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 |  | Useful expedient: expelling Iran’s Ambassador to Australia Iran has bigger fish to fry; why would it waste resources targeting Australia’s Jewish community, a country so far from its interests as to be satirically irrelevant? By Binoy Kampmark - 29/8/2025 | 6 | 5 hours ago |
| | Trump: ditch UN, Hamas, PLO and focus on Israel & Jordan The two-state solution is not rooted in international law but flagrantly violates it, while a practical alternative — the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine plan — is ignored. By David Singer - 29/8/2025 | 4 | 18 hours ago |
| | Midterms 2026: the Democrats' last stand against Trump The results of next year’s midterm election will demonstrate whether or not the Democratic Party has what it takes to save the nation from Trump’s march toward the abyss. By Alon Ben-Meir - 28/8/2025 | 11 | 2 days ago |
| | Anticipating the biggest event in the sphere of multilateral diplomacy By omitting multilateralism and offering only a token nod to solidarity, the UN’s flagship report weakens its own narrative at a time of unprecedented global interdependence. By Ioan Voicu - 28/8/2025 | 1 | 2 days ago |
| | Casino Royale? Flushed? The cargo cult mentality seems irrevocably welded to big shiny things that promise to ‘put our city on the map’ – yet time and again, the promise collapses into pokies for pensioners. By Ross Elliott - 27/8/2025 | 2 | 3 days ago |
| | Think tanker demands for AUKUS: What Australia should do with US submarines The nuclear subs program, still a chimera, is already distorting Australia’s defence budget - consuming billions while delivering nothing for decades. By Binoy Kampmark - 27/8/2025 | 4 | 2 days ago |
| | President Trump, you must stop Netanyahu’s second genocide in Gaza President Trump, you are the only leader who can stop Netanyahu from committing another genocide in Gaza. The whole world is watching. Do not allow yourself to become an accessory. By Alon Ben-Meir - 26/8/2025 | 15 | 26 hours ago |
| | Digging deeper on community radio: Triple R and indispensable airwaves The streaming behemoths have created an odd sense of detachment, and certain listeners are seeking grassroot comforts that only community radio can provide. By Binoy Kampmark - 25/8/2025 | 4 | 6 days ago |
| | Will the Xi Jinping era come to a quiet end? A 'military mutiny' has already taken place, and a 'political coup' is underway. By Wu Zuolai - 25/8/2025 | 5 | 6 days ago |
| | Albanese's 'productivity' summit: a political show with no substance Rather than attend, the Opposition should have run its own summit — a true government-in-waiting would set the agenda, not follow it. By Scott Prasser - 22/8/2025 | 16 | 4 days ago |
| | A tale of two tipping points The geological record shows higher CO₂ and hotter climates - but no tipping points, and life flourished. By Rafe Champion - 21/8/2025 | 6 | 9 days ago |
| | Wind turbines and solar panels only generate electricity Wind turbines and solar panels are incapable of making any of the products or transportation fuels demanded by the 8 billion on this planet. By Ronald Stein and Yoshihiro Muronaka - 21/8/2025 | 4 | 7 days ago |
| | The US faces a perilous crossroad If Trump is allowed to continue fully executing his destructive socio-economic and political agenda, he will destroy what America stands for, and permanently extinguish its global leadership. By Alon Ben-Meir - 20/8/2025 | 8 | 10 days ago |
| | On being far right According to some people, Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro and his supporters are 'far-right'. By David Leyonhjelm - 19/8/2025 | 30 | 10 days ago |
| | Diplomatic merchandise: exploiting the issue of Palestinian recognition Recognition saves no lives, feeds no families, and rebuilds no schools — but it soothes consciences in Paris, London and Ottawa. By Binoy Kampmark - 18/8/2025 | 6 | 10 days ago |
| | Have we got a deal for Donald!!! Queensland, the NT and WA are the only parts worth saving — the rest can be sold off as ‘Greensland’ for $38. By Stuart Ballantyne - 18/8/2025 | 4 | 10 days ago |
| | Seizing the global momentum for a two-state solution Palestinians and Israel, with the unwavering support of the US, must seize on the growing international momentum in support of an independent Palestinian state. By Alon Ben-Meir - 15/8/2025 | 20 | 12 days ago |
| | The world is turning classical The world is turning classical. Not everywhere. Not all at once. But unmistakably - and just in time. By Steven Schwartz - 15/8/2025 | 3 | 14 days ago |
| | Albanese and Wong shame Australia Albanese and Wong ignore that an Arab state east of the Jordan was already independent in 1946, with Jewish rights west of the river preserved under the UN Charter. By David Singer - 14/8/2025 | 9 | 16 days ago |
| | The Great Barrier Reef keeps on living 'Cruising over plate corals and staghorns on a manta board, I saw a reef alive with colour and life.' By John Mikkelsen - 12/8/2025 | 89 | 3 hours ago |
| | Our daily bread (and other dangerous substances) Your dinner doesn't need an app or a PhD, just something to eat, something to drink, and a little gratitude. This is a story about science, food, and how we're ruining both in the name of wellness. By Steven Schwartz - 11/8/2025 | 5 | 19 days ago |
| | Bridge our differences: Australians march for Palestine Amid pouring rain, our grief and hope mixed to something beautiful: kindness and compassion. By Wasim El-Haj - 11/8/2025 | 17 | 17 days ago |
| | Adjusting the temperature: climate change and international law Courts are turning climate inaction into an internationally wrongful act — and fossil fuel states are in the dock. By Binoy Kampmark - 8/8/2025 | 5 | 19 days ago |
| | UN self-destructing in pursuit of dead two-state solution Ignoring a century-old legal mandate, the UN has chosen politics over the charter it swore to uphold. By David Singer - 8/8/2025 | 22 | 17 days ago |
| | UN climate-czar abuses Australia, cossets leviathan China Despite July’s highly aggressive return-visit from UNFCCC bovver-boy Simon Stiell, the coalition seems unlikely to seriously challenge Labor’s net-zero cult. By Stephen Saunders - 7/8/2025 | 8 | 23 days ago |
| | Nuclear power in a free enterprise environment is the pathway to abundant low-cost electricity. Getting Government, mandates, and subsidies out-of-the-way will benefit humanity and allow creative free enterprise to succeed in delivering electricity to the world. By Ronald Stein, Oliver Hemmers and Steve Curtis - 7/8/2025 | 4 | 23 days ago |
| | A proposal for the antithesis of the Nobel peace prize If we honour peacemakers, why not also name the architects of discord? By John Töns - 7/8/2025 | 7 | 18 days ago |
| | Celebrating 140 years of the Fabians Democracy has become a zero-sum game — but the Fabians still believe another world is possible. By John Töns - 6/8/2025 | 10 | 24 days ago |
| | A little rebellion To understand political debates, it helps to have a view as to where we derive our liberties. By David Leyonhjelm - 6/8/2025 | 10 | 24 days ago |
| | The moral cost of Jewish leaders’ silence The war crimes perpetrated by the Netanyahu government against Palestinians have seriously harmed Jews around the world, as many Jewish leaders remained silent in the wake of these crimes. By Alon Ben-Meir - 5/8/2025 | 8 | 25 days ago |
| | Misusing the children: The UK Online Safety Act, privacy and censorship Many seem to want censorship as a form of stand-in parenting—leaving children permanently immature and unspoiled by the richer, more complicated life. By Binoy Kampmark - 4/8/2025 | 3 | 27 days ago |
| | Israel paves way for Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution RIP two-state solution – Israel’s Knesset buries it while reviving a Jordanian alternative. By David Singer - 1/8/2025 | 5 | 28 days ago |