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Chaharshanbe Suri in the Iranian Soul
Chaharshanbe Suri is one of the ancient Iranian festivals, celebrated on the eve of the last Wednesday of the year,…
The Liberal Party should trial community primaries
Australia’s political parties are confronting a long-standing issue that has been gradually worsening over many years: the decline in party…
NSW hate-hunting police force
Alarms raised over fears Australia could end up with its own thought police
Silence the doctors, harm the children? When ethics becomes dissent
Why doctors must be free to speak for patient safety
Biological truth must prevail in schools
In court, you must swear to tell the truth. Failing to do so is considered a serious offence and harmful…
E Pluribus Unum: The architecture of unity
When diversity is not our strength and nations start to unravel
Middle East conflict exposes government on economy
Inflation is not an abstract statistic. It is the weekly grocery bill that keeps creeping higher. It is rent and…
The global climate confidence game
Science rarely lends itself to slogans...
How to make family tax fair
This week has seen two politicians putting family tax back on the agenda, but in very different ways. Matt Canavan…
Don’t attack Pauline, Senator Matt Canavan
Be sensible – just do a preference deal
A farewell to harms
If this system continues, no child of mine will ever set foot in an Australian school
Can China switch us off?
Future wars may not require a physical battlefield
The Twelve Apostles: public asset, or government revenue stream?
The Victorian government has announced that visitors will soon have to pay an entry fee to see the Twelve Apostles…
The sinking of the IRIS Dena: legal, reckless, or justified?
A necessary act of war, or a troubling precedent?
The Trump pivot
Albanese’s moral compass only points north under pressure
Weighed down by the Australian government
We might not survive this Labor agenda
The Canzuk-Aukus convergence: two alliances hiding in plain sight
Mark Carney’s Canberra address and the Geelong Treaty reveal the architecture of a powerful middle-power bloc ready to be assembled
Chalmers has never met a tax he didn’t like
Life is about to get harder for everyone...
A preventable Armageddon?
Many have been foreshadowing a war involving the United States, Israel, and Iran, for quite some time, but now that…
Ukraine is wearing Russia down
Here in Ukraine, there is the sense that the grinding war imposed by Russia has reached a turning point, and…
The legless green energy transition
Think of wind, solar, and batteries as the three legs of a stool supporting the Net Zero transition program. The…
‘Yes’ to ISIS brides, ‘no’ to the Iranian women’s football team…
This is how Labor celebrates International Women’s Day?
Regulated to death
The utter betrayal of Australia’s managed decline
Reasons for hope in Iran’s future
The doomsayers neglect the decades-long internal pressure for change
The excellent Australian Constitution
How do you describe the Constitution of one of the most successful Western liberal democracies in history? We can be…
