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View commentsView articleThe 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
29 hours ago
View commentsView articleWho 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
59 hours ago
View commentsView articleStep 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
96 hours ago
View commentsView articleAn 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
22 days ago
View commentsView articleGender-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
628 hours ago
View commentsView articleWhite 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
917 hours ago
View commentsView articleThe 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
23 days ago
View commentsView articleThousands 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
35 days ago
View commentsView articleThe 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
16 days ago
View commentsView articleTrump 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
26 days ago
View commentsView articleWinning 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
18 days ago
View commentsView articleThe 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
18 days ago
View commentsView articleAnother 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
19 days ago
View commentsView articlePrivate 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
210 days ago
View commentsView articleVoters 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
1523 hours ago
View commentsView articleVoting 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
213 days ago
View commentsView articleThe 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
613 days ago
View commentsView articleVoting 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
912 days ago
View commentsView articleTrump 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
46 days ago
View commentsView articleAnzac Day
We owe our ancestors a country that believes in itself.
By Steven Schwartz - 30/4/2025
614 days ago
View commentsView articleCalifornia 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
813 days ago
View commentsView articleMethods 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
1211 days ago
View commentsView articleSome 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
216 days ago
View commentsView articleLabor’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
4313 days ago
View commentsView articleTrump’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
516 days ago
View commentsView articleNetZero 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
1416 days ago
View commentsView articleGender 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
122 days ago
View commentsView articleCollusion 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
1317 days ago
View commentsView articleA 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
822 days ago
View commentsView articleDry 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
120 days ago
View commentsView articleFlexible 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
327 days ago
View commentsView articleDomestic 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
325 days ago
View commentsView articleDebunking 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
3818 days ago
View commentsView articleThe 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
728 days ago
View commentsView articleDutton'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
429 days ago
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