Tony O'Brien
Tony O'Brien is a columnist for News Weekly.
Articles by Tony O'Brien:
5 June 2026
5.1 MINS
In what must be the greatest walkaway of a half-completed mega-building project since the Tower of Babel, the Albanese Government has scarpered from the Inland Rail project midway through construction. Minister for Infrastructure Catherine King delivered the fatal blow on 5 May.
30 January 2026
5.6 MINS
The U.S. raid capturing Venezuela’s Maduro on January 3, 2026, revives the Monroe Doctrine, reshaping hemispheric power, disrupting narco-terror networks, and sending shockwaves to China, Russia, Iran, and Cuba.
25 November 2025
3.3 MINS
Australia’s fuel security is at risk as discounted Russian oil enters via India, global tensions rise, and Canberra ignores urgent warnings to rebuild refining, storage and transport capacity.
30 September 2025
3.6 MINS
Australia is required to hold minimum fuel stocks to last 90 days so as to be in a position to manage energy disruptions and crises, such as war, cyberattacks on energy infrastructure, supply chain disruptions and extreme weather events. Australia on average in 2023-24, held fuel stocks equivalent to 53 IEA days.
12 August 2025
3.3 MINS
Australia’s armed forces are finding it hard to recruit. The problem seems to be, how to recruit from within the population and then retain skilled personnel?
8 November 2023
4 MINS
When large-scale solar parks destroy thousands of hectares of what was once prime agricultural or grazing farmland, the lunacy of net zero pseudo-science is striking.
9 September 2022
3.4 MINS
If we are to rely on e-vehicles to transport our soldiers through warzones, the Australian Defence Force is certainly doomed. Perhaps we should consider an even more environmentally-friendly, natural means of transport.





