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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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Published in: openSecurityWW1 and the battle of the national mythFor anyone sensitive to the pervasive signs of militarisation, there is no doubt that the centenary invites...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaNuclear standoff between the Arab League and the westFor decades the west has covertly supported Israel’s nuclear programme while pretending to support a nuclear...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe ISIS twitterati and the online jihadISIS and Al-Qaeda—which includes ISIS rivals the Al-Nusra Front in Syria—are competing over the same ‘talent pool’...
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Published in: openSecurityThe devastating truth of women’s rights in AfghanistanThe looming withdrawal of western forces from Afghanistan highlights the apparent dispensability of the modest gains...
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Published in: HomeBurma: the clash of church, state and society
Burma's government and political leaders are now paying a bitter price for allowing the reform process to be...
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Published in: openSecurityArrested democracy: why Thailand needs a new social contractThe Thai military may think its May takeover has run smoothly but authoritarian dictates and an elite power monopoly...
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Published in: HomeThe silent sea: Australia’s refugee policy and international scrutinyWithin Australia’s brutal treatment of refugees, there has been an enormous gulf between those who advocate on...
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Published in: HomeDangerous silence: debating "honour killings"
The recent decision by the “Festival of Dangerous Ideas” to cancel Uthman Badar’s talk on “honour killings” begs the...
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Published in: HomeAustralia’s one hundred days of truth-tellingOperation Blame the Victims was in full swing again today as Scott Morrison insisted that it was the unarmed men who...
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Published in: openSecurityArbitrary detention, once again, in ThailandIf madness is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different outcome, the authors of Thailand’s twelfth...
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