Tapping Fortress Australia: Priti Patel’s Border Force Review
When in opposition, Alexander Downer, destined to become Australia’s longest serving foreign minister in the conservative government of John Howard, was easy to savage. The […]
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Appeasement: The West and Russia
What possible connection could there be between Georgia and Austria, the Donbass Region and the Ruhr, the Crimea and Czechoslovakia, the Ukraine and Poland? When […]
Failure in Moscow: Liz Truss loses Britannia’s Way
Incompetent politicians and diplomats are on the level with ill-prepared generals fighting current wars with dated methods. They err, they stumble, and they may well […]
Nah – you can’t change the date
A couple of weeks ago it was January 26. Depending on your world view, that particular day has a name. Across Australia it is a […]
Blinken Foreign Policy
It must be a sure handicap to be saddled with such a name when piloting a large government department, but US Secretary of State Antony […]
Bickering Gatekeepers: The ‘Endeavour’ Spat
They found it. Or so we can surmise from the confident words of the Australian National Maritime Museum. The Endeavour is a ship that will […]
Hemispheric Gangsterism: The US Embargo Against Cuba Turns 60
It all seems worn, part of an aspic approach to foreign policy. But US President Joe Biden is keen to ensure that old, and lingering […]
Special Privileges: Charlotte Bellis, Fortress New Zealand and the Taliban
Not wishing to be left out from the brutal closed border system that has characterised COVID-19 policy in Australia, New Zealand has also been every […]
That time Twitter harassed the wrong Peter Dutton
By TBS Newsbot As Twitter stokes the fire of another leadership spill, let’s remember the time users badgered an innocent man … named Peter Dutton. […]
With Intent to Harm: The CIA, Schizophrenia and Denmark’s Children
It has become common fare to read ghoulish stories of child abuse in institutions supposedly created to care for the vulnerable. Orphanages, homes, religious orders […]
‘Mozzie Monitors’ kicks off monster mosquito season
As La Niña continues to deliver wet, humid weather, UniSA scientists are warning that we should be preparing for a monster mosquito season – unwanted by […]
Serbia Stomps on Rio Tinto’s Lithium Mining Project
On the face of it, there seems to be little in the way of connection between the treatment of Novak Djokovic by Australian authorities and […]
Off to the Supreme Court: Assange’s Appeal Continues
With December’s High Court decision to overturn the lower court ruling against the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States, lawyers of the WikiLeaks […]
One Drinks Party Too Many: Boris Johnson and Breaching Lockdowns
It might not be quite within the bounds of good taste to compare military calculations of a bridge too far – the title used in […]
Enduring Stain: The Guantánamo Military Prison Turns Twenty
Anniversaries for detention centres, concentration camps and torture facilities are not the relishable calendar events in the canon of human worth. But not remembering them, […]