If the Australian Public Service and its satellite institutions were to last a thousand years, people will still say “The Robodebt was one of its most dismal hours”. Robodebt was conceived by a government, one of whose operating principles was defined by the despicable distinction made by former Treasurer Joe Hockey between “lifters and leaners”. Continue reading »
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“NATO exists to manage the risks created by its existence,” Professor Richard Sakwa once wrote in an attempt to articulate the absurdity of the military alliance’s provocative nature on the world stage. At some point Australians must wake up to the fact that this is equally true of AUKUS: we’re told the military alliance exists Continue reading »
Who was behind the terrorist attacks on Nord Stream? Half a year after the pipeline explosions, there is growing public interest in finally learning more about the circumstances of the attacks on what is important energy infrastructure for Germany and Europe. This is due to the versions of events published in the New York Times Continue reading »
AUKUS: signed and sealed by the Liberal government when it joined the pact in September 2021, the spoils of which have been delivered by the Labor Government in March 2023. The Labor Government and Australia will pay a heavy price for what is being done in our name. We are being humiliated by our own Continue reading »
Republicans announced the veto override effort just hours after the elementary school shooting in nearby Nashville.
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The financial system needs to provide a safe place for businesses to place their reserves and working capital.
What is a war crime? There are plenty of candidates – Guernica, Dresden, the firebombing of Tokyo, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the devastation of Korea, the massacre at My Lai – the list goes on and on. And now the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague has added another. Maria Lvova-Belova, Continue reading »
On 14 March, when the AUKUS nuclear powered-submarine details were revealed, I spent most of the day in the Emergency Department of a hospital in Brisbane, with a family member needing urgent medical care. It took over 12 hours for my relative to get a bed in the ED and then several hours more before Continue reading »
Despite flourishing relations, Australia is governed by a ruling elite whose commitment to a rules based order is suspect, selective and risks dragging India into a catastrophic conflict with China. Speaking on ABC RN Breakfast on 9 March, as PM Anthony Albanese headed for his first meeting with India’s PM Narendra Modi, Shadow Foreign Minister Simon Continue reading »
Governments must come to understand that preservation of life support systems is more vital than many economic ones and they must develop the ability to explain this to the public. In the eastern states debate on the environment or ‘nature’ has been mainly about protecting koala habitat. This view is too simplistic. Protection should embrace Continue reading »