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- Islam’s evil not just on 9/11 September 12, 2026
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- Alborithms to the rescue? September 9, 2026
- The Aussie flag: a burning issue September 8, 2026
- What Bell Royal Commission must do, for starters September 7, 2026
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Islam’s evil not just on 9/11
Andrew L. Urban. What with July 7*, October 7 and December 14 marked as dark days in the calendar, we don’t need the 25th anniversary of 9/11 as the Americans have it, to raise our consciousness about the implacable evil … Continue reading
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Hastie & Pickering
The leading article in this week’s Spectator Australia is a welcome and detailed examination of the clash between Liberal Senator Andrew Hastie and Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party – with a side-serve of Warren Pickering. It’s so clear – and … Continue reading
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Alborithms to the rescue?
Andrew L. Urban. The Labor government’s proposed Digital Duty of Care laws are in reality intended to override algorithms with Alborithms, algorithms operating under the authority, assumptions and ideological preferences of regulators and governments. Voters have a ‘duty to care’ … Continue reading
The Aussie flag: a burning issue
Andrew L. Urban. Burning the flag is not free speech, it’s hate speech. That statement reflects both sides of the argument about criminalising flag burning, as proposed policy by Liberal Leader Angus Taylor. And in this case, both sides can … Continue reading
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What Bell Royal Commission must do, for starters
Andrew L. Urban. As the Bell Royal Commission closes down taking incoming fire over its ultimately limp, incomplete approach to its task of exploring how Australia could so quickly be so rocked by antisemitism, perhaps we can help …
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Bowen misinformation is the real climate misinformation
Andrew L. Urban. The anthropogenic global warming scenario was launched on June 23, 1988 in the US Senate committee with the testimony of James Hansen of NASA. In the Senate, a political not a scientific setting. It’s well to remember … Continue reading
Pied piper of politics misunderstood
Andrew L. Urban. They don’t get it: One Nation is not your common or garden party. It attracts voters because it is showing the ruling parties – Labor, Liberal, National – the way towards a better set of policies … … Continue reading
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Muslim vote tail wagging Labor policy dog
Andrew L. Urban. Both foreign and domestic policy decisions by the Albanese Labor government are being skewed by the Muslim vote in a handful of seats, mostly in Western Sydney. Protecting this vote has fused Labor’s anti-Israel sentiment in foreign … Continue reading
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Royal Commission: there was (is) time – where was (is) the will?
Andrew L. Urban. Like the PM who aimed at guns not radical Islam in response to the Bondi massacre, the Royal Commissioner is also blind to a key question: what role did the Government’s actions, inactions and behaviour play in … Continue reading
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Australia’s disreputable Royal Commission
Andrew L. Urban. I made my submission to the Royal Commission on February 25, 2026. The main thrust of it is that the socio-political environment in Australia which tolerated antisemitic demonstrations and riots was in large part stimulated by the … Continue reading
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