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 |  | Australia needs to reduce oil imports What's cheap in the short term can be very expensive in the long term, and unreliable. By Tim Butler - 7/10/2026 | 29 | 22 days ago |
| | Just call Brodie ‘King of the Mountain’ Motor sport can be dangerous for drivers and spectators, on and off the course. By John Mikkelsen - 14/10/2026 | 14 | 17 days ago |
| | Introducing the new Queensland premier – me! I was promoting evil and nasty policies such as a Gold Coast Cruise terminal, elimination of payroll tax, cutting red, green and black tape for small and medium businesses. By Stuart Ballantyne - 12/10/2026 | 10 | 15 days ago |
| | Ukraine 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 | 8 | 23 hours ago |
| | The 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 | 7 | 17 hours ago |
| | To 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 | 5 | 78 mins ago |
| | It 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 | 5 | 2 days ago |
| | Attempted 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 | 5 | 10 days ago |
| | Will 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 | 5 | 7 days ago |
| | The 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 | 5 | 14 days ago |
| | The 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 | 4 | 10 days ago |
| | Alarmist ‘Newspeak’ is poisoning the climate debate George Orwell's insight was that while the reality behind words doesn't change, the words we use may limit how we can think about it. By Tom Harris - 5/10/2026 | 4 | 29 days ago |
| | COP31’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 | 4 | 10 days ago |
| | Trump’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 | 3 | 13 days ago |
| | Forget AI: offshoring is the real threat to Australian jobs Be careful what you wish for. If work from home works for your busines home doesn't need to be in Australia, and the worker doesn't need to be earning Australian wages. By Ivan Trajkovski - 15/10/2026 | 3 | 19 days ago |
| | Males 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 | 3 | 16 days ago |
| | The 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 | 2 | 15 days ago |
| | Japan on the road to remilitarization India, Russia, both Koreas and others are also asserting greater roles. The old binary is giving way to a more crowded and fluid strategic landscape. By Murray Hunter - 13/10/2026 | 1 | 21 days ago |
| | Dancing 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 | 1 | 12 days ago |
| | Weaponised domestic violence orders - state sanctioned parental alienation A civil penalty can morph into a crime at the same time denying a parent access to their children on the basis of no evidence. By Bettina Arndt - 6/10/2026 | 1 | 27 days ago |
| | When did obesity become a drug deficiency? I treating the symptoms better than treating the cause? Can the cause be treated? By Joseph Varon - 8/10/2026 | 1 | 25 days ago |
| | Reconciling creation with sustainable development Of all the lessons learned from the successes and failures of global development since the Second World War, community participation in the determination of development projects is the key factor. By Yossef Ben-Meir - 14/10/2026 | 1 | 20 days ago |
| | The 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 | 1 | 15 days ago |
| | Testing 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 | 1 | 18 days ago |
| | The Muscat process: making dialogue a security capability Gulf governments know how to threaten each other. But when an accident looks like an attack, do they know whom to call? By Ana Birchall - 15/10/2026 | 1 | 19 days ago |
| | Judged 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 | 1 | 8 days ago |
| | Why 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 | 1 | 5 days ago |
| | Israel’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 | 1 | 5 days ago |
| | The 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 | 1 | 24 hours ago |
| | Unmasked 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 | 1 | 24 hours ago |