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Humpty Trumpty

The mind-bending Trumpian world, which operates in a bulletproof moral and factual vacuum, has made sarcasm and irony, my tools … More

Alice in Wonderland, Humpty Dumpty, Trumpian world

Asylum Seeker Big Business

The sorry saga of Australia’s offshore asylum seeker gulag is not just about bringing suffering and hopelessness to those in … More

asylum seekers, G4S, Manus Island, Nauru, Sydney Biennale, Transfield

Afghanistan Adieu

Australia’s military is finally pulling up stumps, so to speak, in this blighted land. Our longest war (12 years) has … More

Afghanistan war, Australian withdrawal

Ruddy Farago of Foreign Affairs

Terrible Tony Abbott’s assessment of our bumptious and erstwhile Foreign Affairs Minister was mostly spot-on. KRudd liked parading his intelligence and posturing on the … More

Australian Foreign Affairs, Kevin Rudd

Wikileaks Julian & Wilfred

As Julian Assange awaits the UK Supreme Court’s decision on his extradition to Sweden, to answer questions about dubious sexual … More

Jennifer Robinson, Julian Assange, Wikileaks, Wilfred Burchett

Adieu Afghanistan Approaching

NATO governments & allies (International Security Assistance Force), including us, are gathering momentum for a stampede to the Afghan exit, … More

Afghanistan war

Germany in Europe: Win/Win or No Win?

So much learned commentary on Germany’s role in Europe’s financial woes, that the simple mind is definitely boggling. And it … More

European financial woes, Eurozone, German dominance

Barracking for Obama

Devilishly-cunning Norwegians know how to apply the blowtorch to Obama’s behind or feet or wherever, with a ‘premature’ award of the Nobel Peace … More

Henrik Ibsen, Henry Kissinger, Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama, Tom Lehrer, world peace

Missile Madness

President Obama has decided to scrap plans for a US missile defence shield system in Eastern Europe. Proposed by the Bush government … More

Bush, Iran nuclear weapons, missile defence shield, nuclear disarmament, Obama, Putin, Reagan

Balancing ‘Balibo’

Robert Connolly’s film ‘Balibo’ relates events in 1975 in East Timor around the killing of Australian journalists who were reporting on … More

Balibo, Balibo House Trust, East Timor, Gough Whitlam, Indonesian invasion, Luke Davies, Paul Cleary, Ramos Horta, Richard Woolcott, Robert Connolly, Roger East, Tony Maniaty

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