Year: 2026

The Choice Trump Makes When Accountability Appears Donald Trump is not unraveling. He is not “cornered,” “panicking,” or undergoing some tragic psychological collapse. What we are witnessing is far simpler – and far more familiar. […]

I’m an avid trail runner, having done a number of ultra marathons in my time. The below stems from an experience I once had following one of my early ultra marathons – my first real […]

By James Moore “Pretending to know things one doesn’t know is a betrayal of science – and yet it is the lifeblood of religion.” (Sam Harris, author, neuroscientist). There has always been a nonsensical element […]

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists recently set the Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds to midnight – the closest it has ever been to catastrophe. Predictably, some commentary rushed to place artificial intelligence at the […]

Albanese’s Iran Illusion: How Australia Sleepwalks into Someone Else’s War While our federal government waffles on about rules based order, Iran is rewriting the rules of modern warfare. Trump is threatening regime-change. The Strait of […]

By Denis Hay   Source: Australian Bureau of Statistic Latest ABS CPI data shows Australia’s inflation rose to 3.8 per cent in December 2025, driven by housing, energy, and food prices. Australia’s Consumer Price Index […]

Historic social democratic policy options remain for the Albanese Government with support from a united front with progressive senate crossbench members. In contrast, News Corp fosters nostalgia for the return of LNP majorities under strong […]

Platform 1 at 6:12am has a particular kind of light. Not the golden, romantic light of postcard mornings, but the thin, undecided light that hasn’t committed to being day yet. The sky is often the […]

Foreign Minister Penny Wong chants “rules based order” like a sacred hymn. Order? In reality, it’s a squalid, pseudo-legal jargon for a world where might is right. While the US drops depleted uranium on Iraqi […]

When remote islands start to interest chatterboxes in think tanks and bureaucrats in foreign ministries, we can only assume that some matters will be exaggerated over others. With the Chagos Islands, there is one matter […]