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Unexplained Ordnance: A Missile on Aboriginal Land and a Breakthrough Legal Complaint

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Michelle Fahy

21 Apr 2022

Saab, a Swedish multinational, had instant access at the most senior level, to both the state and federal government agencies responsible for dealing with the Saab missile problem, yet Andrew and Robert Starkey were fobbed off by all concerned.

What Lies Beneath: The Russia–Ukraine War

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John Hinkson

7 Apr 2022

Simplistic, black and white judgements are dominant right now, but there is good reason to think that this war may turn out to be much more than a struggle over a lily-white democratic versus autocratic principle.

Sold Out: The United Australia Party’s Nihilistic Patrician Populism

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Scott Robinson

7 Apr 2022

The reality recognised by the UAP, its candidates, and any genuine supporters seems to be that in an intensely competitive world, we would do well to align ourselves under the protection of a patrician.

A biting question: Mosquito disease and development

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Melody Kemp

7 Apr 2022

Diseases once confined to the tropics, like dengue fever, will find the warming conditions conducive to southerly migration. Currently dengue is confined to sites 200kms north of Brisbane.

The War in Ukraine and Imperial Decline

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Timothy Erik Ström

24 Mar 2022

This apparently old-fashioned land war seems to be exposing the extreme fragility of global capitalism, a system we have been told is the only possible future. This is a further rip to the fabric of these illusions, which have recently been cast asunder by an apparently old-fashioned plague, and some very cutting-edge climate catastrophes.  

Neoliberalism, the Deluge and the Logic of Government Inaction

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Paul Gardner

24 Mar 2022

There is an obscure but very real connection between a Queenslander being ferried by a neighbour in a tinny from their inundated home in the recent floods, and a small gathering of economists and others in a Swiss Village in 1947.

Looming Catastrophe: Nuclear Threats in the Ukraine-Russian War

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Guy Rundle

10 Mar 2022

Just as atomic and sub-atomic technologies reach into every corner of reality to transform it unceasingly, so too the US post-Second World War empire, powered by notions of a universal idea of right, bound up in individualism, capital and technophilia, seeks to transform and occupy any alternative source of power, locality and difference.

The Manchurian Candidate in Australian Politics

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Binoy Kampmark

3 Mar 2022

The Manchurian candidate accusation can be said to be part of the toolkit of politicisation that has characterised the brief history of the Australian Commonwealth.

Fusion Power: Big Energy fuses with Big Spin

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Darrin Durant

24 Feb 2022

On 9 February 2022 researchers at the Joint European Torus (JET) fusion reactor, based at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) in the United Kingdom, announced that ‘JET produced a total of 59 Megajoules of heat energy from fusion over a five second period’, during which JET ‘averaged a fusion power (i.e., energy per […]

Wrong Way, Go Back: Education, Social Class, Déjà Vu and Dread

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Paul Gardner

24 Feb 2022

The scale of the gap is evident in the capacities of different schools to resource educational provision, with a school on one side of the divide building a second theatre and a school on the other side wondering if it can afford to replace a worn carpet.

War in Europe and the rise of raw propaganda

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John Pilger

18 Feb 2022

demonstrated its bloody aggression in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and broken solemn promises to pull back.  Having dragged European "allies" into American wars that do not concern them, the great unspoken is that NATO itself is the real threat to European security.

The ‘Quad’, Unlikley Allies and a World Undone

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Guy Rundle

9 Feb 2022

Globalisation has created a world that is safe, until it very much isn't. The specific form of globalisation we have…compels the West to seek to maintain a dominance it can no longer enforce.