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…villages in Georgia, a former Soviet republic seeking to join NATO. The shelling is in breach of an earlier ceasefire agreement. Putin’s support of separatists in the Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions in…
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…villages in Georgia, a former Soviet republic seeking to join NATO. The shelling is in breach of an earlier ceasefire agreement. Putin’s support of separatists in the Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions in…
…only in the short term. It is all measured and expressed in absolute monetary terms. No account is made for later environmental costs. Land is cleared and waterways are dammed…
…congestion; koalas to die to make way for housing; and condemning Australia to be a net food importer, and on and on it goes. Without an absolute numbers limit set…
…forays over and into the territory and seas illegally claimed by China in the South China Sea. For too long Australia has been led astray by the US militarily. Prime…
…to go into a draw for a cash prize with attendant publicity about people winning a lot of money just for answering an opinion poll. Alas, there are too many…
…be put in public hospitals to reduce waiting lists and into increasing the Medicare rebate for GPs. The tax penalty for medium- and high-income earners not having private health insurance…
…to be educated, have access to free health care, and be happy? Crispin Hull This article first appeared in The Canberra Times and other Australian media on 23 April 2024….
…hopeless in remote communities. Private-car transport is almost mandatory for people to shop and get access to medical and other services. Why should they miss out on cheaper and more…
…decision-making. And in this crisis, decision-making has been a matter of life and death. Trump, like his fellow autocratic strongmen (and they are invariably men) in Brazil, Russia and China,…
…Brisbane and Darwin, and on communications bases near Alice Springs and Exmouth, among other targets. The five concluded that war with China was almost inevitable and Australia needed an urgent…