Half the 280 million people in Indonesia are women, though not in the 48-member ministry; just five were drafted this week by the fresh president Prabowo Subianto. It’s a Cabinet fuelled more by testosterone than talent. Continue reading »
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Gaza has been flattened by Israeli attacks. Ninety per cent of schools have been damaged, or destroyed. Two thirds of schools, 285 of them, have been completely destroyed. All universities have been destroyed. The United Nations has called Israel’s deliberate targeting of Gaza’s education infrastructure, scholasticide. Sam Rose, Senior Deputy Director of UNRWA says, “Israel Continue reading »
The articles by Ian Chubb and John Ward calling for an extension of voluntary assisted dying (VAD) to cover dementia evoke the deep sadness experienced by many people confronted with this condition. It is true that the incidence of dementia is increasing, causing great suffering, and that VAD is now legal and generally accepted in Continue reading »
As it reels from one battlefield defeat after another, Ukraine faces a fateful choice: sue for peace or fight to the bitter end. Ukraine’s ultra-nationalists would prefer purifying blood sacrifice to a shameful defeat, while Western hardliners want to wear Russia down by fighting to the last Ukrainian. This yearning for Ukraine to re-enact a Continue reading »
Australia is no longer a middle, nor moral, power although its political leaders think Australia is both. When did Australia lose its morality, and along with that loss, its status as a respected middle power? Continue reading »
In a just world, Prabowo Subianto should not be Indonesia’s new president. He ought to be facing the full strength of the law in court, if not serving time. The closest he’s come to justice is being banned from the US by three presidents, Clinton, Bush and Obama, and from Australia and presumably other jurisdictions. Continue reading »
Horror upon unimaginable horror. Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir announce ‘the moral solution’ while the scale of devastation for the besieged Palestinian people in northern Gaza—Jabalia, Beit Lahiya—is incomprehensible. Men shackled and blindfolded, taken away by the Israeli army. Women and children murdered in their homes and subjected to psychological terror under the actions Continue reading »
“A man is nothing without his conscience,” the Florida health department’s top lawyer wrote in his resignation letter.
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Too many Americans seem to be ignoring the risks that another Trump presidency would pose to the U.S. This is a warning to them.
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More than 650 ACLU staffers signed a petition calling on the organization to decry the ongoing war and divest from Israel.
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