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View commentsView articleThe Great Barrier Reef keeps on living
'Cruising over plate corals and staghorns on a manta board, I saw a reef alive with colour and life.'
By John Mikkelsen - 12/8/2025
893 days ago
View commentsView articleOn being far right
According to some people, Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro and his supporters are 'far-right'.
By David Leyonhjelm - 19/8/2025
3013 days ago
View commentsView articleUN self-destructing in pursuit of dead two-state solution
Ignoring a century-old legal mandate, the UN has chosen politics over the charter it swore to uphold.
By David Singer - 8/8/2025
2220 days ago
View commentsView articleSeizing the global momentum for a two-state solution
Palestinians and Israel, with the unwavering support of the US, must seize on the growing international momentum in support of an independent Palestinian state.
By Alon Ben-Meir - 15/8/2025
2015 days ago
View commentsView article Bridge our differences: Australians march for Palestine
Amid pouring rain, our grief and hope mixed to something beautiful: kindness and compassion.
By Wasim El-Haj - 11/8/2025
1720 days ago
View commentsView articleAlbanese's 'productivity' summit: a political show with no substance
Rather than attend, the Opposition should have run its own summit — a true government-in-waiting would set the agenda, not follow it.
By Scott Prasser - 22/8/2025
167 days ago
View commentsView articlePresident Trump, you must stop Netanyahu’s second genocide in Gaza
President Trump, you are the only leader who can stop Netanyahu from committing another genocide in Gaza. The whole world is watching. Do not allow yourself to become an accessory.
By Alon Ben-Meir - 26/8/2025
154 days ago
View commentsView articleWanting to preserve the Australian identity isn’t xenophobic – it’s essential
Integration should not mean cultural erasure; it should mean civic belonging – understanding our history, respecting democratic values, and committing to a shared future.
By Aarushi Malhotra - 2/9/2025
146 hours ago
View commentsView articleLet them in: opening Gaza to the foreign press corps
Since the Gaza war began, more journalists have been killed there than in any other conflict in recent history – yet Israel continues to justify their deaths with the weary formula of calling them militants.
By Binoy Kampmark - 1/9/2025
1232 hours ago
View commentsView articleMidterms 2026: the Democrats' last stand against Trump
The results of next year’s midterm election will demonstrate whether or not the Democratic Party has what it takes to save the nation from Trump’s march toward the abyss.
By Alon Ben-Meir - 28/8/2025
115 days ago
View commentsView articleA little rebellion
To understand political debates, it helps to have a view as to where we derive our liberties.
By David Leyonhjelm - 6/8/2025
1027 days ago
View commentsView articleCelebrating 140 years of the Fabians
Democracy has become a zero-sum game — but the Fabians still believe another world is possible.
By John Töns - 6/8/2025
1027 days ago
View commentsView articleAlbanese and Wong shame Australia
Albanese and Wong ignore that an Arab state east of the Jordan was already independent in 1946, with Jewish rights west of the river preserved under the UN Charter.
By David Singer - 14/8/2025
919 days ago
View commentsView articleThe moral cost of Jewish leaders’ silence
The war crimes perpetrated by the Netanyahu government against Palestinians have seriously harmed Jews around the world, as many Jewish leaders remained silent in the wake of these crimes.
By Alon Ben-Meir - 5/8/2025
828 days ago
View commentsView articleUN climate-czar abuses Australia, cossets leviathan China
Despite July’s highly aggressive return-visit from UNFCCC bovver-boy Simon Stiell, the coalition seems unlikely to seriously challenge Labor’s net-zero cult.
By Stephen Saunders - 7/8/2025
826 days ago
View commentsView articleThe US faces a perilous crossroad
If Trump is allowed to continue fully executing his destructive socio-economic and political agenda, he will destroy what America stands for, and permanently extinguish its global leadership.
By Alon Ben-Meir - 20/8/2025
813 days ago
View commentsView articleUseful expedient: expelling Iran’s Ambassador to Australia
Iran has bigger fish to fry; why would it waste resources targeting Australia’s Jewish community, a country so far from its interests as to be satirically irrelevant?
By Binoy Kampmark - 29/8/2025
726 hours ago
View commentsView articleA proposal for the antithesis of the Nobel peace prize
If we honour peacemakers, why not also name the architects of discord?
