Monday, December 9, 2024
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What counts as news reporting on the subject in the Western press stable adopts a threadbare approach. We read or hear almost nothing about the dominant backers in this latest round of bloodletting. International - Binoy Kampmark - 4 comments
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Since antiquity, feelings and emotions have been intrinsic to being political - they can stir up a sudden, vital, and decisive move, in person or in a group at the most basic level, to swing to or from an idea, a goal, or an object. International - Mamtimin Ala - 1 comment
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Friday, December 6, 2024
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Of all the creatures in the US bureaucratic swamp, environmental and medical science organisations have the most to fear from the return of Donald Trump. Science & Technology - Peter Ridd - 8 comments
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With his primary allies distracted and internal cohesion reportedly fraying, Assad faces perhaps his most precarious moment since the uprising began. International - Vince Hooper - 10 comments
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Thursday, December 5, 2024
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What is sport really doing for Australia's identity today? Has our entire sense of self been reduced to an obsession with who can throw, kick, or run the fastest? Sport - Vince Hooper - 7 comments
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Israel is unique among the 193 UN member states: The only state that has reappeared on world maps after being erased for 3000 years. International - David Singer - 2 comments
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Wednesday, December 4, 2024
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The election of Donald Trump has thrown contemporary economic commentary into overdrive. It has also exposed the limitations of contemporary economic knowledge and comment. Economics - Ben Rees - 6 comments
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Like many other Western countries, it is divided over many issues, including Aboriginal rights, immigration, economic hardship, climate change, and racial reconciliation. Political Philosophy - Mamtimin Ala - 12 comments
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Tuesday, December 3, 2024
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Zelenskyy's proposal marks a significant departure from Ukraine's previous stance of rejecting any compromise on territorial integrity. International - Vince Hooper - 8 comments
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Asian, female and gay, and extremely competent, she would put Australia as the leading nation on the world map. Even Anthony Albanese would give up his power to Wong to ensure his party stayed in power. Domestic Politics - Peter Bowden - 10 comments
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Monday, December 2, 2024
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Williams makes a point of juxtaposing the weak, impressionable consumer of news and those of Rogan and his tribe of entrepreneurial podcasting fantasists. Media - Binoy Kampmark - 7 comments
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Under the system we have today in which government spending picks winners and losers in the business world and hires massive amounts of people, we have amassed an unsupportable debt of more than $100,000 per person. Environment - Ronald Stein, Oliver Hemmers and Steve Curtis - 2 comments
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Friday, November 29, 2024
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The easiest way to understand what central banks are doing is to look at employment growth. Economics - Michael Knox
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New York Times opinion columnist Thomas Friedman has offered President-elect Donald Trump some friendly advice on resolving the Arab-Jewish conflict. International - David Singer
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Thursday, November 28, 2024
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Stabilising population, argues the report Big thirsty Australia, is the safest and cheapest avenue to meet arid Australia's water needs. Not what government wants to hear, is it? Environment - Stephen Saunders - 12 comments
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In the Indo-Pacific region such intermediate range hyper-sonic systems could render intercontinental ballistic systems obsolete. International - Murray Hunter - 4 comments
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Wednesday, November 27, 2024
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International law remains a curious creature, one of mixed shape and uneven maturity, being based on the mutual, grudging acknowledgment of conventions between countries. International - Binoy Kampmark - 6 comments
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There are a multitude of eminent people who have argued whether or not we have free will. This paper sets out the assertions of these writers, both for and against. Political Philosophy - Peter Bowden - 8 comments
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Tuesday, November 26, 2024
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These concerns primarily revolve around national dynamics, economic implications, and the solidification of nationalist attitudes and inter-political combustion within the Balkan states. International - Alon Ben-Meir - 2 comments
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What is it about movie celebrities, highly skilled in pretending to be other people in pretend situations, they would willingly shoot themselves in the foot and lose 50-60% of their fan base? Domestic Politics - Stuart Ballantyne - 4 comments
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Monday, November 25, 2024
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While this proposed legislation will prove ineffectual in achieving its intended purpose – here, protecting the prelapsarian state of childhood from ruin at the hands of wicked digital platforms – it will also leave the apparatus of hefty regulation. Law & Liberties - Binoy Kampmark - 14 comments
