Murray is now an associate professor at the University Malaysia Perlis, spending a lot of time consulting to Asian governments on community development and village biotechnology, both at the strategic level and "on the ground".
He is also a visiting professor at a number of universities and regular speaker at conferences and workshops in the region.
Murray is the author of a number of books, numerous research and conceptual papers in referred journals, and commentator on the issues of entrepreneurship, development, and politics in a number of magazines and online news sites around the world. Murray takes a trans-disciplinary view of issues and events, trying to relate this to the enrichment and empowerment of people in the region.
The Iran conflict and the potential collapse of the ‘Greater Israel’ vision
International - 12/06/2026 - 8 comments |
The integration of drones into modern warfare
International - 10/06/2026 - 4 comments |
Defining and moving towards academic journalism
Media - 26/05/2026 |
Reforming Australian defence: from Cold War relics to an affordable, independent missile and drone deterrent
International - 18/03/2026 - 5 comments |
The age of the ‘soulless’ corporation: how corporations have lost their people-centric orientations
Economics - 6/11/2025 |
Yet another US pivot to Asia
International - 3/11/2025 - 4 comments |
The ‘new HIV’: human-to-human shedding of lipid nanoparticle and spike protein
Health - 26/09/2025 |
Is AI taking us back into Plato’s Cave?
Political Philosophy - 16/09/2025 |
Dan Andrews appearance at Chinese 80th Victory Commemoration a sign of Australian foreign policy change
International - 8/09/2025 - 2 comments |
Aftermath of Thai-Cambodian border ceasefire
International - 1/08/2025 |
Thailand and Cambodia agree to an immediate ceasefire in border fighting
International - 29/07/2025 |
Thai-Cambodian clashes along border after months of building tensions
International - 28/07/2025 |
Malaysian prime minister’s own political party is in collapse
International - 4/07/2025 - 2 comments |
Isolated Australia under the new world disorder
International - 26/06/2025 - 6 comments |
Trump’s misreading of China’s resolve
International - 24/04/2025 - 5 comments |
The challenges of decoupling manufacturing from China
Economics - 15/04/2025 - 7 comments |
Putin’s claim his prime objective is to rid Ukraine of Nazism
International - 7/04/2025 - 15 comments |
Trump: Expectations, reality, and everything in-between
International - 2/04/2025 - 5 comments |
Masking during Covid was nothing to do with public health
Health - 25/03/2025 - 1 comment |
AI and the PhD
Education - 18/03/2025 |
The administrative state is the political elephant in the room
Political Philosophy - 17/03/2025 - 2 comments |
Why the US-Australian alliance needs immediate re-examination
International - 25/02/2025 - 8 comments |
Looking at Trumpism as the ‘greatest show on earth’
International - 30/01/2025 - 8 comments |
ASEAN will be an irrelevant sideshow with all the action in BRICS
International - 7/01/2025 - 1 comment |
The myth of the sustainable enterprise
Economics - 6/01/2025 - 5 comments |
Why the Russian Oreshnik medium-range ballistic missile is a game-changer in warfare
International - 28/11/2024 - 5 comments |
The shifting nature of journalism - it's being turned upside down
Media - 22/11/2024 - 4 comments |
The Trump tariff fallacy
International - 12/11/2024 - 4 comments |
Why BRICS will be the death knell of ASEAN
International - 7/11/2024 |
Is it time to go back to gold?
Economics - 3/10/2024 - 5 comments |
Dyslexia in Australian schools: identifying the problem
Education - 3/09/2024 - 6 comments |
How the EU tightened the noose on Telegram
Law & Liberties - 27/08/2024 |
New study highlights the carnage of government interventions during Covid on a global basis
Health - 14/08/2024 - 50 comments |
‘Eliminate Him’: a look at the violent rhetoric against Donald Trump
International - 16/07/2024 - 12 comments |
The US State of Kansas takes Pfizer to court under consumer law
Health - 24/06/2024 - 3 comments |
Wikipedia: another social media platform under control of the ‘spooks’
Law & Liberties - 2/05/2024 - 5 comments |
What is the world signing up for with the WHO?
