Opposition leader Peter Dutton, a man who proudly walked out on the apology to the stolen generation, has called for a sensible debate on the merits of bringing back the white Australia policy. ”Look, I’m not racist but, we need... Read More ›
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A deal made by Alito’s wife with an energy company paints recent Supreme Court decisions on the environment in a damning light.
The post Samuel Alito’s Wife Leased Land to an Oil and Gas Firm While the Justice Fought the EPA appeared first on The Intercept.
There’s a frenzied rush by the Australian political/media class to both propagandise Australians as quickly as possible into supporting preparations for war with China, and to ram through legislation that facilitates the censorship of online speech. Australia’s Communications Minister Michelle Rowland is set to release draft legislation imposing hefty fines on social media companies who Continue reading »
The so-called Global South does not feature much in Australian discourse. It should. It will impact on us. The group has origins in the Non-Aligned Movement of the Cold War and in the Group of 77, a coalition of developing nations in the United Nations whose objective is to remedy global imbalances in wealth. The Continue reading »
In one of his last posts on this site Dennis Argall contributed an extraordinary insight which needs to be kept, explicitly and unapologetically, at the forefront of all discussions about AUKUS and its bastard child, the Defence Strategic Review. The title of his piece was: “The Defence Strategic Review is a claim to command civil Continue reading »
The biggest risk to the success of the referendum on Aboriginal recognition is the Albanese government’s lack of resolution. It has strongly promoted the voice, successfully in parliament, but far less effectively within the broader community. There is a serious prospect that the various proponents of the No case will win by default, mostly because Continue reading »
One of the more arcane developments in contemporary trade policy is the recently tabled US proposal for reform of the arrangements for managing trade disputes between members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). It is a landscape marked by statistics, legal texts, and arguments. However, reflected in the microcosm is a wider universe featuring the Continue reading »
The real drama played out in the North Atlantic last week wasn’t the latest hubristic exercise in “frontier tourism”, but the current sea surface temperature (SST) anomaly rise, recorded on the Northern Hemisphere summer solstice, June 21, 2023. This measure describes the difference between the current average SST in the North Atlantic Ocean and the Continue reading »
Perhaps we can admire the strength of a leader to concede, rather than describe any concession as weakness. Most people woke up to a barrage of headlines about Russia over the weekend. One and all, they trumpeted Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s “weakness” after what has been described as a fizzled coup. Careful what you wish Continue reading »