The latest – and here, the latest will become distant and dated shortly – is that the Strait of Hormuz, predictably controlled by Iran with devastating global effect, was to be reopened for commercial ...

For the Liberals, continuing uncritical support for the Alliance while ignoring Trump’s flaws risks alienating voters, as it seems Australia is too easily sacrificing our political sovereignty and ...

Tensions in the Strait of Hormuz in early 2026 have made that question impossible to ignore. Today, under the banner of decarbonization, energy is often treated as if it were synonymous with ...

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 ...

President Trump was scammed by Iran and Pakistan into beginning negotiations with Iran - when Iran knew it could not complete ...

The argument over how society should respond to addiction is usually framed in medical or political terms, but beneath it lies a moral dispute: what kind of thing is addiction, and what does our ...

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 ...

To manage this, the Church developed the "just war" tradition, not as a hall pass for violence, but as a moral cage designed to ensure warfare is strictly a last resort. Modern geopolitics has tested ...

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 ...

It has been described as "world-leading" in its attempt to remove private money from politics. The legislation makes it unlawful for political parties, candidates, or MPs to receive electoral ...

Well maybe the PM in his DJ Albo guise had a couple of lines from his idol Taylor Swift’s Shake it Off in mind :“I never miss a beat, I'm lightnin' on my feet, And that's what they don't see, mm-mm…” ...

Trump hailed the truce as "a big day for World Peace," continuing his pattern of brinkmanship: escalating threats to craft the illusion of triumph. The episode reflected not only his theatrical style ...