Health - 10/04/2024 - 2 comments |
Assange British High Court ruling further curtails the freedom of the press
Law & Liberties - 2/04/2024 - 5 comments |
Excess deaths: the world is facing the most alarming health emergency of modern times
Health - 13/03/2024 - 3 comments |
AUKUS taking focus away from Australia’s immediate security issues
International - 5/03/2024 - 4 comments |
No one should be surprised Australian politicians have been mingling with foreign spies
International - 1/03/2024 - 14 comments |
Assange is just as much a political prisoner as Navalny
Law & Liberties - 22/02/2024 - 30 comments |
The demise of traditional journalism
Media - 16/02/2024 - 12 comments |
Novel lethal Corona Virus developed at the Wuhan Lab
Health - 19/01/2024 - 6 comments |
Environmentalism is on a collision course with climate change activism
Environment - 3/01/2024 - 9 comments |
Anwar's 'unity coalition government' is beginning is beginning to crumble
International - 3/11/2023 - 1 comment |
Albanese is creating a feudal-strata within the Aboriginal community
Indigenous Affairs - 24/10/2023 - 17 comments |
Australia’s rejection of 'The Voice' is not a throwback of Indigenous Australians
Indigenous Affairs - 16/10/2023 - 3 comments |
Albanese is setting back the cause of indigenous Australians
Law & Liberties - 2/10/2023 - 18 comments |
Why was the use of ivermectin to treat Covid-19 demonized?
Health - 7/09/2023 - 13 comments |
Hope for resolution in the long running Assange case
International - 23/08/2023 - 10 comments |
Expanding the possibilities within climate science
Environment - 21/08/2023 - 9 comments |
The Julian Assange rejection should prompt Australia to make a new defence assessment
International - 2/08/2023 - 10 comments |
New Swiss study shows that 1 in 35 people who received the Moderna Covid booster had detectable heart injuries
Health - 31/07/2023 - 8 comments |
Why real political change in Malaysia is not going to happen
International - 19/07/2023 - 1 comment |
Study on Covid vaccine autopsies finds 74% were caused by vaccine
Health - 17/07/2023 - 17 comments |
Australia is no longer a middle size military power and should behave accordingly
International - 21/06/2023 - 10 comments |
Covid-19 patient-zero was a Chinese scientist overseeing ‘gain of function’ research on SARS-Corona viruses
Health - 19/06/2023 - 3 comments |
The Department of Home Affairs Australia made 4,213 requests to social media companies to censor COVID-related matters
Law & Liberties - 30/05/2023 - 7 comments |
Insurmountable challenges ahead for a new Thai government
International - 22/05/2023 - 3 comments |
A letter from Julian Assange to King Charles III
Media - 9/05/2023 - 11 comments |
Farewell Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham
Health - 28/04/2023 - 4 comments |
From deputy sheriff to lone ranger: the loneliness of the US alliance
International - 6/04/2023 - 39 comments |
The betrayal of the public by mainstream media
Media - 22/03/2023 - 6 comments |
Indonesian and Malaysian concerns over AUKUS
International - 20/03/2023 - 8 comments |
Saudi-Iranian deal brokered by China will change geopolitics in the MENA
International - 15/03/2023 - 4 comments |
Anwar’s first 100 days: from hope to concern
International - 8/03/2023 - 1 comment |
Is adverse weather mistaken for climate change? The age of politicized science
Environment - 6/03/2023 - 14 comments |
A deep dive into the psyche of Anwar Ibrahim
International - 2/03/2023 - 2 comments |
The pandemic public policy catastrophe
Health - 24/02/2023 - 4 comments |
Pfizer press release: concerns over Cov Sars 2 vaccine safety and efficacy
Health - 6/02/2023 - 8 comments |
The dark side of The Voice
Political Philosophy - 23/01/2023 - 42 comments |
A clear and present danger to Malaysian democracy
International - 21/12/2022 - 1 comment |
Study indicates that lockdowns were counterproductive for Covid-19 immunity
Health - 16/12/2022 - 5 comments |
Anwar’s dilemma
International - 1/12/2022 - 1 comment |
Malaysia’s general election ushers in a new political landscape
International - 23/11/2022 - 2 comments |
Public policy and administration: lessons from the pandemic
Health - 9/11/2022 - 7 comments |
BRICS is becoming the big kid on the block
International - 7/11/2022 - 1 comment |
The decline of undergraduate education
Education - 3/11/2022 - 4 comments |
The clear and present danger of modelling on public policy
Political Philosophy - 2/11/2022 - 1 comment |
Malaysia’s public universities still lack free speech
International - 24/10/2022 - 5 comments |
How governments have failed their citizens
Law & Liberties - 12/09/2022 - 15 comments |
Pending release of Bali bomber Umar Patek indicates weak relationship between Australia and Indonesia
International - 29/08/2022 - 5 comments |
Pandemic mismanagement
Health - 23/08/2022 - 15 comments |
The assassination of Al-Zawahiri may not have been a good idea
International - 16/08/2022 - 2 comments |
Revisiting 'Small is Beautiful'
Economics - 3/08/2022 - 4 comments |
Australia: no difference in approach to China under new government
International - 25/07/2022 - 6 comments |
The brave new woke world.
