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February 14, 2025
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?
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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.
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Thursday, February 13, 2025

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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'.
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Wednesday, February 12, 2025

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.
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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
 

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

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
 
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
 

Monday, February 10, 2025

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
 
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
 

Friday, February 7, 2025

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 - 23 comments
 
The resurrection of Trump's 28 January 2020 Deal of the Century - calling for the creation of a Palestinian state.
International - David Singer
 

Thursday, February 6, 2025

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
 
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 - 4 comments
 

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

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
 
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
 

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

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.
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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.
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Monday, February 3, 2025

A humanitarian catastrophe of staggering proportions has been brought on by the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, which intensified in February 2022.
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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?
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Friday, January 31, 2025

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.
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Thursday, January 30, 2025

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
 
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
 

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

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.
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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
 

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

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
 
Joe Biden still has some embarrassments to experience as he reconciles himself to the loss of office.
International - Teck Lim
 

Friday, January 24, 2025

Donald Trump is no longer the Apprentice. He is now the Master Craftsman.
International - Peter Fenwick - 6 comments
 
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.
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Thursday, January 23, 2025

There’s no limit to what the Labor Government will do in an attempt to achieve the unachievable.
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Denial, ignorance and ideology lie behind dangerous thinking on fire management.
Environment - Mark Poynter - 8 comments
 

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Climate change deniers, including President Trump, insist that there is no such thing as climate change and that measures taken to combat it only decrease economic productivity and stifle growth.
Environment - Alon Ben-Meir - 4 comments
 
The latest report, however, in the The Economist about the impending Australian federal election casts strong doubts about the journal's knowledge and understanding of Australian politics.
Media - Scott Prasser - 3 comments
 

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Incoming US President Donald Trump claimed the lion's share. And why not? With his inauguration on January 20, the timing of the ceasefire, with Israel finally relenting, was no coincidence.
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Monday, January 20, 2025

Recognizing the horror the Syrian people have endured over the past 14 years, the question is, will Hayat Tahrir al-Sham leader Ahmed al-Sharaa follow through on his public promises to transform Syria.
International - Alon Ben-Meir - 4 comments
 
One of the reasons conservatives have steadily lost power to the left over the past 50 years is because we have not made a proper study of the tools used against us.
Environment - Tom Harris - 6 comments
 

Friday, January 17, 2025

The 70-paragraph telegram from the US Embassy in Moscow, which has assumed the status of legend, came from analyst E. Wayne Merry in March 1994.
International - Binoy Kampmark - 7 comments
 
Any solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, if ever one is to present itself, must always address the need for Israel to defend itself.
International - Peter Bowden - 19 comments
 

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