Corporate lobbyists are sponsoring events celebrating racial progress to advocate for their clients' business interests.
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At personal, national and international levels, crises provide learning opportunities. How to adapt to loss by seeking change, how to think differently about family, community and nation by, among other things, pondering the meaning of security and sovereignty. Immediate responses to the massive earthquake disasters in Turkey and Syria concern rescue, shelter, food supply, healthcare Continue reading »
Secrets make us paranoid. We should do away with secrets and spies and become a truly open society. We have become so obsessed with the so-called ‘China threat’ that our fears are now totally irrational. The decision by the USA to shoot down a Chinese balloon might have had a strange logic to it, but Continue reading »
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published a story Wednesday alleging that the United States was behind the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline system last year, citing a source “with direct knowledge of the operational planning.” The Biden White House adamantly denied the veteran investigative journalist’s reporting, calling it “complete fiction.” Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative Continue reading »
Foreign Minister Penny Wong invoked the power of shared colonial histories in a speech during her recent visit to the United Kingdom. The statement was clearly carefully prepared and framed but, judging from her recorded comments, it seems that she has not thought through the implications of the adoption of radical post-colonial diplomacy. Rather, she Continue reading »
Obama has an edifice complex! Who'd have thunk it?
The Australian Greens have been plunged into crisis this week with the loss of Senator Lidia Thorpe causing an imbalance in the party’s weekly drum circle causing it to skew right. ”It’s a disaster and really we just don’t know... Read More ›
Richard Woolcott leaves a legacy that all modern diplomats could emulate. Richard Woolcott, generally known as Dick, died on 2 February in Canberra aged 95. He is survived by two sons, Peter and Robert. Woolcott was one of the last great Australian diplomats, in the wake of those like Sir Arthur Tange and Sir James Continue reading »
While alliances and treaties offer some protection against an aggressor, they cannot be counted upon. Australia needs to maintain an independent military capability to deter possible future threats to our independence – not least because we cannot rely on the US in all possible future circumstances. Today Part 2 of this series on Australia’s national Continue reading »