Money Laundering in Chief: Scandal at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia
The Australian banker is a smug species, arguably more than his international peers. Caught off guard by the financial disasters of the late 1980s and […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Backward Steps: The Australian Recycling Sham
The green conscience received a setback last week with revelations that the Australian recycling industry is not what it seems. The middle-class sensibility here is […]
Believing in Deterrence: Responding to North Korea
The chit-chatterati on the international relations circuit have been humming with each ballistic missile test and next provocation over how best to cope with the […]
Promises of Incineration: The Nuclear Playground Gets Busy
“I don’t know what he’s saying and I’ve long ago given up trying to interpret what he says” (Senator John McCain on President Donald J. […]
Memories of Futility: The Passchendaele Method of War
“So fruitless in its results, so depressing in its direction was the 1917 offensive, that ‘Passchendaele’ has come to be synonym for military failure, a […]
Apple’s China Surrender
“This is very dangerous precedent which can lead to same moves in countries like UAE etc where government control access to internet” (Star VPN, Twitter, […]
Boris Johnson in Australia
“We [Australians and Britons] can talk to each other as we can with no one else, but you can’t revert to a world that’s now […]
Fanciful Terrors: Bomb Plots and Australian Airport Security
In the classroom of international security, Australia remains an infant wanting attention before the older hands. During the Paris Peace talks, Prime Minister William Morris […]
The Pine Gap Anniversary Party
It all happened without much fuss, since fuss was bound to be the enemy. Dignitaries, guests and various partners lined up for a gathering at […]
Hydropolitics Down Under: The Failure of the Murray Darling Basin Plan
Water is gold to survival, the indispensable, the vast feeder for human civilization. Its absence entails certain death; its decline brings out the prospect that […]
The Cardinal, The Church and Legal Theatre
“The world is watching.” Cathy Kezelman, Blue Knot Foundation president, The Washington Post, Jul 25, 2017. The show on Wednesday was grim, busy, crowded. Cardinal […]
Mum Did It: The Canavan Argument, Citizenship and the Australian Constitution
“A real Italian never blames his mum.” Australian Greens Senator Richard Di Natale, SBS, Jul 27, 2017. It has raged, and continues to do so, […]
Refugee Conundrums: Resettlement, the UN and the US-Australia Deal
Having poured scorn and not an indecent amount of bile upon the refugee deal between the Obama administration and Canberra last year, US President Donald […]
Militarising Civilian Life: Australia, Policing and Terrorism
It is far from unusual in recent times: a spate of terrorist activity, followed by police seemingly agog, then the call for cavalry, usually in […]