Politics
War with China: Babbling incoherence and missing evidence
With the expansion of all services of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) – no matter that it is consistent with a defensive posture – China’s every strategic move now is rendered totally unacceptable after passing through a prism designed and issued on a complementary basis by the US. Hyper-suspicion is the attitude and threat inflation Continue reading »
What happened to the UN’s ‘Responsibility to Protect’?
The world watches the destruction of Gaza as 13,000 thousand Palestinians are killed including 5,600 children. The world watches as Gazan hospitals are invaded, patients ordered to flee south where there is neither water, food nor safety. The world watches while Israeli spokespersons claim they never target civilians, and then comes the propagandist fig leaf Continue reading »
The Di Sahn Duong case
As a member of the Chinese Australian community, the Di Sahn Duong trial is yet another one of those “Here we go again!” cases that disconcerts and exacerbates the subliminal anxiety we bear whenever Australia’s relationship with China sours. Many of us breathed a sigh of relief when PM Albanese made a successful visit to Continue reading »
Restoring democracy to avoid climate collapse
17 November 2023 will go down in history as the day when planet Earth reached its first two degree plus temperature anomaly relative to the preindustrial baseline. It was also the day that I was carted off to hospital in an ambulance after spending over two weeks on a climate hunger strike on the lawns Continue reading »
Executive overreach in Australia has reached the levels of an autocracy
Last week Australians were forced to suffer through the spectacle of their parliament being dragged to a new low as the Coalition hammered the Labor government for not being better prepared for the prospect that the Commonwealth might lose the most recent High Court case about whether indefinite detention of refugees is unlawful or unconstitutional. Continue reading »
The Overthrow of Edward Gough Whitlam: A stain on Australia’s democracy – finale
“Gough Whitlam was an Australian democrat. He passionately believed in our institutions; the supremacy of parliament, the independence and integrity of the judiciary and the separation of powers to curb possible abuses by the executive government. In the dismissal these institutions failed us. Those with responsibility deceived us. Tradition and conventions built over centuries were Continue reading »
Why are so many Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails?
Four in 10 Palestinian men spend time in Israel jails. Hamas says it wants to exchange captured Israelis for them. In golf carts, vans and on motorbikes, Hamas fighters have taken dozens of Israeli civilians and soldiers back to the Gaza Strip after their attack on Israel on Saturday. As Israel’s fighter jets bomb the Continue reading »
White House fears pause in fighting will let journalists see what’s been happening in Gaza
Israel and Hamas have reportedly agreed to a four-day ceasefire which will entail the release of 50 hostages held by Hamas in exchange for 150 hostages held by Israeli forces. In an article titled “Biden admin officials see proof their strategy is working in hostage deal,” Politico describes the deal as “the administration’s biggest diplomatic Continue reading »
Fiscal Rules are always ‘self-imposed’
I’ve noticed a sudden outburst of new thinking on the R4 ‘Today’ progamme this morning… They are calling fiscal rules ‘self-imposed’. They always are, by definition, of course. And if Hunt or Rachel Reeves were asked why they needed them, I expect there would be some rubbish about markets. As we know the markets only... Read more
Gina Urges Students To Go To Work; Bullock Urges Dentists To Pull More Teeth…
The actual headline in The Australian Financial Review was “Send miners to parliament and students to work, Gina Rinehart says” Now, I can’t help but feel that even they found Gina Rinehart’s speech a little over the top, but it is hard to tell. Anyway, Ms Rinehart did have some pearls of wisdom in her…
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