The China Coup Dupes
It all caused a flutter amongst the ignorant and expectant on September 21. China, it was said, was in the grip of an intriguing internal […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Dated and Fractured: Optus and Data Protections Down Under
Things are not getting better for Optus, a subsidiary of the Singapore-owned Singtel and Australia’s second largest telecommunications company. Responsible for one of Australia’s largest […]
Opportunistic Interests: The US-Pacific Island Declaration
If ever there was a blatant statement of realpolitik masquerading as friendliness, the latest US-Pacific Island declaration must count as one of them. The Biden […]
Gautam Adani: Ecological Crossdresser
Imagine the tobacco producer who invests in smoke limitation programs, or the arms manufacturer who attends a conference proposing to ban weapons and seek a […]
Whitewashing at Shinzo Abe’s State Funeral
Be careful who you praise and the degree of zeal you do it with. The slain Shinzo Abe, shot dead in Nara on July 8, […]
Breaching Human Rights: Australia, Climate Change and the Torres Strait Islands
Australia has a mixed relationship with the United Nations Human Rights Committee. Irritation, dismissal and even the occasional openly hostile comment, have registered. But in […]
Shoddy Consultations: Santos, Drilling and First Nations Peoples
Federal Court Justice Mordecai Bromberg has been in the environmental news again, this time throwing a large judicial spanner in the works of Santos and […]
Offence by Another Name: Suppressing Anti-Royal Protest in Britain
The right to protest, fragile and meekly protected by the judiciary in Britain’s common law tradition, did not really hold much force till European law […]
“I Do Not Think I Know”: Scott Morrison’s Submarine Deception
When it was revealed that former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison had not only shown contempt for his own government in secretly appointing himself, via […]
Back Door Proliferation: The IAEA, AUKUS and Nuclear Submarine Technology
In Vienna, China’s permanent mission to the United Nations has been rather exercised of late. Members of the mission have been particularly irate with the […]
Royal Money: Charles III and the Wealth Dimension
Once the fixated adoration with the late Queen Elizabeth II starts cooling, the accountants of public welfare and decency will be stunned to realise the […]
When Killers Become Choosers: Resurrecting the Thylacine and Other Species
Here we go again, playing God and toying with Promethean fire. Having done a comprehensively brutal job of killing off the thylacine, known in popular […]
Queenly Saturation
Turn on the television. Move to the screen. Switch on the device – if you ever left it off. Queen Elizabeth II may have passed, […]
Cool Subjects: The Other Side of Elizabeth II’s Reign
Global, personal, individual. The reactions to the death of Queen Elizabeth II seemed to catch even unsuspecting republicans off guard. In Australia, former Prime Minister […]
Dunderheaded Diplomacy: Australia’s Funding Offer to the Solomon Islands
What is it about Australian diplomacy that makes it so clumsy and dunderheaded? Is it the harsh delivery, the tactless expression, or the inability to […]