Tuesday, January 6, 2026
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It was clear after the release of the 2025 National Security Strategy that this administration was going to shred the inhibitions imposed by international law and opt for the more liberating costumery of gangsterism. International - Binoy Kampmark - 11 comments
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Authorities should be targeting knife crime and unlicensed guns, not licensed law-abiding gun owners. Law & Liberties - Brendan O'Reilly - 5 comments
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Monday, January 5, 2026
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Bondi, Anika Wells, and a Prime Minister caught misstating the facts. When Albanese spins, why does the press gallery look away? Domestic Politics - John Mikkelsen - 23 comments
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A sweeping UN youth resolution promises empowerment, jobs and inclusion. But are governments prepared to turn lofty commitments into real opportunities for a generation at risk? International - Ioan Voicu - 6 comments
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Friday, January 2, 2026
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Behind the Epstein scandal lies a darker story: how elite influence networks moved to crush inconvenient scholarship on Israel and US power. International - Binoy Kampmark
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The two-state mantra no longer delivers peace, but Western governments repeat it anyway, heedless of history, law, or consequences. International - David Singer - 53 comments
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Wednesday, December 31, 2025
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Defunding gender-affirming care isn’t just bad policy. It is the state denying recognition, and in doing so, undermining its own moral authority. Law & Liberties - Sam Ben-Meir
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Utilizing but not replenishing the natural resources of Planet Earth has limitations. Environment - Ronald Stein and Nancy Pearlman - 15 comments
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Tuesday, December 30, 2025
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On its triennial immigration-stats, Albanese Australia is a radical outlier not the cautious reformer of embedded media-narrative. Not even Bondi can budge him much. Nation Building - Stephen Saunders - 6 comments
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When Brussels and Washington start banning critics from crossing borders, free speech stops being a principle and becomes a geopolitical weapon. Political Philosophy - Binoy Kampmark - 1 comment
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Monday, December 29, 2025
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The National League for Democracy, which won the 2015 and 2020 elections, has been dissolved, and its leaders, including Aung San Suu Kyi, remain in detention. International - Ananda Wong
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This is not a culture war election but a survival one: bread-and-butter politics versus unchecked executive power. International - Alon Ben-Meir - 7 comments
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Wednesday, December 24, 2025
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The Islamic community needs to own the Bondi massacre. While individual Muslims are not responsible, Islamism rises from Islam, and has been allowed to fester in the community. Religion & Spirituality - Graham Young - 22 comments
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Antisemitism is a national issue. So our federal government needs to step up to the challenge, as this is too big a topic to be left to a NSW inquiry. Law & Liberties - Scott Prasser - 61 comments
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Tuesday, December 23, 2025
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Australia did not fail the Jewish community at Bondi. It failed them earlier, when hatred was tolerated, justified and allowed to grow unchecked. Law & Liberties - Julie Claridge - 14 comments
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When governments, universities and media protect falsehoods instead of facts, deception becomes policy and dissent becomes heresy. Australia is living the consequences. Political Philosophy - Brendan O'Reilly - 32 comments
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Monday, December 22, 2025
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From the Opera House steps to Bondi’s dead, Australia’s crisis is not sudden violence but the long habit of leaders refusing to name it. Political Philosophy - Tania Cleary - 13 comments
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Labor promised cheaper power and delivered higher bills, deeper subsidies and rising debt, all in pursuit of an energy transition that keeps missing its own targets. Science & Technology - John Mikkelsen - 1 comment
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Friday, December 19, 2025
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Sixteen Australians are dead. Antisemitism surged for years, warnings were issued, a plan was delivered, and government inaction followed. The massacre did not come without notice. Law & Liberties - Sev Ozdowski - 21 comments
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Antonio Guterres repeats a peace formula almost everyone admits has failed, while ignoring a Saudi-backed alternative that could break the deadlock. International - David Singer
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Thursday, December 18, 2025
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Bondi was not a random act of madness. It was the predictable outcome of years of official denial about radical Islamist ideology and the steady normalisation of anti-Semitism in Australia. Law & Liberties - Josh Frydenberg - 30 comments
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You can screen luggage, weapons and criminal records. You cannot screen worldviews that rank collective loyalty above individual life - and no amount of security theatre can compensate. Law & Liberties - Anonymous Writer - 14 comments
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Wednesday, December 17, 2025
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From public leaks to policy confusion and theatrical defections, the federal Coalition now looks less like an opposition-in-waiting than a political circus. Domestic Politics - Scott Prasser - 1 comment
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To 'make' renewables work, requires all the parts and components made from fossil fuels. Science & Technology - Tom Kirkman
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Tuesday, December 16, 2025
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Envy has replaced economics in Australia’s policy debate. Taxing success may feel virtuous, but it steadily corrodes incentives, prosperity and living standards for everyone. Economics - Brendan O'Reilly
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Is Italian cuisine an ancient inheritance or a carefully cultivated myth, sustained by politics, marketing and UNESCO seals rather than history and necessity? Society - Binoy Kampmark
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Monday, December 15, 2025
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Australia’s real security risk isn’t China, but a growing distrust of its principal ally. Misreporting Trump distorts reality, weakens alliance confidence, and leaves Australia dangerously exposed if crisis comes. International - Graham Young - 40 comments
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Australia’s politics has elevated compassion over wisdom, optics over outcomes. The result is drift, debt and disorder - and a growing hunger for firmer leadership and moral balance. Political Philosophy - Jafar Jalili - 4 comments
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Friday, December 12, 2025
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As Washington freezes contributions and Beijing and Moscow stall payments, the UN enters a liquidity spiral that threatens its human-rights work, peacekeeping, and even its basic survival. International - Binoy Kampmark - 2 comments
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New analysis suggests the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine plan wasn’t Ali Shihabi’s brainchild at all, but a quiet geopolitical trial balloon launched by Mohammed Bin Salman himself. International - David Singer
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Thursday, December 11, 2025
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Covid reshaped society on a scale unseen since World War II - but instead of sparking cultural transformation, it left fear, obedience, and a troubling silence in its wake. Health - Filipe Rafaeli - 5 comments
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South-east Australia is heading into another fire season dangerously underprepared, with high fuel loads, minimal mitigation, and communities and firefighters exposed to avoidable risk. Environment - John O'Donnell - 3 comments
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Wednesday, December 10, 2025
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Australia’s AUKUS gamble is looking more like vassalage than strategy, with Canberra bankrolling US submarines it may never see - and obligations Washington may never honour. International - Binoy Kampmark
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Resurgence of nuclear generated electricity is occurring in South Africa to serve over 565 million Sub-Saharan Africans lacking electricity access. Science & Technology - Ronald Stein, Robert Jeffrey and Olivia Vaughan
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Tuesday, December 9, 2025
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Why we keep talking as if we have two minds — and why it matters. Political Philosophy - Steven Schwartz - 4 comments
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Schelling saw nature not as object but as subject - a creative force we belong to, not command. His vision may be the ecological imagination our age lacks. Political Philosophy - Sam Ben-Meir - 4 comments
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