Letters to the Editor
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Smoke and mirrors policies
If we won't support a two-state solution, then will we accept and resettle all Gazans here?
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Blaming Judaism is beyond reasonable comment
There are good reasons to criticise Israel over the death and destruction in Gaza. But blaming Judaism for the current violence is beyond reasonable comment.
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Biden’s hospital atrocity pretence
US President Biden chooses his words carefully when claiming the Israelis didn't do it.
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BUT WHO CARES?
This article has left me breathless. In the name of humanity, where are we going?
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Triggers will slow planet wrecking
Australia has been described as a "planet wrecker" for its "aggressive exporting of CO2 pollution” through fossil fuels. However, if moves by Greens, independents and environmental lawyers to insert water and climate triggers into our revised environmental laws are successful, new fossil fuel projects are less likely to get off the ground.
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Australia’s capacity to address global heating
Peter Sainsbury has again collated a useful update on the current climate trajectory.
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There are no ‘No’ winners
I stand firmly and proudly for 'Yes'.
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The Korean War and Hollywood propaganda
Meg Hart is to be congratulated on her article on the Korean War and the overlooking of a film giving the Chinese perspective. I was alerted to the reality of this war on reading Wilfred Burchett's 'This Monstrous War' which I initially picked up thinking it was about Vietnam. The book highlights the USA's folly in working with the Japanese, the former brutal and hated colonisers of Korea, in opposition to the Korean people who were promised independence after WW2 by the communists (a dirty word now but they had been our allies during the war).
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Captured by the fossil fuel industry
The fossil fuel industry's capture of governments worldwide must be broken.
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DeGrowth and Steady State – another ideology?
I am in agreement with the fundamental economic problem stated by circular economy and degrowth analysts, and am pleased to have seen the reference to "A Future beyond Growth" with a great number of esteemed scholars. However, as a health scientist (Physiotherapy), and an amatuer ecologists, I find an immediate resistance and some confusion that ecologists and economists would define enterprise in terms such as de-growth and steady state.
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Dutton has much to answer for
This weekend's referendum could be our last. "Sneaky, pathetic governance" has given us a sneaky, pathetic slogan encouraging those who are undecided to vote No. Should this occur, the referendum result and referendums per se will be tarnished. Dutton and the No case have given the finger to democracy.
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Trump’s supposed misuse of sensitive information
Did Donald Trump share potentially sensitive information about US submarines to be supplied under AUKUS with Australian billionaire Andrew Pratt as the Australian media has claimed? There is reason for skepticism. None of the information about US ballistic missile carrying submarines is classified. If the Virginia attack class subs did in fact carry nuclear weapons, that would certainly be a big story.
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Why are we not there? Because Beijing won’t give us visas
Pearls and Irritations' contributors claim Australian media have chosen not to be in China. That’s complete rubbish. We're not there because Beijing won't give us visas.
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A CRY FROM THE HEART
Thank God For Gideon Levy.
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The clear need for truth in political advertising
We need truth in politics to secure our democracy from Trumpian cynicism and disruption.
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The echoes of assimilationism taught in our universities still haunt us
Professor Reynolds’ op-ed woke up an old question in my mind.
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Filling the hole – then what?
The value of information and knowledge lies in their application
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Disgusted!
I was disgusted by your editorial decision to publish Fernando Munoz Bernal's 'Personal Perspective' on Xinjiang. Having travelled the length of Xinjiang in 2014, I can attest to the largely pacific state of the Uighurs despite the massive Han transmigration at that time, which Bernal fails to mention.
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Proposed cuts at ACU threaten work on Safe AI
Like Paul Collins, I am surprised to see that Australian Catholic University is proposing to disestablish its prestigious institute of philosophy and make redundancies that target philosophy, theology, medieval studies, and political science.
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ACU and Post-Modern Epistemology
The view that the Humanities have discredited themselves by the adoption of epistemological theories and language incomprehensible to some is a hoary and unhelpfully generalised allegation that overlooks both the function of those disciplines as interpreters of our society - which is itself "post-modern" - and hence, the necessity of educating the population to understand and reflect upon itself through that culture, and also the nature of all human progress over millennia that necessarily depends upon questioning what we believe we know and correcting inevitably imperfect, and often erroneous, knowledge. Such a complaint easily sounds reactionary and conservative.
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Enough is enough. Free Julian Assange.
Over the past years I have become increasingly concerned that the Australian Government has allowed the Assange case to drift in the hope, presumably, that the Australian electorate will tire of the subject of Julian Assange, the way most news bites vanish into the ether.
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Expenditure priorities: AUKUS subs versus climate
Does the secret ONI climate report indicate Labor cannot afford to pay for both AUKUS and climate mitigation?
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Why Labor is hiding the ONI climate report
Why Labor is hiding the ONI climate report
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It’s time for urgent lifestyle changes
The Boomers generation established enjoyable, but unsustainable, lifestyles. These need to change. Now.
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Ending native forest logging is a trump card
Tanya Plibersek could put an end to native forest logging. If she did, Australia would achieve it's 2030 emissions target almost overnight.
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A BIG THANK YOU to Gregory Andrews.
Pearls & Irritations is a TRULY INDEPENDENT Media Platform. THANK YOU! Please help save Australia's international standing and reputation.
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WHAT A NATION!
IS THIS WHAT THEY CALL 'A BULL IN A CHINA SHOP'?
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“Fascist” Politics?
It is entirely understandable that we should be concerned both about the effects of politicising and socially constraining gender identity and roles upon the people affected, and about the risk of government and elements of society being corrupted by what we somewhat superficially characterise as "fascist" - or reactionary conservative - ideologies. What is absent here, however, is any deeper analysis of why such tendencies hold such embedded importance in some of our societies, why some societies are more vulnerable here than others, and what the underlying appeal is? Why those people are not disposed towards other visions of society?
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The Voice: my perspective
I agree with Abul Rizvi, in that the Dog Whistle politics are far too involved.
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Missing the Point
The problem is the political system; the politicians are just the result.
