politics

Created
Mon, 01/05/2023 - 04:57
Nearly two years ago relief was expressed that the USA had emerged under President Biden to offer world leadership on climate change. Sadly this leadership has been a disappointment and today both the US and other high emitters such as Australia are not on track to meet the challenge. Current oil, gas and carbon capture Continue reading »
Created
Sun, 30/04/2023 - 04:50
Recently, the former senior Singaporean diplomat and respected geopolitical consultant Kishore Mahbubani offered Australia some acute advice: Stop betting on the past. Mahbubani’s article was figuratively bookended with visits to Beijing by President Emmanuel Macron of France (shortly before publication) and President Lula da Silva of Brazil (soon after publication). It looks clear that these Continue reading »
Created
Sun, 30/04/2023 - 04:51
Hersh’s latest revelations on 12 April 2023 in his self-published Substack blog, Trading with the Enemy, detail, among other Ukrainian corruption scandals now widely known in Washington military and intelligence circles, the Zelensky regime’s embezzlement of $400 million from US military aid to Ukraine. This article is proving even more incendiary in Washington than was his Continue reading »
Created
Sun, 30/04/2023 - 04:53
On Wednesday I met with a wonderful Australian geologist, Jim Bowler, famous for discovering the Lake Mungo remains – ‘the oldest human remains in Australia, dated to 40,000 years ago.’ ‘Mungo woman’; Mungo Man’. Jim and I will dream dreams on Sunday, within the abundance of the divine. Asking, against the backdrop of nuclear bombs Continue reading »
Created
Sun, 30/04/2023 - 04:54
Constitutional enshrinement of rights through a federal Human Rights Act is essential. In response to approaches from the Australian Human Rights Commission Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has recently announced an Inquiry into Australia’s Human Rights Framework, charging the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights with considering whether the Australian parliament should enact a federal Human Rights Continue reading »