We Are The Pacific's Best Frenemy
The story last week that more than half of Australia’s $400 million in aid to…More
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Are The Iranian Opposition Terrorists?
One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter — such an infuriating saying. It doesn’t…More
Is This A Just Peace?
On 19 May 2009, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa officially declared the end of a…More
Revolutions Or Revolutionary Situations?
In Greece, on 5 May 2010, a general national strike comprising myriad demonstrations was sparked…More
So Was That Just The Ego Talking?
Amid a perfect publicity squall, Christopher Hitchens has blown through Sydney, using its Writers’ festival…More
Staying At Home As Bangkok Burns
Update: Since I wrote this article, tensions have escalated. The army cleared the protest zone…More
India's New Martyrs To The Poor
The day Satish Shetty died started like any other. Shetty, a tall, heavyset man known…More
A Strange Honeymoon
According to an interview he did with the UK’s Sun newspaper last week, an exhausted…More
Conservatives Cave On Voting Reform
David Cameron is Britain’s 53rd Prime Minister, the 19th to hail from the exclusive Eton…More
PNG Gas Could Blow Up In Our Faces
On Sunday night, SBS’s Dateline ran a feature story about PNG LNG, Papua New Guinea’s…More