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View commentsView article'Net-zero' is not affordable by the 6 billion living in poverty
Shockingly, 80% of the 8 billion on planet Earth, or more than 6 billion, are living on less than $10/day.
By Ronald Stein and Nancy Pearlman - 18/2/2026
828 mins ago
View commentsView articleIs the MAHA movement building a genuine counter-elite?
Covid shattered trust in our elites. Now MAHA seeks not power for its own sake, but a politics restrained by Orwell’s 'common decency'.
By Renaud Beauchard - 17/2/2026
73 hours ago
View commentsView articleMisplaced mourning: farewelling the CIA World Factbook
Were we all crazy to rely on demographic information from a book compiled by a spy agency?
By Binoy Kampmark - 17/2/2026
310 hours ago
View commentsView articleWhy are leaders still important in modern day politics?
Attrition, ambush or resignation. Leadership spills now define Australian politics. The Liberals’ crisis is less anomaly than symptom.
By Scott Prasser - 16/2/2026
423 hours ago
View commentsView articleTrump has scrapped the long-standing legal basis for tackling climate emissions
Even if Trump leaves office his changes to the EPA's endgangerment finding will make it almost impossible for the USA to limit CO2 emissions.
By Robyn Eckersley - 16/2/2026
1130 hours ago
View commentsView articleIran, war, and the illusion of control
A US attack on Iran promises regime change. History suggests something else: regional escalation, oil shocks, and a rally-around-the-flag effect that entrenches the very regime Washington seeks to weaken.
By Alon Ben-Meir - 13/2/2026
22 days ago
View commentsView articleSoothsaying and the sampling referendum: the heralded rise of One Nation
Polls crown Pauline Hanson ascendant, but beware the sampling referendum. When pundits anoint insurgents, they risk mistaking protest heat for electoral firepower.
By Binoy Kampmark - 12/2/2026
74 days ago
View commentsView article UN Secretary-General Guterres tops list of world’s Jew-haters
The UN Secretary-General insists Gaza “must remain” part of a Palestinian state. But does his prescription breach Article 80 and override rights preserved from the 1922 Mandate for Palestine?
By David Singer - 13/2/2026
54 days ago
View commentsView articleNuclear is the most reliable path to affordable electricity
Continuous electricity is skyrocketing, driven by the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence, data centers, and electrification across industries, nuclear power appears to be the affordable choice for all 8 billion on this planet.
By Ronald Stein, Olivia Vaughan and Steve Curtis - 5/2/2026
54 days ago
View commentsView articleFermi, on firming the grid: 'Are you all crazy?'
Australia says renewables are cheapest. GenCost data plus AI tell a different story once firming enters the equation.
By Tom Biegler - 4/2/2026
354 days ago
View commentsView articleHoplophobia – our national illness
Is Australia’s gun policy driven by facts or emotion? Three decades after Port Arthur, fear still shapes laws that facts struggle to penetrate.
By David Leyonhjelm - 12/2/2026
114 days ago
View commentsView articleThe future of California’s energy infrastructure is fragile
Net zero sounds clean until you ask an awkward question: what actually powers hospitals, planes, ports, and armies when electricity alone isn’t enough? California has no answer.
By Ronald Stein and Catherine Reheis-Boyd - 11/2/2026
95 days ago
View commentsView articleBondi Massacre aftermath
After Bondi, Scott Morrison challenges Islam’s leaders to police extremism. AFIC says no. What does that mean for Australia’s social contract?
By Howard Dewhirst - 2/2/2026
196 days ago
View commentsView articleWhy Crisafulli should study Borbidge govt, not Newman government
Queensland history offers a warning: competent one-term governments still lose. Borbidge shows how silence, One Nation, and misread voters can undo reform—unless Crisafulli learns the right lesson.
By Graham Young - 10/2/2026
96 days ago
View commentsView articleWhen universities forgot how to say no
Academic freedom is inseparable from professional responsibility.
By Steven Schwartz - 9/2/2026
177 days ago
View commentsView articleThe democrats need a concrete governing agenda
Outrage isn’t a governing strategy. If Democrats want to win and govern, they must offer voters something rarer than resistance: a credible plan for power, prosperity, and unity.
By Alon Ben-Meir - 10/2/2026
18 days ago
View commentsView articleBeyond the lease: a new framework for systemic housing certainty
Renters fear the next email. Investors fear the long run. New evidence suggests they’re trapped by the same broken housing structure and points to a different way forward.
By Andrew Walton - 6/2/2026
58 days ago
View commentsView articleUkraine-Russia war in 2026 – where do we now stand?
Four years in, Ukraine’s war looks less like a turning point than a test of endurance, diplomacy, and winter survival. January 2026 tells the story.
By Yuri Koszarycz - 9/2/2026
49 days ago
View commentsView articleDooming the Chagos deal: the Diego Garcia dilemma
A deal meant to close a colonial wound is now hostage to Donald Trump and the Chagossians remain spectators to their own fate.
