By Kim on August 13, 2010
That’s a question worth posing, and it’s posed by Jacinda Woodhead of Overland at The Drum this morning.
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By Guest Poster on July 27, 2010
During the election campaign, LP will be cross-posting selected items from the Centre for Policy Development’s discussion of policy issues, Thinking Points. Readers may also be interested in the CPD’s upcoming collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on January 3, 2010
Open Democracy has asked a range of its contributors to answer the following questions: A volcanic decade in global politics ends amid deep unease about the world’s ability to rise to key 21st-century challenges. openDemocracy writers draw breath and look [...]
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By Robert Merkel on May 14, 2009
The Defence White Paper spent considerable time discussing “cyber warfare” – the idea that in the future, wars would be in part fought by teams of hackers attempting to mess with the other side’s computers. Peter W. Singer argues in [...]
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By Robert Merkel on April 15, 2009
Hugh White, former adviser to Hawke and Beazley on defence matters and now an academic at ANU, has written his own analysis of Australia’s military requirements – a sort of alternative Defence White Paper, which unlike the official version has [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on April 13, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/morgan.jpg" align=left The latest entry in an occasional series on speculative fiction – Distant Suns. A little while ago, I was having a friendly disagreement on Facebook about the merits of Bruce Sterling‘s science fiction, touching on his expertise [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on January 29, 2009
I didn’t see any discussion in the Australian media of a mid-January piece by British Foreign Secretary David Miliband in The Guardian, where he argues that the “war on terror” was a most unfortunate phrase, and quite counterproductive. Later, Miliband [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on January 20, 2009
If you’re staying up to watch Barack Obama’s inauguration as 44th President of the United States of America, Crikey has a good guide to coverage and commentary on tv, live streaming, live blogging and twitter. Locally, Hoyden About Town is [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on January 19, 2009
Discussion on a previous thread on the Israeli/Gaza conflict can be continued on this one. Linking again to the latest from Open Democracy, I thought both Paul Rogers on Israel’s exhausted strategic doctrine and Khaled Hroub on whether the Israeli [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on January 13, 2009
It’s probably time to continue the Gaza conversation on another thread. A discussion starter might be to link to some interesting thoughts from Daniel Levy, who for mine is one of the clearest thinkers about the whole morass of Israeli-Palestinian [...]
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The Obama inauguration: some interesting links
By Mark Bahnisch on January 21, 2009
There’s probably literally millions of reactions to Barack Obama’s inauguration on the intertubes today, so I wanted to try to highlight some more specific articles and posts which raise some interesting issues which might otherwise get lost in the crowd. [...]
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