Australia: Outsourced to the US Military Establishment
It’s a very funny thing. In the US, the provision of services in such industries as security and intelligence is...
It’s a very funny thing. In the US, the provision of services in such industries as security and intelligence is...
The impression given was that of a temple burgled by blaspheming reprobates. But Australian politicians were having none of it. ...
Few would forget the antics of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison who, as Treasurer, entered Parliament with a lump of...
The operating doctrine of many a defence ministry is premised on fatuity. There is the industry prerogative and need for...
The history of humanitarian or policing missions is a history of taking sides, disruptive partiality and the forfeiture of the...
It was not for everybody, but the shock advertising tactics of the Australian comedian Dan Ilic made an appropriate point....
Refugees and asylum seekers provide rich pickings for demagogues and political opportunists. The Australian approach politicises their plight by...
Australian sweet potatoes are currently having impressive showing in the market. The last three months saw the start of the...
With a lamentable, even disgraceful vaccination rate, confusion over how best to deal with the AstraZeneca supply, vague promises about...
For some 300 days a year, Sundrop Farms 127m tall central solar power tower shines on the tomato farm near...
With the babble about Cold War paranoia becoming a routine matter in Canberra, the treacherous ground for war with China...
In what is being touted as the latest multi-million-dollar trade dispute between Canberra and Beijing, several hundred containers filled with...
As India is being devastated by COVID-19 cases that have now passed a daily rate of 400,000, affluent and callous...
Even in times of pandemic crises, some things never change. While Australia gurgles and bumbles slowly with its COVID-19 vaccine...
It has gotten tongues wagging in the diplomatic corps of Beijing, Washington and distant Canberra. The opening session of the...
The Australian Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, was unconvincing in his efforts to summon up courage. The Australian government had been left...
Creepy and ruthless Facebook has again impressed with its steely indifference to civic responsibility, as if a company established by...
Governments have an almost crippling trouble appreciating conflicts of interest. Since tentacle-heavy lobby groups decided to move into the world’s...
Clever diplomacy rarely involves total commitment or unqualified fidelity to any one state. Treacherous waters require careful navigation, an understanding...
It’s the sort of stuff that should have been sorted years ago in Australia: a murderous, frontier society ill disposed...
It was never meant to be like this. After the Indian cricketing team met misery and disaster in the first...
Australia’s ambassadorial offices and political leaders have a consistent record of ignoring their citizens in tight situations. David Hicks, Mamdouh...
The Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force Afghanistan Inquiry was always going to make for a gruesome read – and...
Australia has given the world two influential and disruptive exports in the field of media. One, currently in London’s Belmarsh...
News and information can only go so far. Despite the utopian fluffiness about having multiple platforms, the consumers of news...
Tech giants tend to cast thin veils over threats regarding government regulations. They are also particularly concerned by those more...
On July 14, Jenny Hocking was breathless. “Forty-five years after they were written,” the political scientist penned with excitement in...
There has been a lot of noise made in Australia about the need for broader protections when it comes to...
There are few sadder sights in international relations than a leadership in search of devils and hobgoblins. But such sights...
Entering a university should be, to some degree, unsafe. Away from the gazing eyes of parents, institutional structures for the...