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July 14, 2025
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Friday, July 11, 2025

A treaty may have had merit up until the 19th century or maybe a bit later, but such treaties have passed the point of relevance here in the twenty-first century.
Indigenous Affairs - Brendan O'Reilly
 
The two-state solution is dead and buried. A Jordan–Israel agreement may be the last untested path to peace.
International - David Singer - 25 comments
 

Thursday, July 10, 2025

Of all ways to ‘rescue’ the environment, climate-action looks the most elitist and least promising.
Environment - Stephen Saunders - 4 comments
 
Electricity from nuclear power sources is a necessity to ensure future balanced economic growth that is a lifeline out of poverty and instability for citizens in both developed and developing economies.
Economics - Ronald Stein, Robert Jeffrey and Olivia Vaughan - 2 comments
 

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Perjury is a crime. But when it happens in domestic violence cases, the courts look the other way.
Law & Liberties - Bettina Arndt - 1 comment
 
Stuart Ballantyne, imagines a conversation with God in 2028
Humour & Satire - Stuart Ballantyne - 4 comments
 

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

It is hard to assess the disastrous impact of Trump's immigration policy on our economy and its horrific human rights violations.
International - Alon Ben-Meir - 5 comments
 
Trump declared obliteration. The data suggest disruption — temporary, limited, and legally reckless.
International - Binoy Kampmark - 1 comment
 

Monday, July 7, 2025

We’ve gone from patriarchy to matriarchy — or maybe something worse: the rise of the feminarchy.
Political Philosophy - Graham Young - 8 comments
 
At current growth rates, Australia won’t reach its clean energy target for 50 to 100 years - if ever.
Environment - Tom Biegler - 3 comments
 

Friday, July 4, 2025

Anwar, the leader of ‘reformasi’, once leading massive street protests against the government is now getting protests in the streets asking him to resign.
International - Murray Hunter - 2 comments
 
HKOPS… trumps the ‘Palestinian state peaceful card’ pursued unsuccessfully by the United Nations for the last 58 years.
International - David Singer
 

Thursday, July 3, 2025

If entering politics was motivated by service rather than career, it would attract people who have done more than just climb the party ladder.
Political Philosophy - David Leyonhjelm - 9 comments
 
Trump accused the Democrats of leaking ‘information on the PERFECT FLIGHT’—then demanded the prosecution of journalists who reported on it.
Law & Liberties - Binoy Kampmark
 

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

It is not a matter of a lack of political will, strategy, or resources in the first place; rather, it is the futility of trying to change things thoroughly because the innermost core does not allow it to happen.
Political Philosophy - Mamtimin Ala - 6 comments
 
The demand for the products and transportation fuels made from fossil fuels continues to increase while the state has only focused on choking off the supply.
International - Ronald Stein and Nathan Hammer
 

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Israel's refusal to acknowledge Palestinian rights and humanity perpetuated a zero-sum narrative where Jewish safety is predicated on Palestinian dehumanization and death
International - Alon Ben-Meir - 7 comments
 
There is a need for an independent review of staffing allocations—to replace opaque conventions with transparent standards.
Political Philosophy - Scott Prasser - 1 comment
 

Monday, June 30, 2025

Gold protects and performs - not just from inflation, but from the boom-bust cycle driven by monetary spirits.
Economics - Darren Nelson
 
Wong's shift from constipated caution to free-flow approval for the US attack was a craven capitulation to the warmonger class.
International - Binoy Kampmark - 7 comments
 

Friday, June 27, 2025

Australia’s sovereignty in terms of how the US conducts its operations has been spared? Given AUKUS, this is an unsustainable claim.
International - Binoy Kampmark - 8 comments
 
Trump’s long-awaited decision on Judea and Samaria could follow his devastating attack on Iran’s nuclear sites.
International - David Singer
 

Thursday, June 26, 2025

Australia has no army, navy, or air force to speak about. Even our neighbours now have larger armed forces.
International - Murray Hunter - 6 comments
 
Affordable and reliable electricity from nuclear power sources is a necessity to ensure future balanced economic growth that is a lifeline out of poverty, and security for citizens around the world.
Environment - Ronald Stein, Oliver Hemmers and Steve Curtis - 1 comment
 

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Under the guise of protecting girls, researchers exploit harmless male banter to incriminate boys and label them misogynists.
Society - Bettina Arndt - 2 comments
 
Life, death, tragedy, love, beauty, courage, loyalty—all of these are omitted from our modern vocational curricula, and yet they are the only things that ever really matter.
Education - Steven Schwartz - 3 comments
 

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

De-escalation has become one of those coarse words in severe need of banishment, best kept in an index used by unredeemable hypocrites.
International - Binoy Kampmark - 3 comments
 
Even on the eve of Federation it was contended that the capitals were congested cesspools. Federation promised decentralisation. It didn’t deliver.
Nation Building - Ross Elliott - 2 comments
 

Monday, June 23, 2025

If productivity growth in construction had kept pace with manufacturing, the economy would now be $60 billion better off every year.
Economics - Jon Davies - 2 comments
 
The ancient quote from the Greek philosopher Phaedrus, to not let success go to one's head and inflating one's ego, which can lead to terrible failure, is a timeless warning to Trump and Netanyahu.
International - Alon Ben-Meir - 2 comments
 

Friday, June 20, 2025

Thus far, Australia's high-level low-profile research and development (R&D) review puts Treasury Line ahead of independent inquiry.
Science & Technology - Stephen Saunders
 
There are only two states in that area, Jordan and Israel…nothing has changed.
International - David Singer
 

Thursday, June 19, 2025

The president’s executive order cites the same three exceptions to free trade as did Adam Smith — in the same order.
Economics - Darren Nelson and James Carter - 6 comments
 
The 2025 High Level Political Forum is not just another forum - it is a test of whether the UN can live up to its founding principles amid deepening global crises.
International - Ioan Voicu - 2 comments
 

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

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
 
So-called renewables like wind and solar, 100% made from fossil fuels, only generate electricity occasionally.
Environment - Ronald Stein and Roger Caiazza - 23 comments
 

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

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 - 8 comments
 
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
 

Monday, June 16, 2025

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
 
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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