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September 6, 2024
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Thursday, September 5, 2024

Harris supports California's 'Green New Deal' policies driving the high cost of living and the most expensive electricity and fuel prices in America.
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Kamala Harris didn't take very long to blow her credibility when it came to whether she would be pursuing President Biden's 10 June two-state solution.
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Wednesday, September 4, 2024

The system's failure to allow public access to numerous highly credentialed scientific critiques of its scientifically unsubstantiated adoption of unproven, dangerous public health policies was blatant censorship.
Law & Liberties - Aaron Kheriaty
 
This policy is not just about wind turbines, solar panels, or renewable energies but about changing the landscape and, more importantly, how we live.
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Tuesday, September 3, 2024

With Ukraine issuing a stern warning to Belarus regarding the presence of its troops near the Ukrainian border, the risk of miscalculation looms large.
International - Vince Hooper - 8 comments
 
According to the Australian Dyslexia Association,
Education - Murray Hunter - 6 comments
 

Monday, September 2, 2024

Incoming governments are like the person with the wheelbarrow. They have the job in front of them. What to do?
Economics - Geoff Carmody - 3 comments
 
This is not as odd as it sounds, given that laws regarding war and conflict are in place, not so much to abolish the conflict but to give it a patina of restraint.
Law & Liberties - Binoy Kampmark - 1 comment
 

Friday, August 30, 2024

Both existential risks to humanity and democracy are being driven by universities. They can only educate our future leaders to be more effective dictators.
Economics - Shann Turnbull - 8 comments
 
Kamala Harris in her acceptance speech on 22 August as Democratic Party nominee for President signalled she had now abandoned pursuing the creation of a Palestinian Arab state between Israel and Jordan.
International - David Singer - 10 comments
 

Thursday, August 29, 2024

The super profit is thought to be 'surplus to requirements' so the government might as well take it away and redistribute it to someone who needs it.
Economics - Graham Young - 14 comments
 
Stuart Ballantyne explains why the Human Rights Commission should be chasing him.
Law & Liberties - Stuart Ballantyne - 7 comments
 

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Here we go again, are we facing another pandemic and if so, are we prepared?
Health - Peter Curson - 6 comments
 
Whether it is Trump or Harris winning the Presidential election, he or she will have to prioritise the domestic issues dividing the country.
International - Teck Lim - 3 comments
 

Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Before Pavel Durov’s arrest, the messaging app’s 'Russian origins' placed it in the bloc’s crosshairs.
Law & Liberties - Murray Hunter
 
Green propagandists such as the Paris caterers are doing tremendous harm to our health and our food supply by attacking animal foods, and promoting grains, vegetables, seeds and fake foods for humans.
Environment - Viv Forbes - 6 comments
 

Monday, August 26, 2024

This is clearly not a move opposing women's rights to abortion, but a move for the rights of real live human babies.
Law & Liberties - John Mikkelsen - 33 comments
 
America, which once thrived, has long begun to rot from within - shiny on the outside but decaying on the inside.
International - Chin Jin - 3 comments
 

Friday, August 23, 2024

The memorandum ruling is also valuable for revealing the tactical and strategic approach of the company in preserving its dominance, not to mention showing full self-awareness of that fact.
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Thursday, August 22, 2024

A low-income family that sends two kids to child care full-time, costing $115 a day, will receive $50,830 a year in subsidies.
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All past efforts to block Iran’s march toward becoming a nuclear power have failed. It is time for the US and Israel to develop a new strategy.
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Wednesday, August 21, 2024

The NDIS is widely known to be extensively rorted, with scheme providers charging participants several times what they charge non-participants for the same service.
Economics - David Leyonhjelm - 5 comments
 
According to a survey for the Financial Times, 42 percent of voters trust Harris more than Trump to handle the economy, a seven-point increase on Joe Biden's number last month.
International - Peter Bowden - 12 comments
 

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Prices rose 8.4% under Trump. Prices rise 22.22% under Biden/Harris.
Economics - Michael Knox - 2 comments
 
The ARF is not a conventional international organization, but a forum who provides a setting for discussion, multilateral diplomacy and for the development of cooperative responses to regional problems.
International - Ioan Voicu - 1 comment
 

Monday, August 19, 2024

Netanyahu feels that all stars are aligned together to strike Iran's nuclear facilities, but agreeing on a ceasefire with Hamas will deprive him of realizing this.
International - Alon Ben-Meir - 12 comments
 
Ekecheiria, also known as the 'Olympic Truce', is a quaint notion dating to Ancient Greece, when three kings concluded a treaty permitting the safe passage of all athletes.
Sport - Binoy Kampmark - 3 comments
 

Friday, August 16, 2024

Without more pie, announced policies claimed to boost incomes for all will fail. 'Magic puddings' are the fantasies of Bunyip Bluegum and Norman Lindsay.
Environment - Geoff Carmody - 15 comments
 
If Biden and the Security Council need any more convincing that any Palestinian State is just a mirage – they should heed the words of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Time on 4 August.
International - David Singer - 5 comments
 

Thursday, August 15, 2024

There are no immaculate solutions, currently that are generally applicable, to the world's demand for electricity and so the use of fossil fuels will persist, at least in the short to medium term.
Environment - Charles Hemmings - 15 comments
 
The Greens, who started it all, with what their critics would call a political stunt, a resolution to recognize the state of Palestinian, may have to lick their own wounds come election result of 2025.
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Wednesday, August 14, 2024

The study shows that what some people warned about and was deemed mis-information at the time is actually true.
Health - Murray Hunter - 50 comments
 
But the relentless moaning is actually a cover for a far bigger story. The truth that is being strenuously downplayed is that, overall, women will soon be sitting pretty, right on top in the wealth stakes.
Society - Bettina Arndt - 8 comments
 

Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Never has a young generation been so individually isolated in a globalised world, seamlessly exposed to unfiltered, unsolicited, and harmful content in a virtual space, and collectively disheartened and frustrated as they are today.
Society - Mamtimin Ala - 8 comments
 
Give them nuclear powered submarines, let them feel special, and a false sense of security will follow.
International - Binoy Kampmark - 6 comments
 

Monday, August 12, 2024

Sydney embodies a lifestyle where every action, every decision, is a declaration of their superior taste, intellect, and aesthetic.
Humour & Satire - Vince Hooper - 2 comments
 
The Group of 5 need to bury their ideological and political differences and call for the implementation of HKOPS in a last-ditch effort to avert Iran threatening to turn the region into one giant killing field.
International - David Singer - 8 comments
 

Friday, August 9, 2024

She has just chosen as her running mate Tim Walz. Together, they represent the most far-left nominees in the history of the Democratic Party, as did McGovern and Shriver in their day.
International - Steven Kritz - 10 comments
 
A source allegedly close to Harris said Walz revealed much 'ease in cutting through political jargon to deliver a straight message', something that appealed to her.
International - Binoy Kampmark - 3 comments
 

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