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817  <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24179">Four Corners and the decline of an icon of Australian media</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">A television program that once forged Australian media culture has now surrendered autonomy and found a worked-out doctrine. </div><a href="section.asp?name=media" class="main-page-section-link">Media</a> - <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=7971">David Hutchens</a> - <a target="_blank" class="main-page-comment-link" href="http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24179">1 comment</a><br />&nbsp;</td>
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820<div class="recent-articles-date">Tuesday, September 29, 2026</div>
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824  <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24181">Treasury’s massive ‘intergenerational’ immigration crushes democracy</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">Imagine a calmer and safer post-Bondi Australia. Immigration is low, and less divisive. Government need not lie about it all the time, nor continually attack citizen-voters.</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=7930">Stephen Saunders</a> - <a target="_blank" class="main-page-comment-link" href="http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24181">2 comments</a><br />&nbsp;</td>
825</tr>
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827  <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24178"> Blue Waterways: reconnecting Europe through its rivers</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">Europe's rivers have provided connection over centuries, but the modern world requires more than just water.</div><a href="section.asp?name=international" class="main-page-section-link">International</a> - <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=8263">Marija Cekmariova</a> - <a target="_blank" class="main-page-comment-link" href="http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24178">1 comment</a><br />&nbsp;</td>
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830<div class="recent-articles-date">Monday, September 28, 2026</div>
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834  <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24177">The demographics of war</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">Does war serve a purpose to nature that makes it inevitable rather than senseless?</div><a href="section.asp?name=liberty" class="main-page-section-link">Political Philosophy</a> - <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=114">Peter Curson</a> - <a target="_blank" class="main-page-comment-link" href="http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24177">1 comment</a><br />&nbsp;</td>
835</tr>
836<tr>
837  <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24176">AI: the regulators want a kill switch, the investors want to restrict competition</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">Artificial intelligence has been under development for 70 years. Why, just as it becomes commercially valuable, are we suddenly being told it could extinguish humanity?</div><a href="section.asp?name=technology" class="main-page-section-link">Science &amp; Technology</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=24176">1 comment</a><br />&nbsp;</td>
838</tr>
839<tr><td><hr />
840<div class="recent-articles-date">Friday, September 25, 2026</div>
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844  <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24174">When everything becomes a mental illness</a></div>
844<div class="main-page-news-description">Mental health may indeed be one of medicine’s great remaining frontiers. But acknowledging uncertainty is part of understanding the problem.</div><a href="section.asp?name=health" class="main-page-section-link">Health</a> - <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=6583">David Leyonhjelm</a> - <a target="_blank" class="main-page-comment-link" href="http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24174">3 comments</a><br />&nbsp;</td>
845</tr>
846<tr>
847  <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24175">Does Al-Qaida terrorism still pose a threat to western civilisation?</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">The US-led Western war on terror toppled the Taliban regime in 2001, but continued for two decades. The United States reportedly spent $2 trillion on the war effort and lost 2,400 American troops.</div><a href="section.asp?name=international" class="main-page-section-link">International</a> - <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=6765">Ehsan Stanizai</a><br />&nbsp;</td>
848</tr>
849<tr><td><hr />
850<div class="recent-articles-date">Thursday, September 24, 2026</div>
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854  <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24171">Economics says Australia should have negative migration</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">Elected members imagine themselves trapped between an economy needing immigrants and a public wanting fewer. It’s time they questioned their assumptions.</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=8261">Cathal Leslie</a> - <a target="_blank" class="main-page-comment-link" href="http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24171">1 comment</a><br />&nbsp;</td>
855</tr>
856<tr>
857  <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24173">California is falling into an unrecoverable deficit of refineries </a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">The California economy runs on the supply chain of products and transportation fuels made from raw crude oil that is diminishing from refinery closures.</div><a href="section.asp?name=technology" class="main-page-section-link">Science &amp; 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=8262">Lance Christensen</a><br />&nbsp;</td>
858</tr>
859<tr>
