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December 5, 2024
What is sport really doing for Australia's identity today? Has our entire sense of self been reduced to an obsession with who can throw, kick, or run the fastest?
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Wednesday, December 4, 2024

The election of Donald Trump has thrown contemporary economic commentary into overdrive. It has also exposed the limitations of contemporary economic knowledge and comment.
Economics - Ben Rees - 3 comments
 
Like many other Western countries, it is divided over many issues, including Aboriginal rights, immigration, economic hardship, climate change, and racial reconciliation.
Political Philosophy - Mamtimin Ala - 5 comments
 

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Zelenskyy's proposal marks a significant departure from Ukraine's previous stance of rejecting any compromise on territorial integrity.
International - Vince Hooper - 5 comments
 
Asian, female and gay, and extremely competent, she would put Australia as the leading nation on the world map. Even Anthony Albanese would give up his power to Wong to ensure his party stayed in power.
Domestic Politics - Peter Bowden - 10 comments
 

Monday, December 2, 2024

Williams makes a point of juxtaposing the weak, impressionable consumer of news and those of Rogan and his tribe of entrepreneurial podcasting fantasists.
Media - Binoy Kampmark - 5 comments
 
Under the system we have today in which government spending picks winners and losers in the business world and hires massive amounts of people, we have amassed an unsupportable debt of more than $100,000 per person.
Environment - Ronald Stein, Oliver Hemmers and Steve Curtis - 2 comments
 

Friday, November 29, 2024

The easiest way to understand what central banks are doing is to look at employment growth.
Economics - Michael Knox
 
New York Times opinion columnist Thomas Friedman has offered President-elect Donald Trump some friendly advice on resolving the Arab-Jewish conflict.
International - David Singer
 

Thursday, November 28, 2024

Stabilising population, argues the report Big thirsty Australia, is the safest and cheapest avenue to meet arid Australia's water needs. Not what government wants to hear, is it?
Environment - Stephen Saunders - 11 comments
 
In the Indo-Pacific region such intermediate range hyper-sonic systems could render intercontinental ballistic systems obsolete.
International - Murray Hunter - 4 comments
 

Wednesday, November 27, 2024

International law remains a curious creature, one of mixed shape and uneven maturity, being based on the mutual, grudging acknowledgment of conventions between countries.
International - Binoy Kampmark - 6 comments
 
There are a multitude of eminent people who have argued whether or not we have free will. This paper sets out the assertions of these writers, both for and against.
Political Philosophy - Peter Bowden - 8 comments
 

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

These concerns primarily revolve around national dynamics, economic implications, and the solidification of nationalist attitudes and inter-political combustion within the Balkan states.
International - Alon Ben-Meir - 2 comments
 
What is it about movie celebrities, highly skilled in pretending to be other people in pretend situations, they would willingly shoot themselves in the foot and lose 50-60% of their fan base?
Domestic Politics - Stuart Ballantyne - 4 comments
 

Monday, November 25, 2024

While this proposed legislation will prove ineffectual in achieving its intended purpose – here, protecting the prelapsarian state of childhood from ruin at the hands of wicked digital platforms – it will also leave the apparatus of hefty regulation.
Law & Liberties - Binoy Kampmark - 14 comments
 
Telcos, banks and health insurers are among the many businesses I'd include in the bracket that fail to recognise more than 17 percent of their customers are probably over 65.
Society - John Mikkelsen - 3 comments
 

Friday, November 22, 2024

Gladstone, for example, is an economic powerhouse with a regional economic output of over $20 billion per annum. Yet only a couple of years ago it closed its maternity unit at Gladstone Hospital.
Nation Building - Ross Elliott
 
The revelation that 'Deep Throat' was Mark Felt, an assistant director of the FBI at that time, arises another possibility - the Woodward and Bernstein were being used.
Media - Murray Hunter - 3 comments
 

Thursday, November 21, 2024

All the parts and components to make, transport, and install wind turbines, solar panels, and EV's are made from the products and fuels manufactured from crude oil.
Environment - Ronald Stein - 2 comments
 
President-elect Donald Trump will resume locking horns with the United Nations (UN) when he returns to the White House on 20 January 2025.
International - David Singer - 2 comments
 

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

The UN, which was established to foster global peace and stability, has now become a paralyzed institution, constrained by an archaic structure.
International - Alon Ben-Meir - 6 comments
 
