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Benny Wenda: Indonesia’s silent genocide
Benny Wenda has received support from successive British governments For a country so close to West Papua, I am always surprised at how many Australian citizens remain unaware of the genocide that is...
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Australian uranium sales overlook India’s nuclear history
Julia Gillard with Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh. Image: AFP So with prime minister Julia Gillard yesterday proposing Australia begin selling uranium to India, it appears to me successive Labor...
View ArticleTheorising Darwin: US may stockpile and transit cluster munitions
Yesterday’s announcement of a new US military “base” in Darwin, Australia (spun as a “rotational deployment” for China, I suspect), will necessitate foreign weapons systems and armaments being...
View ArticleAssange case: it’s time for Gillard to ask Obama some important questions
When Obama meets Gillard today, one wonders whether Julian Assange will come up in conversation. In sharp contrast to Gillard’s personal offer of support to an Australian teenager arrested in Bali on...
View ArticleThe moral syncretism of Gillard’s uranium sales pitch
What strikes me most about the Gillard’s about-turn to sell uranium to India is how ‘moral’ the pitch has been. As I see it, the ALP message has distorted a triumvirate of benefits for Australians:...
View ArticleThe loopholes in the Labor Party’s Cluster Munitions Bill
The Labor Caucus today voted not to amend its widely criticised Cluster Munitions Prohibition Bill to remove two loopholes that go against the spirit and intent of the international Convention on...
View ArticleWest Papua: How to lose a country
When Julia Gillard meet Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhuyono in Bali on the weekend West Papua barely got a mention. Although the text messages inside West Papua went into overdrive with the...
View ArticleCould Australia’s record on arms control harm UN Security Council bid?
Last Friday over fifty states at the United Nations rejected US-led attempts to introduce a lesser standard of arms control concerning the production, transfer and deployment of cluster munitions. The...
View ArticleAren’t nuclear weapons harmful, too?
The global treaty prohibiting cluster munitions, which entered into force last August, was pursued on the basis that such weapons cause “unacceptable harm”. Similarly, the treaty outlawing...
View ArticleWhat do we mean by ‘sexist’ when we refer to the criticisms of Gillard?
The lack of agreement on the question of whether undue criticism of Gillard is sexist boils down to how we think about sexism. Is sexism something we view at an individual level or a wider social...
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