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The $US8.5 billion ($A13 billion) deal signed by the two leaders shifts the supply of critical minerals and rare earths away from China while bolstering the commercial and defence industries of Australia and the United States.

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has unveiled her full plan to transform Melbourne by permitting up to 60 high-rise precincts built around public transport hubs like railway stations and major road junctions. All this has been done without genuine consultation with either local government or residents.

Research continues to uncover marriage's benefits for personal happiness and the well-being of children. But the continual undermining of marriage in Australia has resulted in society's decay and increasing instability. The solution is obvious.

With rising debt and vague promises, both Labor and the Coalition are sidestepping hard reforms as global threats grow.

We can’t trust the woke mob on education. The supreme function of education is to shield the future from avoidable ignorance. Yet the education system has fallen to its knees and bowed its head to the feet of chaotic tyrants.

Australian Labor’s labelling of attacks on Jews allegedly orchestrated by Sayet Erhan Akca as “hoaxes” is the latest instalment of dishonesty from the Labor Government and law enforcement agencies since the tidal wave of anti-Semitism came crashing down on Australian shores.

The net zero carbon push to combat “climate change” – a conveniently vague term – involves eye-watering amounts of notional capital. The biggest banks and management funds are starting to walk away.

With the federal election looming, the already heated debate over Australia’s energy future is set to intensify. Both parties’ energy models are seriously flawed. But when we fix those flaws, nuclear comes out cheaper than renewables.

Since I began teaching in the early 1950s in Queensland, I have seen unbelievable changes in education. In writing this article I am thinking of the new generation of five-year-olds now starting their formal education. Nothing is as important as their learning to read.

Information Warfare is an integral – and largely misunderstood – part of conflict. The use of terms like “misinformation” by politicians and pundits does nothing to help dispel this misunderstanding.

In her address to the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in Sydney on October 22, 2024, Komisar discussed the negative mental-health outcomes of institutional childcare in the early years, specifically from zero to three years of age.

The Queensland election result continues what appears to be a growing momentum of voters moving away from Labor. It was a very poor result for Labor in Queensland, involving a 7.4 per cent swing to the LNP, and a bad omen for Anthony Albanese federally.

The Federal Government faces continuing trouble in its “overkill” attempt to legislate the construction industry’s troubles out of existence. The reality is that Labor wants the CFMEU off front pages and TV screens in the lead-up to the 2025 federal and 2026 Victorian elections.

The revelations of criminal or thuggish practices in the CFMEU, exposed by Nine Entertainment, are not much of a surprise to anyone with a cursory interest in Australia’s sorry construction sector. However, the timing of the exposé is curious.

The recommendation of the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee against passing Senator David Shoebridge's Legalising Cannabis Bill is a great victory for evidence-based policy and legislation in Australia.

The loss of automotive manufacturing to Australia is a compelling illustration of policy failure relating to the preservation of firms of national importance. The loss of Australian tractor manufacturing is another example.

Who does not suffer? And how do Christians accept and enter its deeper meaning and challenge with clarity, trust and hope, and not with passive, puzzled acceptance, denial, confusion, resentment – or even anger?

Chalmers’ third Budget was aimed squarely at trimming cost-of-living pressures. However, the jury remains out on whether the measures will just add to inflation and make the Reserve Bank’s efforts in that regard even harder.

According to the Australian Education Union, it is estimated that about 30 to 50 per cent of teachers quit or change careers within five years of teaching.

Sweden has youth with poor mental health and poor school results, and stressed parents with weak parenting skills. Why? Is there a causal relationship between the negative outcomes and the introduction of public affordable daycare initiated 40 years ago?