860  <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24172">Embodied freedom and mutual recognition: a Fichtean foundation for healthcare ethics</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">Healthcare professionals are not service providers in a market economy, nor moral agents who toggle between four competing principles.</div><a href="section.asp?name=liberty" class="main-page-section-link">Political Philosophy</a> - <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=7682">Sam Ben-Meir</a><br />&nbsp;</td>
861</tr>
862<tr><td><hr />
863<div class="recent-articles-date">Wednesday, September 23, 2026</div>
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867  <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24167">Governments ignored scientists warning that climate scare was based on implausible scenarios</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">It's a failure of economics more than it is a failing of climate science.</div><a href="section.asp?name=technology" class="main-page-section-link">Science &amp; Technology</a> - <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=5524">Tom Harris</a> - <a target="_blank" class="main-page-comment-link" href="http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24167">3 comments</a><br />&nbsp;</td>
868</tr>
869<tr>
870  <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24170">
870Reconstituting the United Nations for collective security – we need a popular campaign!</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">A UN which carried a big stick. Now that would change international relations.</div><a href="section.asp?name=international" class="main-page-section-link">International</a> - <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=5714">Barry York</a> - <a target="_blank" class="main-page-comment-link" href="http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24170">3 comments</a><br />&nbsp;</td>
871</tr>
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873<div class="recent-articles-date">Tuesday, September 22, 2026</div>
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877  <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24169">Counterfeit righteousness: Anthropic, AI and the pacing fallacy</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">The architects of artificial superintelligence now warn that it could escape control, cripple the internet and even extinguish humanity. So why did they develop it?</div><a href="section.asp?name=technology" class="main-page-section-link">Science &amp; Technology</a> - <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=715">Binoy Kampmark</a> - <a target="_blank" class="main-page-comment-link" href="http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24169">2 comments</a><br />&nbsp;</td>
878</tr>
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880  <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24168">Throwing the first stone</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">When does your past stop being your present and future? </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=7289">John Mikkelsen</a> - <a target="_blank" class="main-page-comment-link" href="http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24168">1 comment</a><br />&nbsp;</td>
881</tr>
882<tr><td><hr />
883<div class="recent-articles-date">Monday, September 21, 2026</div>
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886<tr>
887  <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24166">Armageddon and artificial intelligence</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">Fears that AI is primed to wipe out humanity exist in the realm of fantasy, meanwhile in real life there are limits.</div><a href="section.asp?name=technology" class="main-page-section-link">Science &amp; Technology</a> - <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=7289">John Mikkelsen</a> - <a target="_blank" class="main-page-comment-link" href="http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24166">5 comments</a><br />&nbsp;</td>
888</tr>
889<tr>
890  <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24165">Australia can’t outbid a blockade</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">Rich countries are insulated from the worst of commodity markets, but there are some things money can't buy.</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=8238">Tim Butler</a> - <a target="_blank" class="main-page-comment-link" href="http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24165">1 comment</a><br />&nbsp;</td>
891</tr>
892<tr><td><hr />
893<div class="recent-articles-date">Friday, September 18, 2026</div>
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896<tr>
897  <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24163">The greater Israel delusion may undo Israel</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">Israel’s accelerating drive toward a biblical 'Greater Israel' is not a deviation but the culmination of decades of creeping annexation and global indulgence. </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><br />&nbsp;</td>
898</tr>
899<tr>
900  <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24164">The many roads to literary excellence</a></div>
900<div class="main-page-news-description">Does training in the arts of creative writing produce better writers? Let the Miles Franklin speak.</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=8260">Rajat Kanti Satpati</a><br />&nbsp;</td>
901</tr>
902<tr><td><hr />
903<div class="recent-articles-date">Thursday, September 17, 2026</div>
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906<tr>
907  <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24161">GST carve-up leaves Qld, WA short-changed</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">In the carving up of GST share, one state’s costly mistakes can become everybody else’s fiscal problem.</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=3">Graham Young</a> - <a target="_blank" class="main-page-comment-link" href="http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24161">5 comments</a><br />&nbsp;</td>
