http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/section.asp?name=liberty Australia's e-journal of social and political debate en-au Copyright 2000-2026, National Forum editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Graham Young) tech@onlineopinion.com.au 60 editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Sam Ben-Meir) In a world that proclaims human rights as universal, what does it mean that entire peoples are rendered legally nonexistent? http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=24193 http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=24193 Wed, 7 Oct 2026 08:19:58 +1000 http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24193 On Line Opinion editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Peter Curson) Does war serve a purpose to nature that makes it inevitable rather than senseless? http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=24177 http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=24177 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 07:40:18 +1000 http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24177 On Line Opinion editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Sam Ben-Meir) Healthcare professionals are not service providers in a market economy, nor moral agents who toggle between four competing principles. http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=24172 http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=24172 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 07:53:47 +1000 http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24172 On Line Opinion editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Sam Ben-Meir) 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. http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=24145 http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=24145 Mon, 7 Sep 2026 09:11:34 +1000 http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24145 On Line Opinion editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Jafar Jalili) The left built its entire moral authority on grievance. It taught a generation that resentment is a credential, that envy is conscience, that hatred is permitted so long as the target is sufficiently fortunate. http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=24111 http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=24111 Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:09:23 +1000 http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24111 On Line Opinion editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Sam Ben-Meir) Bond is kinetic, charismatic, and sexually triumphant. Smiley is sedentary, melancholy, and painfully aware that his wife repeatedly betrays him. http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=24106 http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=24106 Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:27:54 +1000 http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24106 On Line Opinion editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Scott Prasser) The CFMEU has been a running sore for decades, and which anti-corruption commission has acted to cauterise it? http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=24081 http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=24081 Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:04:06 +1000 http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24081 On Line Opinion editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Sam Ben-Meir) Shakespeare's concern is not merely that authority can become abusive. It is that human beings can internalize authority so completely that they cease to trust their own judgment altogether. http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=24082 http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=24082 Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:03:58 +1000 http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24082 On Line Opinion editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Graeme Couch) Australia lacks an emotionally satisfying founding event and as a result an expression of national identity. http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=24060 http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=24060 Wed, 8 Jul 2026 07:59:22 +1000 http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24060 On Line Opinion editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Luca Belgiorno-Nettis) Modern democracies need less permanent campaigning and more permanent problem-solving. http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=24052 http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=24052 Fri, 3 Jul 2026 07:42:38 +1000 http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=24052 On Line Opinion