Political Philosophy - 4/07/2022 - 12 comments |
Black Lives Matter? Or Buy Large Mansions? Looking back at a Malaysian BLM Response
Law & Liberties - 27/06/2022 - 7 comments |
The adverse effects of vaccine mandates on society
Health - 24/06/2022 - 12 comments |
NBER study indicates that lockdowns during the Covid pandemic were ineffective
Health - 16/06/2022 - 8 comments |
Singapore as a quasi-one-party state
International - 13/06/2022 - 4 comments |
Australian ASEAN Agriculture Workers Scheme needs urgent adjustment to ease labour shortages
International - 6/06/2022 - 5 comments |
The struggle to revive multi-culturalism: the lost Malaysian dream
International - 12/04/2022 - 5 comments |
What have we learnt over the last two years?
Health - 11/02/2022 - 24 comments |
The hijacking of journalism
Media - 7/02/2022 - 10 comments |
Australia and Japan confirm their mutual defence trajectory
International - 17/01/2022 - 6 comments |
Potential food crisis, prices rise: farm workers needed
International - 13/01/2022 - 14 comments |
Alternatives to the Great Reset
Political Philosophy - 22/12/2021 - 1 comment |
How the Malay elite hijacked Malaysia
International - 15/12/2021 - 2 comments |
Malaysia’s opposition coalition must radically change to survive
International - 1/12/2021 |
The Zimbabwe-ization of Malaysia
International - 23/11/2021 - 3 comments |
The great Australian defence strategy delusion
International - 4/11/2021 - 9 comments |
Australia’s new ASEAN farm worker visa hits snags
International - 14/10/2021 - 3 comments |
Australia needs to reconsider the acquisition of nuclear weapons
International - 14/09/2021 - 14 comments |
The Kamala Harris’ hollow visit to South-East Asia
International - 1/09/2021 - 4 comments |
Who is Anwar Ibrahim?
International - 27/08/2021 - 1 comment |
How Afghanistan will influence geo-politics in the region
International - 25/08/2021 - 5 comments |
Biden’s South-East Asia doctrine: repairing damage and neglect from the Obama and Trump years
International - 23/08/2021 - 2 comments |
Mahathir’s shattered legacy: how will historians judge him?
International - 13/08/2021 - 4 comments |
The forgotten issues of climate change
Environment - 10/08/2021 - 18 comments |
Widening class division in Thailand: the Covid-19 factor
International - 3/08/2021 - 1 comment |
Current political crisis preventing any solutions
International - 22/07/2021 - 1 comment |
Singapore’s controversial Internal Security Act (ISA): national security or political persecution?
International - 13/07/2021 - 1 comment |
Australia opens the gate for ASEAN agricultural workers
International - 9/07/2021 - 25 comments |
Under cover of national security
Law & Liberties - 25/06/2021 - 3 comments |
Malaysia: forget about politics, what really has to be done
International - 18/06/2021 - 4 comments |
The plight of Malaysia’s indigenous peoples
International - 15/06/2021 - 2 comments |
Is a Malaysian national unity government possible?
International - 11/06/2021 - 12 comments |
Free speech dying in Malaysia
International - 28/05/2021 - 9 comments |
Thai students back on the streets
International - 19/04/2021 - 1 comment |
Malaysia’s Government-linked Companies: development tools or corruption vehicles?
