Unhappily for us all, the Gorbachevs and the Mandelas and the Keatings and the Dengs (possibly even the Xis) and the Obamas ...

The tide is running in the direction of the Albanese government being pushed into changing its timid stance on negative ...

An historical association with Israel, I admit to being greatly puzzled by the double standard that is evident in the ...

Prabowo and his apparently ideology-free vice-presidential running mate Gibran Rakabuming Raka will run the world's ...

The UNs' human rights chief on Tuesday called for an international investigation into mass graves discovered at two Gaza ...

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To focus the independent nation's interests, we need a more practical security history based on a rational calculation of ...

True respect demands that we question the first ‘Anzac Day’. Why were Australian soldiers at Anzac Cove in the first place?

In the days immediately preceding Anzac Day 2024, there seems to be less media exhortation to observance than has been usual ...

The next largest group comes from Malaysia, some of them affiliated with another very large humanitarian group called MyCARE. MyCARE, known for helping out in emergency situations such as floods and ...

One could travel Australia and remain completely ignorant of the Frontier Wars, the Australian Wars. That should not be.

One wonders what MSM will now call Narendra Modi, the Hindu fundamentalist leader of India, often lauded as a great champion ...