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View commentsView articleAustralia 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
2925 hours ago
View commentsView articleDon't be Hastie, the joke's on you
Some people can't take a joke, but it's not unusual for whole groups of people to miss a joke entirely.
By Graham Young - 2/10/2026
254 days ago
View commentsView articleGST carve-up leaves Qld, WA short-changed
In the carving up of GST share, one state’s costly mistakes can become everybody else’s fiscal problem.
By Graham Young - 17/9/2026
523 days ago
View commentsView articleArmageddon and artificial intelligence
Fears that AI is primed to wipe out humanity exist in the realm of fantasy, meanwhile in real life there are limits.
By John Mikkelsen - 21/9/2026
520 days ago
View commentsView articleThe stockpile is over: why Australian businesses are rethinking the role of inventory
Australian manufacturers have slashed the stock on their shelves. Is this newfound efficiency - or the quiet removal of their last buffer against disruption?
By Jarrod Adam - 16/9/2026
427 days ago
View commentsView articleAlarmist ‘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
48 days ago
View commentsView articleGovernments ignored scientists warning that climate scare was based on implausible scenarios
It's a failure of economics more than it is a failing of climate science.
By Tom Harris - 23/9/2026
317 days ago
View commentsView articleHas ANZUS turned Australia into a target
From a Chinese strategic perspective, as one analyst put it, Australia is less a host of US bases than a US base in its own right, a significant piece of real estate in America’s Pacific warfighting architecture.
By Murray Hunter - 14/9/2026
329 days ago
View commentsView articleWhen everything becomes a mental illness
Mental health may indeed be one of medicine’s great remaining frontiers. But acknowledging uncertainty is part of understanding the problem.
By David Leyonhjelm - 25/9/2026
318 days ago
View commentsView articleReconstituting the United Nations for collective security – we need a popular campaign!
A UN which carried a big stick. Now that would change international relations.
By Barry York - 23/9/2026
318 days ago
View commentsView articleTreasury’s massive ‘intergenerational’ immigration crushes democracy
Imagine a calmer and safer post-Bondi Australia. Immigration is low, and less divisive. Government need not lie about it all the time, nor continually attack citizen-voters.
By Stephen Saunders - 29/9/2026
214 days ago
View commentsView articleThe rate is normal; the debt isn't
If the rate is ordinary and the pain is extraordinary, the rate is the trigger, not the cause.
By Anish Puri - 30/9/2026
213 days ago
View commentsView articleGangsterism runs unchecked, while our governments largely refuse to act
Union corruption inflates building costs while tobacco taxes feed a violent black market. Australia’s gangster problem demands a change of policy - and perhaps a change of government.
By Brendan O'Reilly - 1/10/2026
212 days ago
View commentsView articleCounterfeit righteousness: Anthropic, AI and the pacing fallacy
The architects of artificial superintelligence now warn that it could escape control, cripple the internet and even extinguish humanity. So why did they develop it?
By Binoy Kampmark - 22/9/2026
221 days ago
View commentsView articleIntroducing 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
217 hours ago
View commentsView articleJapan 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
133 mins ago
View commentsView articleWeaponised 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
16 days ago
View commentsView articleWhen 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
14 days ago
View commentsView articleThrowing the first stone
When does your past stop being your present and future?
By John Mikkelsen - 22/9/2026
121 days ago
View commentsView articleA topical task of multilateral diplomacy
The UN wants to revive the dream of a new international economic order. Can it turn half-century-old promises into action?
By Ioan Voicu - 16/9/2026
127 days ago
View commentsView articleAustralia can’t outbid a blockade
Rich countries are insulated from the worst of commodity markets, but there are some things money can't buy.
By Tim Butler - 21/9/2026
122 days ago
View commentsView articleEconomics says Australia should have negative migration
Elected members imagine themselves trapped between an economy needing immigrants and a public wanting fewer. It’s time they questioned their assumptions.
By Cathal Leslie - 24/9/2026
119 days ago
View commentsView articleAI: the regulators want a kill switch, the investors want to restrict competition
Artificial intelligence has been under development for 70 years. Why, just as it becomes commercially valuable, are we suddenly being told it could extinguish humanity?
By Murray Hunter - 28/9/2026
115 days ago
View commentsView articleThe demographics of war
Does war serve a purpose to nature that makes it inevitable rather than senseless?
By Peter Curson - 28/9/2026
115 days ago
View commentsView article Blue Waterways: reconnecting Europe through its rivers
Europe's rivers have provided connection over centuries, but the modern world requires more than just water.
By Marija Cekmariova - 29/9/2026
114 days ago
View commentsView articleFour Corners and the decline of an icon of Australian media
A television program that once forged Australian media culture has now surrendered autonomy and found a worked-out doctrine.
By David Hutchens - 30/9/2026
113 days ago
View commentsView articleIntelligence agencies, AI, and the new battlefield for public opinion
What begins as a neutral tool quickly becomes attuned to the data it encounters. This adaptability is now being exploited in a systematic manner.
By Murray Hunter - 30/9/2026
113 days ago
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