Sprinting to stand still: Still no progress in Australia’s energy transition
August 2025: The Australian Government’s oxymoronically named Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water has just published its 2025 Australian Energy Statistics Update Report.
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A new foreign policy for Europe
The European Union needs a new foreign policy based on Europe’s true economic and security interests.
29 August 2025
Gaslighting the electorate, virtue signalling to our ‘partners’
Just when you think that the Australian Government cannot sink any lower, the prime minister still manages to surprise!
29 August 2025
Australia is one trade deal away from backing authoritarians, says Taiwan
In the grand tradition of diplomatic overreach, Taiwan's deputy foreign minister recently offered some sweet and spicy talking points to our media: semiconductors are tanks, China is akin to WWII Germany, and if Australia doesn't fast-track Taiwan into the CPTPP, we might all wake up speaking Mandarin under a fascist AI regime, as reported by News Corp and 7 News.
27 August 2025
For 35 years after Vietnam, we had a self-reliant defence policy. We need it again
The US is almost always at war, not in defence of values and democracy but in its “manifest destiny” as the world hegemon.
26 August 2025
Cutting through the spin – Ten logging 'myths' in the new ABARES report
Australia’s native‑forest debate has long been characterised by falsehoods generated by industry and arms of industry such as parts of government.
26 August 2025
How should Services Australia be constructed?
The Robodebt Royal Commission recommended that the government undertake an immediate and full review to examine whether the existing structure of the Social Services portfolio and the status of Services Australia (SA) as an entity are optimal (Rec. 23.1).
22 August 2025
The question that wasn't asked
Australian support for the US alliance is progressively evaporating. The longer Trump remains in the White House the greater the separation grows.
20 August 2025
Australia has 120 health workforce policies. But with no national plan, we’re missing the big picture
Australia’s health workforce is under pressure. Wait times are growing. Burnout is rising. Yet the country is awash in policy – just not the kind that solves these problems at the root.
15 August 2025
Labor vulnerable nowhere in particular, everywhere in general
The best attempt at a post-election pendulum was published recently by Dr Kevin Bonham, who also did a terrific job explaining developments during the preference count in the recent Tasmanian election.
14 August 2025
The sham of Australia's recognition of Palestine: Hope, but light on glory
Australia’s recognition of Palestine, like that of other Western countries, is a step in the right direction, but it remains a sham.
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