Keywords: Economic Transitions
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AUSTRALIA
Living within the United Nations community I've witnessed Australia fall from a well-respected international citizen, to becoming the spoilt, sneaky brat of international relations. Even the most blasé glance at the geo political currents moving through the planet reveal complexities this election pretends don't exist. Australians fighting about jobs and growth in the corner comes across as deeply deluded isolationism. The Great Barrier Reef is dying. The world is watching. Hello Australia? Anybody home?
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AUSTRALIA
- Lily Zubaidah Rahim and Sven Schottmann
- 29 April 2013
1 Comment
Amid democratic transitions in Asia and protest movements in the Middle East, a growing number of Malaysians are unwilling to countenance any further their government's paternalistic politics. Whoever wins next Sunday's election will have the task of forging a new consensus on what it means to be Malaysian.
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AUSTRALIA
- Binoy Kampmark
- 14 November 2012
1 Comment
Australia's unimaginative perspective on China's growing power accords with Washington's. In Obama's terms, China can be an adversary or a partner. China is a complex leviathan, and the great challenge is how to integrate it into the global system without conflict.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Kevin
- 20 August 2012
21 Comments
Julian Assange sits securely in the Embassy of Ecuador in London, as Cardinal József Mindszenty did for years inside the US Embassy in Communist-ruled Hungary. This is a benefit of the Vienna Convention. If Britain violated this principle by storming or cutting off utilities to the Embassy, the diplomatic protection of its officials and their families around the world would be weakened immediately.
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AUSTRALIA
- Binoy Kampmark
- 21 December 2011
2 Comments
He presided over a starving nation, created an unstable nuclear state, and terrified his neighbours. But the death of Kim Jong-il should cause neither terror nor concern as much as the experts would have it.
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AUSTRALIA
Economic Partnership Agreements aim to remove barriers of trade, create sustainable development and contribute to poverty
eradication in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. However, many fear they will lead to the devastation of their
respective markets.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Button
- 16 April 2007
4 Comments
The social policies of the Australia's past worked reasonably well in protecting people from serious poverty. But now we require new policies providing a similar sense of security and contemporary relevance.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Lucy Turner
- 23 April 2006
As the government apologises to victims’ families for state-sanctioned atrocities during the civil war, the perpetrators remain free
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