By John Töns - 7/8/2025
721 days ago
View commentsView articleDiplomatic merchandise: exploiting the issue of Palestinian recognition
Recognition saves no lives, feeds no families, and rebuilds no schools — but it soothes consciences in Paris, London and Ottawa.
By Binoy Kampmark - 18/8/2025
613 days ago
View commentsView articleA tale of two tipping points
The geological record shows higher CO₂ and hotter climates - but no tipping points, and life flourished.
By Rafe Champion - 21/8/2025
612 days ago
View commentsView articleWill the Xi Jinping era come to a quiet end?
A 'military mutiny' has already taken place, and a 'political coup' is underway.
By Wu Zuolai - 25/8/2025
59 days ago
View commentsView articleOur daily bread (and other dangerous substances)
Your dinner doesn't need an app or a PhD, just something to eat, something to drink, and a little gratitude. This is a story about science, food, and how we're ruining both in the name of wellness.
By Steven Schwartz - 11/8/2025
522 days ago
View commentsView articleAdjusting the temperature: climate change and international law
Courts are turning climate inaction into an internationally wrongful act — and fossil fuel states are in the dock.
By Binoy Kampmark - 8/8/2025
522 days ago
View commentsView articleNuclear power in a free enterprise environment is the pathway to abundant low-cost electricity.
Getting Government, mandates, and subsidies out-of-the-way will benefit humanity and allow creative free enterprise to succeed in delivering electricity to the world.
By Ronald Stein, Oliver Hemmers and Steve Curtis - 7/8/2025
426 days ago
View commentsView articleHave we got a deal for Donald!!!
Queensland, the NT and WA are the only parts worth saving — the rest can be sold off as ‘Greensland’ for $38.
By Stuart Ballantyne - 18/8/2025
413 days ago
View commentsView articleDigging deeper on community radio: Triple R and indispensable airwaves
The streaming behemoths have created an odd sense of detachment, and certain listeners are seeking grassroot comforts that only community radio can provide.
By Binoy Kampmark - 25/8/2025
49 days ago
View commentsView articleWind turbines and solar panels only generate electricity
Wind turbines and solar panels are incapable of making any of the products or transportation fuels demanded by the 8 billion on this planet.
By Ronald Stein and Yoshihiro Muronaka - 21/8/2025
410 days ago
View commentsView articleTrump: ditch UN, Hamas, PLO and focus on Israel & Jordan
The two-state solution is not rooted in international law but flagrantly violates it, while a practical alternative — the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine plan — is ignored.
By David Singer - 29/8/2025
43 days ago
View commentsView articleThink tanker demands for AUKUS: What Australia should do with US submarines
The nuclear subs program, still a chimera, is already distorting Australia’s defence budget - consuming billions while delivering nothing for decades.
By Binoy Kampmark - 27/8/2025
45 days ago
View commentsView articleThe world is turning classical
The world is turning classical. Not everywhere. Not all at once. But unmistakably - and just in time.
By Steven Schwartz - 15/8/2025
317 days ago
View commentsView articleMisusing the children: The UK Online Safety Act, privacy and censorship
Many seem to want censorship as a form of stand-in parenting—leaving children permanently immature and unspoiled by the richer, more complicated life.
By Binoy Kampmark - 4/8/2025
330 days ago
View commentsView articleThe making of culture
The culture we make today – whether one of tolerance or corruption, inclusion or exclusion – shapes the society we will inhabit tomorrow.
By Kausar Khan - 2/9/2025
229 hours ago
View commentsView article‘You’re a racist’ remains Albo’s No 1 alibi for the endless immigration/housing pain
March for Australia demonstrates the necessity of pushing back the ‘you’re a racist’ slur habitually deployed by the all-powerful minority – our mega-migration lobby.
By Stephen Saunders - 3/9/2025
227 mins ago
View commentsView articleCasino Royale? Flushed?
The cargo cult mentality seems irrevocably welded to big shiny things that promise to ‘put our city on the map’ – yet time and again, the promise collapses into pokies for pensioners.
By Ross Elliott - 27/8/2025
26 days ago
View commentsView articleAnticipating the biggest event in the sphere of multilateral diplomacy
By omitting multilateralism and offering only a token nod to solidarity, the UN’s flagship report weakens its own narrative at a time of unprecedented global interdependence.
By Ioan Voicu - 28/8/2025
15 days ago
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