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See below a letter exchange between Assistant Secretary, Integrity and Security Division Attorney-General’s Department and ANU Professor Gareth Evans and former Foreign Minister regarding the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme. Gareth Evans did not give his response to the media but did copy his reply to a number of former Cabinet,
read now Public policy and personal reticence due to side effects continue to impede the use of Australia’s available and effective AstraZeneca (AZ) COVID-19 vaccine at a time when it is most needed, the now critical 6 months before sufficient supplies of alternate vaccines can deliver the desired 80% vaccination rate required
read now The new word on the block is Isoman, a portmanteau of isolasi and mandiri, meaning self-isolation. It’s another place to die in Indonesia along with hospitals. The awful Covid infection and death figures you’re reading in this column are wrong. In the past week, the Indonesian Republic has recorded about
read now A journalist hacked by Pegasus says he will survive, but Indian democracy may not. Workers in India’s Congress Party protest against the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleged surveillance operation using the Pegasus spyware in New Delhi on July 20. “Congratulations!” That was the
read now Australia’s alliance with the United States has become an unthinking custom and practice. It has already cost us dearly in both blood and treasure with little to show for it. It is time to look at the alternatives. I enlisted in the Australian Army at the age of
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read now George Browning’s critique of Israel as an apartheid state is highly critical of Labor Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese’s refusal to deploy that label. Like Browning, I agree that words matter. Which is why I contest his commentary. This article highlights the background to Browning’s remarks, offers a brief analysis of
read now According to the recent G7 2021 Summit Declaration: “We stand united in our commitment to free and fair trade … with a modernised rulebook and a reformed World Trade Organization.” Nowhere is a “modernised rules book” more needed than for world agricultural production and trade. Without it, the
read now The hilarious 2006 film “Idiocracy” offers a vivid depiction of American politics. The movie is classified as a sci-fi comedy, but it is more like a searing documentary. It almost perfectly describes America’s crisis of survival today. The American people, and the people of the world, deserve better than an
read now In Sydney an outbreak that started in the east, under lax surveillance and permissive admonitions poorly policed, has spread to the west where it has taken on draconian, oppressive and destructive forms in both its virology and its sociology. Data hesitancy refers to a particular condition adversely affecting (or
read now Considering what was making news a hundred years ago, we seem to be plagued with the same issues. Race, wars, gender inequality, pandemics; self interest still seems to drive those in power, and although we have learned to use weasel words to hide our real intent, we are not
read now In the UK the AstraZeneca vaccine is hailed as a public health success story. Professor Sarah Gilbert, the Oxford University scientist who led its development, was created a Dame in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list and received a spontaneous standing ovation from the crowd at Wimbledon.But not in Australia.
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