In the spring of 2026, the gap between ideology and reality became visible all at once. Tensions in the Strait of Hormuz, together with the stark reminder that some countries, such as Japan, rely on ...

Australia has a mental health crisis, but not the one we think. Despite decades of soaring expenditure, our national mental health hasn’t improved. Suicide rates remain stubbornly high. Psychiatric ...

The Electoral (Accountability and Integrity) Amendment Act 2024, in force since July 2025, fundamentally restructured how political competition is financed. It has been described as "world-leading" in ...

Our Prime Minister in one of his frequently mundane news conferences recently reminded us that “we can’t turn back the clock” when it comes to issues like multiculturalism and economic reform. Well ...

Over this month the Melbourne Comedy Festival will feature three women performing sketches celebrating “small moments in life that make us laugh.” These supposedly funny skits include a send up of a ...

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu are criminal leaders whose contempt for law, truth, and democratic constraint define their rule. Their relentless assaults on judicial independence, democratic ...

What looks like liberation is something colder: the restructuring of desire itself. Data from the General Social Survey show that the proportion of young adults in the United States reporting no ...

"To be truly effective, this approach must squarely consider the web of links between the past and the present – at the individual and societal levels, in all areas of life – in order to dismantle ...

Augustine was the first to make this systematic. He argued that war could be moral only if it was meant to stop evil and restore justice. Violence is never "good". It's just something we might ...

Yet any move towards peace is unlikely to last unless Israel genuinely supports it. So far, Trump's handling of the conflict appears to have been shaped as much by Israeli pressure as by his stated ...

Australia, by contrast, remains positioned upstream. Even as demand for critical minerals grows rapidly, domestic production largely feeds into offshore processing hubs. This leaves Australia exposed ...

In a bizarre twist, Trump refused to call the ongoing conflict with Iran a "war," preferring the term "excursion," even as he compared it to Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. The contradiction reflected ...