The Opposition’s shadow minister for home and foreign affairs, Barnaby Joyce, has demanded the Government issue a National apology to victims of the previous Government’s bonk ban. ”A lot of lives were ruined due to the ill-thought through bonk ban,”... Read More ›
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This is a bit of a catch up post from last year when I was interviewed on The Project. After federal Treasury’s Measuring What Matters framework came out, there was a lot of criticism about the timeliness of the data … Continue reading
My generation has not aged well.
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China’s Belt and Road initiative (BRI) operates on a huge scale and is the focus of rarely halted negative coverage across many prominent outlets in the Global West. A new extended article in the leading US journal, Foreign Policy, however, provides a measured, informed exception to this general rule. Parag Khanna recently argued in a Continue reading »
Those following the U.S. Republican presidential race will have noted from the voter polls that the issue of foreign affairs ranks amongst the lowest or is the lowest of the priority concerns that the American public sees as critical to themselves and their country. A variety of polls held before the recently concluded nomination battles Continue reading »
The Israeli leadership is currently engaged in an undoubted genocide against the Palestinian population of Gaza. A complementary mopping up operation continues (if in slow motion) in the West Bank. During World War II, a certain genocide took place. More than one if one counts the attempted genocide by the Nazis, consciously on racist grounds, Continue reading »
Current Australian defence policy involves close integration with the United States military in all areas, making an independent foreign policy impossible and ensuring Australia’s automatic involvement in US-instigated wars such as a war with China, our major trading partner. A policy of neutrality would free Australia from involvement in such disastrous military adventures and enable Continue reading »
We all have a responsibility to build trust, encourage a sense of belonging and a community of welcome and optimism. Ambitious New Year resolutions perhaps? But these goals, from the latest Scanlon social cohesion report are much more than just “nice to haves”. Trust has strong economic as well as social benefits. As I show Continue reading »
The election of the Albanese Labor government was met with a strong sense of optimism among people who had been lobbying for aged care reform for years. Finally, a government prepared to address the systemic issues that had plagued the sector since the Howard government neo-liberal reforms decades before. Alas, it was not to be. Continue reading »
Former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was a man with a mission. Many missions, obviously. But one maybe stood out above all others: the creation of a universal national healthcare system. Introduction by Croakey: On the 40th anniversary of Medicare, it is important to remember and learn from history, in order to help drive future reforms. Continue reading »