Monday, February 23, 2026

Mexico’s ‘social fabric coming apart’

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An Australian academic says the United States policy of sending illegal immigrants and asylum seekers across the border into Mexico should b...
Saturday, January 17, 2026

A remote island of which we now know a lot

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A few years back on my bucket-list trip to Iceland I saw regular flights to Greenland advertised in a Reykjavik travel agents’ window. I was...
Monday, October 6, 2025

A dangerous dose of positivity?

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A report from Big Four accounting firm KPMG has found that 90 per cent of Australia’s top bosses are optimistic on the growth prospects of t...
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Time for a new Iron Curtain?

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Whenever this terrible war in Ukraine ends – and it looks ever-likely that Ukraine’s brave President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy will be bludgeoned...
Friday, August 8, 2025

Government by gerontocracy in a suffering world

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Donald Trump was born on June 14, 1946. I was born on September 19 in that same year. That makes Trump two months and five days older than m...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Spare us this Coalition chaos

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I find it difficult to understand all the hand-wringing that has been going on over the on-again-off-again split in the Coalition in the wak...
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Irish PM calls for curb on Hungary’s EU veto

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Ireland's Prime Minister Micheál Martin gave voice to what a lot of other leaders in the European Union are thinking when he said there ...