Not only does it channel John Howard, who won an election partly off fiddling with fuel excise, but it even harks back to John Hewson's radical Fightback plan which would have entirely abolished the ...

Then came the astounding news. Salk had created a vaccine that could prevent polio. Initial results looked promising, but a large-scale study was required to be sure the vaccine was safe and effective ...

President Trump has buried the creation of a Palestinian Arab State between Israel and Jordan (two-state solution) at meetings of: The European Union (EU) and UN have been unsuccessfully championing ...

Disney has misread the room for a very long time, and seems implausibly slow to course correct. One might expect market signals would be enough to shock the internal culture of an enterprise. Ideology ...

Self-defence has been recognised as a right for thousands of years. In the thirteenth century BCE the Hebrews, who fled slavery in Egypt, incorporated it in the Hebrew Bible. It remains in the Talmud, ...

Most of the budget measures are designed to convince voters either the crisis isn’t happening, or that the government cares about them. Instead of fixing the problems the government is handing out ...

A new study across 24 European countries correlating public mask wearing levels with excess deaths released on March 12 has concluded that at a population level, masks not only fell short of ...

Society wants reliable, available 24/7, affordable, carbon-free electricity with minimal environmental degradation. Some adverse environmental effects are inevitable for large-scale electricity ...

There is much talk in this age of heaving tech behemoths about the digital town square, where views can be aired with confidence, impunity and, at stages, disconcerting stupidity. Tech moguls such as ...

Is Vučić in danger of losing power? The protests represent the most significant challenge to Vučić's authority in his 13 years in power. Despite the pressure, however, Vučić has shown no signs of ...

Meantime, the guiding light of Labor's ideological and unaffordable energy-policy is UN fairytale, net-zero emissions. As "realised" by an alphabet-soup of federal climate-energy bailiwicks - AEMC, ...

HKOPS is a circuit-breaking solution offering an end to 100 years of unresolved Jewish-Arab conflict: Merging Jordan, Gaza, and part of Judea and Samaria (West Bank) into one new territorial entity ...