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The track through the scrubby gums
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 […]
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Sixth Trump meeting with his de facto boss… good day to fire him
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. […]
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Albo’s Waterloo: The Clayton’s PM and the Farrellisation of Labor
“Leadership’s always been about two main things: imagination and courage.” (Paul Keating). Bernard Keane is half right. In today’s Crikey, he despairs of our PM as “a political manager, a risk-averse executive who always plays […]
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The New Doctrine of Cultural Sanctions
In a bold reimagining of international diplomacy, President Trump has unveiled a groundbreaking strategic principle: if Canada make a new deal with China, “China Will ‘Terminate ALL Ice Hockey’ In Canada.” This is not merely […]
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The Provincial Governor and the Butcher-King – Australia’s Shameful Pantomime
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 […]
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Ghost of McGovern haunts Democratic Party foreign policy
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 […]
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How to Drive EV Usage and Sales
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 […]
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The Siege Within: How Clarity Died in the Aftermath of Bondi
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 […]
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Bad Beginnings: The End of New START
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 […]
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Weighing the Baby on a Wednesday Morning
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 […]
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The complex, long-form writers – but is anybody listening?
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 […]
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Is American Imperialism in its death throes?
The threats to acquire Greenland, the attack on Venezuela, and the interest in Panama and Cuba are really just the Imperialist play book, re-opened by Donald Trump as the USA seeks to assert its power […]
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The Herzog Invitation: Australia’s Moral Bankruptcy as State Policy
The state visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog is not a diplomatic event. It is a crystallization of Australia’s comprehensive moral and legal failure. This article analyses the invitation through three lenses: 1) Its violation […]
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Staindl v Frydenberg: a pyrrhic victory for Josh?
With our legacy site soon shutting down, we’re excited to breathe new life into some of our most enduring articles by republishing them here on the new site over the coming week or two – […]
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What Labor Isn’t Fixing
By Denis Hay A calm look at unresolved problems facing Australians Description What Labor isn’t fixing in Australia, covering cost of living, housing, outsourcing, media power, and weakened safeguards. Overview This article outlines several major […]