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Trade wars: risks and opportunities for Australia

6 February 2025 11:53 pm

President Trump’s weaponising of trade may simply be applying pressure to correct what he sees as unequal access for goods…

Hamas and Putin

6 February 2025 11:31 pm

A two-state solution? Been there done that. Israel was state one, Gaza was state two. Gaza was under the armed…

Classical education can solve our school behaviour crisis

6 February 2025 11:05 pm

If the discourse within Australian education is to be believed, our classrooms have never been more inclusive, collaborative, interactive, empowering,…

The failure of the world wind leaders

6 February 2025 12:40 pm

Look at South Australia, Germany, and Britain. They boldly pioneered the green energy transition and now they are demonstrating that…

Info wars

6 February 2025 12:31 pm

In September last year, Russell Broadbent and a group comprising scientists, health professionals, lawyers, and academics, wrote to the Prime…

Dutton’s disunity: why the fight for sex-based rights is his to lose

6 February 2025 10:10 am

Peter Dutton has built his leadership around a unifying vision for Australia, positioning himself as the statesman who rejected the…

What Said, said

5 February 2025 4:31 pm

Decolonisation in the 20th Century wasn’t always a great success. Over a million people were slaughtered in communal violence when…

I know the antidote, Douglas

5 February 2025 3:00 pm

I had just finished watching the Netflix series, Lioness, the other day when I read your lament, Douglas Murray, in…

The political war on tomorrow’s children

5 February 2025 12:57 pm

Elon Musk, ever the provocateur, has made perhaps his most contentious appeal: the world needs more babies. His pro-natalist views…

How the ‘Normiecons’ still don’t get the New Right

5 February 2025 11:13 am

Every morning, I wake up and scan hopefully the opinion pages of The Australian for any sign of a sympathetic…

The growing advocacy of a fraudulent two state solution

4 February 2025 8:25 pm

In response to Israel adopting defensive measures in the wake of an unprovoked massacre undertaken by Hamas, a notion is…

Conservatives applaud Queensland’s pause on puberty blockers

4 February 2025 5:45 pm

The Queensland government has suspended puberty blockers for those under 18 due to concerns raised about state-wide paediatric gender therapies.…

Beer and spirits are too expensive, Mr Dutton!

4 February 2025 4:26 pm

It’s no secret that Labor and the Greens want you to ‘eat ze bugs’. The way our economy is going,…

Our disordered world

4 February 2025 3:21 pm

Australians are a vastly successful people, but what will our children inherit from us? There are a lot of things…

Australia’s founders understood MAGA better than today’s centre-right

3 February 2025 5:50 pm

The Australia Day debating season has now finally, mercifully, come to an end for another year. It is clear the…

Australia: a land divided into tribes

3 February 2025 5:11 pm

One knows that an election is looming when the Prime Minister criss-crosses the country and promises to dole out money…

Living in an age of digital sedation

3 February 2025 1:14 pm

Indoctrination is simply hypnosis stripped of its mystique. In our society, we experience a form of ‘mass hypnosis’ that does…

Ten ‘wins’ in ten days since Trump took office

3 February 2025 11:22 am

Even before the inauguration of Donald Trump occurred, it was evident that the zeitgeist of the Western world had shifted.…

The WHO is finished: step away, Mr Dutton!

2 February 2025 7:19 pm

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is a horse that’s been flogged to death. Then it’s been turned over and flogged…

The era of GeoEconomics is upon us

1 February 2025 11:09 am

The think tank Chatham House describes ‘GeoEconomics’ as ‘the interplay of international economics, geopolitics and strategy’. The central question in…

Is peace possible?

1 February 2025 10:40 am

As Israeli hostages are being released, many are hoping for an end to the conflict. Such hope is naïve because…

Finally, a president that does more than sit on a beach in Delaware!

1 February 2025 9:52 am

America finally has a President capable of doing more than lying on a beach in Delaware. Donald Trump has done…

Authoritarian bans on AI won’t work

31 January 2025 8:23 pm

Artificial intelligence is evolving at an unprecedented pace, raising urgent questions about its impact on society. One of the latest…

Freedom of speech vs freedom of flags

31 January 2025 5:44 pm

One unintended consequence of the distant conflict in Gaza and Lebanon has been a sharper examination in Australia of the…

Trump’s Australian revolution

31 January 2025 3:27 pm

The new US President, Donald J. Trump, has begun his term with a bang not a whimper, issuing a record…