We witnessed a third moment of critical introspection from a media owner the other day, when Jeff Bezos, who owns the Washington Post and is the largest shareholder of Amazon, suggested in an op-ed in ...

With the BRICS meetings in Kazan, Russia now over, and four ASEAN states are firmly on the waiting list to join, the relevance of ASEAN is clearly on the wane. It's not just because the aims and ...

Hamas' design to destroy Israel has proven to be almost suicidal, given the unprecedented massive destruction and death that Israel has inflicted on Gaza. Conversely, Prime Minister Netanyahu's wish ...

Alexander J Motyl, a professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark, in his article published on The Hill criticizes the Secretary-General for meeting a "war criminal" at the summit. He ...

The anti-fossil-fuel agendas of "net zero", the "green new deal", and the 1,000's of non-government organizations (NGO's), have no substitute for those same fossil fuels to maintain the supply chain ...

This writer's main objection was Tony Abott's budget with Treasurer Joe Hockey in 2014 which was a disaster. Political journalist Chris Uhlmann says the "catastrophe" was "he broke a slew of promises" ...

Planners and politicians alike are enamoured with the concept of TODS – transit oriented development. Planners see it mostly ...

On 25 August the UN announced that nine staff working for UNRWA in Gaza would be sacked because they may have been involved ...

That's not where the growth in the world economy is. The growth the world economy is in is a place north of us called the Indo-Pacific. The Indo-Pacific name came from Shinzo Abe, who was the longest ...

One issue is the steady militarisation of the police. This ranges from references to the public as civilians and assertions that the police place their lives on the line every day (which is obvious ...

Despite recent favourable opinion polls, Peter Dutton faces one big major hurdle in taking his Liberal-National coalition to office at the next federal election. This has nothing to do with his ...

The poorest American is richer than 75 percent of humanity, and about 4.56 billion people on this planet are living on less than $10 a day, and billions are living with little to no access to ...