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NCC Senior Advisory Council member, and former National President Patrick J. Byrne has published an important book that comprehensively analyses one of the biggest controversies in Australian agriculture. The book’s publication is timely as the Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) is conducting a major review of the Basin Plan.

How could Australia be suffering a double energy crisis when the nation exports several times more energy than it consumes and far more than the United States, which has no energy crisis? Looking to the US, what needs to be done to ensure Australia’s energy security?

The severity of the global fuel crisis hitting Australians, and that may well reverberate for years to come, is not because Iran shut the vital Strait of Hormuz. It is from decades of incompetent Australian political leadership.

Trump is leveraging control over Iranian and Venezuelan oil supplies to counter China's rare earth dominance, reshaping global power through strategic resource interdependence.

Globalisation promised peace through interdependence, but great powers now weaponise trade, technology and finance. As tensions rise between China, Russia and the United States, economic ties risk becoming tools of deterrence — or destruction.

Australia’s new hate crimes laws are rushed, vague, and dangerous—threatening free speech while distracting from Labor’s failures to enforce existing laws and confront rising anti-Semitism.

Beijing is making intense efforts to gain economic and security inroads in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and other Pacific-island states. The time is now for a collective defence pact in the Pacific. A former U.S. defence secretary is proposing exactly that.

An increasing number of farmers and agricultural bodies are complaining that the promised bonanza from free trade giving them greater access to global markets is not happening. They point to rapidly rising food imports undermining Australian farmers in their own domestic market.

In today’s world, which is losing its understanding of the nature of the human person and the natural family, the Holy Family is the model for our family as a safe haven, a spiritual garden.

While the federal Misinformation and Disinformation Bill has been abandoned, planned new Victorian anti-hate speech laws will widen the net of draconian federal, state and territory laws crushing freedom of speech in Australia.

As the abortion campaign to use legislative and economic coercion on public and Catholic hospitals to perform abortions expands, legislation is needed to protect the right to conscientious objection for medical professionals.

Those who seek to weaken Western support for Ukraine and continue to urge Israel to back off (the Penny Wong proposal) are ignoring the high stakes involved and fail to understand the aims and threats of these ideologically driven states.

There is a positive out of the Olympic controversy. Just as the transgender issues are being resolved by major sporting federations, now intersex athletes have high global visibility, and their issues in sport seek resolutions.

Britain’s General Sir Roly Walker has warned that his country and NATO have three years to prepare for war against an “axis of upheaval” as Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran work together. This does not mean that a major war in Europe, the Middle East or East Asia is inevitable.

The Queensland Government's revised draft bill creates a vilification and sexual harassment minefield, along with new investigative powers and a duty to eliminate discrimination and harassment.

The political weaponisation of American courts to achieve a farcical conviction of Donald Trump bodes a worrying outlook for American democracy, its legal system and the country’s social cohesion. Basically, it may aid Trump.

As Israel’s war grinds on around the Hamas Gaza tunnel system, non-Arab Shi’ite Iran, with the aid of Russia, China and North Korea, is expanding its influence in the Muslim and Arab worlds.

We celebrate Christmas with our churches, family and friends – a joyous respite from a world suffering wars and cultural conflicts, and adrift from its divine Creator.

Under the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, reducing irrigation allocations by about 30 per cent in Australia’s major food bowl will result in consumers paying a whole lot more for their food.

Facing major threats to global stability, the Biden Administration plans to reshape the global strategic and economic architecture on a scale not seen since the Roosevelt-Truman era after World War II. Can its $US3.5 trillion plan be delivered? The war in Ukraine, the largest conflict [...]