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Telcos, banks and health insurers are among the many businesses I'd include in the bracket that fail to recognise more than 17 percent of their customers are probably over 65. Society - John Mikkelsen - 3 comments
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Friday, November 22, 2024
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Gladstone, for example, is an economic powerhouse with a regional economic output of over $20 billion per annum. Yet only a couple of years ago it closed its maternity unit at Gladstone Hospital. Nation Building - Ross Elliott
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The revelation that 'Deep Throat' was Mark Felt, an assistant director of the FBI at that time, arises another possibility - the Woodward and Bernstein were being used. Media - Murray Hunter - 3 comments
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Thursday, November 21, 2024
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All the parts and components to make, transport, and install wind turbines, solar panels, and EV's are made from the products and fuels manufactured from crude oil. Environment - Ronald Stein - 2 comments
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President-elect Donald Trump will resume locking horns with the United Nations (UN) when he returns to the White House on 20 January 2025. International - David Singer - 2 comments
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Wednesday, November 20, 2024
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The UN, which was established to foster global peace and stability, has now become a paralyzed institution, constrained by an archaic structure. International - Alon Ben-Meir - 6 comments
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Azerbaijan, is a petrostate indifferent to the issue of emissions and scornful of ecological preachers. It has seen its natural gas supply grow by 128% between 2000 and 2021. International - Binoy Kampmark - 6 comments
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Tuesday, November 19, 2024
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There no need for ASEAN leaders to buy MAGA merchandise especially submarines and missile systems or to ingratiate themselves further with the new US president. International - Teck Lim - 3 comments
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'People are saying this is a surrender. Fake news! This is the ultimate deal, folks. We're coming back as the top colony. No one's ever done that before.' Humour & Satire - Vince Hooper - 1 comment
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Monday, November 18, 2024
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The newly elected Crisafulli Government should revive Fitzgerald’s Electoral Administrative Review Commission to deliver a ‘World Class’ Public Service Political Philosophy - Scott Prasser - 6 comments
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The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. International - Ioan Voicu - 3 comments
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Friday, November 15, 2024
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In a world that often feels adrift, we all need something to believe. Political Philosophy - Steven Schwartz - 12 comments
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HKOPS – contrary to Trump's Proposal – calls for the merger of Jordan, Gaza and part of the West Bank into one new Hashemite-governed territorial entity to be called 'The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine'. International - David Singer - 4 comments
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Thursday, November 14, 2024
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Clinton, in late July 2016, 'had approved a campaign plan to stir a scandal against US Presidential candidate Donald Trump by tying him to Putin and the Russians' hacking of the Democratic National Committee'. International - Binoy Kampmark - 2 comments
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Despite promises to turbocharge the economy, Trump saw job losses in every year of his presidency – 2017, 2018 and 2019 – even when the disastrous COVID data of 2020 is excluded. International - Remy Davison - 10 comments
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Wednesday, November 13, 2024
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The Democrats must search their souls, carefully study what went wrong, and develop a compelling new domestic and foreign policy agenda while cooperating with the Republicans on any issue that advances America’s well-being and global leadership. International - Alon Ben-Meir - 3 comments
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I would say he was obviously not the sort of policeman who would enjoy pushing a desk or sitting in an SUV off the side of the road on a downhill slope catching unwary motorists. Society - John Mikkelsen - 2 comments
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Tuesday, November 12, 2024
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With trade deficits between many Asian countries and the United States, there are possibilities many countries may be targeted if Trump's objectives are to reduce bilateral deficits. International - Murray Hunter - 4 comments
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The male vote played a major role in Trump's historic victory – with big swings from Hispanic and Black men, and also younger male voters. Society - Bettina Arndt - 2 comments
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Monday, November 11, 2024
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Here we go again. Falsely, ABC claims Australia 'doesn’t have' a population plan. But we do – and it’s massive. Can Donald Trump’s victory change that at all? Nation Building - Stephen Saunders - 5 comments
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During his campaign for office, Ishiba had mooted changes to the deployment arrangements of the Japan Self-Defence Forces and the need to move beyond the purely bilateral approach. International - Binoy Kampmark
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