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January 31, 2025
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Ambit Gambit Last night I was interviewed by TRT – Turkey’s answer to Al Jazeera – on a panel moderated by Adnan Azwaz on the Australian fires. My fellow panellists were Professor Mark Howden and Tony Kevin. Azwaz did a good job, and his courteous approach to moderation could teach Tony Jones a thing or two, although he […]

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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 - 4 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 - 7 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.
Law & Liberties - Ioan Voicu
 
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.
International - David Singer
 

Thursday, January 23, 2025

There’s no limit to what the Labor Government will do in an attempt to achieve the unachievable.
Economics - John Mikkelsen - 13 comments
 
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.
International - Binoy Kampmark - 4 comments
 
Weeks become months and months become years in this real-life version of the Utopia TV series.
Nation Building - Ross Elliott - 7 comments
 

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
 

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Australia has yet to see the fabled white elephants of the sea and remains at the mercy of the US Congress.
International - Binoy Kampmark - 6 comments
 
I am currently a victim of X Member Censorship - having received this notice when I sought to access the X site of Ali Shihabi – an advisor to Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed Bin Salman.
International - David Singer
 

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Regardless of the 2025 election, voters get duopoly dinner: environmental and energy sellout, regressive education, unfair taxation, mega migration, housing hunger games.
Domestic Politics - Stephen Saunders - 10 comments
 
This means that the Queensland parliament cannot discuss, ask questions, make representations, draft amendments or even accept citizens’ petitions expressing concerns about its own legislation on abortion.
Political Philosophy - Scott Prasser - 10 comments
 

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

In short, we gradually find ourselves in a globalising society where many values have been entirely or partly upended, turned inside out, and starkly contrasted to what we once considered commonsensical and reasonable.
Political Philosophy - Mamtimin Ala - 24 comments
 
From the discovery of fire to the Industrial Revolution, each leap in energy transformation has reshaped societies, increasing productivity, reducing poverty, and improving living standards.
Economics - Ronald Stein, Robert Jeffrey and Olivia Vaughan - 2 comments
 

Monday, January 13, 2025

Long ago, in high school maths, I was taught about the value of 'elegant solutions'. A correct answer might be good; an elegant correct one is better.
Science & Technology - Tom Biegler - 11 comments
 
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal reported that attorneys-general of many blue states are not going to give up quietly when Donald Trump, as President, begins to honour his election promises, such as the mass deportation of illegals.
International - Philip Lillingston - 2 comments
 

Friday, January 10, 2025

The Trump comment has focussed attention on the growing importance generally of the Arctic region for global politics.
International - Keith Suter - 3 comments
 
If you want to fight back against Wokeism, the most successful and potent arguments are more likely to be found in the writings of Paul the Apostle than anyone from the Enlightenment.
Religion & Spirituality - Graham Young - 10 comments
 

Thursday, January 9, 2025

Energised electrons (electricity) are devout followers of the Laws of Nature; they do not bend to any ideology, fashion nor to any act of a parliament. Ideologies have to bend to the Laws of Nature not the reverse.
Environment - Charles Hemmings - 5 comments
 
The Jordan is Palestine Committee grew into an international movement holding conferences in London, New York and Israel – coming to an end only when Israel and the PLO signed the Oslo Accords in 1993.
International - David Singer
 

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Trump must know that denying the Palestinian right to statehood and conceding further Palestinian land to Israel is a recipe for the next horrific inferno.
International - Alon Ben-Meir - 4 comments
 
My suggestion is that Australia start a movement to strengthen UN peacekeeping.
International - Peter Bowden - 25 comments
 

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

As we head into 2025 with Australia living up to its reputation of a land of huge weather contrasts, our farmers are not the only people wondering if our national weather forecaster, the Bureau of Meteorology, will get it right this year.
Environment - John Mikkelsen - 7 comments
 
In 2025, Malaysia became the chair of ASEAN, taking over from the Lao PDR. At the same time, Malaysia becomes a partner country under the new tier below full membership in BRICs.
International - Murray Hunter - 1 comment
 

Monday, January 6, 2025

The reality is that such organisations rarely exist, and those that do aren't sustainable.
Economics - Murray Hunter - 5 comments
 
The Tiananmen Massacre of 1989 marked the end of any prospects for top-down political reforms toward democratic constitutionalism under the CCP's rule.
International - Chin Jin - 3 comments
 

Friday, January 3, 2025

There would be no need either for new oil and natural gas fields beyond current approvals, or new coal mines or mine extensions. Dare one but dream.
Environment - Binoy Kampmark - 2 comments
 

Thursday, January 2, 2025

Prime ministers, archbishops, academics, editors and public broadcasters are all in the business of exaggerating the colonial sins of their own countries against noble (not-so-very) savages – from Vancouver to London to Sydney. Why?
Political Philosophy - Nigel Biggar - 9 comments
 

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