politics

Harris could have focused on how U.S. foreign policy pushes immigrants to leave their homes. Instead, she ran on border security.

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Public distrust in the reliability of the U.S. nuclear umbrella has sharply increased, with a majority of South Koreans now supporting the development of their own nuclear weapons, a recent survey shows. The survey results released last month reflect a growing belief that the U.S. extended deterrence to the region, often referred to as a Continue reading »

Australia has voted ‘yes’ to a UN resolution mandating the establishment of a research panel on the effects of nuclear war. The L39 resolution has been adopted by a massive majority in the First Committee of the UN General Assembly, with 144 governments voting in favour, 30 abstentions (including the US India, Ukraine and Israel), Continue reading »

A recent timely 4 November article in the ‘Canberra Times’ by John Wilson and Kieran Pender, “If public servants are made ‘silent members of society’ , democracy is worse for it”, highlights growing problems in interpreting and administering the protocols governing public political comment by Australian public servants. The High Court ‘s final rejection in Continue reading »

We in the West have a propensity noted by the rest of the world, to be rather self-congratulatory about our political and economic systems and our accompanying wish to pressure the rest of the world to try to be more like us. Continue reading »

Grassroots anti-AUKUS campaign, Labor Against War, has called on the federal Labor government to withdraw Australia from the AUKUS military pact. With a second Trump presidency all but assured as of Wednesday evening, Australia’s commitment to AUKUS and its nuclear-powered war-fighting plans has become even further removed from the interests of the Australian people. “It Continue reading »

One zombie thesis about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that keeps resurfacing is the idea that it was provoked by NATO expansion. It doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. Eugene Doyle reprises this idea, leaning on the views of one ex-CIA analyst, George Beebe. Beebe claimed in 2021 “that Russia was likely to invade Ukraine given the Continue reading »

The Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) welcomes the final report of the Scope of Practice Review, Unleashing the Potential of our Health Workforce, which outlines robust solutions to overcoming barriers limiting high-value care across settings. Key reforms highlighted in the report will ensure each discipline’s value is recognised, with safeguards for a safe, high-quality health system Continue reading »

The changes to Tertiary Education funding announced by the Prime Minister last weekend, mostly benefit former students. Arguably there are other higher priorities to restore the funding of higher education and remove anomalies in the fees charged. Last week started badly for Albanese with allegations about his Qantas upgrades, which he took too long to Continue reading »

The West need not fear a Chussia aligned against it. It instead needs to develop geopolitical strategies to deal with China as the dominant power in Eurasia. For like the United States at the end of the nineteenth century when it consolidated its borders and established hegemony in the Western Hemisphere, China has consolidated its Continue reading »