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 |  | The modern art of bullying Thanks to digital technology and social media, children no longer have the option of leaving their bullies at the school gate. By Jean Yates - 15/5/2025 | 2 | 9 hours ago |
| | Who was Australia’s best prime minister? Historians picked Curtin. The public picked Howard. But who really made Australia better? By Peter Bowden - 15/5/2025 | 5 | 9 hours ago |
| | Step by step, moment by moment, breath by breath If nothing really matters, then why does it matter that nothing matters? By Steven Schwartz - 14/5/2025 | 9 | 6 hours ago |
| | An existential choice The two-party system masks itself in different names and faces—offering only the illusion of opposition. By Mamtimin Ala - 13/5/2025 | 2 | 2 days ago |
| | Gender-affirming care for minors under fire When medical interventions pose unnecessary, disproportionate risks of harm, healthcare providers should refuse to offer them—even when requested. By Maryanne Demasi - 13/5/2025 | 6 | 28 hours ago |
| | White smoke and speculation: the election of Pope Leo XIV The one rare occasion in the twenty-first century where ancient ceremony, the old boy network – many presumptive virgins – along with festive dressing up, were seen with admiration rather than suspicion. By Binoy Kampmark - 12/5/2025 | 9 | 17 hours ago |
| | The good, the bad, and the ugly, of electric vehicles Is it ethical and moral for wealthy countries to subsidise 'green' energy while encouraging exploitation and environmental degradation in the developing world? By Ronald Stein - 12/5/2025 | 2 | 3 days ago |
| | Thousands of scientists contest the climate scare Scientific theories are never proven by a show of hands - if they were, the Earth would still be flat. By Tom Harris - 9/5/2025 | 3 | 5 days ago |
| | The selling of America: ending the US dollar’s exorbitant privilege Trump’s economic chaos is rattling markets and breaking the dollar’s spell. By Binoy Kampmark - 9/5/2025 | 1 | 6 days ago |
| | Trump was not a significant factor, and that matters Post election there is always jockeying to write the narrative. Frequently these are either complete fantasy, or 'faction' – fiction based on fact. By Graham Young - 8/5/2025 | 2 | 6 days ago |
| | Winning the suburbs is the key to winning elections. Worried about the cost of electricity? No, they can afford it – but are more worried about carbon emissions and climate change – so the very high cost of energy transition is worth it. By Ross Elliott - 7/5/2025 | 1 | 8 days ago |
| | The equity illusion: why lowering standards doesn't help the disadvantaged Fairness is not about everyone getting the same outcome. It's about everyone having a fair chance to reach their potential. By Steven Schwartz - 6/5/2025 | 1 | 8 days ago |
| | Another refinery closure in California increases the states' dependency on China With an upcoming Valero Refinery closure in California, the 5th largest economy in the world will be more dependent of China for its demands for transportation fuels and oil derivatives to make products. By Ronald Stein and Kasun Ubayasiri - 6/5/2025 | 1 | 9 days ago |
| | Private residential landlords are unfairly demonised If the trend of landlord-bashing by government continues, investors will simply walk away from the rental housing market. By Brendan O'Reilly - 5/5/2025 | 2 | 10 days ago |
| | Voters voted for the real deal, not the cross-dressing political party Each of these leaders won by sharpening the difference between them and their opponents. Peter Dutton and this lot of LNP leaders tried to minimise the difference. By Graham Young - 5/5/2025 | 15 | 23 hours ago |
| | Voting independent? It can be a risky move While the latest polls suggest Labor might scrape into forming a majority government, a minority government, propped up by the Greens, is still a real possibility. By Scott Prasser and Nicholas Aroney - 2/5/2025 | 2 | 13 days ago |
| | The nanny state infests our world Nanny state rules often owe their origins to moral panics. These are defined as a widespread fear that some evil person or thing threatens the values, interests, or well-being of a community or society. By David Leyonhjelm - 2/5/2025 | 6 | 13 days ago |
| | Voting Green may be the greatest act of self-harm by a generation ever Why would a party whose voters are younger and disproportionately likely to rent propose policies that could see rents increase on average by another $83 per week, as well as seeing as many as 450,000 homes disappearing from the rental market? By Graham Young - 1/5/2025 | 9 | 12 days ago |
