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Trump is like a bee in a bottle

Re Wang Wen’s article today. The tariff war has seemingly been more or less staved off for 90 days for most countries except for China, only hours after being activated. In which time, according to Donald Trump, US$2 billion has already been collected. Why the pause? Well, according to Trump, “[he] thought that people were getting a bit yippy, a little bit afraid.” “It looked pretty glum, I guess they say it was the biggest day in financial history. He said: ”I know what the hell I’m doing”. “No other president would have done what I did. ”World...

Was Assad really responsible for chemical attacks on his own people?

This article begins with the following unproven allegations: Remember Bashar al-Assad? The man who crushed his own people under a mountain of rubble and fear? Who turned peaceful protests into mass graves, dropped barrel bombs on neighbourhoods, and used chemical weapons on children? Seymour Hersh, among many, many others, including UN investigators, who refused to sign the trumped-up report on the so-called chemical attacks, have proven that the lies about Assad were equal to the charge that Saddam had WMDs. Why does Pearls and Irritations publish these US claims, crap and propaganda?

Perhaps reading the truth might answer some of Barb’s questions

No doubt Barb Dadd writes with the best of intentions but linking Bashar al-Assad to some of the world’s worst villains is wide of the mark. Assad was a victim of the United States' wrong-headed desire for regime change to benefit its national resource exploiters to the detriment of the host country. To that end it armed rebel Muslim extremist groups and set them to undermine the Assad regime. Russia supported Assad (who headed a secular Christian country). But with the aid of US weaponry, the Muslim extremists were able to oust Assad, replacing his regime with a...

Article fails to address its title

I am surprised that John Stace's article fails to consider informed media commentary about the degree of involvement of the Israeli military in the events immediately following the Hamas breakout and attacks which occurred on 7 October, 2023. There was no mention of the Israeli military's Hannibal doctrine or of the role of the military's helicopter gunships in the violence which occurred after the attacks commenced, or of their impact on Israeli party-goers attending the rave event that had been curiously relocated to the very edge of Gaza and inadequate security offered for the event. There was no...

Trump’s irresponsible insouciance

Bob Douglas’ article raises the existential threats facing us. Yet Trump has just boosted coal and is ending any US green plan. His latest statement that [any resulting sea level rise] will increase the amount of waterfront property is just mindblowingly stupid and callous. In parts of the Pacific, it threatens to sink all property.

Is this WIN News article true?

I have not seen any confirmation of the veracity of this article in the mainstream media. I have checked Snopes who also cannot trace its veracity. If it is actually happening, why isn’t it all over the media? I would really like to know the truth and not some dreamt-up thought bubble analysis. Editor's note: Not sure what you consider to be a reliable publication, but you can read a similar story on Bloomberg. There has been a genocide going on in the Gaza Strip for more than a year, but one does not see coverage...

If I were Albanese...

If I were Anthony Albanese, I would say that Peter Dutton has no policies of his own, that all his policies are copied from Trump and that you only have to look at the US to see what will happen in Australia if Dutton is elected. If I were running as an independent, I would promise to cut all ties with the US, cancel all contracts and accords, and remain friendly, but not friends. Before you ask why should Albanese have the same policy, remember this is a  small target election. But I would adopt the independent position...

Should we now look to join BRICS?

Now that ANZUS is superseded and presumably AUKUS is as dead as can be, we should be looking for a group of friends who are more naturally connected to Australia. Geographically – Indonesia, Malaysia,Thailand, Vietnam. Trade – China, and India. British background – South Africa Perhaps we are more naturally associated with BRICS and now is a good time to open some diplomatic dialogue about Australia joining this organisation. It would presumably take about five years for such work to bear fruit. BRICS appears to be a very tolerant organisation so we should fit in rather nicely....

Donald Trump and climate change

While we are all seriously concerned about Donald Trump's tariff war, we need to take even more seriously, his recurrent war against climate change action. His withdrawal for a second time from the global agreement on climate change action, and his interest in the promotion of company profits (including fossil fuel companies), should be deeply concerning to our nation’s leaders. The world is already suffering deeply, from droughts, floods and fires, that are influenced by fossil fuel emissions. Our two major Australian political parties are divided on climate change action. While one is committed to renewables and batteries, with...

Members of RCEP are worst hit by tariffs

All but three of the countries you cite as being mostly heavily affected by US tariffs, are members of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, which includes China and Australia. We’ll just have to put more effort into that. There is also still APEC, but I guess the US’ membership of that is effectively ended by Trump, and Russia’s membership is problematic.

Never get between bullies in a fight

I agree that climate is a major game and sinking archipelagos (Indonesia etc) are a major issue. To paraphrase the leader of the opposition, will they be swimming to a crowded north or empty south? It’s all very nice to say that in every war game attended, the US lost but there is no mention of how allies (friends) in a bully brawl are the first to suffer. If it came to a nuclear war, the main players will not bomb each others. if they do so it will only be as a last resort. Australia will be...

On the subject of tariffs

What is the position on tariffs on the supplies (I presume) Australian businesses sell to the multitude of US bases and embassy in our country on our soil? I understand their embassy is considered to be on their soil. I think Australia has no jurisdiction over their ships and subs and don’t know about their troops barracked in our bases and Pine Gap. What they eat there is top secret, though I believe there once was a booming market in US muscle cars coming in via a secret installation near Alice Springs. .

It is time to take BRICS seriously

Thank you for Paul Keating’s article. For me, I wonder, can I buy from Australia’s Antarctic Program a robotic penguin made in Heard Island, now subject to Trump’s new tariff on electrical and mechanical equipment from that place? But seriously, he is quoted saying today in The Guardian that he now expects other nations will come crawling to him. That is not a successful approach to a bully. By the way, has Trump actually formally withdrawn the US from the WTO, which would seem to be a prerequisite to his announcement on tariffs yesterday? A very recent P and...

Rigging the US market

Ever since markets have existed — over 5000 years — unscrupulous individuals have known how to rig them. The usual trick is to drive prices up, sell out to promote a crash, then buy in at disaster prices – and get very rich. Amazingly, America, that cynosure of smart business, does not seem to get the Trump gameplan: it is to crash the US economy so his billionaire mates can swoop in and snap up the best pieces at bargain basement prices. Stock exchanges usually have strict rules against this behaviour – but there is no law that...

Has the world gone mad?

Paul Keating is right to question thevalidity of any treaty with the US. There’s every indication that America, socially and economically, is now in the grip of a pirate gang of fanatics hellbent on assaulting any order that sits outside their credulous world image and shown they’ll plundering what they can from whomever they can, even their fellow Americans, in total disregard of the consequences. The evidence is clear. Scattergun targeted tariffs have overturned the global economic barrow. Internal descent has been punished financially and government functionality dismantled. Trumpian puppeteers have control of social media, and the constitutionally authorised...

The failure of Peter Slezak's words

Peter Slezak writes, In fact, there has never been any antisemitism at our rallies, at universities or anywhere in Australia in my lifetime. Peter knows very well that there is, and was, antisemitism in Australia, but he chooses, not merely to discount it, but to reject it entirely. If he was speaking at a different rally and had said, In fact, there has never been any Islamophobia at our rallies, at universities or anywhere in Australia in my lifetime, people in the Muslim community would be shocked at the ignorance of such a statement. Perhaps that's the...

Reject fearful militarism

Gareth Evans writes I totally accept that defence planning always has to be based on worst case assumptions. This voter doesn't accept that. I reject preoccupations with power and weapons. To varying degrees, I fear, loathe and despise them. I like it that Evans puts his argument in tension with decency and prudence, but he doesn't include ethics, neutrality or pacifism. Too many Labor pollies have gotten their jollies from guns and being power hungry.

