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 |  | Smell the roses: positive trends and Western accomplishments The world as a whole is doing fine, in sum. To widen our smile, let us name and acknowledge five Great Accomplishments of the West that we are proud of, and feel honoured to cherish and defend in these times. By Gigi Foster, Paul Frijters and Michael Baker - 30/5/2025 | 2 | 63 mins ago |
| | Trump’s budget cuts: a gamble that will sow global chaos Trump’s heartlessness could not have been more naked and may well irreversibly damage America’s global standing and moral commitments. By Alon Ben-Meir - 30/5/2025 | 1 | 4 hours ago |
| | Squabbling siblings: India, Pakistan and Operation Sindoor Prime Minister Modi, despite his grander visions for India, is a sectarian fanatic. History shows that fanaticism tends to shrink, rather than enlarge the mind. By Binoy Kampmark - 28/5/2025 | 1 | 2 days ago |
| | What if Australia had rejected net zero? The countries still pursuing net zero represent less than 40% of global emissions. Even if they all reach their targets - and there is zero possibility of that - it is even more pointless. By David Leyonhjelm - 28/5/2025 | 9 | 17 hours ago |
| | Economic prosperity demands continuous and uninterruptible electricity The intermittent electricity from so-called renewables cannot support AI and Datacenters. By Ronald Stein and Dick Storm - 27/5/2025 | 2 | 17 hours ago |
| | Israel at the crossroads: occupation, genocide, and the death of a vision The country that rose from the ashes of millions of Jews who perished in the Holocaust will not survive on the ashes of the Palestinians. By Alon Ben-Meir - 27/5/2025 | 9 | 56 mins ago |
| | Of saints and sinners If Francis is to become a saint, he has to produce two miracles… after his death. Milei is already well on the way to more than two miracles, well before his. By Graham Young - 26/5/2025 | 5 | 3 days ago |
| | The age of bullshit In a world of 'frameworks', 'stakeholders', and 'outcomes' public language is losing its grip on meaning. By Steven Schwartz - 26/5/2025 | 8 | 4 hours ago |
| | The morning after the democracy sausage sizzle To be blunt, what the Teals and Greens have achieved is akin to renovating the interior of an old heritage mansion, while leaving the rotting foundations untouched. By Chek Ling - 23/5/2025 | 2 | 7 days ago |
| | Newsom relinquishing control to China to meet the energy demands of Californians? While the economy demand continues to increase for products and fuels, Newsom continues to destroy the supply of oil and refining to meet those demands – China coming to the rescue! By Ronald Stein and Mike Umbro - 22/5/2025 | 2 | 7 days ago |
| | United Nations readies to increase Jew-hatred worldwide The world cannot afford to watch the two-State solution disappear. Political leaders face clear choices – the choice to be silent, the choice to acquiesce, or the choice to act. By David Singer - 22/5/2025 | 17 | 2 days ago |
| | We need to talk about Jamie Miller Not since Lionel Shriver’s novel We Need to Talk About Kevin has a work of fiction provided such a confronting and disturbing insight into the adolescent mind. By Jean Yates - 21/5/2025 | 3 | 8 days ago |
| | Trump, planes and the Arabian Gulf tour Forget the security implications and brazen corruption... all the parties concerned could gloat without consequential censure. By Binoy Kampmark - 21/5/2025 | 3 | 9 days ago |
| | Trump’s budget cuts - a gamble that will sow global chaos Trump’s rampage against international organizations is an assault on every individual, the poor, the despondent, and the needy, whose only lifeline to survive is American aid. By Alon Ben-Meir - 20/5/2025 | 2 | 9 days ago |
| | The geopolitical future of Ukraine – four possible scenarios for 2025–2026 The most probable outcome for 2025–2026 is a continued stalemate, where neither Ukraine nor Russia achieves a decisive military victory. By Yuri Koszarycz - 16/5/2025 | 4 | 2 days ago |
| | Tasmanian police resist feminist weaponisation of DV laws How's that for a toll of violence against men – all in the news in the same week as women march in the streets claiming women are the only victims?T By Bettina Arndt - 16/5/2025 | 2 | 14 days ago |
| | 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 | 3 | 14 days 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 | 19 | 12 days 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 | 15 days 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 | 17 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 | 16 days 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 | 15 days 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 | 18 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 | 20 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 | 21 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 | 21 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 | 23 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 | 23 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 | 24 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 | 25 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 | 16 days 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 | 28 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 | 28 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 | 27 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 | 21 days ago |
| | Anzac Day We owe our ancestors a country that believes in itself. By Steven Schwartz - 30/4/2025 | 6 | 29 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 | 28 days ago |