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 |  | Aukusing for war: the real target is China Campbell revealingly envisages 'a number of areas of conflict and in a number of scenarios that countries acting together' in the Indo-Pacific, including Japan, Australia, South Korea and India. By Binoy Kampmark - 16/4/2024 | 4 | 72 mins ago |
| | Is social cohesion in Australia under threat? Domestic right-wing extremism is deeply intertwined, both ideologically and in other aspects, with a variety of factors like economic stability, political transparency, and social connections. By Mamtimin Ala - 16/4/2024 | 13 | 73 mins ago |
| | Vloggers knock down western media anti-China propaganda There is no China mission for them to justify. No editorial panel to oversee their work. No concern that they may be at risk for writing a story or report news that may be construed as favourable to China. By Teck Lim - 15/4/2024 | 4 | 2 hours ago |
| | Netanyahu is unfit to serve - he must resign now Since Hamas' savagery of 1,200 innocent Israelis on October 7, one thing became abundantly clear. Netanyahu, and no one else, indirectly precipitated Hamas' attack. By Alon Ben-Meir - 12/4/2024 | 24 | 7 hours ago |
| | Future Made in Australia Act will cook the economy Mr. Albanese wants to build the industries of the future, but we have an economy that can't even build enough houses for the people that live here. By Graham Young - 15/4/2024 | 8 | 8 hours ago |
| | Peter Dutton's nuclear power policy is a 'suicide note' Unbiased opinion polls find that support for nuclear power in Australia falls short of a majority, that Australians much prefer renewables, and most do not want nuclear reactors built near where they live. By Jim Green - 8/4/2024 | 16 | 2 days ago |
| | HKOPS: The other two-state solution Biden could endorse President Biden has for the first time suggested his readiness to abandon the failed two-state solution embodied in Security Council Resolution 2334. By David Singer - 5/4/2024 | 10 | 2 days ago |
| | The return of the hungry horses Our farm supported our family of four, 30 dairy cows, one bull, eight draught horses, two stock horses, a cattle dog, two cats, two ponies, plus a few pigs, calves and chooks and, at times, a returned service Uncle recovering from malaria. By Viv Forbes - 11/4/2024 | 8 | 3 days ago |
| | Does China's leading place in the global MedTech market reflect the commercial reality? The Chinese government's initiatives to reform the country's medical system and boost its domestic market, have led to an accelerated localisation trend, reshaping the competitive landscape, and influencing global trade dynamics. By Ivor Campbell - 12/4/2024 | 1 | 4 days ago |
| | Could there be a more obvious diversion? Former Labor Minister Craig Emerson's Interim Report of the Review of the Grocery Code of Conduct is the latest attempt by the Albanese government to avoid blame for the cost-of-living crisis. By Graham Young - 11/4/2024 | 7 | 5 days ago |
| | What is the world signing up for with the WHO? Most of the officials within the WHO are bureaucrats with little or no experience within democratic government. They are unelected officials not responsible to any electorate. By Murray Hunter - 10/4/2024 | 2 | 6 days ago |
| | The density dividend: smaller, worse, slower, less? For Australia they concluded that it was 'Death of a Dream: Planners versus the Traditional Australian Home'. By Ross Elliott - 10/4/2024 | 4 | 6 days ago |
| | Is Wokeism really secular heretical Christianity rather than neo-Marxism? Postmodernists believe that all truth is relative-your truth, my truth, but never the truth. This does away with most ideas of sin. By Graham Young - 9/4/2024 | 6 | 7 days ago |
| | When Medicare refunds end up 'somewhere' I wonder how many Australians, like me, have found communicating with our national health care bureaucracy, Medicare, about as easy as winning Lotto? By John Mikkelsen - 8/4/2024 | 5 | 7 days ago |
| | The view from the Fed The Fed provides a surprising outlook of healthy growth together with a falling Fed Funds rate. By Michael Knox - 9/4/2024 | 1 | 7 days ago |
| | No, men are not OK Society has many champions speaking up for women, children, Aborigines, gays and lesbians, but precious few for men. It needs more of them. By David Leyonhjelm - 4/4/2024 | 6 | 7 days ago |
| | The AUKUS cash cow: robbing the Australian taxpayer It was mugged in throwing money (that of the Australian taxpayer) at the US submarine industry, which is lagging in its production schedule. By Binoy Kampmark - 28/3/2024 | 18 | 10 days ago |
| | The Liberals reap what they sow in the Senate Even worse for the Liberals and Nationals, there is no prospect of achieving a majority in the Senate at either the next election or in 2028. By David Leyonhjelm - 27/3/2024 | 18 | 11 days ago |
| | Dying to live: an Easter season variation on a theme by Peter Weir Peter Weir's The Truman Show turned 25 last year. Impressive when it first aired, it remains so in view of its deep engagement with the human condition. By Craig Thompson - 5/4/2024 | 3 | 11 days ago |
| | Israel tags Guterres and UN as anti-Semitic and anti-Israel Guterres, the UN and UNRWA have seemingly gone out of their way to prevent Israel speedily chasing down and eliminating those monsters from Gaza who invaded Israel on 7 October 2023. By David Singer - 28/3/2024 | 12 | 11 days ago |