Albanese should have left before it’s too late

The thing that Labor should have learnt from the US election is to jump ship early, get out before you're told to go (not that Dutton has the charisma of Trump) , and take the subs with them. Albanese and Marles should have stood aside for Chalmers and Plibersek straight after the failure of the Voice vote. Albanese, the loyal workhorse, and Marles, a tin soldier more worried about how his ADF uniform looks than working, neither capable of being dynamic leaders, should have walked all over Dutton, the broken dynamo from the past. But they haven’t! That...

Only global government can save us from ourselves

Growing up in the sixties, under the threat of nuclear annihilation, our mantra was we’re not here for a long time, we’re here for a good time. It is our generation, and our offspring, who now govern our planet and its major institutions. We’ve never lost that mantra. As Julian Cribb shows, in the decades since we have, through our unsustainable consumption and lack of concern for the environment which hosts us, so damaged our environment that it could become virtually uninhabitable. The rapidly shrinking glaciers, which provide so much of the fresh water on which we, and other...

Columbia's capitulation costs

This capitulation by US universities will surely have them plummetting down the global rankings.

Australia buys Brooklyn Bridge (submarines )

This informative story in The Guardian makes one wonder how a spirited tabloid might have headlined it. Perhaps, “Slippery US submarine team collects the loot, then delivers a ‘sorry Bruce’ message to Down Under chumps. Have I got a deal for you? I've got a vote for the party that dumps the deal.

The need for submarines

Peter Briggs presents a strong case for the value and advantage of nuclear submarines over conventional submarines as well as their advantages for an island nation. However the article needs to be read in the context of what is critical to the security of this country and how best to address that. The greatest immediate threat to our security is the impact of global warming and Australia's defence resources should be focused on that. Nuclear submarines are not likely to be part of Australia's naval defence fleet until the 2040s, if ever. Meanwhile, we face extreme weather events which...

Why Australia needs Australian submarines

A convincing article. I’m convinced, Now convince me why they need to be nuclear. Where do we store the waste? Why we need to buy them from the US? Most importantly, why have we waited until the locally made product was so far past its use-by-date that we find ourselves in our current dilemma? Looks to me like our ADF and politicians have got it very wrong, given a lifecycle of 25 years before major refit. That’s five LNP and three Labor governments and a lot of generals who haven’t done their well-paid jobs.

Pacifism and neutrality

I particularly like Marcus Rubinstein's sceptical stance regarding expectations of war, and especially the calls Australia should respond with armaments. I have read with concern the reports of China's intentions regarding imminent invasion of Taiwan. I feel pity for those who could be invaded, and living in apprehension, and wonder about the extent of China's war pose. Could it possibly be as bad as the US? No, says Rubenstein. I know that only neutrality and pacifism could make me proud to be Australian. Peter Briggs's argument for AUKUS is laudable for its quiet rationality, but it recreates and...

Hooray for Barb Dadd!

Yes indeed, mainstream politics and politicians aren't working, and we the people might could should withhold payment. But take it a little further, perhaps? Party politics is largely broken, and Lib and Lab parties have long existed in order to hold power. Hence,  Anthony Albanese said early in this term, I intend to be in power a long time and Keir Starmer undermined Jeremy Corbyn and then triumphantly declared, Labour is not the party of protest. Party politics has destroyed democracy all over the world. Party politics is illegitimate and due to be abolished. Vote independent!

Hegseth’s tatts and the Christchurch shooter

The five-minute scroll 105 notes the bombing of Yemen. Some years ago the Christchurch shooter killed 51 Muslim worshippers. His inscriptions in Georgian channeled 400-year-old battles against Muslims in eastern Europe. At the beginning of this week of 24 March, 53 were killed in Yemen by US air weaponry. US defence secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly has tattoos including one channeling the 1000-year-old Crusader fight against Muslims, and one with the word “kafir”, meaning an unbeliever in Muslim eyes. In an “accidentally” released Signal message, he was shown to be ordering actions which would inevitably cause similar killings, but...

Climate security risks abound

Thank you to David Spratt for highlighting the issue of Climate Change and National Security. As independent Senator David Pocock has suggested, the government sitting on the Office of National Intelligence’s Climate Risk Assessment report since early 2023 is “recklessly negligent” (“Exclusive: Secret briefings on climate national security risk”, The Saturday Paper, 15/3). The public deserve to be informed and have the ability to hold the government accountable to act on such reports. Commendably, independent MP Dr Monique Ryan recently hosted what was considered to be the first public forum about Climate Change and Security in Australia. Former Chief...

Queens and WA land rights

David Lee’s article brings back memories of what could have been from just over 40 years ago. Senator Susan Ryan got a bill through the Senate for land rights in Queensland in 1982-3. Here in WA we in the Aboriginal Treaty Support Group crafted a land rights act for WA based on Senator Ryan’s bill. Senator Michael Macklin, Australian Democrats, was having it prepared by parliamentary counsel and announced in the Canberra Times in November 1982 so that it would be introduced. The WA Burke government introduced a much watered down bill in the mid-80s, but it failed to...

The democratic police state of Australia

For whatever arguably good reason these laws are passed they eventually apply to any other good cause that the public may be protesting about. Any curtailing of our right to peaceful protest moves us closer to the dictatorial/fascist states we see on our nightly news and the violence that invariably follows them. We have sufficient laws about damage, graffiti, violence and freedom of speech without politicising everything and every opinion. My concern is not that we have too many public servants, it’s that we have too many politicians with nothing better to do than pass laws only...

American attitude to China

Jimmy Stewart made many movies. In 1960, he made The Mountain Road, set in China in 1944, when America was supposedly helping China against Japan. Stewart's character slowly developed an antipathy to the people he was helping and the final scenes escalate as the innocent Chinese villagers become collateral damage in his attack against Chinese brigands. (Yes, some Chinese fought anyone with whom they crossed paths). Some say it was Stewart's anti-war movie, but I cannot help but notice comparisons with American attitudes to Asians, especially Chinese, today. A lot of collateral damage can be expected if a...

What did you do in the war, Daddy?

We boomers asked our fathers what they did in WWII. How many children of this generation will ask their parents what they did during the Palestinian genocide when the major victims of WWII did their level best to wipe Palestine and Palestinians off the map? I suggest there won't be any equivalent of the many Holocaust memorials. Not enough people care to see that the same and worse is happening now, committed by the descendants of those memorialised in those museums. They won't want to be shamed in the future. We haven't made a mark on our government...

What budget? What democracy?

If nothing else, the recent events and behaviour of both major parties proves to me that we don’t live in a democracy and never have and that there is little point in a budget. The weeks leading up to the budget should be parliamentary leave without pay. What point is a budget when without any transparent discussion in Parliament the then prime minister can sign off on $300 billion and counting that wasn’t included in their own last budget? How can the present prime minister actively pursue the commitment of Australian troops to a peace-keeping force or the...

Future of Americans loyal to Trump working in DIO

Jack Waterford presents a masterly piece of analysis. In P and I on August 3, 2023, Mike Scranton described the setting up of the Combined Intelligence Centre (CIC-A) within DIO, which includes US intelligence analysts. Well, Alan Kohler in ABC online on Monday called the Trump presidency a regime. We have our Australian Government Personnel Security Adjudicative Standard, which among other items includes loyalty to Australia. In view of the loyalty of US citizens to Mr Trump and the rapid changes for the worse in both US internal and external policies, what should happen about the American analysts...

