The West hasn’t figured out what’s going wrong. Voters are the problem
We have become a civilisation that’s all about ‘now, now, now’ and ‘me, me, me’ – the antithesis of what the West once represented.
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How ‘democratic’ is it to back a man who can’t finish a sentence?
You don’t get to deceive, dissemble and gaslight us for years about how Biden is brilliantly competent at his job, and now tell us, when your deception is uncovered, that it’s bedtime for Bonzo.
Why Kamala would be Biden’s likeliest replacement
If the president ends his re-election bid, his vice president would be the clear frontrunner to lead the Democratic ticket – despite her own political weaknesses.
The mess Democrats have made, Kamala Harris Edition
The problem is that Democrats are now left with a likely nominee who is in obvious mental decline, and a Vice President in Kamala Harris who is even less popular than Joe Biden.
How Iran defied US to become a global power
Despite decades of western pressure, Tehran poses a greater threat to US interests thanks to its ties to Russia and China.
HMAS Shambles: Labor ship of state is sinking into a sea of chaos
With a federal election looming, the PM has got only himself to blame for his government’s woes as his government sends a totally confused message to the public.
Party in right place, says Labour’s former centrist
David Owen, who left Labour in the ’80s as it veered left, is full of praise for the new leader.
Islamism wants to tear down our social fabric
The very idea of Australia is now under threat from an insidious enemy that must be fought.
Here’s an idea: let’s cancel the censors and live ‘dangerously’
We must stop letting the left silence our courage and convictions and learn to speak our truth. Here’s a dangerous idea: Hamas is the enemy of the Palestinian people, not Israel.
Ideology has no place in sexual assault law reform
The remarks and resumes of those in charge of this important issue make for worrying reading.
The resilient Great Barrier Reef fights back
It’s been a good week for the reef. Results of the latest coral survey confirm a four-decade high in coral cover has been maintained and UNESCO says it will keep Australia’s precious World Heritage icon off its in-danger list.
Britain’s new PM is a man of his people
Don’t be fooled by the title – Sir Keir Starmer’s biographer says he’s a working class Labour man through and through.
Ask our Diggers what they think of Assange, Mr Albanese
ADF deaths and woundings in Afghanistan serve as a reminder of the need to acknowledge ‘different views’ about the return of the deeply idiosyncratic man the PM welcomed home.
Vice-chancellor’s cop-out a triumph for anti-Semitism
Mark Scott, the vice-chancellor of the University of Sydney, is a genuinely nice and gentle man. But he is also profoundly weak.
National security: will we be safe, or sorry?
As national security seeps into every portfolio there’s a risk of losing focus.
Sorry, taxpayers, but you have just been the victim of a beautiful sting
Labor is spending $40m to rebrand the stage three tax cuts ‘cost-of-living relief’. And yes, we are paying for it.
Farmers put their livelihoods on the Line
George Goyder’s Line was the one certainty farmers could count on in a heartbreak land where dust devils dance among the early settlers’ broken dreams. But what happens when even that constant fails? Can human ingenuity and perseverance hold out against climate change?
The real Joe Biden turned up to debate — and it wasn’t pretty
The debate has reinforced the worst belief about Joe Biden – that he’s too old and feeble to be president.
A wake-up call on the madness since October 7
One of the greatest contemporary German writers and the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature says she is horrified that young people don’t seem to recognise that Hamas’ bloodbath was a total derailment from civilisation.
Renewables ‘biggest change since white man turned up with sheep’
The land will be vastly altered: solar panels on the flats, wind turbines on the ridges and new high-voltage towers connecting it all, but the residents of these towns have more pragmatic things on their minds than rural scenery.
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