Thursday, January 18, 2024
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If there is any doubt as to ACMA’s role as a state censor, impending laws say government information cannot be labelled misinformation or disinformation. Law & Liberties - Graham Young - 6 comments |
As US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was promoting a message of calm restraint and firm control in limiting the toxic fallout of Israel's horrific campaign in Gaza, a decision was made to strike targets in Yemen International - Binoy Kampmark - 10 comments |
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
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The deficiency of the UN ceasefire proposal is that it does not address the threat of a repeat of the Al-Aqsa Flood pogrom. International - Peter Fenwick - 9 comments |
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
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Deborah Nixon, a historian from Sydney's University of Technology, says relations between Muslims and Hindus started to change after the British began ruling India in 1858. International - Peter Bowden - 9 comments |
Monday, January 15, 2024
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Electricity came after crude oil as all the components to generate electricity are made with oil derivatives manufactured from oil. Environment - Ronald Stein and Todd Royal - 11 comments |
Friday, January 12, 2024
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Although the two-state solution has been all along the only viable option the Israel-Hamas war has only reaffirmed that there is no other option. International - Alon Ben-Meir - 37 comments |
Thursday, January 11, 2024
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In last month's United Nations Climate Change Conference, it appeared at first that OPEC+ nations had injected a note of much-needed realism into the event. Environment - Tom Harris - 4 comments |
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
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The developed countries have materialistic lifestyles, not available before the 1800’s, that support higher standards of living than poorer nations with all the products made from crude oil petrochemicals. Environment - Ronald Stein - 5 comments |
It would be fair to say that Keynes, who saw money as a means to a more fulfilling life, would find our current era disconcerting, a culture of means without ends. Economics - Steven Schwartz - 6 comments |
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
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The Australian public is being led down a dangerous path with a net zero obsession with renewables. Renewables are not Environment - Charles Hemmings - 13 comments |
A media release from the PM&C further notes that no department official or Minister has a direct role in the release or otherwise of the documents in question. Domestic Politics - Binoy Kampmark - 2 comments |
Monday, January 8, 2024
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President Joe Biden’s surrogates asked for just one ship—not an unprecedented request. Why did we refuse? International - Graham Young - 27 comments |
More than 80 days of ensuing warfare in Gaza have provided a fertile field for the NYT to publish reports and photos counting the mounting daily deaths of Gazans. International - David Singer - 2 comments |
Friday, January 5, 2024
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Figuratively speaking, the world is growing by one Germany or ten Austrias per year. Environment - Ernst Schriefl, Saral Sarkar and Bruno Kern - 20 comments |
Ford started her man-hating campaign in media appearances back in 2007 but attracted widespread public attention in 2015 due to her infamous tweet saying simply: 'Kill all men'. Society - Bettina Arndt - 10 comments |
Thursday, January 4, 2024
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The Climate Emergency movement is an illustration of the power of a narrative. Environment - Robert Brinsmead - 4 comments |
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
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Prime Minister Netanyahu is accused of betraying his oath of office, and the litany of his mishaps and acts of corruption make him a dangerous liability to Israel. International - Alon Ben-Meir - 7 comments |
As climate change activism is becoming radical, many of the proposed remedies infringe upon the principles of environmentalism. Environment - Murray Hunter - 9 comments |
Tuesday, January 2, 2024
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As a kid growing up in Stuart, a bush village near Townsville, cyclones were just another chapter in life’s adventures - unless one actually hit your house. Environment - John Mikkelsen - 3 comments |
The stationing of the personnel in question finally puts to rest those contemptible apologetics that Australia is not a garrison for the US armed forces. International - Binoy Kampmark - 4 comments |
Friday, December 29, 2023
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The passage of United Nations (UN) Security Council Resolution 2720 on 22 December signals that the UN and President Biden will not be playing any constructive role in resolving the future of Gaza. International - David Singer - 6 comments |
And the Prime Minister, spent the first 18 months globe-trotting and at home campaigning for the Voice referendum, seemingly running the parliament in his spare time. Domestic Politics - Dinesh Malhotra - 20 comments |
Thursday, December 28, 2023
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A 13-year-old in Singapore is performing as well as a 17-year-old in Australia. Education - Graham Young - 15 comments |
Wednesday, December 27, 2023
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Rather than focus on preparing for the very real problems of a continually changing climate, our leaders are concentrated instead on the goal of 'stopping climate change.' Environment - Tom Harris - 16 comments |
Friday, December 22, 2023
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HKOPS shreds the Saudi-inspired 2002 Arab Peace Initiative and United Nations 2016 Security Council Resolution 2334 which both call for the creation of an independent Palestinian Arab state. International - David Singer - 23 comments |
Thursday, December 21, 2023
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A perpetual cycle of timber harvesting and regrowth limited to within a designated small portion of a hugely greater forested area, should be a relatively innocuous land use. Environment - Mark Poynter - 8 comments |
Wednesday, December 20, 2023
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Earth is living in the latter days of the Holocene Warm Era. This is the latest short, fertile, warm interlude within the long, barren, Pleistocene Ice Age. Environment - Viv Forbes - 6 comments |