Titanic struggle for the climate

The World Meteorological Organisation’s just-published ‘State of the Global Climate 2024’ report makes sobering reading. While the world is not yet beyond the possibility of holding global warming to 1.5 degrees, achieving this will need a co-ordinated global effort. The report shows many climate risk markers at dangerous levels. The WMO say that they ‘are intensifying efforts to strengthen early warning systems and climate services to help decision-makers and society at large be more resilient to extreme weather and climate’. At the same time, as Bruce Thom reported, Donald Trump is reversing American climate policies, downsizing the National...

Five-minute scroll provides invaluable information

I would like to commend the Pearls and Irritations team that gives us A five-minute scroll. I often find the information given invaluable. Today was no exception. I also call on the international community to do more to prevent the erasure of the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza. Apathy and indifference kills. Albert Einstein pointed out that the world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch and do absolutely nothing.

I’m forever blowing thought bubbles

Where do our First Nations People fit into this discussion? They may well want to send us all home with our First Nations/Australian dual citizenship. Would it require a referendum to fix and how much is budgeted by our superior economic manager leader of the oppose everything party?

Dutton has no idea about the Constitution

Peter Hughes' excellent article in response to the usual thought bubble that emanates from Peter Dutton's 'pea brain amply illustrates why the latest is a horrible idea. In response, one has to ask how this would manifest itself as an amendment; Would it add another sub-paragraph to s51 or would it (like the failed Communist Party referendum of the 1950s, equally ill-considered) be a new section 51A and exactly what would it say? If the point is to stop antisemitism or anti-islam or similar persecution, would it mention these by name? If it were to focus on the...

The population has exploded

In his rambling complaint about forecasting, Stan Glaser overlooks one salient detail: Ehrlich, broadly, got it right. When he wrote The Population Bomb in 1967 there were 3.4 billion humans and today there are 8.2 billion. The bomb exploded by 241%. However, in 1967 nobody foresaw the success of the Green Revolution in sustaining the boom in numbers. Ehrlich predicted famine, because that was what was happening in overpopulated countries at the time – but not the success in doubling the world food supply. His book was intended as a caution — as it still is — of...

The state with power to grant citizenship

Peter Hughes' article warns, cogently, against Dutton's thought bubble about giving ministers power to strip Australian citizenship from criminal dual nationals who have served their time. One aspect of citizenship law that Hughes only alludes to is the fact that a person's right to citizenship is determined solely by the country granting citizenship. Consequently, a minister deciding to remove the citizenship of a dual national cannot be sure the person actually remains a dual national. It is quite possible the other country has already taken its citizenship from the person. In that event, the minister would be...

A better way to determine our defence needs

Paddy Gourley presents a superb novel idea: Australian defence spending should be calculated on the basis of a careful definition of the kind of country we want to be, a clear-eyed analysis of our strategic circumstances and the risks it poses and an assessment of the extent to which those risks can be negated or satisfactorily minimised by military power used in concert with whatever reliable allies are prepared to associate themselves with us. The world's greatest warmonger and seller of arms, currently involved in genocide in Palestine and led by a deranged president, should not participate in any...

Stuart, be more precise, please!

As far as we are aware, among the cohort currently sitting in the federal parliament, only two independents (Lydia Thorpe and Fatima Payman) and the Greens MP and Senators have clearly taken a principled stand in support of the Palestinians, calling for a boycott of the Israeli State in all areas (economic, military, cultural, academic, sport) and appeared as speakers in the frequent pro-Palestinian rallies. So Stuart Rees — rather than only advocating a vote for humanity, for human rights, for support of candidates who uphold the rulings of the International Court of Justice that a plausible Israeli genocide...

Atrocious defence of Falun Gong

I cannot believe you would publish this utter garbage. The man is such a liar and his characterisation of Jerry is defamatory. To suggest Jerry is too stupid to be able to research what falun gong, the epoch times and the new tang dynasty are an insult to your readers. I'm astounded you gave this China hater the oxygen to spread this poison. The CCP? Only racists and bigots refer to them by that. If you can't find the countries name as the PRC or their political party, the CPC, then you know the person is being vengeful. ...

US Israel game plan support from Israeli newspaper

Further to Stuart Rees and Margo Reynolds’ incisive article, it is chilling to read an Israeli newspaper opinion on the weekend which recommends a “political solution” envisaging the total depopulation of Southwest Palestine. Further, it advances the view that those two million people can easily be accommodated elsewhere.

Albert Roman on Falun Gong

I read the recent article by Albert Roman with a sense of deja vu, as, back in 2021, when P&I published a piece I submitted providing the other side of the widely promulgated West Good-China Bad narrative I was described, in a counter article, as an entitled expatriate totally out of touch with the real people of Hong Kong, words not disimilar to those used by Roman to describe Jerry Grey's status as a long-term resident of PRC. And just as Painter who had enjoyed a short period in HK and so considered himself to be an expert on...

Last week it was antisemitism, who’s next?

Last week it was antisemitism, this week it is Islamophobia. A new poll must have been released. One of them is being driven by a group of racist white supremacists among us.

Can Barrow make AUKUS-SSN as well?

Paddy Gourley mentions again the cost of the USUKA (Aukus) subs. According to Sky yesterday, reporting on Keir Starmer’s visit to the UK’s nuclear sub factory at Barrow, “the visit highlighted ongoing challenges facing the UK's aging nuclear submarine fleet, which has been forced to extend its typical three-month patrols to much longer durations due to maintenance delays and the postponed delivery of replacement vessels. The current fleet has now exceeded its intended 25-year service life.” So where, when and how does the AUKUS-SSN work fit in? Or are we going to give Britain too a three quarters of...

Pool the national risk

Ross Gittins’ suggestion for some form of a regional diaspora for flood-prone centres like Lismore might be technically correct. The Insurance Council of Australia wants $30 billion spent on mitigation. Even if both were immediately implemented by government, they are still long-term programs. Property owners need premium relief now. The unsustainably punitive premiums reflect the insurance industry’s targeting large regions with small populations to bear the brunt of costs, a methodology dictated to us by international reinsurers. The federal government Australian Reinsurance Pool Corporation originally established to provide reinsurance for terrorism events post 9-11 was expanded to pick...

The very model of a modern major linguist

Paddy Gourley's incisive article, of course, teases the memory of us old lags: Beazley was nick-named Bomber in his time as defence minister. It was a rather good fit; just as Biggles was for Nelson and Poodles for Pyne. All of them have gone on to bigger and better things, one way or another. Paddy is absolutely en pointe that Beazley's defence (see what I did there??) of his attachment to several armament manufacturers is somehow linked to a safer defence of Australia, is irrelevant to the matter at hand – and it is irrelevant to the purpose...

Diplomacy

John White's article in linking Trump, Putin and Netanyahu shows no regard to the relevant histories. The history of the Ukraine conflict goes right back to the break-up of the USSR and many events since then: eg Putin's 2007 Munich speech, Minsk 1 and,2 and Istanbul and Boris Johnson. Netanyahu presides over the horrific and ongoing attempt to exterminate the Palestinian people. He and his government are better described as Zionist. There are many Jewish people opposed to their actions. To imply that the US and Russia are now aligned is untrue – there is brinkmanship going on...

Response to Binoy Kampmark's article

I enjoyed reading Binoy Kampmark's article. I thought it was spot on. Brave-sounding talk by Australian Big Men about Australian participation in another Coalition of the Willing, as Kampmark notes, Particularly, in Australia’s case, such a foolhardy promise shows that governments are willing to contemplate sending troops to conflicts they ill-understand and have no direct strategic value to them. As others have said, any such plan would need UN Security Council approval, which would be highly unlikely, given Russia's veto power in the UNSC. Unlike the USSR (which did not turn up to veto a proposal for UN participation...

