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 |  | Fencing the ocean: Australia’s social media safety bill While this proposed legislation will prove ineffectual in achieving its intended purpose – here, protecting the prelapsarian state of childhood from ruin at the hands of wicked digital platforms – it will also leave the apparatus of hefty regulation. By Binoy Kampmark - 25/11/2024 | 14 | 9 days ago |
| | Water planning 101: stabilise the population Stabilising population, argues the report Big thirsty Australia, is the safest and cheapest avenue to meet arid Australia's water needs. Not what government wants to hear, is it? By Stephen Saunders - 28/11/2024 | 12 | 4 days ago |
| | Will national identity become obsolete? Like many other Western countries, it is divided over many issues, including Aboriginal rights, immigration, economic hardship, climate change, and racial reconciliation. By Mamtimin Ala - 4/12/2024 | 12 | 2 days ago |
| | This I believe In a world that often feels adrift, we all need something to believe. By Steven Schwartz - 15/11/2024 | 12 | 22 days ago |
| | Hold onto your hats: As Trump 2.0 nears, we should be afraid. Very afraid. Despite promises to turbocharge the economy, Trump saw job losses in every year of his presidency – 2017, 2018 and 2019 – even when the disastrous COVID data of 2020 is excluded. By Remy Davison - 14/11/2024 | 10 | 23 days ago |
| | Penny Wong as prime minister of Australia Asian, female and gay, and extremely competent, she would put Australia as the leading nation on the world map. Even Anthony Albanese would give up his power to Wong to ensure his party stayed in power. By Peter Bowden - 3/12/2024 | 10 | 4 days ago |
| | Nato membership for Ukraine: a path to peace or prolonged conflict? Zelenskyy's proposal marks a significant departure from Ukraine's previous stance of rejecting any compromise on territorial integrity. By Vince Hooper - 3/12/2024 | 8 | 3 days ago |
| | Joe Biden won the 2020 election against Donald Trump, when Kamala Harris, also a Democrat, could not in 2024? Why? There are a multitude of eminent people who have argued whether or not we have free will. This paper sets out the assertions of these writers, both for and against. By Peter Bowden - 27/11/2024 | 8 | 11 days ago |
| | The ABC's Colonel Blimp: why Kim Williams misunderstands Joe Rogan Williams makes a point of juxtaposing the weak, impressionable consumer of news and those of Rogan and his tribe of entrepreneurial podcasting fantasists. By Binoy Kampmark - 2/12/2024 | 7 | 4 days ago |
| | Sporting nation, lost identity: where's the real Australia gone? What is sport really doing for Australia's identity today? Has our entire sense of self been reduced to an obsession with who can throw, kick, or run the fastest? By Vince Hooper - 5/12/2024 | 7 | 2 days ago |
| | Economic philosophy under question The election of Donald Trump has thrown contemporary economic commentary into overdrive. It has also exposed the limitations of contemporary economic knowledge and comment. By Ben Rees - 4/12/2024 | 6 | 4 days ago |
| | Arrest warrants from the Hague: the ICC, Netanyahu and Gallant International law remains a curious creature, one of mixed shape and uneven maturity, being based on the mutual, grudging acknowledgment of conventions between countries. By Binoy Kampmark - 27/11/2024 | 6 | 12 days ago |
| | How to deliver a 'world class' public service The newly elected Crisafulli Government should revive Fitzgerald’s Electoral Administrative Review Commission to deliver a ‘World Class’ Public Service By Scott Prasser - 18/11/2024 | 6 | 20 days ago |
| | Has the United Nations outlived its usefulness? The UN, which was established to foster global peace and stability, has now become a paralyzed institution, constrained by an archaic structure. By Alon Ben-Meir - 20/11/2024 | 6 | 17 days ago |
| | Thank you for emitting: the hypocrisies of COP29 Azerbaijan, is a petrostate indifferent to the issue of emissions and scornful of ecological preachers. It has seen its natural gas supply grow by 128% between 2000 and 2021. By Binoy Kampmark - 20/11/2024 | 6 | 15 days ago |
| | Dancing with the Tsars: A perilous waltz (without Matilda) for American democracy? Following Donald Trump's unexpected win in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, where the Woke got Poked, concerns about his cosy relationship with authoritarian leaders, especially Russian President Vladimir Putin, have surged once again. By Vince Hooper - 8/11/2024 | 5 | 28 days ago |
| | UNRWA to be booted from Israel with good reason These seven Foreign Ministers were blatantly attempting to interfere in Israel's internal affairs using their respective Governments – not their Parliaments - as their Trojan horses. By David Singer - 8/11/2024 | 5 | 29 days ago |
| | Could the US election result dent the 'Huge Australia' plan? Here we go again. Falsely, ABC claims Australia 'doesn’t have' a population plan. But we do – and it’s massive. Can Donald Trump’s victory change that at all? By Stephen Saunders - 11/11/2024 | 5 | 25 days ago |
| | Trump’s revolution is coming for the health technocrats Of all the creatures in the US bureaucratic swamp, environmental and medical science organisations have the most to fear from the return of Donald Trump. By Peter Ridd - 6/12/2024 | 5 | 19 hours ago |
