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930<div class="main-page-news-description">Israels West Bank settlements have long attracted condemnation. Now twelve friendly nations are preparing to move beyond words - and Netanyahu has noticed.</div><a href="section.asp?name=international" class="main-page-section-link">International</a> - <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=715">Binoy Kampmark</a><br /> </td> 931</tr> 932<tr><td><hr /> 933<div class="recent-articles-date">Monday, September 14, 2026</div> 934 935<hr /></td></tr> 936<tr> 937 <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24155">The scheme meant to get first home buyers in is quietly lifting the floor beneath them</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">The scheme was well-meaning, and the results predictable, given the circumstances, just not those promoted as the purpose.</div><a href="section.asp?name=economics" class="main-page-section-link">Economics</a> - <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=8257">Anish Puri</a><br /> </td> 938</tr> 939<tr> 940 <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24156">Has ANZUS turned Australia into a target</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">From a Chinese strategic perspective, as one analyst put it, Australia is less a host of US bases than a US base in its own right, a significant piece of real estate in Americas Pacific warfighting architecture.</div><a href="section.asp?name=international" class="main-page-section-link">International</a> - <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=7166">Murray Hunter</a> - <a target="_blank" class="main-page-comment-link" href="http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24156">3 comments</a><br /> </td> 941</tr> 942<tr><td><hr /> 943<div class="recent-articles-date">Friday, September 11, 2026</div> 944 945<hr /></td></tr> 946<tr> 947 <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24153">Australia's AI plan needs an authority test for agents</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">Learning to live with a technology where there is a 10% chance it could commit the ultimate genocide.</div><a href="section.asp?name=technology" class="main-page-section-link">Science & Technology</a> - <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=8248">Gleb Tsipursky</a><br /> </td> 948</tr> 949<tr> 950 <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24154">The volcanic escalation on Java is a threat of potential regional chaos</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">150 million people live on Java, the most heavily populated island in the world. A the consequences of a volcanic disaster for them wouldn't be confined to Indonesia.</div><a href="section.asp?name=international" class="main-page-section-link">International</a> - <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=7166">Murray Hunter</a> - <a target="_blank" class="main-page-comment-link" href="http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24154">4 comments</a><br /> </td> 951</tr> 952<tr><td><hr /> 953<div class="recent-articles-date">Thursday, September 10, 2026</div> 954 955<hr /></td></tr> 956<tr> 957 <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24152">The AtlanticPacific bridge: from Magellan to Panama and the return of multimodal connectivity</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">The modern world has too many choke points and not enough redundancies.</div><a href="section.asp?name=renovating" class="main-page-section-link">Nation Building</a> - <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=8256">Heather McRobie-Allansdottir</a><br /> </td> 958</tr> 959<tr> 960 <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24151">The 6,000 reasons the world cant simply quit oil</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">Are we addicted to fossil fuel or is it a functional necessity?</div><a href="section.asp?name=technology" class="main-page-section-link">Science & Technology</a>
960 - <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=8115">Ronald Stein</a> and <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=8173">Yoshihiro Muronaka</a> - <a target="_blank" class="main-page-comment-link" href="http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24151">9 comments</a><br /> </td> 961</tr> 962<tr><td><hr /> 963<div class="recent-articles-date">Wednesday, September 9, 2026</div> 964 965<hr /></td></tr> 966<tr> 967 <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24149">The invisible Greeks: Hollywood, the Odyssey, and the question of cultural identity</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">Christopher Nolan's Odyssey continues an entrenched Western tradition of culturally appropriating ancient cultures and eviscerating them.</div><a href="section.asp?name=arts" class="main-page-section-link">The Arts</a> - <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=383">Arthur Saniotis</a> - <a target="_blank" class="main-page-comment-link" href="http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24149">3 comments</a><br /> </td> 968</tr> 969<tr> 970 <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24150">Sharks having a whale of a time?</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">Is it time to rethink our attitudes to protecting great whites? Has conserving whales boosted the number of predators in our waters? Maybe a cull is called for.</div><a href="section.asp?name=environment" class="main-page-section-link">Environment</a> - <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=3">Graham Young</a> - <a target="_blank" class="main-page-comment-link" href="http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24150">6 comments</a><br /> </td> 971</tr> 972<tr><td><hr /> 973<div class="recent-articles-date">Tuesday, September 8, 2026</div> 974 975<hr /></td></tr> 976<tr> 977 <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24147">Politicians discover men</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">When Colin from Accounts is onto it you know that it is going to only get bigger.