Wednesday, June 18, 2025
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Current approaches, bureaucrats, inadequate action and will, complacency and not seeing the economic efficiencies and opportunities, will never ever get us past the goal posts. Environment - John O'Donnell
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So-called renewables like wind and solar, 100% made from fossil fuels, only generate electricity occasionally. Environment - Ronald Stein and Roger Caiazza - 4 comments
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Tuesday, June 17, 2025
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Past performance is the best predictor of future performance, so the business chiefs heading to Anthony Albanese’s Productivity Summit should know they are about to be carved up and handed to the union movement. Economics - Graham Young - 7 comments
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When the limits of tolerance are unclear, people can become tolerant of anything - leading to a situation where everything is tolerated and, consequently, nothing is truly valued or respected. Political Philosophy - Mamtimin Ala
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Monday, June 16, 2025
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Israel’s attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities may be justified if one takes Netanyahu’s explanation at face value. I doubt, however, if he and Trump have fully considered the ominous regional ramifications of the attack. International - Alon Ben-Meir
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AUKUS was conceived by paranoid armchair strategists, flabby think tankers and profligate spenders happy to expend other people's money. International - Binoy Kampmark
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Friday, June 13, 2025
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Is a fake summer reading list a harmless AI 'hallucination' or a glimpse of something more troubling: a culture slowly surrendering to the smooth, convincing voice of unreality? Science & Technology - Steven Schwartz - 3 comments
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The advice they are providing is about as delusional as saying the royals need to become more like Meghan Markle to save the monarchy. Political Philosophy - Dan Ryan - 20 comments
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Thursday, June 12, 2025
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'The Israeli government is giving weapons to a group of criminals and felons, identified with the Islamic State group'. International - Binoy Kampmark
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has falsely claimed there is no alternative solution to the creation of a Palestinian Arab state between Israel and Jordan (two-state solution). International - David Singer - 3 comments
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Wednesday, June 11, 2025
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The toxicity of electric vehicle batteries, from old or burned-out EV’s, is an even uglier side than what is shown in the Larry Elder documentary 'The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, of Electric Vehicles' Environment - Ronald Stein
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How did the United States, with all its checks and balances, end up with a gerontocratic shadow government? International - Vitaly Ryumshin - 2 comments
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Tuesday, June 10, 2025
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America must be afraid of itself, of its once trusted institutions grooming their impressionable and impetuous youth to become useful tools for counter-hegemony. International - Mamtimin Ala - 2 comments
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Musk, compromised in his support and having second thoughts, can only go noisily into the confused night International - Binoy Kampmark - 1 comment
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Monday, June 9, 2025
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Liberalism and Conservatism are indeed very distinct philosophical and political traditions whose differences should not be underestimated. Political Philosophy - Dan Ryan - 18 comments
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Friday, June 6, 2025
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Australia divvies up its GST to the states in a way that punishes success and rewards failure. Economics - Graham Young
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Some children bully for fun. Others do it to stay on top. The reasons matter – because they shape the solutions. Education - Marilyn Campbell and Shannon O'Brien - 3 comments
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Thursday, June 5, 2025
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For over a year, I refused to ascribe Israel's war against Hamas and the reign of horror it is inflicting on the Palestinians in Gaza as genocide, but now I feel shaken to the core. International - Alon Ben-Meir - 33 comments
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Albanese Government hits the ground strolling - the problems of not recalling federal parliament sooner Domestic Politics - Scott Prasser - 5 comments
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Wednesday, June 4, 2025
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Despite a mammoth majority, the Prime Minister acts like a man permanently besieged, his Labour Party seemingly less popular than Typhoid Mary. International - Binoy Kampmark - 3 comments
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Here’s Mr Albanese, pretending to re-fly the Coalition’s east-coast gas-reservation, outing his 40-year emissions-rich ‘surprise’ for Woodside NW Shelf gas, while smirking ‘it’s net zero, not zero’. Environment - Stephen Saunders - 27 comments
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Tuesday, June 3, 2025
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Government-supported monopolies resemble the shortages, escalating costs, and brittle prospects of a slave state. Economics - Ronald Stein, Oliver Hemmers and Steve Curtis
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The autonomy proposal is not a solution – it is a ticking time bomb. Embracing genuine self-determination is the only viable road to peace. International - Kamal Fadel - 2 comments
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Monday, June 2, 2025
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The fund is intended for one, unambiguous purpose: war. The weasel word 'defence' is merely the code, the cipher. Break it, and it spells out aggression and conflict. International - Binoy Kampmark - 8 comments
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It seems crazy that we give a corporation that’s ten years old rights, but we won’t give rights to a ten-thousand-year-old river. Environment - Kevin Brophy
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Friday, May 30, 2025
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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. Political Philosophy - Gigi Foster, Paul Frijters and Michael Baker - 5 comments
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Trump’s heartlessness could not have been more naked and may well irreversibly damage America’s global standing and moral commitments. International - Alon Ben-Meir - 3 comments
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Thursday, May 29, 2025
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Renewables only generate electricity — they cannot produce the 6,000 products and transportation fuels that make modern life possible. Economics - Ronald Stein and John McBratney
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The UN 1947 resolution had called for the creation of an Arab state – not a Palestinian state. The resolution was so worded because there were no identifiable groups called 'Palestinians'. International - David Singer
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Wednesday, May 28, 2025
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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. International - Binoy Kampmark - 1 comment
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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. Environment - David Leyonhjelm - 14 comments
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Tuesday, May 27, 2025
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The intermittent electricity from so-called renewables cannot support AI and Datacenters. Science & Technology - Ronald Stein and Dick Storm - 2 comments
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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. International - Alon Ben-Meir - 13 comments
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Monday, May 26, 2025
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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. Economics - Graham Young - 5 comments
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In a world of 'frameworks', 'stakeholders', and 'outcomes' public language is losing its grip on meaning. Media - Steven Schwartz - 8 comments
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Friday, May 23, 2025
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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. Domestic Politics - Chek Ling - 2 comments
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The Trump administration's pursuit of a negotiated agreement over Iran's nuclear program is the only sound policy that can prevent a regional conflagration. International - Alon Ben-Meir
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Thursday, May 22, 2025
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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! Environment - Ronald Stein and Mike Umbro - 2 comments
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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. International - David Singer - 17 comments
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Wednesday, May 21, 2025
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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. Society - Jean Yates - 3 comments
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Forget the security implications and brazen corruption... all the parties concerned could gloat without consequential censure. International - Binoy Kampmark - 3 comments
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Tuesday, May 20, 2025
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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. International - Alon Ben-Meir - 2 comments
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Stuart Ballantyne, an early whistleblower on the Greens true agenda, suggests an immediate repealing of most of EPA over-reach. Environment - Stuart Ballantyne
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