Azerbaijan, is a petrostate indifferent to the issue of emissions and scornful of ecological preachers. It has seen its natural gas supply grow by 128% between 2000 and 2021.
International - Binoy Kampmark - 6 comments
 

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

There no need for ASEAN leaders to buy MAGA merchandise especially submarines and missile systems or to ingratiate themselves further with the new US president.
International - Teck Lim - 3 comments
 
'People are saying this is a surrender. Fake news! This is the ultimate deal, folks. We're coming back as the top colony. No one's ever done that before.'
Humour & Satire - Vince Hooper - 1 comment
 

Monday, November 18, 2024

The newly elected Crisafulli Government should revive Fitzgerald’s Electoral Administrative Review Commission to deliver a ‘World Class’ Public Service
Political Philosophy - Scott Prasser - 6 comments
 
The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future.
International - Ioan Voicu - 3 comments
 

Friday, November 15, 2024

In a world that often feels adrift, we all need something to believe.
Political Philosophy - Steven Schwartz - 12 comments
 
HKOPS – contrary to Trump's Proposal – calls for the merger of Jordan, Gaza and part of the West Bank into one new Hashemite-governed territorial entity to be called 'The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine'.
International - David Singer - 4 comments
 

Thursday, November 14, 2024

Clinton, in late July 2016, 'had approved a campaign plan to stir a scandal against US Presidential candidate Donald Trump by tying him to Putin and the Russians' hacking of the Democratic National Committee'.
International - Binoy Kampmark - 2 comments
 
Despite promises to turbocharge the economy, Trump saw job losses in every year of his presidency – 2017, 2018 and 2019 – even when the disastrous COVID data of 2020 is excluded.
International - Remy Davison - 10 comments
 

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

The Democrats must search their souls, carefully study what went wrong, and develop a compelling new domestic and foreign policy agenda while cooperating with the Republicans on any issue that advances America’s well-being and global leadership.
International - Alon Ben-Meir - 3 comments
 
I would say he was obviously not the sort of policeman who would enjoy pushing a desk or sitting in an SUV off the side of the road on a downhill slope catching unwary motorists.
Society - John Mikkelsen - 2 comments
 

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

With trade deficits between many Asian countries and the United States, there are possibilities many countries may be targeted if Trump's objectives are to reduce bilateral deficits.
International - Murray Hunter - 4 comments
 
The male vote played a major role in Trump's historic victory – with big swings from Hispanic and Black men, and also younger male voters.
Society - Bettina Arndt - 2 comments
 

Monday, November 11, 2024

Here we go again. Falsely, ABC claims Australia 'doesn’t have' a population plan. But we do – and it’s massive. Can Donald Trump’s victory change that at all?
Nation Building - Stephen Saunders - 5 comments
 
During his campaign for office, Ishiba had mooted changes to the deployment arrangements of the Japan Self-Defence Forces and the need to move beyond the purely bilateral approach.
International - Binoy Kampmark
 

Friday, November 8, 2024

Following Donald Trump's unexpected win in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, where the Woke got Poked, concerns about his cosy relationship with authoritarian leaders, especially Russian President Vladimir Putin, have surged once again.
International - Vince Hooper - 5 comments
 
These seven Foreign Ministers were blatantly attempting to interfere in Israel's internal affairs using their respective Governments – not their Parliaments - as their Trojan horses.
International - David Singer - 5 comments
 

Thursday, November 7, 2024

Iccan count on one hand the times I have seen leaders of media organisations engage in anything that could be described as hard-hitting forms of self-critique in the public square.
Media - David Thunder - 3 comments
 
With the BRICS meetings in Kazan, Russia now over, and four ASEAN states are firmly on the waiting list to join, the relevance of ASEAN is clearly on the wane.
International - Murray Hunter
 

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

The derivatives manufactured from raw crude oil are the basis of more than 6,000 products in our society that did not exist 200 years ago.
Environment - Ronald Stein - 1 comment
 
On one side, critics argue that Guterres’s cordial engagement with Vladimir Putin is tantamount to endorsing his actions.
International - Daniel Raynolds - 3 comments
 

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

The death of Sinwar, the mastermind behind the savage October 7 attack presents a new challenge to Netanyahu and Hamas.
International - Alon Ben-Meir - 10 comments
 
This article argues yes. The main reasons are his disastrous and uncaring budget of 2014.
Domestic Politics - Peter Bowden - 14 comments
 

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