International - 7/04/2021 |
Southern Thailand’s phantom insurgency
International - 1/04/2021 - 4 comments |
Australia-China relationship chills
International - 1/12/2020 - 55 comments |
Australia’s migration advice industry in disarray
Law & Liberties - 12/11/2020 - 8 comments |
Thousands of registered migration agents in Australia to lose accreditation
Law & Liberties - 14/09/2020 - 15 comments |
Rethinking Australia’s defense and security
International - 2/09/2020 - 16 comments |
Singapore electoral results an opposition golden opportunity
International - 31/07/2020 - 3 comments |
Singapore’s Malay dilemma
International - 2/07/2020 - 5 comments |
Resetting higher education: returning to the community
Education - 30/06/2020 - 3 comments |
Five Eyes in Egypt
International - 23/06/2020 - 1 comment |
Thai military strategy in the deep south: surveillance state
International - 4/06/2020 - 4 comments |
Australia’s beef with China
International - 29/05/2020 - 13 comments |
Reinventing Asia’s tourism sector: coronavirus response calls for new tactics
International - 22/05/2020 - 4 comments |
Petronas: Malaysia's ailing financial lifeline
International - 13/05/2020 - 1 comment |
The Pell acquittal exposes Australia’s kangaroo court system
Law & Liberties - 15/04/2020 - 46 comments |
Asia’s air transport industry collapses
Economics - 6/04/2020 - 15 comments |
COVID-19 is likely to accelerate a business environment revolution
Economics - 3/04/2020 - 14 comments |
Thailand’s deep south insurgency is changing
International - 25/03/2020 - 1 comment |
Malaysia's new political landscape: back to the future…
International - 13/03/2020 - 1 comment |
Political betrayal, treachery, and political hara-kiri in Malaysia
International - 3/03/2020 - 2 comments |
How Malaysia’s political coup failed
International - 26/02/2020 - 1 comment |
The global crisis in credibility
Media - 25/02/2020 - 4 comments |
Cultural evolution and Thailand’s Deep South troubles
International - 18/02/2020 - 1 comment |
Curing Malaysia’s national psychosis
International - 16/01/2020 |
Malaysia’s lagging agriculture sector
Economics - 10/12/2019 - 1 comment |
Malaysia’s massive foreign worker dependency
International - 29/11/2019 - 5 comments |
Can Malaysia’s Mahathir survive by-election humiliation?
International - 22/11/2019 - 2 comments |
UMNO-PAS will win the next general election
International - 15/10/2019 - 1 comment |
Succeeding Malaysia’s nonagenarian premier
International - 30/09/2019 - 2 comments |
Malaysia faces youth unemployment crisis
International - 23/09/2019 - 4 comments |
The US’s trade war fallacy
International - 17/09/2019 - 4 comments |
Indonesia’s new capital: a new Nusantarian era?
International - 9/09/2019 - 10 comments |
What’s in a PhD?
Education - 5/09/2019 - 36 comments |
What Malaysia can teach the world about engaging China
International - 3/09/2019 - 3 comments |
Malaysia’s monarchy and the deep state
International - 27/08/2019 - 2 comments |
Ketuanan Melayu (Malay supremacy): power and the deep state in Malaysia
International - 21/08/2019 |
An Elephant on Your Nose: review
International - 20/08/2019 - 25 comments |
The great Australian tourist visa scam
Law & Liberties - 5/08/2019 - 5 comments |
Malaysia’s border problems
International - 31/07/2019 - 4 comments |
The Special Branch and the Malaysian Deep State
International - 12/07/2019 - 3 comments |
Malaysia’s Islamic schools face festering problems
International - 8/07/2019 - 1 comment |
Was Trump’s visit to the Korean DMZ to meet Kim Jung Un a whim or carefully thought out?
International - 4/07/2019 - 8 comments |
Malaysia’s deep Islamic state
International - 25/06/2019 - 5 comments |
What should be in Malaysia’s coming white paper on defence
International - 21/06/2019 - 3 comments |
Malaysian public universities are still going backwards
Education - 18/06/2019 - 5 comments |
The war on whistle-blowers
Law & Liberties - 14/06/2019 - 11 comments |
How Pakatan is shackled within the old paradigms of government
International - 12/06/2019 - 5 comments |
A surprise Chinese naval visit to Sydney Harbour
International - 10/06/2019 - 4 comments |
Why we should care about Julian Assange? Because next time they come for us...
Law & Liberties - 31/05/2019 - 28 comments |
The dangers of the Thai Deep South
International - 15/05/2019 - 2 comments |
Electoral reform crucial for Malaysian reform
International - 7/05/2019 - 1 comment |
The deep forces preventing reform in Malaysia
International - 2/05/2019 - 2 comments |
Lost Malaysian hopes and the Pakatan Catch 22
International - 26/04/2019 |
Australia’s disgraced cardinal: paradoxes, ironies and martyrdom?
Law & Liberties - 27/03/2019 - 36 comments |
Is there a change Australia’s nuclear weapons position under Turnbull?
