A self-conscious person can make the decision to transcend natural impulses. This ability distinguishes us from animals that are conscious of their surroundings, are capable of complex behaviour that ...

Arguments about how to cut Australian greenhouse emissions (incl using nuclear power) are rife. They've been all about the cost of policy options. They're partial and misleading, at best. Proper ...

Hamas's savage October 7 attack on Israel and the latter's massive retaliatory war are rooted in four dimensions of psychological impediments-historical, ideological, religious, and humanitarian. Both ...

For one, he was fantastically economical with the truth, lying, along with his brother, of their wealth and origins to secure the Harrods takeover. It was an instinct that also came into play when he ...

The Harris-Trump Presidential debate has clarified Kamala Harris’s support for the United Nations Security Council in calling ...

Somewhere in the distance, a tradie cracks open a cold one, and the Southern Cross flutters on the balcony of some bloke's fibro shack. It's a typical Aussie scene – laid-back, no worries, and a touch ...

Get real. All human life and its 'business as usual' produces greenhouse gas emissions. Always has. Some try to force cuts in human greenhouse gas emissions. They enlist support. 'Virtue signalling' ...

The Australian government has been in a banning mood of late. In keeping with an old, puritanical tradition, the killjoys and wowsers have seized the reins of power and snorting a good deal while ...

Only the naïve, which seems to include a number of respected commentators, regard the mobs that gather to 'protest' against war as 'peace activists'. They are in fact 'war by other means activists'.