoy Kampmark - 1/6/2026 | 1 | 6 days ago |
| | It’s not a lie, I just changed my position Your Honour Negative gearing survived termites, dodgy solicitors and bad builders. Then Labor came for it. By John Mikkelsen - 22/5/2026 | 53 | 7 days ago |
| | The end of higher education Universities have discovered their ideal academic: a machine that believes nothing, has read everything, and can produce infinite quantities of fluent slop on demand. And they have offered it tenure. By Steven Schwartz - 27/5/2026 | 4 | 7 days ago |
| | The Iran war exposes the illusions of energy policy In addition to electricity, the world depends on transportation fuels and products made from fossil fuels. By Ronald Stein and Yoshihiro Muronaka - 28/5/2026 | 2 | 9 days ago |
| | History will not yield to power For decades, Israel and the Palestinians have tried to bend reality to their will. But reality does not yield to force, memory does not fade on command, and justice cannot be indefinitely deferred By Alon Ben-Meir - 27/5/2026 | 2 | 11 days ago |
| | White elephant in space: the extortionate expense of Golden Dome After the Iran war exposed the limits of high-tech warfare, Washington wants even more expensive toys. By Binoy Kampmark - 26/5/2026 | 2 | 11 days ago |
| | Judges who think they know better The doctrine of separation of powers is central to Australia’s constitutional system. Parliament makes laws, the executive administers them, and the judiciary interprets and applies them. By David Leyonhjelm - 25/5/2026 | 4 | 12 days ago |
| | Oil moves our machines, but electricity is the cornerstone of our quality of life Some of us confuse the discussion of 'energy' to mean 'electricity'. Energy is well over a trillion-dollar annual market in the US, but less than half of it is electricity. By Ronald Stein, Olivia Vaughan and Steve Curtis - 21/5/2026 | 2 | 13 days ago |
| | Trump reaches historic agreement with Xi on handling Iran Is a civilised bipolar world possible? By David Singer - 22/5/2026 | 4 | 15 days ago |
| | No wonder men are opting out They are dropping out of work and marriage because the women aren't worth it. By Bettina Arndt - 19/5/2026 | 7 | 15 days ago |
| | Of trust and trusts Our existing political elites fundamentally broke trust over the Covid debacle. They panicked, threw the manual out the window, and then used the full power of the state, and state adjacent institutions, to impose panic on the whole population. By Graham Young - 21/5/2026 | 5 | 16 days ago |
| | The one word missing from the budget There is one factor driving or worsening Australia's economic position. People are marching in the street about it. The treasurer couldn't even mention it. By Graham Young - 18/5/2026 | 9 | 17 days ago |
| | Mirrors of greed: Elon Musk, OpenAI and the tech brat battle Behind the rhetoric about “humanity” sits a brutal struggle for money, control and dominance. By Binoy Kampmark - 20/5/2026 | 1 | 18 days ago |
| | International Energy Agency wrong to forecast coal’s demise Coal is unfashionable, but still indispensable. The world’s energy numbers prove it. By Tom Harris - 19/5/2026 | 3 | 18 days ago |
| | Why the Communist idea still matters What if the real triumph of capitalism is convincing us no alternative is imaginable? By Sam Ben-Meir - 18/5/2026 | 3 | 19 days ago |
| | Our fossil-fuelled world Queensland’s David [Crisafulli] is going to have to slay some federal and environmental Goliaths. By Graham Young and Carrie Schuler - 11/5/2026 | 2 | 20 days ago |
| | NBN: never been necessary Every now and then an act of government incompetence and waste is so egregious that it’s enough to wake the beast within. By Nicola Wright - 15/5/2026 | 6 | 20 days ago |
| | Intergenerational inequity? The young have never had it so good The Albanese government’s catchcry should be rejected and seen for what it really is – an attempt to identify another societal victim that the Labor Party, can 'rescue' to gain votes. By Scott Prasser - 13/5/2026 | 16 | 21 days ago |
| | As the definition of autism expands, are we losing sight of those with the greatest needs? There is an increasing awareness of autism, and a better appreciation of how widely dispersed it is, but does that obscure those in real need? By Andrew Whitehouse, David Trembath and Mirko Uljarevic - 14/5/2026 | 2 | 23 days ago |
| | Why grief shouldn’t disappear when Mother’s Day does Grief is not a single day on the calendar - it lingers long after the tributes end. By Danielle Snelling - 15/5/2026 | 1 | 23 days ago |
| | Coastal tourist dollars don’t stay local The tourist industry takes far more from regional Australia than it gives back. By Malcolm King - 12/5/2026 | 2 | 24 days ago |
| | How to transform Australian foreign, economic and defence policies from mindlessness to mindfulness? Has Australia become trapped in inherited alliances, elite thinking and failed orthodoxies? By Ordan Andreevski - 14/5/2026 | 1 | 24 days ago |
| | Child poverty in America One of the gravest injustices in America today persists not because it is hidden, but because it has been normalized - absorbed into daily life, tolerated in silence, and sustained by indifference where outrage should prevail By Alon Ben-Meir - 12/5/2026 | 2 | 26 days ago |
| | Epic nonsense: Trump shelves Project Freedom Another Middle East operation, another collision between imperial rhetoric and strategic limits. By Binoy Kampmark - 11/5/2026 | 1 | 27 days ago |
| | The five enablers of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict For decades, five powerful actors-the United States, the Arab states, the European Union, AIPAC, and Israel's own opposition - have all claimed to seek Israeli-Palestinian peace while enabling permanent occupation. By Alon Ben-Meir - 7/5/2026 | 3 | 27 days ago |
| | Here comes a very fast train! (Please, save us!) Big promises, bigger price tag: the fast train debate returns. By Ross Elliott - 7/5/2026 | 2 | 31 days ago |