Recent articles by Frances Cowell

21 October 2024
NATO’s sin: Did eastward expansion provoke Russia’s aggression in Ukraine?
“… the Americans in, the Russians out and the Germans down”, as Lord Ismay, NATO’s first Secretary General, is said to have put it.

20 October 2023
The Voice: what the world heard
On Saturday, 14 October, Australians did themselves no favours. Again.

10 October 2023
The Voice: through the disinformation to the source of opposition
On Saturday, 14 October, Australians will vote on a seemingly inoffensive change to their Constitution. Why is it meeting such opposition? The case of the destroyed site at Juukan Gorge offers a hint. Are Australian mining companies, with such a poor record of respecting the voice of aboriginal communities, the true source of opposition?