By Binoy Kampmark - 6/2/2026
210 days ago
View commentsView articleGuterres and UN prolong Jewish-Arab conflict rather than ending it
The UN insists the two-state solution still works. What if that fixation guarantees endless war and blinds the world to a viable alternative?
By David Singer - 6/2/2026
511 days ago
View commentsView articleScott Morrison almost got it right
Scott Morrison finally names the problem of Islamic extremism, then reaches for the one solution liberals should fear most: regulation.
By Graham Young - 5/2/2026
911 days ago
View commentsView articleHedonism’s dance: how the governing classes fell for Jeffrey Epstein
Millions of emails, thousands of images, endless excuses. Jeffrey Epstein’s afterlife is a masterclass in elite moral collapse.
By Binoy Kampmark - 4/2/2026
312 days ago
View commentsView articleComing for the boys
From universities to ASIO, misogyny is being reframed as extremism. The result: ideological schooling, boys in the crosshairs, and real threats left unspoken.
By Bettina Arndt - 3/2/2026
312 days ago
View commentsView articleFocus on what you have, not what you don’t have
PM Albanese we have a fabulous country that is in a financially difficult time and we just need you to focus on what we have.
By Stuart Ballantyne - 3/2/2026
514 days ago
View commentsView articleAre there 10 courageous Republicans who can save America?
A republic survives only when lawmakers choose country over career. What happens when they do not?
By Alon Ben-Meir - 29/1/2026
315 days ago
View commentsView articleAlbanese must reverse his recognition of the State of Palestine
If Albanese’s apology to Jewish Australians is sincere, why does his government still recognise a Palestinian state that does not exist?
By David Singer - 30/1/2026
2516 days ago
View commentsView articleAssault or diplomacy: Washington’s deliberate mixed signals to Tehran
Washington is pressuring Iran with warships and words. But without a clear endgame, coercive diplomacy risks signaling resolve and confusion at the same time.
By Syafruddin Arsyad - 2/2/2026
316 days ago
View commentsView articleAlbanese ploys betray Bondi victims
Albanese’s responses to Bondi hew to a script. Unpopular mass migration must continue – at any cost. Citizens must be socially 'cohesive' - else we’re racist.
By Stephen Saunders - 30/1/2026
416 days ago
View commentsView articleThe transition to net-zero emissions is a tax on the air you breathe
Nonscientists Al Gore, John Kerry, Barack Obama, and Bill Gates support taxing the gas of life – CO2
By Ronald Stein and Willie Soon - 23/1/2026
1116 days ago
View commentsView articleOne Nation on the rise driven by the Opposition’s incompetence
The Liberals surrender on free speech and wonder why voters flee. As laws multiply and problems fester, Pauline Hanson profits from an opposition that cannot oppose.
By Graham Young - 22/1/2026
1617 days ago
View commentsView articleLibertarianism and Trump’s Venezuela intervention
Libertarianism is all about the freedom of individuals from coercion, based on JS Mill’s harm principle.
By David Leyonhjelm - 28/1/2026
2817 days ago
View commentsView articleEnergy wisdom needed with candidates running for public office
Open-ended questions will stimulate Energy Wisdom conversations among the press, candidates, and all public debates.
By Ronald Stein and Yoshihiro Muronaka - 29/1/2026
419 days ago
View commentsView articleLearning from Menzies about coalition relations
Coalition Relations and Menzies - lessons to be remembered from the founder of the Liberal Party
By Scott Prasser - 28/1/2026
320 days ago
View commentsView articleMr. Trump: Greenland is not for sale
Trump threatens to seize Greenland from a NATO ally, shattering trust, exposing naked resource hunger, and risking the alliance that underpins Western security.
By Alon Ben-Meir - 20/1/2026
1824 days ago
View commentsView articleLoose control
A modern nation cannot be built on ancient possession, inherited blame, or divided citizenship.
By Paul Scott - 19/1/2026
524 days ago
View commentsView articleGaza vanishing: Trump’s Board of Peace
Trump’s billion-dollar Gaza peace board promises renewal but reeks of vanity, chaos and sidelined institutions. Who really governs when ego replaces diplomacy?
By Binoy Kampmark - 21/1/2026
226 days ago
View commentsView articleArtist Anthony Lister found not guilty
From “Australia’s Banksy” to prison cells and silence: how juries cleared Anthony Lister while media looked away.
By Bettina Arndt - 21/1/2026
227 days ago
View commentsView articleThe cry for myth
Human learning begins with myth not social science
By Sarah Flynn-O'Dea - 20/1/2026
328 days ago
View commentsView articleCandid imperialism: Trump, racketeering and Venezuelan oil
From Monroe Doctrine to open plunder: Venezuela becomes prime real estate for US oil.
By Binoy Kampmark - 19/1/2026
429 days ago
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