908</tr>
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910  <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24162">Unlocking America’s nuclear gold mine: The promise of spent fuel</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">Private enterprise can solve the spent nuclear fuel problem beyond government grants.</div><a href="section.asp?name=technology" class="main-page-section-link">Science &amp; Technology</a> - <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=8115">Ronald Stein</a>, <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=8139">Olivia Vaughan</a> and <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=8142">Steve Curtis</a><br />&nbsp;</td>
911</tr>
912<tr><td><hr />
913<div class="recent-articles-date">Wednesday, September 16, 2026</div>
914
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916<tr>
917  <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24159">The stockpile is over: why Australian businesses are rethinking the role of inventory</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">Australian manufacturers have slashed the stock on their shelves. Is this newfound efficiency - or the quiet removal of their last buffer against disruption?</div><a href="section.asp?name=economics" class="main-page-section-link">Economics</a> - <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=8259">Jarrod Adam</a> - <a target="_blank" class="main-page-comment-link" href="http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24159">4 comments</a><br />&nbsp;</td>
918</tr>
919<tr>
920  <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24160">A topical task of multilateral diplomacy</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">The UN wants to revive the dream of a new international economic order. Can it turn half-century-old promises into action?</div><a href="section.asp?name=international" class="main-page-section-link">International</a> - <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=4317">Ioan Voicu</a> - <a target="_blank" class="main-page-comment-link" href="http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24160">1 comment</a><br />&nbsp;</td>
921</tr>
922<tr><td><hr />
923<div class="recent-articles-date">Tuesday, September 15, 2026</div>
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927  <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24157">Is a stable regional order attainable in the Gulf?</a></div><div class="main-page-news-description">The task is not to choose between deterrence and dialogue, nor between international partnerships and regional agency. A stable regional order is likely to require all of these elements.</div><a href="section.asp?name=international" class="main-page-section-link">International</a> - <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=8258">Geoffrey Hoon</a><br />&nbsp;</td>
928</tr>
929<tr>
930  <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24158">A new sanctions regime: targeting Israel’s West Bank settlements</a></div>
930<div class="main-page-news-description">Israel’s 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 />&nbsp;</td>
931</tr>
932<tr><td><hr />
933<div class="recent-articles-date">Monday, September 14, 2026</div>
934
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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 />&nbsp;</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 America’s 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 />&nbsp;</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 &amp; Technology</a> - <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=8248">Gleb Tsipursky</a><br />&nbsp;</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 />&nbsp;</td>
951</tr>
952<tr><td><hr />
953<div class="recent-articles-date">Thursday, September 10, 2026</div>
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956<tr>
957  <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24152">The Atlantic–Pacific 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 />&nbsp;</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 can’t 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 &amp; 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 />&nbsp;</td>
961</tr>
962<tr><td><hr />
963<div class="recent-articles-date">Wednesday, September 9, 2026</div>
964
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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 />&nbsp;</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 />&nbsp;</td>
971</tr>
972<tr><td><hr />
973<div class="recent-articles-date">Tuesday, September 8, 2026</div>
974
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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 />&nbsp;</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 &amp; Liberties</a> - <a class="main-page-author-link" href="author.asp?id=715">Binoy Kampmark</a><br />&nbsp;</td>
981</tr>
982<tr><td><hr />
983<div class="recent-articles-date">Monday, September 7, 2026</div>
984
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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 />&nbsp;</td>
988</tr>
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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 />&nbsp;</td>
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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 />&nbsp;</td>
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1000  <td class="latestnews" width="620"><div class="main-page-news-headline"><a href="view.asp?article=24144">The limit of coercion: Israel’s 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 Israel’s 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 />&nbsp;</td>
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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 />&nbsp;</td>
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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 &amp; 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 />&nbsp;</td>
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