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- Nauru solution a dodgy deal
While many are concerned about returning
to processing asylum seekers in poor Pacific countries, Nauru's caretaker
president is eager to be
involved. Australia should never again be engaged in dodgy deals with this
Pacific neighbour. For Nauru, it's all about the money.
Issue 13 : Published 15-Jul-2010
- Goodbye Kevin, hello Julia
We have just experienced a Shakespearean moment. There is real excitement in the land, a sense of new beginnings, as the Elizabethan figure of Julia Gillard takes the reins as Prime Minister. Rudd, to his credit, has accepted the inevitable with grace and dignity.
Issue 12 : Published 25-Jun-2010
- Hello Israel, might we talk about your nukes?
The negotiation of a nuclear-weapon-free zone is the only
non-proliferation initiative to have been accepted by all Middle East states, including Israel. Why has it taken 30 years?
Because Egypt, Israel and Iran have competing reasons for promoting the idea.
Issue 10 : Published 04-Jun-2010
- In Thailand, the land of snarls
Standing amid the burnt-out ruins of southeast Asia's second biggest
shopping mall, it becomes clear the
Land of Smiles has become a land of snarls. The uncompromising quashing of the anti-government
redshirt rally by the Thai army may have sown the seeds for more
conflict later on.
Issue 10 : Published 24-May-2010
- UK kingmaker Clegg wise to wait
Gordon Brown's dignified resignation underlines the fact that Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg's options in choosing a coalition partner remain open. He is wise not to rush a decision to finalise a deal. After the election that everybody lost, a coalition that works could make winners of the British people.
Issue 9 : Published 11-May-2010
- Politicising women's bodies
What's the difference between wanting a thin wife and wanting an invisible wife? Which is more democratic: the western tendency to idealise the porn-star aesthetic, or the old-fashioned imperative for modesty and virtue?
When the chips are down, is raunch culture really more dignifying than discretion?
Issue 8 : Published 06-May-2010
- 'Bigot' gaffe jars with British presidential politics
Gordon Brown's campaign has hit rock-bottom thanks to an inadvertent remark being whipped into a huge story by mischief-making reporters. He is to Tony Blair what Pope Benedict is to John Paul II — shy, serious, and a little too 'heavy' for our sound-bite culture.
Issue 8 : Published 30-Apr-2010
- Palestine's heavy metal revolution
Boosted by technologies that facilitate mass
distribution without government control, the heavy metal and hip-hop music scene in the Middle East recalls the role
music played in the velvet revolution that toppled regimes in Eastern
Europe and Indonesia.
Issue 7 : Published 19-Apr-2010
- Plane tragedy prolongs Polish-Russian curse
The Devil himself could not have better orchestrated Sunday's air tragedy at Smolensk Airport. It was to be a symbolic moment of reconciliation between two neighbouring countries that have been separated by war.
Issue 7 : Published 13-Apr-2010
- How to apologise for genocide
From Rudd's 'sorry' to the Stolen Generations, to last year's US Senate resolution
apologising for slavery, the political apology has assumed freight and relevance. An apology issued in the Serbian Parliament last week is exceptional for its attempt to allow the perpetrator into the moral circle.
Issue 6 : Published 06-Apr-2010
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