Two British ministers, the UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron and Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, paid a recent visit to Australia…
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It was praised to the heavens as a work of negotiated and practical genius when it was struck. The then…
The imaginative faculties of standard Australian politiciansretreat to some strange, deathly placeon certain issues. In that wasteland, theyare often unrecoverable. …
Palace coups have become a seasonal tradition in Australian politics. Between 2007 and 2018, Australia had six prime ministers, four…
The unpardonable, outrageous trial of Australian whistleblower David McBride was a brief affair. On November 13, it did not take…
The High Court of Australia is not known for its zealotry in protecting human rights, and certainly not when considering…
Even before October 14, The Voice, or, to describe in full, the Referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander…
The tear-squeeze remembering those who died in the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington has become an…
If a date might be found when Australian sovereignty was extinguished by the emissaries of the US imperium, July 29,…
It’s a very funny thing. In the US, the provision of services in such industries as security and intelligence is…
The impression given was that of a temple burgled by blaspheming reprobates. But Australian politicians were having none of it. …
Few would forget the antics of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison who, as Treasurer, entered Parliament with a lump of…
The operating doctrine of many a defence ministry is premised on fatuity. There is the industry prerogative and need for…
The history of humanitarian or policing missions is a history of taking sides, disruptive partiality and the forfeiture of the…
It was not for everybody, but the shock advertising tactics of the Australian comedian Dan Ilic made an appropriate point.…
Refugees and asylum seekers provide rich pickings for demagogues and political opportunists. The Australian approach politicises their plight by…
Australian sweet potatoes are currently having impressive showing in the market. The last three months saw the start of the…
With a lamentable, even disgraceful vaccination rate, confusion over how best to deal with the AstraZeneca supply, vague promises about…
For some 300 days a year, Sundrop Farms 127m tall central solar power tower shines on the tomato farm near…
With the babble about Cold War paranoia becoming a routine matter in Canberra, the treacherous ground for war with China…
In what is being touted as the latest multi-million-dollar trade dispute between Canberra and Beijing, several hundred containers filled with…
As India is being devastated by COVID-19 cases that have now passed a daily rate of 400,000, affluent and callous…
Even in times of pandemic crises, some things never change. While Australia gurgles and bumbles slowly with its COVID-19 vaccine…
It has gotten tongues wagging in the diplomatic corps of Beijing, Washington and distant Canberra. The opening session of the…
The Australian Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, was unconvincing in his efforts to summon up courage. The Australian government had been left…
Creepy and ruthless Facebook has again impressed with its steely indifference to civic responsibility, as if a company established by…
Governments have an almost crippling trouble appreciating conflicts of interest. Since tentacle-heavy lobby groups decided to move into the world’s…
Clever diplomacy rarely involves total commitment or unqualified fidelity to any one state. Treacherous waters require careful navigation, an understanding…
It’s the sort of stuff that should have been sorted years ago in Australia: a murderous, frontier society ill disposed…
It was never meant to be like this. After the Indian cricketing team met misery and disaster in the first…