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May 16, 2025
The most probable outcome for 2025–2026 is a continued stalemate, where neither Ukraine nor Russia achieves a decisive military victory.
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How's that for a toll of violence against men – all in the news in the same week as women march in the streets claiming women are the only victims?T
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Thursday, May 15, 2025

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Media - Jean Yates - 3 comments
 
Historians picked Curtin. The public picked Howard. But who really made Australia better?
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Wednesday, May 14, 2025

If nothing really matters, then why does it matter that nothing matters?
Political Philosophy - Steven Schwartz - 9 comments
 
Labor has the ideal ABC for 2025-31 – a powerful and complacent woke-left propaganda-ministry. The broadcaster’s overdue shunt of overrated Laura is typical.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2025

The two-party system masks itself in different names and faces—offering only the illusion of opposition.
Domestic Politics - Mamtimin Ala - 2 comments
 
When medical interventions pose unnecessary, disproportionate risks of harm, healthcare providers should refuse to offer them—even when requested.
Health - Maryanne Demasi - 6 comments
 

Monday, May 12, 2025

The one rare occasion in the twenty-first century where ancient ceremony, the old boy network – many presumptive virgins – along with festive dressing up, were seen with admiration rather than suspicion.
International - Binoy Kampmark - 9 comments
 
Is it ethical and moral for wealthy countries to subsidise 'green' energy while encouraging exploitation and environmental degradation in the developing world?
Environment - Ronald Stein - 2 comments
 

Friday, May 9, 2025

Scientific theories are never proven by a show of hands - if they were, the Earth would still be flat.
Environment - Tom Harris - 3 comments
 
Trump’s economic chaos is rattling markets and breaking the dollar’s spell.
International - Binoy Kampmark - 1 comment
 

Thursday, May 8, 2025

Post election there is always jockeying to write the narrative. Frequently these are either complete fantasy, or 'faction' – fiction based on fact.
Domestic Politics - Graham Young - 2 comments
 
HKOPS calls for the creation of a new territorial entity comprising Jordan, Gaza, and part of Judea and Samaria (West Bank) to be named the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine.
International - David Singer
 

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Worried about the cost of electricity? No, they can afford it – but are more worried about carbon emissions and climate change – so the very high cost of energy transition is worth it.
Domestic Politics - Ross Elliott - 1 comment
 
The sanctimonious left-elite is euphoric, confident that woke Labor can inflict six more years of population replacement, energy betrayal, and housing distress.
Domestic Politics - Stephen Saunders
 

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Fairness is not about everyone getting the same outcome. It's about everyone having a fair chance to reach their potential.
Political Philosophy - Steven Schwartz - 1 comment
 
With an upcoming Valero Refinery closure in California, the 5th largest economy in the world will be more dependent of China for its demands for transportation fuels and oil derivatives to make products.
Environment - Ronald Stein and Kasun Ubayasiri - 1 comment
 

Monday, May 5, 2025

If the trend of landlord-bashing by government continues, investors will simply walk away from the rental housing market.
Economics - Brendan O'Reilly - 2 comments
 
From hectoring and mocking to mineral diplomacy — Trump’s shift on Ukraine is less a change of heart than a change of terms.
International - Binoy Kampmark
 
Each of these leaders won by sharpening the difference between them and their opponents. Peter Dutton and this lot of LNP leaders tried to minimise the difference.
Domestic Politics - Graham Young - 15 comments
 

Friday, May 2, 2025

While the latest polls suggest Labor might scrape into forming a majority government, a minority government, propped up by the Greens, is still a real possibility.
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Nanny state rules often owe their origins to moral panics. These are defined as a widespread fear that some evil person or thing threatens the values, interests, or well-being of a community or society.
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Thursday, May 1, 2025

Why would a party whose voters are younger and disproportionately likely to rent propose policies that could see rents increase on average by another $83 per week, as well as seeing as many as 450,000 homes disappearing from the rental market?
Domestic Politics - Graham Young - 9 comments
 
The Republican Party has lost its moral compass and its spine, and it will pay dearly for empowering Trump, who brought America to the precipice of a national disaster.
International - Alon Ben-Meir - 4 comments
 

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

We owe our ancestors a country that believes in itself.
Political Philosophy - Steven Schwartz - 6 comments
 
California is being lobbied to import much of its electricity demands from out-of-state emission generating coal fired power plants, despite the 70-year safety record of the Navy with nuclear generated electricity.
Science & Technology - Ronald Stein and Gene Nelson - 8 comments
 

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Many believe that ideology and laws are stronger than the laws of Nature if forced. The reality is the reverse.
Science & Technology - Charles Hemmings - 12 comments
 
While there are inherent differences between the two, animals in Britain are increasingly likely to receive more timely and readily accessible medical treatment than their human counterparts, albeit often at a direct financial cost to their owners.
Health - Ivor Campbell - 2 comments
 

Monday, April 28, 2025

With time running out in the countdown to the May 3 Federal election, Australia's future may well depend on how many voters believe Labor's repetitive litany of lies.
Domestic Politics - John Mikkelsen - 43 comments
 
Trump's views for resolving sovereignty in just a miniscule area of Huckabee's 'tiny sliver of real estate' are yet to be revealed..
International - David Singer
 

Thursday, April 24, 2025

Trump’s imposition of tariffs upon China is seen as an assault with insult.
International - Murray Hunter - 5 comments
 
All the parts and components to generate electricity are made from oil derivatives manufactured from oil.
Science & Technology - Ronald Stein - 14 comments
 

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

What was more accurately on show were celebrity space marketers on an expensive jaunt, showing us all that women can play the space capitalism game as well.
Society - Binoy Kampmark - 1 comment
 
The annual growth increment of combined solar and wind energy is nearly constant and quite modest, averaging just 35 petajoules.
Nation Building - Tom Biegler - 13 comments
 

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

With all the advantages and disadvantages of any nation, the biggest element in their prosperity is the calibre of leadership.
International - Stuart Ballantyne - 8 comments
 
Lttle has been written about his return to drawing cartoons in his eighties until his death on 14 April at the age of 87.
International - David Singer - 1 comment
 

Thursday, April 17, 2025

The frazzled response in Australia to the possibility of a Russian presence on Indonesian soil betrays its presumption.
International - Binoy Kampmark - 3 comments
 
'You can't hand out domestic violence orders like parking tickets.' Well, that's exactly what they have in mind for residents of our Deep North.
Law & Liberties - Bettina Arndt - 3 comments
 

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