Year: 2026

By Chen Ziqi From April 13 to 18, the upcoming China International Consumer Products Expo in south China’s Hainan Province will bring together more than 3,400 brands from around 60 countries and regions. Spanning lifestyle […]

“Human beings are members of a whole, in creation of one essence and soul. If one limb is afflicted with pain, other limbs uneasy will remain.” (Saadi Shirazi, 13th century. Inscribed on the wall of […]

By Denis Hay   Description See how politicians vote in Australia. Use They Vote for You to uncover real decisions and compare words with actions. Introduction Most Australians hear what politicians say. But far fewer […]

He’s out of ideas, a mind running on empty. Increasingly, he is also short of reason, zapped by geopolitical addling and meddling. Now that US President Donald J. Trump has reached an uneasy understanding with […]

CEDA Media Release The Federal Government should use the upcoming Budget to encourage economic dynamism, as new CEDA research shows the proportion of business owners in Australia hit a record low last year despite ongoing […]

By Walt Zlotow Even a mentally degraded Donald Trump had to face reality. The US lost the war intended to destroy Iran as a hegemonic rival to Israel in the region. He cancelled his announced […]

“Operation Epic Fury” sounds like a fourteen-year-old boy who has been playing too much Call of Duty. It’s a perfect fit for the Peter Pan that Donald Trump has running the Pentagon; a former Fox […]

The problem with demagogues is that they invariably fall into infantile practices. The politics of the playground is the politics of hate, violence and betrayal. It’s the politics of finding the useful enemy and bullying […]

By Callen Sorensen Karklis White Australia Policy (1901-1973) Australia’s history is often framed as a dream of colonial pioneers striving to build a kind of “socialist” utopia. In reality, this vision was shaped by myth, […]

Immanuel Kant is usually summoned in moments of hope. He appears when liberals want a patron saint for law and commerce, and for the hope that violence might be tamed by reason through institutions. In […]

Who will be the next terrorist to re-enact the Bondi attack of last December,? Or perhaps walk into a mosque on Friday and kill unsuspecting worshippers? A synagog? A church? Or just a random attack […]

Tourism and civilisation are intimately linked. But tourism is much more robust. Warfare, drought, famine, earthquake, and tsunami are just minor inconveniences. The Russian, Mongol, and Qing dynasties, like the Persian, Roman, English, and American […]