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2025-02-24 Vote 1 Ventriloquist Dummy Party! Really?
2025-02-24 A tyrant by any other name...
2025-02-24 7% of Americans believe chocolate comes from brown cows
2025-02-24 Illegal occupation
2025-02-24 Greenhouse gas emissions from imports
2025-02-24 The considerable cost of retirement living
2025-02-24 Viva Barb Dadd's revolution
2025-02-21 Shame is old hat
2025-02-21 Don't be so hasty about Ronald Reagan
2025-02-21 Past time to cut the US apron strings
2025-02-21 Shame on governments that gave Murdoch free rein
2025-02-21 Myopic self-indulgence
2025-02-20 The cynical pre-budget submission process
2025-02-20 Who do they serve?
2025-02-20 Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
2025-02-19 Alternative WTO?
2025-02-19 Populist right policy – show us the evidence
2025-02-19 Pacta sunt servanda
2025-02-19 It's Teals, not Labor, who now bring hope
2025-02-18 Zionism as a terrorist creed
2025-02-18 The separation between capitalism and state
2025-02-18 No logic from God
2025-02-18 Breaking the cycle
2025-02-17 Views on new world order
2025-02-17 COVID facts
2025-02-17 AUKUS joke
2025-02-17 A1+ for Kym Davey
2025-02-17 What democracy?
2025-02-17 Electoral targeting and the wealth divide
2025-02-17 Balfour Declaration tried to protect Palestinians
2025-02-17 Trump’s Gaza diplomacy
2025-02-17 International law vs RBO
2025-02-14 Start with bringing our ships and planes home
2025-02-13 Do we read the documents we talk about?
2025-02-13 God and gender duality
2025-02-12 Ita, a dose of integrity?
2025-02-12 Why only now see the reality?
2025-02-11 Taiwan and Gaza
2025-02-11 From the river to the sea
2025-02-11 Our future is in our hands
2025-02-11 A golden opportunity for a determined government
2025-02-11 Trump’s Gaza grab: America is no better than China
2025-02-11 Peter Varghese's swipe at China
2025-02-11 What’s really on the nose is politics
2025-02-11 Right-wing Advance and our elections
2025-02-11 Tell 'im 'e's dreamin'
2025-02-11 Well-written report
2025-02-10 Trump saves the subs
2025-02-10 ABC cowardice vs Zionist blitzkreig
2025-02-10 Rough road to a sustainable future
2025-02-10 Comcare prosecution over Robodebt turned down
2025-02-10 Escalators and headlines
2025-02-10 Weasel word BS is alive and well in universities
2025-02-10 It's time for a balanced parliament
2025-02-10 Disappointed with our leaders
2025-02-07 The collapse of the capitalism model
2025-02-06 Trump's diaspora
2025-02-06 Yes Minister 2
2025-02-06 Understanding intent in genocide
2025-02-06 The X factor
2025-02-06 Trump removal of support for climate action and aid
2025-02-06 There is a real choice at this election
2025-02-06 Unhinged proposals for Gaza
2025-02-06 DeepSeek
2025-02-06 How the Chinese system deals with the next phase
2025-02-06 They didn't come to pillage
2025-02-06 Significant differences between Labor govt and Dutton LNP
2025-02-06 Is the Old Testament Christianity?
2025-02-05 Limitation of 'physics emulating' economics
2025-02-05 Exposing the IDF's AI-enabled barbarity
2025-02-04 The elephant in the nuclear room
2025-02-04 Do economists know anything about economics?
2025-02-04 NYT were not the first
2025-02-03 What about Robodebt?
2025-02-03 The biggest hoax of all is democracy
2025-02-03 Our human footprint
2025-02-03 Are the right questions being asked?
2025-02-03 Labor government achievements
2025-02-03 Time for compassionate change
2025-02-02 DeepSeek challenges US capitalism
2025-02-02 Let's all agree to survive
2025-01-31 The impact of colonisation: A couple of not so minor points
2025-01-31 The Trump way?
2025-01-31 If only First Nations had guns
2025-01-31 Foul and repeat, foul and repeat
2025-01-31 Public servants are there to support the community
2025-01-31 The third possibility
2025-01-31 Support for Sarah Schwartz
2025-01-31 Welfare: cheaper than perks given the uber-wealthy
2025-01-31 Why are we so easily conned?
2025-01-31 Wokism
2025-01-31 Join your local chapter of TA
2025-01-31 The Hollow man
2025-01-31 Refaat, the death toll may be even higher
2025-01-24 The Christian right in Australia
2025-01-24 Future generations need a flourishing ecosystem
2025-01-24 how stupid is America's ruling class?
2025-01-24 Say NO to "mutual obligation" - in any guise
2025-01-24 Jews are not responsible for the war in Gaza
2025-01-24 David Lockwood is making assumptions re attacks
2025-01-24 The Genocide will Continue if Morale Improves
2025-01-24 It's always the Palestinians' fault... Not!
2025-01-24 We need to look in the mirror
2025-01-24 Balanced coverage of hostage release
2025-01-24 Into the neoliberal darkness
2025-01-22 Gaslighting Australian Jews
2025-01-20 History as a starting point
2025-01-20 MUCH TO BE DONE NOW
2025-01-20 The One Day of the Year
2025-01-20 Stop the talking. Start the action.
2025-01-20 Not dead yet
2025-01-17 Sanctity of Sovereignty - Ukraine
2025-01-17 Pyrocene perception and the politics of Palestine
2025-01-17 Has UN ceded responsibility for aid to Palestine?
2025-01-17 Mature debate on nuclear health risks is essential
2025-01-17 Opening our eyes
2025-01-17 One to 50,000
2025-01-17 Tackle the root causes of climate policy blindness
2025-01-17 Could the election results give some indication?
2025-01-17 Our Dogs Do Not Deserve to be so badly Disparaged
2025-01-17 Risk of Nuclear Power Generation
2025-01-14 ABC bias? Not so simple
2025-01-13 Truth in democracy
2025-01-13 How come so much influence?
2025-01-13 Out with the aged
2025-01-13 Which party is the more competent economic manager?
2025-01-12 Not only racists oppose high immigration
2025-01-11 The Tour Down Under
2025-01-11 Social cohesion
2025-01-11 Commercial in-confidence? Not with taxpayers' money
2025-01-11 Things need to change around here
2025-01-11 Weasel words on behalf of Penny Wong
2025-01-11 Bishop Browning's values
2025-01-11 Gaza 'Moratorium'
2025-01-11 Stand up, Australia!
2025-01-11 LA and Gaza
2025-01-10 The ABC's reporting on Syria dumbs us down
2025-01-09 Helen McCue speaks for many
2025-01-09 Be more like Norway
2025-01-09 Fly on the wall at the Dreyfus-Netanyahu meet-up
2025-01-09 Participating willingly in genocide
2025-01-09 ASPI is a think tank? Are you serious?
2025-01-08 As always, one law for the rich and one for the poor
2025-01-08 US has infinite capacity to incite trouble
2025-01-08 Think tanks and political parties
2025-01-08 Excellent essay by Joe Lauria
2025-01-08 The West's latest failed 'March on Moscow'
2025-01-06 The Hannibal Directive
2025-01-06 There are other options for ending Ukraine War
2025-01-06 R&D challenges
2025-01-06 AUKUS: a trojan horse?
2025-01-06 ABC reporting on Syria – editorial bias
2025-01-06 Send in the clowns
