Imagine you have been asked by the Australian government to draft its new population policy. You first ask to see the old policy but are told there isn’t one: immigration policy has been the de-facto population policy for as long as anyone can remember. You start to make a list of relevant issues. First, you Continue reading »
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The ACT Labor-Greens coalition is widely seen as the most permissive and truly liberal government in the country. It is moving to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14 and its criminal legislation is generally seen as quite generous, and its courts quite lenient, toward defendants. Indeed, many NSW colleagues are regularly Continue reading »
The ABC is running jolly programmes on and for the Pacific as part of a government policy to counter Chinese influence. But in a closer, bigger and more important region already eyed by Beijing the national broadcaster and its paymaster offer indifference and ignorance. Or is that arrogance? The flagship of the international service ABC Continue reading »
Where “Two plus two equals five if the party says so” (George Orwell) and when drilling methane wells reduces global warming. Having turned a blind eye to climate science, ignoring the evidence that extreme atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) rise and ocean acidification have led to mass extinctions of species through time, humanity allows Continue reading »
“Only the struggle counts … death is nothing.” Eloi Machoro – ‘the Che Guevara of the Pacific’ – shortly before he was gunned down by a French sniper on 12 January 1985. Eloi Machoro, one of the leaders of the newly-formed FLNKS – today the main organising movement for New Caledonia’s Kanak people – slowly Continue reading »
With the surgical precision of a scalpel, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has severed what remained of the moral authority of the West. The reactions and indifference, led by the United States, has done more to undermine the global rules based order than any action initiated by China, which is usually painted as the arch Continue reading »
The battalion has a dedicated U.S. nonprofit to support its operations — whose president is supporting AIPAC’s political agenda.
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Opposition leader (for now), Peter Dutton, has gathered his cabinet colleagues together to tell them the special news that he has taken the shadow Treasurer, Angus Taylor, to the country to ‘live’ on a farm. The move follows Taylor’s disastrous... Read More ›