Our crisis of integrity looms in the Pacific

by Elizabeth Morison in The Canberra Times

“An Albanese Labor government will restore Australia’s climate leadership, and listen and act on Pacific island warnings of the existential threat of climate change.” Despite a clear election campaign commitment to listen to Pacific Island nations and act on climate change, the Australian government continues to enable and encourage new and expanded fossil fuel projects. When it

November 2024

October 2024

Ozymandias Revisited – The doomed conceit of AUKUS

by Allan Behm in The Australian

Three years on, there is still no compelling argument, strategic or otherwise, for Australia’s acquiring eight Virginia class nuclear-propelled submarines (SSNs). Nor is there any compelling calculation of the large lick of funding – $368 billion and more – that the program will soak up. Only Defence seems able to command such stupendous outlays when

September 2024

August 2024

July 2024

Biden out, Harris in? Why this risky, unprecedented move could be the circuit breaker the Democrats needed

by Emma Shortis in The Conversation

President Joe Biden’s decision to step aside as the Democratic nominee in this year’s presidential election certainly had a sense of inevitability about it. Yet, it is still unprecedented in the modern era for a sitting president to drop out of a presidential race this late in the process. We are really in uncharted waters for American

United States President Joe Biden during the G20 Leaders’ Summit in New Delhi, India, Saturday, September 9, 2023.

Two-thirds of Democrats want Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race. It’s time he listened

by Emma Shortis in The Conversation

The cracks beneath US President Joe Biden’s feet continue to widen. While the shock of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump seemed like it might relieve some of the pressure on Biden, the story of his viability as both president and candidate continues to feed on itself. Ever since his disastrous debate performance against Trump

A bloodied, defiant Trump could become the defining image of the US election

by Emma Shortis in The Conversation

The shots fired at Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday are being investigated as an assassination attempt of the former president and current Republican presidential nominee. Assassination attempts on presidents and presidential nominees are littered throughout American history. What happened in Pennsylvania is horrifying, but sadly not surprising. I’ve been really struck by how

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