International - 16/11/2017 - 11 comments |
Foreign infiltration into the Australian public service
International - 11/10/2017 - 7 comments |
DMCA abuse: how corporations are using US copyright law to harass and silence individuals
Law & Liberties - 26/09/2016 - 6 comments |
The emergence of a new patrimonial art
The Arts - 4/05/2016 - 1 comment |
Thailand and the expatriate experience
International - 16/03/2016 - 3 comments |
The shocking truth about MH370
International - 2/02/2016 - 7 comments |
Malaysia's media propaganda war
International - 27/01/2016 - 2 comments |
Islamic State’s appeal in Malaysia
International - 21/01/2016 - 2 comments |
Why Malaysian universities are performing poorly
International - 11/01/2016 - 2 comments |
Can the AEC be a success?
International - 31/12/2015 - 6 comments |
Rampant academic dishonesty is destroying Malaysia's soul
International - 13/11/2015 - 12 comments |
Bringing Muslims back to Islam
Religion & Spirituality - 28/10/2015 - 119 comments |
Malaysia in political stalemate
International - 26/10/2015 - 1 comment |
The Islamization of Thailand
International - 22/10/2015 - 5 comments |
Cabals, feudalism, and apartheid: will these institutions damn Malaysia's future prosperity?
International - 16/10/2015 |
Why there is no academic freedom in Malaysia
International - 9/10/2015 - 13 comments |
The financialization of the art world and the cannibalization of creativity
The Arts - 23/09/2015 - 6 comments |
The danger of climate change evangelism
Environment - 10/09/2015 - 12 comments |
Foreign students and declining higher education standards
Education - 14/08/2015 - 8 comments |
Muslim Australia and the search for a solution of the 'War on Terror'
Law & Liberties - 12/08/2015 - 22 comments |
Economic gloom for Australia?
Economics - 31/07/2015 - 19 comments |
AFP used 'cyberweapons' supplied by company supporting 'human rights abusing' countries
Law & Liberties - 14/07/2015 - 10 comments |
Humanity beware!
Environment - 29/05/2015 - 34 comments |
Revitalizing manufacturing enterprise in the post-industrial void
Economics - 28/04/2015 - 12 comments |
Is it time for the rise of local currencies?
Economics - 16/04/2015 - 6 comments |
The professor as a pretender
Education - 12/12/2014 - 13 comments |
Geo–cultural strategy for Eurasia
International - 24/06/2014 |
Sea Shepherd: eco terrorists or the front line to protect social justice?
Law & Liberties - 5/05/2014 - 10 comments |
Changing the economic paradigm through developing community enterprises in rural areas
Economics - 29/04/2014 - 3 comments |
Animism is alive and well in south-east Asia: what can we learn?
Religion & Spirituality - 21/03/2014 - 3 comments |
Natural building as a community game changer
Nation Building - 5/02/2014 - 5 comments |
Australia's tsunami of the aged
Health - 17/01/2014 - 18 comments |
Is meditation the best medicine?
Health - 3/01/2014 - 9 comments |
Making monks of women
International - 27/12/2013 - 12 comments |
Is Singapore western intelligence's 6th eye in Asia?
International - 9/12/2013 |
How Australia is spying on its own
Law & Liberties - 19/11/2013 - 29 comments |
Humiliation on the high seas
International - 15/11/2013 - 21 comments |
Change needed in intelligence approach
International - 4/11/2013 - 6 comments |
The Australian government's new stance on human rights?
Law & Liberties - 26/09/2013 - 2 comments |
The immorality of Victoria's prostitution laws
Law & Liberties - 20/09/2013 - 3 comments |
Abbott as PM may surprise everyone
Domestic Politics - 10/09/2013 - 17 comments |
Singapore's cadre system
International - 13/08/2013 - 5 comments |
Blundering through
Domestic Politics - 9/08/2013 - 11 comments |
Who decides who comes to Australia?
International - 2/08/2013 - 1 comment |
Abbott's Northern Australian idea: grand vision or folly?
Economics - 28/06/2013 - 22 comments |
Can there be a national unity government in Malaysia?
International - 19/06/2013 |
Finding a long term solution in the 'Deep South' of Thailand
International - 7/06/2013 - 6 comments |
Malaysia: it was never about the election
International - 7/05/2013 |
Searching for an end game in the Korean crisis
International - 29/04/2013 - 2 comments |
Imagination may be more important than knowledge
Education - 23/04/2013 - 5 comments |
What was the true intention behind Secretary Kerry's trip to China?
International - 16/04/2013 - 3 comments |
Who owns corporate Australia?
Economics - 11/03/2013 - 5 comments |
Malaysia and Thailand desperately seeking success against insurgency
International - 5/03/2013 - 2 comments |
The desperate plight of Islamic education in Southern Thailand
International - 27/02/2013 - 1 comment |
