Letters to the Editor
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Time to step up, Albo, or step away
Albanese’s leadership is not simply a weakness of leadership style: it is proving to be a tragedy with real world impacts – first for First Nations peoples; now, with climatic risk, for all.
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Actions, not words: Unpublished letter to The Age
The Israeli Defence Force kills innocent Palestinians to promote terror (19/7 Wong deplores Palestinian killings). It should be listed as a terrorist organisation.
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What are our defence strategies without AKUS?
"With AUKUS, the pride of politicians has thus become an obstacle to reaching the best solution to the ‘national security’ conundrum."
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China brokers national unity government
Excellent comments by these leading Australians. The role envisaged for Bob Carr is a great idea.
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Ignorance about China
At last someone has written and article about the real China.
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Oslo is dead
The rule of law must now replace the discredited fiction that was Oslo.
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IT Outages
Unless the rules are worldwide, there is little to be gained.
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Evading a US “iron dome”
Paul Budde’s article reminds us of the fragility of our digital society and economy.
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What an unshackled Oz could do
We are allowing ourselves to be taken for a ride by the US and the UK in their blatant self interest of attempting to keep a lid on China.
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A very informative and timely article
Thank you.
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The Summit of the Future offers hope for us all
Excellent news that UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called for a Summit of the Future at the UN on Sunday 22 and Monday 23 September 2024.
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Violence and solving political problems
I don’t in any way condone the violence against Donald Trump. But it is a bit rich for Joe Biden to then decry violence as a means of solving political problems.
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Maintain the rage
Caitlin maintains her rage - and so will I.
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BEWARE OF A LEOPARD TRYING TO CHANGE HIS SPOTS PARTICULARLY IF HE IS OUR OPPOSITION
It goes without saying that we must be wary of a Leopard who seeks to change his spots; especially if that Leopard is the Honourable Peter Dutton.
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We’re almost in a supertropical world now
Violet Coco pins her hopes on a popular uprising to power the changes we need. She may be right.
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EV chargers – Australia
Tariffs by other countries on Chinese EVs will absolutely be good for Australia. I am more than happy for Australia to be a dumping ground for excess Chinese EVs.
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The Two Envoys – a comment
People need to stop trying to use Russia as a whipping boy comparison if they want to be taken more seriously on Zionist Israel’s ongoing atrocities in Gaza.
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Joe Biden is no mere bystander
If Joe Biden is as compos as he claims he is, then he deserves to stand accused of being fully complicit in the war crimes in Gaza
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Religion has never had anything to do with it
Palestinians lost their land without ever having a say. It was always about politics. It was 'never' about religion.
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Expert advice for a sustainable Australia
Australians are fortunate in having definite advice on clean energy and sustainability from expert Mark Diesendorf.
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Is Julian Assange beyond all criticism?
Mr Barns wrote recently in P&I; "I have spoken with (Peter) Greste and met with him, along with my Australian Campaign colleagues. He is not, these days, fixated on whether Assange is a journalist or publisher and told us as much in an online meeting held on 6 February 2023".
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Jeffrey D. Sachs and the independent state.
If Mr Sachs is correct, that Ukraine is not independent, that Ukraine is subject to and must accept in full, the rule by Russia, then no country is independent.
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Faithlessness-Based Politics
The PM's "compassion" drives a faithless-based party tractor into the house that should be protecting the polity's social cohesion.
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Albanese and AUKUS and relations with China
Albanese is doing much that is right as prime minister.
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Our Government Making Every Post a Loser
As if the Senator Payman affair was not bad enough, it seems it could get worse.
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The public service has no memory
One of the many problems with the old public service was that it took time to rise through the ranks. While the criticism of the old Public service systems was the slowness of change, one of the advantages was institutional memory.
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Casting doubt is part of the propaganda
Sam Varghese, is simply adding to the propaganda wars around Israel's war against Hamas.
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ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE
I genuinely encourage you to consider publishing views which are different to the anti-Semitic opinions which I read so frequently in your journal.
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Peter Henning gets Gaza & Labor right
The power over the Labor Party of the alliance of Australian Zionism and the old white political power elites has been challenged by Payman’s idealism and courage.
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Prof Hocking’s article on caucus
I can think of many examples in the past of "an international war [being used] as a domestic political opportunity"
