Thursday, February 20, 2025
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Bird flu can be very confusing. This is true because, as is so often the case with our government, those who claim to be trying to solve the problem are actually the ones who created the problem. Health - Clayton Baker
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There is much to be concerned about with Elon Musk's merrily psychotic scything as chief of the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), notably in terms of security access to payment and data systems. International - Binoy Kampmark - 3 comments
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Wednesday, February 19, 2025
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Proposals by the Albanese government to buy the financially stressed Rex Airline is reminiscent of the Chifley Labor government's failed attempt to nationalise the country's airlines and banks. Economics - Scott Prasser - 6 comments
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President Trump's decision on 5 February to takeover and makeover Gaza will hopefully hasten the end to eight years of the United Nations (UN) inciting Jew-hatred worldwide. International - David Singer - 10 comments
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Tuesday, February 18, 2025
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The executive orders that Trump issued in a blizzard during the first three weeks of his presidency are unconstitutional, inhumane, and beyond the pale of absurdity. International - Alon Ben-Meir - 6 comments
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The attack by President Donald J Trump on USAID as part of his axing crusade against bureaucratic waste is not, for all its structural and constitutional limitations, without harsh merit. International - Binoy Kampmark - 2 comments
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Monday, February 17, 2025
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Men are most likely to suicide, and least likely to get assistance. Why? Health - Bettina Arndt - 6 comments
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The current water-cooled reactor design for 96% of the 440 reactors worldwide, only uses 3% of the electricity potential of nuclear fuel. Environment - Rolan Stein, Oliver Hemmers and Steve Curtis - 1 comment
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Friday, February 14, 2025
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The DNA of our current regional plan can be traced to the late 1990s but so much has changed since then, are the assumptions within it any longer relevent? Nation Building - Ross Elliott - 4 comments
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We have known Trump to be unhinged and unpredictable, and often thoughtless and insensitive, but not once has it occurred to many of us that he is capable of stretching insanity to such new heights as he embarks on a journey of conquest. International - Alon Ben-Meir - 27 comments
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Thursday, February 13, 2025
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Not only would any aspiration of political independence and Palestinian sovereignty be terminated, it would reach its terminus in the form of tourist capitalism and real estate transactions. International - Binoy Kampmark - 12 comments
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Official figures show that Australia’s emissions were 465.9 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalent in the year to March 2023. This was an increaseof 0.1 per cent despite huge spending on 'renewables'. Environment - Brendan O'Reilly
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Wednesday, February 12, 2025
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The world faces critical energy crossroads, with Energy Literacy conversations needed on the role of crude oil, renewables, and nuclear power in driving future growth. Environment - Ronald Stein - 4 comments
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President Trump's decision to take over, and makeover, Gaza has seen the Biden-United Nations two-state solution buried in the rubble of Gaza. International - David Singer - 9 comments
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Tuesday, February 11, 2025
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In less than three weeks in office, Trump issued scores of reckless executive orders that ironically will gravely undermine rather than enhance his 'America First' agenda. International - Alon Ben-Meir
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Despite it never having been done anywhere before, we were promised clean, green and cheap energy, but reliability was not promised. Environment - Charles Hemmings - 3 comments
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Monday, February 10, 2025
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Capital punishment is a moral travesty, and Trump's hunger to not only reestablish executions but expand their use is a clear signal of his deepening depravity. Law & Liberties - Kimberlee Hurley - 12 comments
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114 years later, with a population of 28 million, Australia disappointingly now has a Naval fleet of only 49 vessels, International - Stuart Ballantyne - 2 comments
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Friday, February 7, 2025
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When Queen front man Freddie Mercury belted out the chorus to Another One Bites the Dust back in 1980, he would never have imagined those lyrics could have been a wake up call for today's green dream believers. Environment - John Mikkelsen - 24 comments
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The resurrection of Trump's 28 January 2020 Deal of the Century - calling for the creation of a Palestinian state. International - David Singer
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Thursday, February 6, 2025
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In Musa al-Gharbi's notable book We Have Never Been Woke, the woke professional classes emote over justice and equality. While delivering for the 1%. Society - Stephen Saunders
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Why is it that environmentalists insist on spending money and resources on litigating against the oil, coal, gas and nuclear industries, instead of advancing technologies that truly encapsulate the full circular economy of the energy cycle? Environment - Ronald Stein, Robert Jeffrey and Olivia Vaughan - 3 comments
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Wednesday, February 5, 2025
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Most Kosovars hope that the February national election and the formation of a new coalition government will usher in a promising new era that will substantially improve the day-to-day lives of ordinary people. International - Alon Ben-Meir - 1 comment
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In 2020 The term 'wind droughts' began to appear in the literature of the Energy Realists of Australia and in the notorious Integrated System Plan. Environment - Rafe Champion - 8 comments
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Tuesday, February 4, 2025
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Another item in climate alarmists' 'book of rules' is the requirement that they are helping protect the environment and wildlife when they promote wind and solar power. Environment - Tom Harris
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On October 23, 2023, the British Library, one of the world's finest repositories of knowledge, was subjected to a cyber-attack. Education - Binoy Kampmark - 2 comments
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Monday, February 3, 2025
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A humanitarian catastrophe of staggering proportions has been brought on by the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, which intensified in February 2022. International - Yuri Koszarycz - 4 comments
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Now that the first phase of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire is in place, with some ongoing hiccups, the question is, will the second phase follow, and what lesson, if any, has Hamas learned following 15 months of horrendous death and destruction? International - Alon Ben-Meir - 11 comments
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Friday, January 31, 2025
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Rutte is a martial type keen to advance the rule of the gun in the service of the alliance. The result is the evil of banality delivered in poesy. International - Binoy Kampmark - 4 comments
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Rubio established his credentials when addressing the Republican Jewish Coalition on 3 December 2015. International - David Singer - 2 comments
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Thursday, January 30, 2025
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Trumpism is just so much more than The Art of the Deal.Trump is much deeper than the dynamics of The Apprentice. Trumpism has much more depth than his personal branded ‘popularism’. International - Murray Hunter - 8 comments
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If the objective is to get more people into homes they can afford, and quickly, we need to lower our standards and risk taking new approaches. Nation Building - Ross Elliott - 10 comments
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Wednesday, January 29, 2025
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The Convention's nine chapters provide a detailed approach of modalities to prevent and combat the global problem of cybercrime while also including appropriate human rights safeguards. Law & Liberties - Ioan Voicu - 1 comment
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What GF didn't know, was that I was a Scot who had repeatedly watched 'Chariots of Fire' and 'Braveheart' and I set out not only to fight, but to beat him. Economics - Stuart Ballantyne
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Tuesday, January 28, 2025
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When relative risks are inflated and absolute risks ignored, the result is not informed consent but unnecessary anxiety. Let's not lose sight of moderation-in drinking and in public health messaging. Health - Steven Schwartz - 5 comments
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Joe Biden still has some embarrassments to experience as he reconciles himself to the loss of office. International - Teck Lim
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Friday, January 24, 2025
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Donald Trump is no longer the Apprentice. He is now the Master Craftsman. International - Peter Fenwick - 6 comments
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The international community jetted off on a fool's errand to Norway on 15 January for the third meeting of the Global Alliance for the Implementation of the Two-State solution. International - David Singer
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Thursday, January 23, 2025
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There’s no limit to what the Labor Government will do in an attempt to achieve the unachievable. Economics - John Mikkelsen - 13 comments
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Denial, ignorance and ideology lie behind dangerous thinking on fire management. Environment - Mark Poynter - 8 comments
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