HeyJaredDavid Higginbottom
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RBA rate rise risks turning oil shock into recession (opens the original)
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The Reserve Bank has lifted interest rates to 4.6%, but higher rates cannot fix oil-driven inflation and risk deepening an economic downturn, writes David Higginbottom. THE WARNING SIGNS have been visible for months: disrupted oil and diesel supply, expensive fertiliser, vulnerable shipping routes, attacks on energy infrastructure, a widening Middle East conflict and escalating attacks on Black Sea shipping and export infrastructure. What is changing is that these risks are beginning to interact
Democracy must be measured by more than elections (opens the original)
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China, India, the United States and Australia reveal why democracy must be judged not only by elections, but by who holds power, who benefits and who gets heard. David Higginbottom writes. IT IS TEMPTING to divide the world into two boxes. China is authoritarian; India, the United States and Australia are democracies. China does not permit open national competition between rival parties, independent opposition capable of taking power, or a free media able to hold the Communist Party to account.
Democracy demands more than a vote (opens the original)
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Democracy demands more than elections, requiring both the power to challenge governments and the security and opportunity to share in national progress, writes David Higginbottom. “That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.” ~ Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, 1863. Lincoln’s definition is so familiar that we can all recite it. Political argument usually dwells on the middle term: government by the people. Do citizens vote? Are parties allow
McBride and Duggan expose the human cost of Australia’s security state (opens the original)
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David McBride’s release and Dan Duggan’s extradition battle expose the human cost of Australia’s national security priorities and alliance loyalties, writes David Higginbottom. This article is part two in a two-part story. Read part one HERE. PART ONE of this story argued that Australia’s foreign policy is often shaped by an implicit hierarchy. In that framework, explored in an earlier article, the United States occupies Tier 1 – the ally whose security claims are normally accepted as protective
Australia’s China policy built on a strategic double standard (opens the original)
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Australia’s approach to China reveals a strategic double standard that judges allies and adversaries by very different rules, writes David Higginbottom. This article is part one in a two-part story. Part two will be published tomorrow, Tuesday 25 August. AUSTRALIAN DEBATE about China often begins with a narrow question: is Beijing a threat? It is a serious question and it deserves serious answers. Why do some states’ actions become proof of a fundamental threat while comparable conduct by allies
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