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David Shoebridge brings a fighting edge to the Greens (opens the original)
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David Shoebridge’s rise to the Greens leadership offers a chance to challenge Labor from the Left and push for more radical action on inequality, climate change and AI, writes Dr Mark Beeson. POLITICS IS FAMOUSLY a tough business and everyone gets mixed reviews. It’s not a place for shrinking violets, which explains why it’s generally populated by ego maniacs, self-promoters and chancers. While we’re not as bad as our trusty allies in the U.S., of course, we do have our fair share of dills and t
Australia’s UN bid falls short of Finland’s diplomatic vision (opens the original)
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Australia’s bid for a UN Security Council seat exposes foreign policy contradictions that stand in sharp contrast to Finland’s diplomatic approach, writes Dr Mark Beeson. AUSTRALIA HAS JUST launched a campaign designed to win a non-permanent seat on the United Nations’ Security Council. The last time Australia held this position in 2013-14, it spent $25 million trying to gain support from the two-thirds of the General Assembly members required to get elected. This time, Australia may be competin
Trump-Xi talks unlikely to meet a world in crisis (opens the original)
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As Trump and Xi prepare to meet, the world’s mounting crises demand cooperation that neither leader seems willing or able to deliver, writes Dr Mark Beeson. ANY MEETING between the world’s two most powerful men is potentially a good thing. Diplomacy is better than conflict; exchanging views could help us understand the key issues that threaten our collective future, wherever we may live. The dangers are well known: war, climate change and perhaps most urgently of all, the recursive development o
Australia’s political leaders are failing democracy (opens the original)
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Australia’s political leaders continue to put self-interest and political expediency ahead of the democratic principles they claim to uphold, writes Dr Mark Beeson. IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE that Australia’s political class could serve up a leader even more dishonest, inept and uninspiring than Scott Morrison. After all, in a ringing endorsement of his parliamentary colleagues, Morrison was the man who secretly appointed himself to multiple ministries. Morrison also demonstrated his empathy and publi
WA’s resource riches fuel a politics of greed and grievance (opens the original)
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Despite its vast resource wealth, WA’s politics remains fuelled by corporate power, parochial resentment and populist grievance, writes Dr Mark Beeson. WESTERN AUSTRALIA is famously a long way from anywhere. Unsurprisingly, local politics can be a bit self-absorbed and insular. Denigrating outsiders, even if they’re fellow Australians, is de rigueur, even if using pretentious foreign phrases isn’t. Even so, Premier Roger Cook talking about “east coast clowns” took the state’s favourite pastime t
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