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China is making the once sci-fi dream of space-based solar power a reality and leaving the West scrambling to keep up. Imagine a kilometre-wide...
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I recently read Jerry Grey’s 8 March 2025 article and I was disappointed by the false and misleading statements made. I would like to participate...
Can any self-respecting journalist or political commentator inform me and many Australians as to why they continue to bolster the Australia/United...
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Our recent research raises an important and challenging question: Are our well-intentioned management interventions like thinning in high...
A week into the job and I am deeply impressed by the strength and vigour of the community John has built around Pearls and Irritations. So many of...
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“For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial...
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We live in a global community, and many of us enjoy the benefits. A far greater number have no such enjoyment, existing in disadvantage; in...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paid the asking price for Itamar Ben-Gvir’s return to the government in advance. Not out of his own...
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A giant eight-hour battery project in New South Wales has changed hands in a deal that also confirms that battery storage costs — a critical part...
The big news on house insurance this week was the response of the insurance industry’s peak body to a parliamentary committee’s extensive...
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March hasn’t been one of the better months for Kim Beazley, the former Hawke and Keating Government minister, leader of the federal ALP and...
Home ownership has almost become an impossible dream in Australia and other Western capitalist countries. Governing authorities struggle in vain to...
While the biblical story of Noah’s Ark is certainly not the only ancient account of a devastating flood (the preceding Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh,...
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Because what is bad for the Coalition is usually good for Australia, Labor’s thumping win in Western Australia must be seen as a good outcome, but...
The Islamophobia Register Australia officially launched its latest report, Islamophobia in Australia Report 5, on 13 March in Sydney to mark the...
The Commonwealth Grants Commission’s annual updates of its recommendations as to how the revenue from the GST should be carved up among the states...
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Shortly after taking office, US President Donald Trump issued executive orders banning federal funding on so-called “woke” research. This is...
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