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Donald Trump’s pledge to push the boundary of the United States of America 2000 kilometres north is not another rush of blood, but channels 300 years of imperial rivalries over resources. In the grip ...

A so-called Australian immigration crisis is a central election issue, but it’s based on misconceptions easily debunked by any examination of the evidence. Immigration has been a pawn for political ...

I recently attended a demonstration outside both the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Israeli Embassy in Wellington. The day before, the Israelis had blown apart 174 children in Gaza in a ...

Environmentalists have failed to transform the underlying social values that drive environmental destruction. Fifteen companies produce 30% of Australia’s greenhouse gases. Mountains provide 60% of ...

After a long hiatus, relations between China and Japan are finally stirring into action. In late December, Japanese Foreign Minister, Iwaya Takeshi, visited China, where he met his counterpart Wang Yi ...

The recent victory of the Labor party in Western Australia was remarkable in a number of ways. First, it was more of a rout than a landslide. The Liberal Party had a disastrous election in 2017; 2025 ...

John Menadue recently argued convincingly that the “AUKUS chickens were coming home to roost already”. Shortly thereafter, the Guardian helpfully reported that a “Trump pick for the Pentagon says ...

Mainstream media tells us exactly when China will invade Taiwan; it continues to run the false narrative that the Chinese naval ships fired missiles into the path of commercial airliners; and China, ...

Peter Dutton’s budget reply Speech is full of distortions and many of the key polices are flawed or we cannot be sure they will work as intended. The Labor Party might be criticised as too cautious, ...

After weeks of speculation, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called the 2025 federal election for 3 May. A House and ...