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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWorld poverty: the misconceptions of the winner of the Nobel Prize in EconomicsPoverty is not an individual problem of lack of resources that can be solved through education. The problem is the...
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Published in: HomeSri Lanka and the politics of justiceTruth and reconciliation is a project which inevitably needs to balance short term politics against long term...
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Published in: HomeAustralian medics refuse to be silenced over refugee abuse at detention centersA new gag law has turned refugee policy into a free speech issue, mobilizing health professionals to oppose the...
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Published in: HomeWhy Australia can’t keep its prime ministersEnter our new Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull. Let's be clear: the right's program will not change now that its leader has.
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Published in: HomeRoadmap to reconciliation: 4 post-election challenges for Sri Lanka
Muscular Sinhalese nationalism was defeated at the polls in Sri Lanka. The dismantling of the security state,...
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Published in: TransformationIs Australia going backwards on gender equality?I left Pakistan to live in a society that was supposedly free from bias and discrimination. What happened?
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Published in: HomeAustralia's cruel treatment of gay asylum-seekersAustralia continues to resettle homosexual refugees in homophobic Papua New Guinea. Gay men seeking asylum are both...
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Published in: 50.50Enduring civilisation, enduring empire?The "Indigenous Australia: enduring civilisation" exhibition at the British Museum leads to the overarching question...
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Published in: openSecurityNepal: chronicle of a disaster foretoldThe Nepalese earthquake was a product of natural causes. But the full death toll and slow recovery are not.
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Published in: openSecurityIndonesia regresses with the use of the death penaltyThe prospect of execution of two Australians in Indonesia has caught international media attention, amid Australian...
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Published in: HomeSurvival Day: reclaiming Australia’s historyWhy should Australia acknowledge its bloody past on Australia Day? Firstly, this is a fundamental question of dignity.
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Published in: openSecuritySpace shrinking for freedom of expression in South Korea‘National security’ is often the card played by states denying human rights. With the North Korean dictatorship next...
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Published in: HomeSubsidising climate changeWe need to raise awareness about how the rich oil nations keep subsidising oil extraction whilst agreeing that the...
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Published in: openSecurityTensions rise between India and PakistanInternational constraint and mutual nuclear deterrence may have prevented all-out war with Pakistan in the past over...
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Published in: HomeThe fog of peace: post-conflict environments as sites of impunity, denial and dispossessionToo often the sterile, objective needs of capital, for a range of reasons, take precedence over the subjective needs...
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Published in: HomeTrust can fix our future: lessons from the simplicity of island lifeAfter spending twelve days on an island in Palau without the ample resources of modern life in developed cities,...
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Published in: openSecurity“There was so much fear”The outworking of the eight-year-old peace agreement in Nepal has embraced the government and its Maoist opponents....
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Published in: openSecurityMyanmar: the human-rights story behind the spinThe authorities in Nay Pyi Taw are steering the former authoritarian pariah state to open engagement with the world....
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Published in: HomeFossil addiction: is there a road to recovery?There is no shortage of knowledge about global environmental and climate problems. Nor was there 40 years ago. So...
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Published in: Home‘Terror Australis’: the language of Australia’s domestic war on terrorAustralia’s politicians and press are ratcheting up a rhetoric of pure Islamophobia. These escalating tactics are...
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