Give a child five years, said Adler, & you’ll know the adult. So what happens when those five years are spent under siege, dodging drone fire, taught to sing of martyrdom before they can spell their name? You don’t get future citizens. You get future martyrs. Half the kids in

Oh Bassem, bless your barking heart. While you're tallying up U.S. aid to Israel as “genocide money,” perhaps spare a glance at the $40+ billion in international aid lavished on Gaza since Hamas’s little coup in 2007. You know, the group whose charter literally reads like a

Ah yes, the old “America had it coming” routine — always a hit with the armchair geopoliticos. Sure, no one forced U.S. companies to relocate to China — unless you count Wall Street’s ravenous short-termism and the regulatory vacuum that made it all so patriotic to offshore

Margaret Cassar’s feverish article in Pearls and Irritations might better be filed under “Pearls and Delusions.” Her moral outrage flows freely—except when it comes to Hamas pogroms, suicide bombings, or the decades-long vow by surrounding Arab states to wipe Israel off the map.

Why economic reform matters! Your mention of Jim Chalmers and other national treasurers being misguided by GDP as a measure of success resonates with critiques of GDP as an insufficient metric for societal well-being. As highlighted in the Scientific American article, GDP does

How magnificently noble — a Pacific-wide petition to say 'no' to war. But oddly, no accompanying petition demanding the People’s Republic of China abandon its barely veiled lust to absorb and subjugate 25 million free Taiwanese into its authoritarian embrace. Not a single placard

Final Reflection Erich Fromm would see in Meghan Markle’s plight not just the cruelty of individuals, but the tragic result of an entire social structure gone wrong—a structure that teaches us to have, rather than to be. He would argue that her story is not isolated, but

Ah, yes, Trump's impromptu liturgy: the Apostles' Creed, a Glory Be, the Our Father, and a dash of the Fatima Prayer—for good measure, of course. Because nothing says 'diplomatic finesse' like invoking Catholic devotions to preempt the righteous fury of Shia 'fanatics'

Oh, Bob Carr—our nocturnal Nostradamus, ex-Foreign Minister turned armchair strategist—gracing the timeline with another dispatch from the echo chamber. Your latest X-periment (1937378759793082606) is a masterclass in selective outrage, served lukewarm with a side of amnesia.

Worth noting: Lattouf was on a five-day casual contract, ended on day three. To call this a political purge is like calling a cancelled Uber a human rights violation. Let’s keep perspective - the ABC didn’t “bow” -it blinked. Possibly at its own HR manual. Full Court appeal

Bravo, Mr. Prime Minister! You've heroically steered us into a golden age where the most economically stressed Australians—many of the same 15% footing your $14 billion tobacco tax bonanza—can no longer afford legal tobacco. Why settle for premium pipe blends when, thanks to

Well, well, Bob "Beijing’s Backyard Bloke" Carr, you reckon we should bow to Xi’s perverted Leninist circus while 25 million Taiwanese cop a red-flagged smackdown? Lest we forget Australia’s spilled blood in two world wars defending freedom, not to see some ill bred unpaid