James Carter is a principal with Navigators Global. He previously headed President Donald Trump’s tax team during the 2016-17 transition and served as a deputy assi ...

The overreaction by many to President Donald Trump's dramatic, new tariffs, for all of one week, stunned even us. Overreaction, that is, not from those on the left, but from those on the political ...

Australia has been a member of ECOSOC for multiple terms since the Council's creation in 1946 and its term covered most recently the period 2020–2022. During its mandate,Australia has used its ...

An oxymoron is a figure of speech where contradictory or opposite words are combined to create a striking or thought-provoking effect. Examples include "deafening silence", "organized chaos", ...

The author has major concerns about piecemeal disaster mitigation approaches across Australia that are getting us nowhere, over decades. Whole communities, towns and cities have inadequate and unsafe ...

Free will and empathy are key components of tolerance. Tolerance presupposes one’s ability to exercise free will. Suppose a group or a society does not have the freedom to be tolerant or intolerant of ...

Past performance is the best predictor of future performance, so the business chiefs heading to Anthony Albanese's Productivity Summit should know they are about to be carved up and handed to the ...

Israel's attack on Iran with US support will further push Iran into Russia's and China's arms. For these two countries, it is a heaven-sent development and they will spare no effort to capitalize on ...

Call it abandonment, anxiety, or just latent stupidity. The messy goo of feelings and fuzzy notions behind Australia's most injudicious strategic decision is yielding its nasty harvest. Conceived by ...

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If progressives in the Liberal Party want to use examples from Britain as their model for the future, then they need to get with the times. The advice they are providing is about as delusional as ...

Not a collapse of reality, but a fraying of it-thread by thread, list by list. In a media environment where tone often outweighs substance and polish is mistaken for credibility, the ability to ...