| | Aleppo’s fall: a crumbling regime and the shifting sands of Syria’s civil war With his primary allies distracted and internal cohesion reportedly fraying, Assad faces perhaps his most precarious moment since the uprising began. By Vince Hooper - 6/12/2024 | 4 | 14 hours ago |
| | The Trump tariff fallacy With trade deficits between many Asian countries and the United States, there are possibilities many countries may be targeted if Trump's objectives are to reduce bilateral deficits. By Murray Hunter - 12/11/2024 | 4 | 27 days ago |
| | Trump Deal of the Century meets Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine HKOPS – contrary to Trump's Proposal – calls for the merger of Jordan, Gaza and part of the West Bank into one new Hashemite-governed territorial entity to be called 'The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine'. By David Singer - 15/11/2024 | 4 | 21 days ago |
| | Why the Russian Oreshnik medium-range ballistic missile is a game-changer in warfare In the Indo-Pacific region such intermediate range hyper-sonic systems could render intercontinental ballistic systems obsolete. By Murray Hunter - 28/11/2024 | 4 | 9 days ago |
| | Shooting stars What is it about movie celebrities, highly skilled in pretending to be other people in pretend situations, they would willingly shoot themselves in the foot and lose 50-60% of their fan base? By Stuart Ballantyne - 26/11/2024 | 4 | 12 days ago |
| | Prescription for pain, angst and 'silly old buggers' Telcos, banks and health insurers are among the many businesses I'd include in the bracket that fail to recognise more than 17 percent of their customers are probably over 65. By John Mikkelsen - 25/11/2024 | 3 | 11 days ago |
| | The shifting nature of journalism - it's being turned upside down The revelation that 'Deep Throat' was Mark Felt, an assistant director of the FBI at that time, arises another possibility - the Woodward and Bernstein were being used. By Murray Hunter - 22/11/2024 | 3 | 14 days ago |
| | Why Southeast Asia will stand up to Trump There no need for ASEAN leaders to buy MAGA merchandise especially submarines and missile systems or to ingratiate themselves further with the new US president. By Teck Lim - 19/11/2024 | 3 | 20 days ago |
| | The Democrats’ stunning defeat and the way forward The Democrats must search their souls, carefully study what went wrong, and develop a compelling new domestic and foreign policy agenda while cooperating with the Republicans on any issue that advances America’s well-being and global leadership. By Alon Ben-Meir - 13/11/2024 | 3 | 25 days ago |
| | Towards a 2025 UN summit on youth The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. By Ioan Voicu - 18/11/2024 | 3 | 21 days ago |
| | The so-called 'green movement' increases the world's demands for crude oil! All the parts and components to make, transport, and install wind turbines, solar panels, and EV's are made from the products and fuels manufactured from crude oil. By Ronald Stein - 21/11/2024 | 2 | 18 days ago |
| | Trump might try reversing Obama-Biden ploy at United Nations President-elect Donald Trump will resume locking horns with the United Nations (UN) when he returns to the White House on 20 January 2025. By David Singer - 21/11/2024 | 2 | 17 days ago |
| | They were there first: election denialism, the Democratic way Clinton, in late July 2016, 'had approved a campaign plan to stir a scandal against US Presidential candidate Donald Trump by tying him to Putin and the Russians' hacking of the Democratic National Committee'. By Binoy Kampmark - 14/11/2024 | 2 | 22 days ago |
| | Winning against the feminist machine The male vote played a major role in Trump's historic victory – with big swings from Hispanic and Black men, and also younger male voters. By Bettina Arndt - 12/11/2024 | 2 | 22 days ago |
| | Cheers for a true blue Aussie hero I would say he was obviously not the sort of policeman who would enjoy pushing a desk or sitting in an SUV off the side of the road on a downhill slope catching unwary motorists. By John Mikkelsen - 13/11/2024 | 2 | 25 days ago |
| | The implications of Trump’s return to power for the EU and the Balkans These concerns primarily revolve around national dynamics, economic implications, and the solidification of nationalist attitudes and inter-political combustion within the Balkan states. By Alon Ben-Meir - 26/11/2024 | 2 | 9 days ago |
| | Welcome to Country: Israel’s response to the ICC, UN & Jew-haters Israel is unique among the 193 UN member states: The only state that has reappeared on world maps after being erased for 3000 years. By David Singer - 5/12/2024 | 2 | 4 days ago |
| | Special interest subsidies DO NOT support the diverse 8 billion on this planet Under the system we have today in which government spending picks winners and losers in the business world and hires massive amounts of people, we have amassed an unsupportable debt of more than $100,000 per person. By Ronald Stein, Oliver Hemmers and Steve Curtis - 2/12/2024 | 2 | 7 days ago |
| | Tea, Trump, and tyranny: could America rejoin the British Empire? 'People are saying this is a surrender. Fake news! This is the ultimate deal, folks. We're coming back as the top colony. No one's ever done that before.' By Vince Hooper - 19/11/2024 | 1 | 20 days ago |