Letters to the Editor
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Albanese Must Lead Boldly
Ian Dunlop commends the two big ideas for Australia from Ross Garnaut and Rod Sims - a green economy and a carbon price. He then challenges the PM to lead boldly with them.
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HEU: ANCIENT WISDOM, MODERN LESSONS
… and ah! Future experience…?
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We must pay for pollution
Given the long-standing support for a price on carbon as a solution to climate pollution, it is deeply troubling that the overall reduction in emissions after a carbon pricing scheme has been introduced averages around 0-2 per cent per year. When we acknowledge that the global north now needs to reduce emissions by 11 per cent per year between now and 2030 this fact becomes even more alarming.
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MH370 – ex airline pilot agrees with your story
As an ex airline pilot, this incident immediately raised suspicion of deliberate action by a pilot.
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Alcohol banned in parliaments
ALCOHOL SERVED IN PARLIAMENT HOUSES - no longer necessary. A hangover from colonial days of a century ago.
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Danger using Pine Gap in Negotiations with the US
Labour has already been punished for posing a threat to the continued existence of Pine Gap.
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The Power of the Dog
Thank you to Peter Henning for breaking the (self-imposed) Australian media ban on criticising Albanese and his do-nothing government.
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Will AUKUS Outlast Trump
Aukus was always a Local Politics Issue
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Australia responsible for the bleaching of its own reef
The burning of fossil fuels contributes three-quarters of greenhouse gas emissions which have led to record ocean temperatures and coral reef bleaching around the world. The Australian government continues to approve new coal and gas projects and has even watered down the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority climate change position statement. It cannot be denied - the Australian government is partly responsible for the bleaching of its own reef.
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Hear me Roar
I was at the Women's Politics Conference in 1976. It was organised by a male consultancy firm. Needless to say, this caused a lot of anger from many women involved in paid and unpaid positions of advocacy who were, according to Gough Whitlam not able to organise a National Conference for Women on the same scale that men were.
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The Teals Have Revived Representative Parliament
Community-based independent MPs are rebuilding the connection between their constituents and government. The major parties must evolve to survive.
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THE DEPUTY SHERRIF SYNDROME
Being part of the Anglosphere it is not surprising that our attitudes to what constitutes foreign interference is seen through Anglocentric glasses. Ever since we were surreptitiously torn from the Apron strings of Mother England in the forties we clamoured for any Apron strings in the offing. So when General McArthur seemed like a God sent father figure we embraced him and that embrace continues. Notwithstanding the fawning sentimentality displayed by Menzies when he uttered those cringeworthy words ".....I did but see her passing by..." our fawning was in no uncertain manner from that time on, pointed across the Pacific.
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Those nuclear submarines
The Virginia Class submarines will need to be fitted with wheels
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Well timed article
Congratulations on tackling this topic.
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Tensions in a deeply economically linked world
Much commentary around Australia's possible role (or not) in a conflict over Taiwan, and China's possible attempts to annex it militarily, are missing a key consideration. This is exemplified in the phrase that our navy might need to 'keep the sea lanes open'. Who cares, if the sea lanes are empty any way? The world, to my knowledge, has never in history confronted a hypothetical scenario like this. Possible military action, between major trading partners, that exchange trade in essential commodities. We may not need to keep the sea-lanes open, if the sea lanes are empty.
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Paul Heywood-Smith issues a clear call
A road forward for security on the Gaza-Israel border.
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Joe had the power to prevent it
Joe Biden could have saved 30, 000 Palestinian lives.
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Climate action: way too little, way too late
The climate challenge grows ever greater while government action remains insufficient. This must change.
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Lithium free ev batteries now in production
While it's good that the lower price of lithium is likely to make EVs cheaper, the abundance and safety of sodium, together with it's environentally preferable credentials, may mean that EVs with sodium-ion batteries eventually take over. They are already in production in China.
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Missing in Action: Aaron Bushnell
I perhaps shouldn't be surprised but I felt sick to my stomach to find out about Aaron Bushnell. More so when I realised it had been 3 days and I didn't see or hear anything about it until this article.
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US Military advisors
The Australian Defence Department has hired many retired Officers from the US military as consultants. Is that a cause or effect of Australian allegiance to the USA?
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Playing in the street
I so much enjoyed reading Gwenda Beed Davey's article on Street play, sadly a thing of the past.
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Naval expansion is expensive and unnecessary
The latest expansion to Australia's military forces follows an additional $38bn to Australia’s defence forces announced in 2022, and the AUKUS cost of up to $368 billion for nuclear submarines. There are more important priorities for our taxes, and alternative ways of defending ourselves and building regional peace and security..
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What si truth
What can we believe any more?
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The moving goalposts of COP
Jeremy Webb’s “The COP and climate change: a spent force” (21/2) conjures up that sporting metaphor of moving goalposts. With every Conference of the Parties (COP), the “net zero by 2050” target recedes. Every resolution brings a watering-down of goals.
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Further to Brian Toohey’s letter on the 1975 coup
The Keating Labor government was apparently uninterested in finding out more about the US role in the November 1972 coup, or in helping the whistleblower.
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Drifting off course
When I get up in the morning, I make coffee and invariably read P&I first, something I have done for years. My professional training is in journalism, history and geopolitics, and so I have long valued P&I's access to informed comment. But lately you seem to drifting off course.
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Getting the message through
Convincing voters that we have a problem that needs a solution is difficult (Shock as warming accelerates, 1.5°C is breached faster than forecast, 17/2).
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One cannot be an illegal occupier of his own land: Response Letter
Given the fact that the Jews have a 3800 years old bond with the Land of Israel, Jews cannot by definition be illegal settlers or foreigners on their own soil and land.
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The article headed “Israeli female soldiers celebrate the death of 12,300 children” is an appalling misrepresentation
The heading of this article is an appalling misrepresentation of its content