2025-01-06 Two articles I'd like to read and share widely
2025-01-06 Important article spoiled by rightwing commentator
2025-01-06 Cocos Islands
2025-01-06 Murdoch and much of the Western media
2025-01-06 American obsessions
2025-01-06 Good retrospective
2025-01-06 Time to support the ABC
2025-01-06 Biden’s Gaza vs New Orleans
2025-01-01 Our immigration commentary is governed by White Man’s Media
2025-01-01 Murdoch Royal Commission – when?
2024-12-31 The ABC is already doing the Devil's Work
2024-12-30 Plibersek could demonstrate political integrity
2024-12-29 Was Einstein wrong?
2024-12-25 Communication, not conflict...
2024-12-24 The Earth is sick, humanity is the disease
2024-12-24 Einstein used the concept of god objectively
2024-12-24 ABC coverage of the Gaza war
2024-12-24 Spare us this
2024-12-24 Converting us to a better world
2024-12-24 Opportunity cost of AUKUS
2024-12-23 Trashing of reputation of institutions
2024-12-23 Climate change: who really cares ?
2024-12-23 No man is an Island
2024-12-23 Norfolk Island's problems are its alone
2024-12-23 Racism, Australian style
2024-12-20 Top questions Angela
2024-12-20 A new, secular flag for Israel?
2024-12-20 Nothing inadvertent about Dutton
2024-12-19 Costs of uncertainty
2024-12-19 Economic Truth v's Personal Opinion
2024-12-19 Teals can break the vested interests’ stranglehold
2024-12-19 Our global climate future may depend on China
2024-12-19 Our language about Dutton needs to change
2024-12-19 AUKUS AS A PROBLEM?
2024-12-13 Albanese government must join the dots - and win!
2024-12-13 Antisemitism claims obscenely manipulated
2024-12-13 Faking "social cohesion"
2024-12-13 War criminal Netanyahu and his many illegal acts
2024-12-13 Politics and religion don't mix
2024-12-13 Government Policy
2024-12-06 Pre-industrial levels are not 'safe levels'
2024-12-06 Who does Australia "need", not deserve, as our PM?
2024-12-03 Be bold, Michael Keating
2024-12-03 Australia does not need a Trump Government
2024-12-03 Refugee status determination - the key issue
2024-12-03 We miss the obvious on productivity growth
2024-12-03 Move over, career politicians
2024-12-03 Winners and losers
2024-12-03 Stephen Downes replies: "ABC delighted to be trivial"
2024-11-29 Redesigned ABC website overtakes News.com.au as top online news publisher
2024-11-29 ABC Blues?
2024-11-29 Murdoch will not win
2024-11-29 Government must commit to renewable energy shift
2024-11-29 Let's indeed "play peace"
2024-11-29 Contempt of the LNP and Dutton in particular
2024-11-29 The US political system: An American plutocracy
2024-11-29 "Local" ABC radio encourages law and orders fear
2024-11-29 Israel bashing almost every week
2024-11-29 Even the Guardian bows to the Zionist Lobby
2024-11-29 Our Malthusian demise is only deferred
2024-11-29 Carbon dumping should be called out
2024-11-25 Keating's Banana Republic
2024-11-22 Cribb article deserves a Walkley award
2024-11-22 For whom the bell tolls
2024-11-22 Miller’s latest
2024-11-22 Silence is complicity -- Einstein
2024-11-22 Naive and inaccurate
2024-11-22 ABC Lies By Omission
2024-11-22 Middle class ism the answer to our problem
2024-11-22 So obscene but I fear it will get worse
2024-11-22 Ending the Banality of Evil--Stand up and Question
2024-11-21 Indexation not the main game
2024-11-20 "Fairness and balance" in reporting genocide?
2024-11-20 Magnificent
2024-11-20 How serious is Mr. Podger about the integrity of journalism?
2024-11-20 Why would Walter Silvester lie?
2024-11-19 The ABC, death by a Thousand Cuts
2024-11-19 Elect them and they will put up taxes manta
2024-11-19 Israel must be right, always
2024-11-19 Australia should encourage Taiwan to reunite with China peacefully
2024-11-19 The State of Palestine
2024-11-19 Many were prepared to arm themselves
2024-11-19 They don’t care
2024-11-19 Fairness and Balance
2024-11-15 Tomorrow never comes
2024-11-15 Australia must be bold on climate
2024-11-15 Indexation the killer
2024-11-15 Protecting the powerful
2024-11-15 Just who are the elites?
2024-11-15 The Australian cringe
2024-11-15 Probing our ignorance
2024-11-15 China Relations- Follow the Money
2024-11-08 It's time to re-read Gore Vidal's Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
2024-11-08 Australia must choose a safe climate future
2024-11-08 The Discarded
2024-11-08 Manned submarines are the past
2024-11-08 The implosion of a hollowed out regime?
2024-11-08 Brian Toohey is right about Rudd
2024-11-08 Fossil fuel approvals undermine credibility
2024-11-08 Thanks, Margaret Reynolds
2024-11-08 Democracy in America
2024-11-08 "WTF just happened?"
2024-11-06 Social Media self-censors Evidence of Genocide
2024-11-04 Susie's contribution to humanity
2024-11-04 The persecuted become the persecutors
2024-11-04 Know the difference
2024-11-01 The remarkable courage and strength of MND patients
2024-11-01 We must overcome climate apocalypse scepticism
2024-11-01 Native forest logging is ecocide
2024-11-01 My deepest condolences
2024-11-01 Wild Weather Is Already Upon Us
2024-11-01 Gong irony
2024-11-01 Voluntary end-of-life refusal of fluids and food
2024-11-01 Vale Susie Menadue
2024-11-01 Condolences
2024-11-01 Labor hasn't done it on its own
2024-11-01 Livin' in the Land of the Sycophants
2024-10-25 Call it what it is
2024-10-25 Always listen to mother.
2024-10-25 Thank you for Susie
2024-10-25 US armed forces had the power to stop the massacre
2024-10-25 Robertson KC suggests a simple solution
2024-10-25 Politicians and media shunning the truth
2024-10-25 The horror of being Australian
2024-10-25 Shards of hope amongst the horror
2024-10-25 Time for Albo to move into his $4000000 house
2024-10-25 Endless war as foreign policy
2024-10-25 Fighting for peace
2024-10-25 Australia's climate action should be acknowledged
2024-10-25 The Thorn and the Carnation may hold the clue
2024-10-25 Global climate disaster, COP and Cribb's solutions
2024-10-25 The storm of climate chaos
2024-10-25 Sinwar
2024-10-25 Sovereignty
2024-10-22 Another perspective on end-of-life
2024-10-18 It's the little things ....
2024-10-18 The Referendum 12 Months On
2024-10-18 Shame indeed!
2024-10-18 Are we mature enough to hear?
2024-10-18 Get the baseball bats out
2024-10-18 Are we inching inexorably towards WWIII?
2024-10-18 The right or otherwise of Israel to defend itself
2024-10-18 Is China our biggest threat?
2024-10-18 Abandon sovereignty!
2024-10-11 Comfortable middle classes must do more
2024-10-11 "Is there an honest Australian news source"?
2024-10-11 Thoughts and prayers
2024-10-11 Why I grieve for our grandchildren’s futures
2024-10-11 Ignorance trumps racism - mostly.
2024-10-11 ABC - disgraceful partisanship
2024-10-11 ‘Provocation’
2024-10-11 RESPONSE TO KELTY ON THE ALP
