27 October 2025
As Nobel laureates show, the US can’t take tech lead over China for granted
It’s hard to tell who will ultimately win the tech race, but this year’s Nobel economics prize gives us some clues.
27 October 2025
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As I look out of my window this morning, I can see a very small proportion of the 34 million people who live in Delhi, 6.5 million more than inhabit the whole of Australia.
27 October 2025
The key to social cohesion
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27 October 2025
The future of Palestine: What Australia must do
Responding to continuing slaughter in Gaza is a test of Australian politicians and the government’s courage.
27 October 2025
After OpenAI’s new ‘buy it in ChatGPT’ trial, how soon will AI be shopping online for us?
Buying and selling online with e-commerce is old news. We’re entering the age of A-commerce, where artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly able to shop for us.
27 October 2025
Australia’s role in the F-35 supply chain – what a tangled web we weave!
The government’s ducking and weaving about military exports to Israel went up a whole new notch this month, arguing in Senate estimates that just because something was shipped from Australia, doesn’t mean it was exported from Australia.
27 October 2025
On No Kings day, a new America came to life
This is who we are. And this is what our country must be: people with a soul-deep love for Planet Earth and all who inhabit it.
27 October 2025
Boosting equity and safety for Australia's children
In Australia, 37% of students aged between about 5 or 6 and 18 years go to private schools which charge fees – but while those schools are private, they are not run for profit.
27 October 2025
If you write, you must also act: Reflections on the limitations of writing
I've been thinking about failure a lot recently in the shadow of Gaza. About the failure of humans to prevent — yet again — the most serious of crimes. About the failure of politics. About the failure of international law. And about the failure of writing.
27 October 2025
The politics of democracy’s decline
A report on voter pessimism casts more light on why Australian democracy is failing. The answer is to deepen political debate.
26 October 2025
New Australian national intelligence chief faces a people challenge
At a time in our history when the US tells us that Australia is valued mainly for the sacrifice we are expected to make in joining its strategy against China, our Prime Minister is undermined by intelligence that is incapable of dealing with the bifurcated risk now emerging starkly.
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27 October 2025
The future of Palestine: What Australia must do
Responding to continuing slaughter in Gaza is a test of Australian politicians and the government’s courage.
27 October 2025
Australia’s role in the F-35 supply chain – what a tangled web we weave!
The government’s ducking and weaving about military exports to Israel went up a whole new notch this month, arguing in Senate estimates that just because something was shipped from Australia, doesn’t mean it was exported from Australia.
27 October 2025
If you write, you must also act: Reflections on the limitations of writing
I've been thinking about failure a lot recently in the shadow of Gaza. About the failure of humans to prevent — yet again — the most serious of crimes. About the failure of politics. About the failure of international law. And about the failure of writing.
25 October 2025
Chris Sidoti on the International Court of Justice Gaza ruling
Yuji Iwasawa, president of the UN's highest court, says international law prohibits the use of starvation of the civilian population as a method of warfare.
25 October 2025
UN expert says all nations with ties to Israel ‘responsible in some measure’ for Gaza genocide
Francesca Albanese wrote that states that supported Israel financially and militarily “could and should be held liable for aiding, assisting, or jointly participating in internationally wrongful acts.”
24 October 2025
After ICJ ruling, can UN relief agency UNRWA resume full Gaza operations?
ICJ states that Israel must allow aid into Gaza, ensuring food, water, medicine, and shelter for the Palestinian population.
24 October 2025
Hundreds of prominent Jews and Israelis urge world powers to hold Israel accountable 'for Gaza atrocities'
An open letter, signed by at least 460 Jewish and Israeli intellectuals, celebrities and political figures, calls on the UN and heads of state to address the underlying conditions of occupation, apartheid and the denial of Palestinian rights that are absent from US President Trump's Gaza ceasefire agreement.
24 October 2025
The crumbling illusion: Why American public opinion on Israel is shifting
For the first time in decades, the public in the United States and across the West has begun to see Israel’s wars and occupation for what they truly are: acts of systemic injustice driven by malevolence and impunity.
Israel's war against Gaza
Media coverage of the war in Gaza since October 2023 has spread a series of lies propagated by Israel and the United States. This publication presents information, analysis, clarification, views and perspectives largely unavailable in mainstream media in Australia and elsewhere.
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27 October 2025
As Nobel laureates show, the US can’t take tech lead over China for granted
It’s hard to tell who will ultimately win the tech race, but this year’s Nobel economics prize gives us some clues.
25 October 2025
Trump, Xi and the ‘green paradox’: How China is building a climate-proof future
Ambitious transformation of the country’s energy consumption and urban planning makes economic sense too, analysts say.
23 October 2025
To avert war, the West must shatter the mirror by which it views China
The concept of the Thucydides Trap, predicting conflict between China and the US, projects the West’s conquest-driven history onto Chinese civilisation.
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