</div><a href="section.asp?name=society" class="main-page-section-link">Society</a> - <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=1920">Bettina Arndt</a> - <a target="_blank" class="main-page-comment-link" href="http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24147">3 comments</a><br /> </td> 978</tr> 979<tr> 980 <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24148">Autonomous weapons and killer robots: new warnings, old habits</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">The automation of warfare proceeds apace. Are we at Skynet 1.0?</div><a href="section.asp?name=law" class="main-page-section-link">Law & Liberties</a> - <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=715">Binoy Kampmark</a><br /> </td> 981</tr> 982<tr><td><hr /> 983<div class="recent-articles-date">Monday, September 7, 2026</div> 984 985<hr /></td></tr> 986<tr> 987 <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24146">Battle for the Gulf tomorrow: between a Hobbesian and a Kantian world</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">The Gulf now faces a historic opportunity to become an active producer rather than a passive consumer of regional security.</div><a href="section.asp?name=international" class="main-page-section-link">International</a> - <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=8255">Vladimir Norov</a> - <a target="_blank" class="main-page-comment-link" href="http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24146">1 comment</a><br /> </td> 988</tr> 989<tr> 990 <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24145">From the evil genius to the digital leviathan</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description"> Like the sovereign described by Thomas Hobbes, this system encompasses and organizes collective life. But unlike Hobbes's Leviathan, it does not command from above.</div><a href="section.asp?name=liberty" class="main-page-section-link">Political Philosophy</a>
990 - <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=7682">Sam Ben-Meir</a> - <a target="_blank" class="main-page-comment-link" href="http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24145">1 comment</a><br /> </td> 991</tr> 992<tr><td><hr /> 993<div class="recent-articles-date">Friday, September 4, 2026</div> 994 995<hr /></td></tr> 996<tr> 997 <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24143">Saving lives should not require permission</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">Protocols can be the saviour of lives until the point where they interfere with the need for judgment.</div><a href="section.asp?name=health" class="main-page-section-link">Health</a> - <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=8183">Joseph Varon</a> - <a target="_blank" class="main-page-comment-link" href="http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24143">4 comments</a><br /> </td> 998</tr> 999<tr> 1000 <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24144">The limit of coercion: Israels strategic delusion</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">Comparative conflict analysis reveals clear conditions under which weaker actors concede. The Palestinian case meets none of them, underscoring Israels strategic futility in expecting capitulation in the absence of a political settlement.</div><a href="section.asp?name=international" class="main-page-section-link">International</a> - <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=7467">Alon Ben-Meir</a> - <a target="_blank" class="main-page-comment-link" href="http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24144">4 comments</a><br /> </td> 1001</tr> 1002<tr><td><hr /> 1003<div class="recent-articles-date">Thursday, September 3, 2026</div> 1004 1005<hr /></td></tr> 1006<tr> 1007 <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24142">The real secret of Secret Harbour</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">The story so far is that around half the Liberal vote has decamped to One Nation, but that's not what happened in the Secret Harbour byelection.</div><a href="section.asp?name=domestic" class="main-page-section-link">Domestic Politics</a> - <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=3">Graham Young</a> - <a target="_blank" class="main-page-comment-link" href="http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24142">6 comments</a><br /> </td> 1008</tr> 1009<tr> 1010 <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24141">California is handing control of its fuel supply to foreign refineries</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">The State supports the exodus of the in-state manufacturers of the fuels to foreign refineries, threatening national energy security and global stability.</div><a href="section.asp?name=technology" class="main-page-section-link">Science & Technology</a> - <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=8115">Ronald Stein</a> and <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=8230">Mike Ariza</a> - <a target="_blank" class="main-page-comment-link" href="http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24141">1 comment</a><br /> </td> 1011</tr> 1012 1013</table> 1014 1015 1016 1017 </td> 1018 </tr> 1019 </table> 1020 </td> 1021 1022 <td width="20%" valign="top"> 1023 <img src="/images/5_by_5.gif" width="1" height="7" alt="" /><br /> 1024 <center> 1025 1026<div class="main-page-random-box-title">Advertisement</div><br />
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