| | Trump is ushering in a national disaster The Republican Party has lost its moral compass and its spine, and it will pay dearly for empowering Trump, who brought America to the precipice of a national disaster. By Alon Ben-Meir - 1/5/2025 | 4 | 6 days ago |
| | Anzac Day We owe our ancestors a country that believes in itself. By Steven Schwartz - 30/4/2025 | 6 | 14 days ago |
| | California NetZero leaders want to shutter their only zero emissions electricity generating plant California is being lobbied to import much of its electricity demands from out-of-state emission generating coal fired power plants, despite the 70-year safety record of the Navy with nuclear generated electricity. By Ronald Stein and Gene Nelson - 30/4/2025 | 8 | 13 days ago |
| | Methods of electricity generation Many believe that ideology and laws are stronger than the laws of Nature if forced. The reality is the reverse. By Charles Hemmings - 29/4/2025 | 12 | 11 days ago |
| | Some pets now get better medical treatment than their owners While there are inherent differences between the two, animals in Britain are increasingly likely to receive more timely and readily accessible medical treatment than their human counterparts, albeit often at a direct financial cost to their owners. By Ivor Campbell - 29/4/2025 | 2 | 16 days ago |
| | Labor’s litany of lies With time running out in the countdown to the May 3 Federal election, Australia's future may well depend on how many voters believe Labor's repetitive litany of lies. By John Mikkelsen - 28/4/2025 | 43 | 13 days ago |
| | Trump’s misreading of China’s resolve Trump’s imposition of tariffs upon China is seen as an assault with insult. By Murray Hunter - 24/4/2025 | 5 | 16 days ago |
| | NetZero policymakers remain oblivious that electricity came after oil! All the parts and components to generate electricity are made from oil derivatives manufactured from oil. By Ronald Stein - 24/4/2025 | 14 | 16 days ago |
| | Gender stunts in space: Blue Origin’s female celebrity envoys What was more accurately on show were celebrity space marketers on an expensive jaunt, showing us all that women can play the space capitalism game as well. By Binoy Kampmark - 23/4/2025 | 1 | 22 days ago |
| | Collusion and deception in Australian energy politics The annual growth increment of combined solar and wind energy is nearly constant and quite modest, averaging just 35 petajoules. By Tom Biegler - 23/4/2025 | 13 | 17 days ago |
| | A tale of two island nations With all the advantages and disadvantages of any nation, the biggest element in their prosperity is the calibre of leadership. By Stuart Ballantyne - 22/4/2025 | 8 | 22 days ago |
| | Dry Bones was resurrected as Israel’s premier cartoonist at age 81 Lttle has been written about his return to drawing cartoons in his eighties until his death on 14 April at the age of 87. By David Singer - 22/4/2025 | 1 | 20 days ago |
| | Flexible and sly: Indonesian Defence policy, Russia and Australian anxiety The frazzled response in Australia to the possibility of a Russian presence on Indonesian soil betrays its presumption. By Binoy Kampmark - 17/4/2025 | 3 | 27 days ago |
| | Domestic violence delusions: feminists pull the wool over our eyes 'You can't hand out domestic violence orders like parking tickets.' Well, that's exactly what they have in mind for residents of our Deep North. By Bettina Arndt - 17/4/2025 | 3 | 25 days ago |
| | Debunking the climate change consensus – part 1 Iit is a stupid statement that means nothing. Most scientists are not expert in the causes of climate change - people like biologists, particle physicists, material scientists, you name it - so most of their opinions don’t really matter. By Tom Harris - 16/4/2025 | 38 | 18 days ago |
| | The challenges of decoupling manufacturing from China As corporation profits soared, the towns and cities that once supported these corporation's factories became desolate wastelands. America is full of 'almost' ghost-towns that have become ghettos for the unemployed. By Murray Hunter - 15/4/2025 | 7 | 28 days ago |
| | Dutton's WFH backdown highlights the Coalition's policy flaws The working from home issue is more complex than a simple on or off. What the Coalition's original announcement showed was a lack of understanding of how the public service operates. By Scott Prasser - 15/4/2025 | 4 | 29 days ago |