Communications Minister Michelle Rowland’s warning that the ballot box is ‘not a guide to Middle East policy’ (The Australian, 26 July 2024), coupled with her concerns about social cohesion, highlights federal Labor’s naivete and how out of touch it is with the electorate. Continue reading »
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“(I)f pressed on legality … our position is that it is for competent judicial bodies to determine whether crimes against humanity have been committed” – (DFAT, 2022, FOI release). What then are DFAT and Australia’s obligations following the finding by the International Court of Justice that Israel has established an apartheid system in the Occupied Continue reading »
The brutal crackdown on student protesters revealed the totalitarian aims of the prime minister and the resilience of belief in democratic freedoms. The crisis in Bangladesh can be seen as a battle for the soul of Bangladesh’s political future. On one side there is 76-year-old Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who has not held genuinely free, Continue reading »
Cabinet reshuffle – policy and outcomes matter, not who is in charge, say refugees. Here is the pressing to do list for the incoming immigration minister: Close offshore. Bring them here. Permanent visas for fast track victims Recognise refugee contribution and industry Increase humanitarian intake Permanent visas for Medevac refugees on and offshore Refugees who Continue reading »
The Intercept has appealed to the Pennsylvania Office of Open Records to obtain emergency dispatch calls from the July 13 Trump rally.
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“Another world is not only possible, she’s on her way… On a quiet day, if I listen carefully, I can hear her breathing” – Arundhati Roy. Sitting on a beautiful Australian beach with his partner, my friend Graeme was reading St. Augustine. Not a usual beach practice but seemingly providential. Reading a section in which Continue reading »
In the theatre of politics, Trump has always upstaged. Whether cast as hero or villain he insatiably dominates the spotlight. A diviner of public sentiment, throughout his various professional iterations, Trump has elevated his unique gift for performance into an artform. In his incarnation as a politician, he has perfected the knack of cannibalising American Continue reading »
It’s once you’re dead or out of the picture, unable to meaningfully contest the narrative, that institutions can appropriate the very struggles of those who once fought against them. This sort of co-option of movements is a consequence of how memory works in society. Writings from the ANU Gaza Solidarity Encampment – Part 5 This Continue reading »
The hole in the Antarctic’s ozone layer is recovering but very slowly. How to eat seafood sustainably, restoring our disappearing mangroves and cemeteries for the living. Has the hole in the ozone layer been fixed? I was puzzled by a headline in the New York Times that read ‘A Global Push Fixed the Ozone Hole. Continue reading »