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Condescension and Climate Change: Australia and the Failure of the Pacific Islands Forum
It was predictably ugly: in tone, in regret, and, in some ways, disgust. Australia emerged from the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting isolated, the...
Australia’s Pacific Play: Denying Climate Change and Boosting China’s Threat
Australia has always nursed a contradictory, repressive relationship with its Pacific neighbors. Being a satrap of great powers, it has performed the role of...
CPAC Down Under
It was a time for Australian conservatives to be boring and bore each other. CPAC, otherwise known as the Conservative Political Action Conference, had arrived...
Conspiracy, Death and Jeffrey Epstein
Within minutes of news about his death in a Manhattan jail cell Saturday morning, theories spread with pestilential vigour. Was Jeffrey Epstein murdered? Accepting...
Mobility and Maginot Lines: China Hysteria Down Under
The blinkered security establishment is standard fare in politics. From Washington to Manila, we hear of terrors and concerns which tend to more spectral...
