Category: Independent Commentary

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By striking Crimea, Kyiv shows Putin that nowhere is safe

Admiral Viktor Sokolov, commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, appears to be Schrodinger’s admiral, alive according to Moscow, dead according to Kyiv, with no clarity as to who may be right. The real significance of the missile strike on his headquarters, though, is not so much whether it did kill

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Eco-technocrats in Brussels risk posing a threat to democracy

Any serious politician knows perfectly well by now that net zero 2050 won’t fly democratically. There was an inevitability about Rishi Sunak graciously allowing us longer to keep buying our petrol cars and using our gas boilers, not to mention Emmanuel Macron’s own subsequent climbdown on the gas boiler issue in France earlier this

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Dictator Dan Quits And Victoria Is Free…

With the resignation of Dan Andrews, Victorians can once again go to coffee shops and cafe owners will undoubtedly be offering free coffee in celebration… Strangely the little bit of Sky News I watched didn’t even go to them, but chose to interview journalists about how they found the Premier

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Tech Council of Australia Supports Indigenous Voice to Parliament

Media Alert   Canberra: Following the announcement of the referendum date, the Tech Council of Australia (TCA) Board has confirmed its support for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament to be enshrined in the constitution. Kate Pounder, CEO of the TCA said, “From launch, the TCA has made

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A people’s history of Catalonia

Activist and author Micheal Euade has traced the history of the struggle for Catalonian nationhood and  its intersection with class struggle from the medieval period to the present in his 2022 book, A People’s History of Catalonia. Alex Salmon reviews.

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Justin Trudeau’s Nazi blind spot

Justin Trudeau’s government sees fascists everywhere, except when one is standing right under their nose. That’s the brilliant if bleak irony of the Canadian parliament’s standing ovation for Yaroslav Hunka, a 98-year-old veteran of the Ukrainian military who, it turns out, fought under the Nazis in the Second World War.

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‘Whatever it takes’: PwC’s poor behaviour exposed

A review by former Telstra boss Ziggy Switkowski found excessive power was conferred on PwC’s chief executive and there was a lack of independence and outside voices within the governing body. The post ‘Whatever it takes’: PwC’s poor behaviour exposed appeared first on The Mandarin.

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Who is Jacinta Allan, Victoria’s new premier?

With the sudden announcement that Daniel Andrews will be stepping down as premier of Victoria at 5pm today, the Labor Party has been working to find the best replacement. Deputy Premier Jacinta Allan, from the Socialist Left faction, was widely tipped to become the next premier, especially as she

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‘Online Safety’ legislation is not about protecting children

Every time a politician tries to sell the idea of internet censorship, they wrap its wolfish features in the fluffy sheepskin of ‘safety’. ‘If you don’t agree with this bill, you are literally endangering children! Don’t you care about child sex trafficking? Are you a terrorist? You hate speech monger!’

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The Voice referendum: Cheating the People

In a parliamentary democracy, when a valid law is passed, the people submit to that law. But on the prior question of how a law comes to be valid the relation is reversed: the parliamentary government submits to the people. The Australian Constitution is founded in the people: “Whereas

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Scott Morrison’s new book: an odyssey in hypocrisy?

Scott Morrison is writing a book. Plans for Your Good: A Prime Minister’s Testimony of God’s Faithfulness, is the title. It’ll be ‘less political memoir, more pastoral encouragement’, Harper Collins Christian notes. The former Prime Minister will draw on Jeremiah 29:11. Leaning on the major prophet’s words to Ancient Israel in exile, Morrison

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