Year: 2026

Chris Minns, symbolism, policing, and the narrowing of dissent By Ricky Pann The five-day visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog to Australia in February 2026 was framed by the federal government as a gesture of […]

Australian politics can produce surprises. We have seen independents overturn safe seats, minor parties hold the balance of power, and leaders rise and fall with dizzying speed. But there are limits to volatility. There are […]

By Denis Hay   Canberra – Parliament has passed legislation expanding Australia’s preventive detention and surveillance powers under national security laws. The amendments extend existing counter-terrorism and national security laws, allowing authorities to continue using preventive […]

The first thing the scribbly gums taught me was that even trees have diaries. You see it the moment you step onto the track – pale trunks covered in looping lines, as if someone has […]

By Walt Zlotow President Trump’s de jure, constitutional boss is We the People. 348.4 million of us, giving Trump 58% of the Electoral College, hired him November 5, 2024. Trump serves and reports to Us. […]

It is a peculiar thing to watch a province play at being an empire. To witness a local governor, whose authority extends no further than the coastline, grovel before a foreign butcher as if receiving […]

By Walt Zlotow 2028 will be the 16th presidential election in my 81 years. The only true antiwar Democratic presidential nominee in my lifetime was George McGovern in 1972. He ran against pro Vietnam War […]

By Lee Capocchi    Most drivers and Governments alike understand that EVs remove a huge amount of Carbon from the atmosphere. We know, through experience and science that the cost of an EV pays back […]

The summer evening of December 14, 2025, began in the soft, amber glow of Hanukkah candles at Archer Park. It ended in the staccato rattle of rifle fire and the scent of sea spray mixed […]

Future of How awful could it get? The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) expired on February 5, terminating an era of arms control and imposed limits on lunatically contrived nuclear weapons programs of […]

I have had first-hand experience bringing my children to maternal and child health visits, I have also accompanied friends to their visits as well, seeing first-hand the importance of them. The first time I watched […]

I sympathise with readers who have a short attention span. I myself am one of those. And nowadays, well – that’s pretty much everybody. And yet, people keep writing long, and very long, articles. Are […]