2024-10-11 “How high should we jump?” - Canberra
2024-10-11 We must get serious about climate change action
2024-10-04 How to survive on an isolated planet
2024-10-04 Universities as a place of higher learning? YES
2024-10-04 "Merely academic"
2024-10-04 The mask is off
2024-10-04 Advanced Care Directives and Living Wills
2024-10-04 The Albanese Enigma
2024-10-04 It's all in the wording
2024-10-04 The Zionist Lobby Marches Onwards
2024-10-03 AMC Canberra
2024-09-26 Reply to Mark Diesendorf's letter of 20 September
2024-09-09 Climate science education can inform us all
2024-08-16 Labor swallows Coalition defence and foreign policy holus-bolus
2024-08-16 Anthony Albanese
2024-08-16 The unsustainable lifestyles of the wealthy West
2024-08-09 The Bonfire of the Verities
2024-08-09 We must reverse bipartisan support for oil and gas
2024-08-09 The need for large scale degrowth
2024-08-02 NOTHING TO SEE HERE
2024-08-02 Small acts of sedition
2024-08-02 When a white flag no longer counts
2024-08-02 Pearls and Irritations Journal Limited
2024-08-02 Thank you
2024-08-02 Well said.
2024-08-02 There is an alternative political narrative
2024-08-02 July 26
2024-08-02 Not my Labor
2024-08-02 Albanese's Timidity
2024-08-02 Albanese is providing genuine Leadership
2024-08-02 Why not apply the extradition treaty provisions?
2024-08-02 PM's reshuffle no sign of weakness
2024-08-02 Lacking moral fibre
2024-08-02 I call on the government to resign.
2024-08-02 Not walking the walk, barely talking the talk
2024-08-02 Envoys or no envoys
2024-08-02 Party Solidarity?
2024-08-02 Thank you John
2024-08-02 Albanese government must present climate truth
2024-07-29 The Greens and the CPRS - still!
2024-07-26 Time to step up, Albo, or step away
2024-07-26 Actions, not words: Unpublished letter to The Age
2024-07-26 What are our defence strategies without AKUS?
2024-07-26 China brokers national unity government
2024-07-26 Ignorance about China
2024-07-26 Oslo is dead
2024-07-26 IT Outages
2024-07-26 Evading a US “iron dome”
2024-07-26 What an unshackled Oz could do
2024-07-26 A very informative and timely article
2024-07-19 The Summit of the Future offers hope for us all
2024-07-19 Violence and solving political problems
2024-07-19 Maintain the rage
2024-07-19 BEWARE OF A LEOPARD TRYING TO CHANGE HIS SPOTS PARTICULARLY IF HE IS OUR …
2024-07-12 We're almost in a supertropical world now
2024-07-12 EV chargers - Australia
2024-07-12 The Two Envoys - a comment
2024-07-12 Joe Biden is no mere bystander
2024-07-12 Religion has never had anything to do with it
2024-07-12 Expert advice for a sustainable Australia
2024-07-12 Is Julian Assange beyond all criticism?
2024-07-12 Jeffrey D. Sachs and the independent state.
2024-07-12 Faithlessness-Based Politics
2024-07-12 Albanese and AUKUS and relations with China
2024-07-12 Our Government Making Every Post a Loser
2024-07-12 The public service has no memory
2024-07-10 Casting doubt is part of the propaganda
2024-07-08 ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE
2024-07-06 Peter Henning gets Gaza & Labor right
2024-07-05 Prof Hocking's article on caucus
2024-07-05 Labor vs Payman on Palestine
2024-07-05 Accepting a two-State solution
2024-07-05 Caucus scores own goal
2024-07-05 Our China knowledge deficit
2024-07-05 We Boomers won the environmental lottery
2024-07-05 The Antisemitism definition missing from the public record
2024-07-05 Who is a real Nazi
2024-07-05 Speaking truth to power
2024-07-05 Sidelining Senator Payman
2024-07-05 Patrick Gourley writing on Pezzulo
2024-06-28 We need proactive governments to save our climate
2024-06-28 Critics of Zionist values are not anti-Semitic
2024-06-28 Disappointed by Henry's call for an Apology
2024-06-28 Geoffrey Watson SC and the NACC
2024-06-28 Palestine
2024-06-28 ‘I’m permanently pissed off’
2024-06-28 LGBTQ+ people and Religious Organisations
2024-06-28 In response to your article
2024-06-28 Biden's Floating Aid Fails as Expected
2024-06-28 Common sense Wisdom
2024-06-21 The Power Options Debate (A Professionals View)
2024-06-21 A startling admission from a former insider
2024-06-21 Nuclear power and weapons linked
2024-06-21 Robo-Debt fall-out
2024-06-21 Graduates not 'job-ready' without the humanities
2024-06-17 The capitulation of Ukraine
2024-06-17 The legal black hole of nuclear
2024-06-17 Julian Cribb offers government a climate plan
2024-06-17 Australians would support non-alignment
2024-06-14 Journalists could bone up on nuclear information
2024-06-14 Capitalism and democracy are different things
2024-06-14 Most certainly, we hold no sympathy for Hamas....
2024-06-14 Poor policy results in poor outcomes
2024-06-14 Why is the US waiting for Hamas?
2024-06-14 Stigmatising dementia
2024-06-14 The Hypocrisy on Gaza is widespread indeed
2024-06-14 Russia’s nuclear threat
2024-06-14 Religion and the Census
2024-06-14 Labor's climate failures
2024-06-14 Political hypocracy
2024-06-14 Critical thought - Culturally Determined Mediation
2024-06-14 Can the Albanese Govt be trusted with Australia?
2024-06-14 Finally, the facts on Chinese growth
2024-06-14 Dangers of Neutrality
2024-06-14 Doomsday clock
2024-06-14 We must recover the common good
2024-06-14 A spade is a spade, (unless it's Israeli . . )
2024-06-14 Brave voices should be applauded
2024-06-14 Biden’s bombs burn babies
2024-06-14 We need leaders who rise to the climate challenge
2024-06-14 Bias in the Letters pages
2024-06-14 Daniel Duggan
2024-06-14 We cannot leave transition to our children
2024-05-29 Biden Administration Stands Self-Indicted
2024-05-24 The degree of obedience of a soldier
2024-05-24 The role of the Greens
2024-05-24 Dien Bien Phu and Vietnam war protests
2024-05-24 Finally, facts against the almighty Hasbara b.s.
2024-05-24 It's just the budget to win the next election
2024-05-24 The US has lost key states
2024-05-24 Peacekeeping force for Gaza
2024-05-24 Gaza genocide
2024-05-17 We must break the power of lobbying and donations
2024-05-17 Pushers of war for corporate gain
2024-05-17 The US hegemon
2024-05-17 Betrayal X 2
2024-05-17 We should all support an Earth Systems Treaty
2024-05-17 Yes, Minister. Listen to the kids
2024-05-17 “Future Made in Australia"
2024-05-17 A valuable contribution
2024-05-17 Cognitive dissonance over climate catastrophe
2024-05-17 Ceasefire guarantee or red line of blood?
2024-05-10 Hope now rests on very thin ice
2024-05-10 EEZ rules
2024-05-10 Blinken and the mote and beam
2024-05-10 The US empires' Days are numbered
2024-05-10 Australia's American lenses
2024-05-03 Avani Dias and The Australian
2024-05-03 Lest we forget -- Who should we commemorate?
2024-05-03 Lest we forget -- beyond ANZAC
2024-05-03 Terrorism: let’s call it out
