Monday, October 5, 2026
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The current U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq adds another layer of uncertainty to an already fragile regional security environment in West Asia. Such transitions inevitably create openings that different actors may seek to test or exploit. International - Olga Algayerova
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George Orwell's insight was that while the reality behind words doesn't change, the words we use may limit how we can think about it. Environment - Tom Harris - 4 comments
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Friday, October 2, 2026
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Some people can't take a joke, but it's not unusual for whole groups of people to miss a joke entirely. Domestic Politics - Graham Young - 15 comments
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It's one thing to be passively aware of disability, but making it kinetically real can make a real difference. Education - Dane Cross
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Thursday, October 1, 2026
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British authorities and Donald Trump hailed a security triumph near RAF Fairford. The farmer who raised the alarm offered a less reassuring account. International - Binoy Kampmark
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Union corruption inflates building costs while tobacco taxes feed a violent black market. Australia’s gangster problem demands a change of policy - and perhaps a change of government. Law & Liberties - Brendan O'Reilly - 2 comments
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Before the Brisbane Lions, there was a bush school team coached by a headmaster learning from the rule book - and a reluctant rover who would rather have been fishing. Sport - John Mikkelsen
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Wednesday, September 30, 2026
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If the rate is ordinary and the pain is extraordinary, the rate is the trigger, not the cause. Economics - Anish Puri - 2 comments
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What begins as a neutral tool quickly becomes attuned to the data it encounters. This adaptability is now being exploited in a systematic manner. Science & Technology - Murray Hunter - 1 comment
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A television program that once forged Australian media culture has now surrendered autonomy and found a worked-out doctrine. Media - David Hutchens - 1 comment
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Tuesday, September 29, 2026
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Imagine a calmer and safer post-Bondi Australia. Immigration is low, and less divisive. Government need not lie about it all the time, nor continually attack citizen-voters. Nation Building - Stephen Saunders - 2 comments
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Europe's rivers have provided connection over centuries, but the modern world requires more than just water. International - Marija Cekmariova - 1 comment
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Monday, September 28, 2026
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Does war serve a purpose to nature that makes it inevitable rather than senseless? Political Philosophy - Peter Curson - 1 comment
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Artificial intelligence has been under development for 70 years. Why, just as it becomes commercially valuable, are we suddenly being told it could extinguish humanity? Science & Technology - Murray Hunter - 1 comment
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Friday, September 25, 2026
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Mental health may indeed be one of medicine’s great remaining frontiers. But acknowledging uncertainty is part of understanding the problem. Health - David Leyonhjelm - 3 comments
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The US-led Western war on terror toppled the Taliban regime in 2001, but continued for two decades. The United States reportedly spent $2 trillion on the war effort and lost 2,400 American troops. International - Ehsan Stanizai
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Thursday, September 24, 2026
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Elected members imagine themselves trapped between an economy needing immigrants and a public wanting fewer. It’s time they questioned their assumptions. Nation Building - Cathal Leslie - 1 comment
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The California economy runs on the supply chain of products and transportation fuels made from raw crude oil that is diminishing from refinery closures. Science & Technology - Ronald Stein and Lance Christensen
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Healthcare professionals are not service providers in a market economy, nor moral agents who toggle between four competing principles. Political Philosophy - Sam Ben-Meir
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Wednesday, September 23, 2026
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It's a failure of economics more than it is a failing of climate science. Science & Technology - Tom Harris - 3 comments
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A UN which carried a big stick. Now that would change international relations. International - Barry York - 3 comments
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Tuesday, September 22, 2026
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The architects of artificial superintelligence now warn that it could escape control, cripple the internet and even extinguish humanity. So why did they develop it? Science & Technology - Binoy Kampmark - 2 comments
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When does your past stop being your present and future? Domestic Politics - John Mikkelsen - 1 comment
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Monday, September 21, 2026
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Fears that AI is primed to wipe out humanity exist in the realm of fantasy, meanwhile in real life there are limits. Science & Technology - John Mikkelsen - 5 comments
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Rich countries are insulated from the worst of commodity markets, but there are some things money can't buy. Nation Building - Tim Butler - 1 comment
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Friday, September 18, 2026
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Israel’s accelerating drive toward a biblical 'Greater Israel' is not a deviation but the culmination of decades of creeping annexation and global indulgence. International - Alon Ben-Meir
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Does training in the arts of creative writing produce better writers? Let the Miles Franklin speak. The Arts - Rajat Kanti Satpati
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Thursday, September 17, 2026
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In the carving up of GST share, one state’s costly mistakes can become everybody else’s fiscal problem. Nation Building - Graham Young - 5 comments
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Private enterprise can solve the spent nuclear fuel problem beyond government grants. Science & Technology - Ronald Stein, Olivia Vaughan and Steve Curtis
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Wednesday, September 16, 2026
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Australian manufacturers have slashed the stock on their shelves. Is this newfound efficiency - or the quiet removal of their last buffer against disruption? Economics - Jarrod Adam - 4 comments
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The UN wants to revive the dream of a new international economic order. Can it turn half-century-old promises into action? International - Ioan Voicu - 1 comment
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Tuesday, September 15, 2026
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The task is not to choose between deterrence and dialogue, nor between international partnerships and regional agency. A stable regional order is likely to require all of these elements. International - Geoffrey Hoon
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Israel’s West Bank settlements have long attracted condemnation. Now twelve friendly nations are preparing to move beyond words - and Netanyahu has noticed. International - Binoy Kampmark
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Monday, September 14, 2026
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The scheme was well-meaning, and the results predictable, given the circumstances, just not those promoted as the purpose. Economics - Anish Puri
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From a Chinese strategic perspective, as one analyst put it, Australia is less a host of US bases than a US base in its own right, a significant piece of real estate in America’s Pacific warfighting architecture. International - Murray Hunter - 3 comments
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Friday, September 11, 2026
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Learning to live with a technology where there is a 10% chance it could commit the ultimate genocide. Science & Technology - Gleb Tsipursky
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150 million people live on Java, the most heavily populated island in the world. A the consequences of a volcanic disaster for them wouldn't be confined to Indonesia. International - Murray Hunter - 4 comments
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Thursday, September 10, 2026
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The modern world has too many choke points and not enough redundancies. Nation Building - Heather McRobie-Allansdottir
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Are we addicted to fossil fuel or is it a functional necessity? Science & Technology - Ronald Stein and Yoshihiro Muronaka - 9 comments
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Wednesday, September 9, 2026
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Christopher Nolan's Odyssey continues an entrenched Western tradition of culturally appropriating ancient cultures and eviscerating them. The Arts - Arthur Saniotis - 3 comments
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Is it time to rethink our attitudes to protecting great whites? Has conserving whales boosted the number of predators in our waters? Maybe a cull is called for. Environment - Graham Young - 6 comments
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Tuesday, September 8, 2026
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When Colin from Accounts is onto it you know that it is going to only get bigger. Society - Bettina Arndt - 3 comments
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The automation of warfare proceeds apace. Are we at Skynet 1.0? Law & Liberties - Binoy Kampmark
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Monday, September 7, 2026
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The Gulf now faces a historic opportunity to become an active producer rather than a passive consumer of regional security. International - Vladimir Norov - 1 comment
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Like the sovereign described by Thomas Hobbes, this system encompasses and organizes collective life. But unlike Hobbes's Leviathan, it does not command from above. Political Philosophy - Sam Ben-Meir - 1 comment
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