| | Do we have a national service crisis? Yet our tribe here in Australia is fragmented and our social bonds are weak. The recent shame over Australia Day celebrations exposed this. By Jacquie Scammell - 5/4/2024 | 3 | 11 days ago |
| | Sea life: floating nuclear power plants are compelling stuff As efforts to decarbonize global energy systems expand, one of the answers could be to use floating nuclear power plants (FNPPs). By Stuart Ballantyne - 3/4/2024 | 7 | 12 days ago |
| | It’s time to hold Erdogan accountable It is time to hold Turkey's President Erdogan accountable for his egregious human rights violations and defiance of NATO's charter. By Alon Ben-Meir - 4/4/2024 | 2 | 12 days ago |
| | Time to take a stand against the CCP’s economic warfare This isn’t a hot war, neither is it a cold one. But it is a war. By Graham Young - 22/3/2024 | 30 | 13 days ago |
| | Creating a strategic alliance to stop Iran in its tracks We know enough about the Iranian regime’s fears and ambitions to stop it in its tracks by creating a crescent of allied states stretching from the Gulf to the Mediterranean without violent confrontations or war. By Alon Ben-Meir - 27/3/2024 | 3 | 13 days ago |
| | Imperial fruit: bananas, costs and climate change Corporation power and secondary colonisation, exercised through such ruthless entities as the United Fruit Company (now the jauntily labelled Chiquita), continued the legacy, collaborating with corrupt elites. By Binoy Kampmark - 3/4/2024 | 2 | 13 days ago |
| | Have we entered an era of global cooling? With all the sound and fury about global warming, an important, and many scientists now assert, more likely scenario is usually ignored-the possibility of far more dangerous global cooling. By Tom Harris - 22/3/2024 | 13 | 13 days ago |
| | Assange British High Court ruling further curtails the freedom of the press The persecution of Julian Assange will soon happen to all journalists who expose government wrongdoings. By Murray Hunter - 2/4/2024 | 4 | 14 days ago |
| | Purgatorial torments: Assange and the UK High Court What is it about British justice that has a certain rankness to it, notably when it comes to dealing with political charges? By Binoy Kampmark - 2/4/2024 | 6 | 14 days ago |
| | Biden’s balancing act: Israel’s national security versus the Palestinians’ humanitarian crisis In recent weeks, the Biden administration has found itself facing a serious dilemma as to how to balance its commitment to Israel's national security along with the humanitarian crisis facing the Palestinians in Gaza. By Alon Ben-Meir - 19/3/2024 | 7 | 16 days ago |
| | Why facts (voters) can’t get a look-in against ‘Huge Australia’ groupthink The dominating ‘Huge Australia’ stakeholders are a diverse lot. United however, by false immigration narratives that railroad voters. Almost impossible to counter, in woke Australia. By Stephen Saunders - 21/3/2024 | 15 | 17 days ago |
| | Censors celebrated: misinformation and disinformation down under In Australia, we see the tech-utopians being butchered, metaphorically speaking, on our doorstep. Of concern here is the Communications Legislation Amendment (Combating Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2023. By Binoy Kampmark - 26/3/2024 | 7 | 19 days ago |
| | Brisbane election shows us there’s not much joy chasing inner-city voters The Labor Party suffered major swings against it in the outer suburban ring in the recent state Inala and Ipswich West by-elections. By Graham Young - 26/3/2024 | 5 | 20 days ago |
| | 'Illness enters through the mouth and trouble comes out of the mouth' The US-Australia diplomatic friction triggered by Farage's interview with Donald Trump By Chin Jin - 25/3/2024 | 6 | 20 days ago |
| | Biden must get Security Council to rescind Resolution 2334 Resolution 2334 violates article 80 of the UN Charter which preserves the right of the Jewish People to settle in any part of the territory of former Palestine located west of the Jordan River. By David Singer - 21/3/2024 | 6 | 21 days ago |
| | Why we should abandon political parties Simone Weil, Hitler in WWII, the current United States imbroglio, and the Australian independents in the last election - the Teals - give us the reasons why political parties should go. By Peter Bowden - 25/3/2024 | 10 | 21 days ago |
| | The terrible problem of being good It is not the rules of being good, a law or standard, neither the description of a what a good person is like, that give rise to difficulty. By Sarah Flynn-O'Dea - 20/3/2024 | 4 | 24 days ago |
| | Chief prosecutor surrenders State to audit all rape trials in response to judges' complaints. By Bettina Arndt - 18/3/2024 | 2 | 26 days ago |
| | Celebrating 140 years of the Fabians It can be argued that the early Fabians may have been naïve. For although 'democracy' has seemingly triumphed it has, thanks to neo-liberalism, become the handmaiden of global capitalism. By John Töns - 18/3/2024 | 9 | 26 days ago |
| | Silent invasion: unmasking China’s espionage war in Australia The aggressor? China, whose tentacles of influence, infiltration and espionage have reached deep into Australian soil, threatening the very core of our democratic values and national security. By Mamtimin Ala - 20/3/2024 | 5 | 27 days ago |
| | Even ‘God’ made mistakes But in this case, God the Editor listened. Maybe he even learned from my experience. Better still, Mrs God obviously had even more influence than The Admiral and this cub reporter. By John Mikkelsen - 19/3/2024 | 5 | 28 days ago |