2024-05-03 Every morning I wake early, Gaza is my first thought
2024-05-03 Future Made In Australia (Michael Keating article)
2024-05-03 In a parallel universe
2024-05-03 US Demands China stop Supplying Russia in Ukraine
2024-05-03 An eminence grise in his own lunchtime
2024-05-03 Measures That Matter, Matter
2024-05-03 Israel's historical mythology and Arab Jews
2024-05-03 Corals warn humanity to speed energy transition
2024-05-03 Cautious Terrorism
2024-05-03 SEZs are the answer
2024-05-03 Labor has left the building
2024-05-03 Palestinian state
2024-05-03 We trust truth over 'news as entertainment'
2024-04-19 Be both alert and alarmed
2024-04-19 Recognising Palestine
2024-04-19 Gender theory exists
2024-04-18 We ARE part of the problem!
2024-04-15 We must stop mining fossil fuels.
2024-04-15 Fossil fuel users can pollute in secret
2024-04-15 The real battle to save NDIS is about people
2024-04-12 We need to see what lobbyists do
2024-04-12 The only planet
2024-04-12 Nuclear Smoke and Fossil Fuel Mirrors
2024-04-12 The whisper of an eternity beyond
2024-04-12 Shame on Labor
2024-04-12 Infinite growth equals infinite stupidity
2024-04-12 Albanese and killing of Zomi Frankcom
2024-04-12 One State: The Only Future for Palestine - Israel
2024-04-12 First they came for Palestine
2024-04-12 The fragility of existence
2024-04-12 Arrogance and Absolute Lies
2024-04-05 Population - an insidious problem
2024-04-05 Shameful oil and gas realities
2024-04-05 Deaths in Gaza and Ukraine
2024-04-02 Unity of Life
2024-04-02 Wow!
2024-04-02 Can Tanya Plibersek give us a sustainable future?
2024-03-28 Security Council needs to back up its resolution
2024-03-28 Tony Abbott and news corp
2024-03-28 So Ashamed
2024-03-28 U.S. ENTRAPMENT OF AUSTRALIA
2024-03-26 Why does my tax fund discrimination?
2024-03-22 We can see the future, and it's bleak.
2024-03-22 The Australian threat analysis may be faulty
2024-03-22 Please, please, please ...
2024-03-22 Understanding (some/most) Jewish people
2024-03-22 Is Susan Abulhawa's story a fair assessment?
2024-03-22 Fear and Wrongdoing
2024-03-22 Old economist wakes up - better late than never
2024-03-22 Reflections on P&I
2024-03-18 Albanese Must Lead Boldly
2024-03-18 HEU: ANCIENT WISDOM, MODERN LESSONS
2024-03-15 We must pay for pollution
2024-03-15 MH370 - ex airline pilot agrees with your story
2024-03-15 Alcohol banned in parliaments
2024-03-15 Danger using Pine Gap in Negotiations with the US
2024-03-15 The Power of the Dog
2024-03-15 Will AUKUS Outlast Trump
2024-03-15 Australia responsible for the bleaching of its own reef
2024-03-15 Hear me Roar
2024-03-08 The Teals Have Revived Representative Parliament
2024-03-08 THE DEPUTY SHERRIF SYNDROME
2024-03-08 Those nuclear submarines
2024-03-08 Well timed article
2024-03-08 Tensions in a deeply economically linked world
2024-03-08 Paul Heywood-Smith issues a clear call
2024-03-05 Joe had the power to prevent it
2024-03-01 Climate action: way too little, way too late
2024-03-01 Lithium free ev batteries now in production
2024-03-01 Missing in Action: Aaron Bushnell
2024-03-01 US Military advisors
2024-03-01 Playing in the street
2024-03-01 Naval expansion is expensive and unnecessary
2024-02-23 What si truth
2024-02-23 The moving goalposts of COP
2024-02-23 Further to Brian Toohey’s letter on the 1975 coup
2024-02-23 Drifting off course
2024-02-23 Getting the message through
2024-02-22 One cannot be an illegal occupier of his own land: Response Letter
2024-02-22 The article headed "Israeli female soldiers celebrate the death of 12,300 …
2024-02-16 We need climate action sooner than a treaty
2024-02-16 Reading and Public Schools: Parents have a role too
2024-02-16 HAMAS has the blood of Palestinians and Israelis on its hands
2024-02-16 How did we get so deeply in to the Zionist thrall?
2024-02-16 Cost of killing Gazan Palestinians
2024-02-16 The beginning of a climate change solution
2024-02-16 US Military aggression
2024-02-16 Tradies and weekends are safe
2024-02-14 The American Disease
2024-02-09 We must reclaim the common good
2024-02-09 Engaging with climate solution
2024-02-09 Israel in contempt of ICJ orders
2024-02-09 Rusted-on Labor voters thought they'd elected one.
2024-02-09 Superb expose of US instigation of Pakistan coup
2024-02-09 Pursuing the real criminals
2024-02-05 Ceasefire essential, but both side must commit to end hostilities
2024-02-02 ICJ orders and suspending UNRWA
2024-01-30 A dubious line up of speakers resist renewables
2024-01-30 ICJ interim decision on genocide in Gaza
2024-01-30 Humanity's Extinction Beckons
2024-01-30 An Idea for Australia Day: Learning from Bali
2024-01-30 The Consequences of Western Liberal Failure
2024-01-30 An Australian Republic should include establishment of a Bill of Rights
2024-01-30 Ralph Evans: "China leads on renewable energy"
2024-01-30 Authoritarian governments have even greater problems than democracies in meeting …
2024-01-30 Strengthen Integrity to Save the Climate
2024-01-30 Australia's options under Labor
2024-01-30 The Jewish lobby or the Zionist lobby? - Words matter
2024-01-30 ABC failure to uphold journalistic principles
2024-01-30 Never a Truer Word Spoken!
2024-01-30 Heartfelt thanks
2024-01-30 ABC Impartiality
2024-01-30 But this is what we do...
2024-01-30 NATO, and now EU, efforts to expand into Asia
2024-01-30 Australia Day
2024-01-19 Incisive analogy
2024-01-19 Sacking of ABC journalist
2024-01-19 Dreaming of a culture of humanity
2024-01-19 Aged Care Overboard
2024-01-19 Climate Chaos
2024-01-12 We Must Break The Fossil Fuel Shackles Now
2024-01-12 Holbrook and USUKA
2024-01-12 Proposed New Aged Care Act. Shonky deal.
2024-01-12 The nuclear option: Peter Dutton’s bid for power
2024-01-12 November 11, 1975 vs January 6 2021
2024-01-12 DVD The Search for the Palace Letters
2024-01-12 People power to the rescue
2024-01-12 It’s peace USA, UK , France fear most
2024-01-12 Shrewd dealings
2024-01-12 ABC missed the Genocide
2024-01-12 SE Australia Global Warming impacts from 1990s
2024-01-12 We must recover the common good
2024-01-12 Why was Whitlam not angrier?
2024-01-12 The Australian's ongoing climate disinformation
2024-01-12 Beauty in our world
2024-01-12 Check your facts.
2024-01-12 WA GST revenue vs NSW pokies Revenue
2024-01-12 ALP cooperating with US intelligence conceivable
2024-01-12 Additional Extraordinary Australian Journalist
2024-01-12 Bit Sized But Brilliant
2024-01-12 It's about a healthy mindset
2024-01-12 US Sanctions are not working
2024-01-12 John Pilger - a great journalist
2024-01-12 Why Israel envies the Palestinians so much.
2024-01-12 US/Israeli strategy for the Middle East
2024-01-12 Media bias
2024-01-12 So called “private” schools
2024-01-12 Theological reform . . . an oxymoron?
