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View commentsView articleClimate alarmists ‘crying wolf’ are finally losing credibility
From mountain peaks to polar bears, sea levels to temperature, climate change has failed to honour its prophets of doom.
By Brendan O'Reilly - 13/11/2026
714 hours ago
View commentsView articleBattery rebates are paying for kilowatt-hours, not outcomes
The subsidy scales with the box on the wall, not with the household's evening demand.
By Greg Kelman - 10/11/2026
2617 hours ago
View commentsView articleBank of America’s $8 billion bond sale:why Australia should pay attention
When the cost of money in America rises, Australia cannot afford to remain a spectator.
By Eko Setiobudi - 9/11/2026
840 hours ago
View commentsView articleUkraine at the crossroads of global power and the changing international order
A territorial dispute between two nations carries ramifications far beyond either of them.
By Yuri Koszarycz - 30/10/2026
232 days ago
View commentsView articleThe fall of Europe: the bill comes due for leaders who mistook their promises for results
Europe is falling because it has confused managing inherited wealth with the ability to create new wealth.
By Milton Cedeño - 12/11/2026
13 days ago
View commentsView articleA reset for Australia’s student visa policy: are we counting students and missing the economic value?
Lower immigration numbers come with costs as well as benefits, particularly in the case of overseas students.
By Mukesh Dhamala - 11/11/2026
43 days ago
View commentsView articleLIV Golf 2.0: D.O.A.
Money can buy you players, but it definitely can't buy you love.
By David Rowe - 9/11/2026
16 days ago
View commentsView articleTo reduce the deficit, try means testing
Plenty of prosperous people refuse to accept that they are wealthy, many feel entitled to benefits on the grounds that they pay a lot of tax, and many feel entitled.
By David Leyonhjelm - 3/11/2026
117 days ago
View commentsView articleLabor's doing to gas what they're doing to housing
This is the eighth time in the last ten years that federal governments have tried to intervene in the gas market including the $12 per gigajoule gas price cap in December 2022.
By Graham Young - 6/11/2026
77 days ago
View commentsView articleThe Chalmers Curve
The Chalmers Curve plots an inverse relationship between quantity and effectiveness.
By James Mathias - 4/11/2026
79 days ago
View commentsView articleThe hour of unrestricted escalation: why Kyiv must write off Washington and strike the heart of Moscow’s war machine
In Ukraine, with the USA as an ally, you could die waiting, so don't wait.
By Liang Nah - 5/11/2026
210 days ago
View commentsView articleThe world to come: Jewish mysticism and the politics of emancipation
What if the world we hope for is not somewhere in the distant future? What if, in some strange sense, it already exists?
By Sam Ben-Meir - 3/11/2026
412 days ago
View commentsView articleThe disastrous decade of dating
Fifty years ago, we told young women to put marriage on hold but never stopped to ask what that would do to their chances of finding love, marriage, kids – the whole shebang.
By Bettina Arndt - 30/10/2026
713 days ago
View commentsView articleThe Bering Strait Tunnel: from intercontinental link to a governance ecosystem
Corridors are not simply lines on a map; they organise economic relationships, shape regional development, and redistribute strategic opportunities.
By Joe Field - 2/11/2026
113 days ago
View commentsView articleUnmasked agendas: Macron, youth protests and blocking social media
Macron has joined a wide tent of invigilating governments keen to use the alleged malignancies of social media as an alibi for controlling access to certain online platforms.
By Binoy Kampmark - 2/11/2026
113 days ago
View commentsView articleIt still makes sense to walk away from Snowy 2.0
When did environmentalism prioritise the preservation of white elephants above everything else?
By Brendan O'Reilly - 28/10/2026
514 days ago
View commentsView articleIsrael’s fateful election: a nation on the brink
Israel’s election is deciding far more than who governs. It will help determine whether the country can reclaim its democratic foundations, restore its international standing, and fulfill its founding promise.
By Alon Ben-Meir - 28/10/2026
117 days ago
View commentsView articleWhy multiculturalism remains a fictional concept in Greece
In the birthplace of Western culture there is space for only one culture.
By Chris Lewis - 29/10/2026
117 days ago
View commentsView articleWill Iran will be Trump’s Vietnam?
A poor showing by MAGA Republicans could produce a hostile Congress willing to pursue aggressive oversight or even impeachment proceedings, potentially truncating the presidency.
By Murray Hunter - 27/10/2026
519 days ago
View commentsView articleJudged against our time: seven assessment questions
How often are we struck by the stark symbols of extravagant wealth that are seen daily right beside the horrid injustice of poverty?
By Yossef Ben-Meir - 26/10/2026
120 days ago
View commentsView articleThe pathetification of Australia
New laws will take the larrikin out of Australia and replace self regard with self pity.
By Jafar Jalili - 22/10/2026
422 days ago
View commentsView articleAttempted assassinations: the attack on Helen Haines
The public discourse narrative suggests that Australian politicians and public figures are themselves responsible for evocations of violence, a normalising tendency inspired by the United States.
By Binoy Kampmark - 23/10/2026
522 days ago
View commentsView articleCOP31’s inconvenient truth: the world still runs on oil
Worldwide economies depend on transportation fuels and products manufactured from crude oil, in addition to electricity.
By Ronald Stein and Yoshihiro Muronaka - 23/10/2026
422 days ago
View commentsView articleDancing the macarena with an AI bot
You can get AI to mark your politics homework, but is it unbiased enough to get one hundred percent?
By John Mikkelsen - 22/10/2026
124 days ago
View commentsView articleTrump’s energy deal with Russia raises difficult questions for Europe
Trump’s Russian diesel deal exposes a widening divide between Washington and Europe over how to end the war in Ukraine - and whose security comes first.
By Nicholas Lovric - 21/10/2026
325 days ago
View commentsView articleThe Narcissist in Chief
When a president confuses personal loyalty with public duty and self-glorification with leadership, democracy pays the price.
By Alon Ben-Meir - 20/10/2026
526 days ago
View commentsView articleThe language of extermination: NAZA, artificial intelligence and Gaza
The IDF has marshalled its own response in a document accusing the filmmakers of presenting 'a distorted, misleading and disingenuous picture of the IDF's target planning and striking process'.
By Binoy Kampmark - 19/10/2026
227 days ago
View commentsView articleThe Fifth Estate is becoming the only trusted truth
This new ecosystem carries its own set of values, broadly anti-establishment and oriented toward truth-seeking through investigative work.
By Murray Hunter - 19/10/2026
127 days ago
View commentsView articleMales accused of violence are typically treated more harshly than their female counterparts
When ideology shapes public conversations, how is an adequate diagnosis to be made?
By Brendan O'Reilly - 16/10/2026
328 days ago
View commentsView articleTesting ASEAN’s resilience amid the global debt surge
The IMF Fiscal Monitor April 2026 estimates that gross global government debt had reached nearly 94% of GDP in 2025 and, under current fiscal policies, could touch 100% of GDP by 2029.
By Eko Setiobudi - 16/10/2026
130 days ago
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