politics

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Thu, 01/02/2024 - 11:35
by Asaf Darr* The ongoing and fierce conflict between Jews and Palestinian Arabs is a daily reality in Israel, the country where I reside. As a sociologist of work and economic sociologist, I became increasingly interested in the ways in which the broader conflict is manifested in daily socio-economic encounters on the shop floor between […]
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Thu, 01/02/2024 - 04:50
Israel has long plotted the downfall of UNRWA, aware that it is one of the biggest obstacles to eradicating the Palestinians as a people. There is an important background to the decision by the United States and other leading western states, the UK among them, to freeze funding to the United Nations’ Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), Continue reading »
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Thu, 01/02/2024 - 04:53
Former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s departure from parliament is a vulgar reminder about where Australian politics went grossly wrong, and where its vulnerable, already trimmed sovereignty went. In a January 23 Facebook post, former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced his decision to “leave parliament at the end of February to take on new Continue reading »
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Thu, 01/02/2024 - 04:58
It is now very obvious that the Albanese government is determined to assist Israel in ensuring that the provisional measures ordered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) are undermined and rendered unworkable. Within hours of Israel being ordered by the ICJ (approved in a 16 to one vote by the court’s judges) to “take Continue reading »
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Thu, 01/02/2024 - 04:51
The likely nomination of Donald Trump as the Republican candidate for November’s US presidential election has many asking whether Australia should remain as committed to its close relationship with the US as it has been. Setting aside that a vocal minority has long questioned Australia’s commitment to the relationship, two matters make this time around Continue reading »
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Thu, 01/02/2024 - 04:53
“Would the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands. And the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewellery.”   John Lennon I don’t think anyone serious ever doubted that the Stage 3 tax package needed to be amended if the Labor Government of Anthony Albanese were ever going to be taken remotely seriously Continue reading »