2024-01-12 The new Holocaust - Israel's genocidal war on Gaza
2024-01-12 More than theology
2024-01-12 A new study may have strengthened the COP28 text
2024-01-12 Do Australians want a bigger or better Australia?
2024-01-12 Vale Mark Valencia
2023-12-22 Criminal conviction review
2023-12-22 On calls for genocide.
2023-12-22 Knowing China - Australia must learn how to engage
2023-12-22 Israel's Transition to Tyranny
2023-12-22 Ending the Revolutions - Historical Errors
2023-12-19 CIS was not created by Atlas
2023-12-15 Addressing intergenerational injustice
2023-12-15 Pathway to Paris
2023-12-15 If Tony Abbott thinks, few care about what
2023-12-15 Humanitarian crisis in Gaza
2023-12-15 PLEASE TELL ME IT ISN'T TRUE
2023-12-15 "Homo Moronicus" and the climate heating crisis
2023-12-15 Voice referendum lite
2023-12-15 Spineless Cowards and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous …
2023-12-15 We need an Earth Systems Treaty for our children
2023-12-15 BDS campaign against Israel
2023-12-15 An observation on misidentifying women of colour
2023-12-15 Unconscionable profits funding universal wellbeing
2023-12-15 Keating on Kissinger
2023-12-15 A question of counting?
2023-12-15 Big Oil and big lies
2023-12-15 Let’s put Covid deaths into context
2023-12-15 Marise Payne and the inquiry into Covid
2023-12-15 Our democracies must change to meet the climate crisis
2023-12-06 Australia, UK and USA are militarising the Indo-Pacific
2023-12-01 Slaughter of the Innocents
2023-12-01 Hamas attacks were not 'by the Palestinian people'
2023-12-01 Concerning climate predictions
2023-12-01 Criticism of Israel is not Antisemitic
2023-12-01 Women’s Voice
2023-12-01 The ongoing battle to keep Australia a petrostate
2023-12-01 Australians: letting all ‘n’ sundry know the score
2023-12-01 Can an Australian soldier disregard orders if they believe that order to be …
2023-12-01 A minor dissension
2023-12-01 McMullen misses major factor: Biden’s incompetence
2023-12-01 Relationship to Asia
2023-12-01 The success of lobbyists is widening the Gap
2023-12-01 A Vile Article
2023-12-01 Supporting sensible climate policy
2023-11-27 Indefinite Detention and the NZYQ case
2023-11-17 Do international agreements mean anything?
2023-11-17 The entire Public Health System is now enslaved to “The System”
2023-11-17 Ugly Christian Apocalyptic beliefs
2023-11-17 Mitigation and Australia
2023-11-17 END TIMES AND ARMAGEDDON WELCOMED
2023-11-17 Immigration: economy, politics or survival?
2023-11-17 Whales and misinformation
2023-11-17 A witty take on US-China Summit
2023-11-15 The critical mass is getting close to defeating the Israeli and Western …
2023-11-13 These Children Could Be My Children
2023-11-10 Revelation is not canonical in the Orthodox Church
2023-11-10 What we need now is a clear declaration of peace
2023-11-10 Fearless article calling out Penny Wong
2023-11-10 We Must Break Labor's Faustian Climate Policy
2023-11-10 Climate Inertia
2023-11-10 Stopping the massacre in Gaza
2023-11-03 Ali Kazak has exposed the ugly history of Zionism
2023-11-03 Crematorium Threatens Endangered Habitat
2023-11-01 Call Them By Their Names
2023-11-01 When reporting wars, the mass media cannot help themselves
2023-11-01 The war is just beginning
2023-10-31 A Comment on Tim and Simon’s Twist
2023-10-31 Two peoples, an equal claim to self determination and sovereignty
2023-10-31 Finally the uncensored truth. . .
2023-10-27 The UNSC must act now on Israel's invasion of Palestine
2023-10-27 We all need a mirror
2023-10-27 The No vote was racist
2023-10-27 Australia is selfish and lacks empathy. Ignorant too!
2023-10-27 Nuclear waste and our oceans
2023-10-27 Smoke and mirrors policies
2023-10-20 Blaming Judaism is beyond reasonable comment
2023-10-20 Biden's hospital atrocity pretence
2023-10-20 BUT WHO CARES?
2023-10-20 Triggers will slow planet wrecking
2023-10-20 Australia's capacity to address global heating
2023-10-20 There are no 'No' winners
2023-10-20 The Korean War and Hollywood propaganda
2023-10-20 Captured by the fossil fuel industry
2023-10-20 DeGrowth and Steady State - another ideology?
2023-10-20 Dutton has much to answer for
2023-10-08 Trump's supposed misuse of sensitive information
2023-10-06 Why are we not there? Because Beijing won't give us visas
2023-09-29 A CRY FROM THE HEART
2023-09-29 The clear need for truth in political advertising
2023-09-29 The echoes of assimilationism taught in our universities still haunt us
2023-09-29 Filling the hole - then what?
2023-09-29 Disgusted!
2023-09-29 Proposed cuts at ACU threaten work on Safe AI
2023-09-29 ACU and Post-Modern Epistemology
2023-09-22 Enough is enough. Free Julian Assange.
2023-09-22 Expenditure priorities: AUKUS subs versus climate
2023-09-15 Why Labor is hiding the ONI climate report
2023-09-15 It's time for urgent lifestyle changes
2023-09-15 Ending native forest logging is a trump card
2023-09-15 A BIG THANK YOU to Gregory Andrews.
2023-09-15 WHAT A NATION!
2023-09-08 "Fascist" Politics?
2023-09-08 The Voice: my perspective
2023-09-08 Missing the Point
2023-09-02 Why we need an Earth System Treaty
2023-09-01 Forest policy missing in action
2023-09-01 It’s simple mathematics
2023-08-25 Avoiding scandalous commitments of "Forceposture"
2023-08-25 If the Democrats had principles
2023-08-25 Myanmar: No basis for armed Western intervention
2023-08-25 Concentrate on the people, not the Opposition
2023-08-18 “Their minds are not clear” – the late Evan Whitton
2023-08-18 Australians be aware
2023-08-18 Aukus suffers badly from the democratic deficit
2023-08-18 The Language of War
2023-08-11 Devastating reef reality
2023-08-11 The PRC suffers from homelessness too
2023-08-11 Let us not forget Julian Assange
2023-08-11 Mythical Nazification of Ukraine
2023-08-11 Richard Marles' repeated use of "seamless"
2023-08-11 'No' supporters not all white supremacists
2023-08-05 Pearls and Irritations articles are a STANDOUT
2023-08-03 There is nothing "mythical" about Nazis in Ukraine
2023-07-31 Wen Wei Po: A reply to Jonathan Leung
2023-07-24 An Earth Systems Treaty
2023-07-24 The tragedy of Palestine
2023-07-24 Miscarriages of justice
2023-07-21 Not just Robodebt
2023-07-21 Nuclear subs deal sunk
2023-07-21 WHOSE FAULT IS IT
2023-07-21 Six hundred years of reform?
2023-07-21 Confusing the evidence
2023-06-28 Julian Cribb and Saul Griffith must be heard
2023-06-26 There is a plan for human survival
2023-06-23 Retired US Admiral confirms Australian subservience
2023-06-21 Ordering women into silence
2023-06-19 Wen Wei Po NOT an anti Beijing newspaper
2023-06-19 Relations with China
2023-06-19 An Answer to Neoliberalism
2021-06-13 This is leadership: Germany bids farewell to Angela Merkel politics