Zombie social democracy, or the ALP as Australia’s political ‘Walking Dead’
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Malcolm is not so in the middle
The sales pitchHere’s my latest for ABC’s The Drum w
On Finkelstein, the BDS, one-state solutions & the problem with Gandhi’s strategy
Palestinians cross over the Syrian-Israeli border, May 2011
The Greens at the crossroads: ‘Left’ and ‘Right’ matter more than you’d think
‘Factional rifts, personal animosities and turf wars’
With ‘friends’ like Western governments, the Arab Spring doesn’t need enemies
Protesters in Tahrir unfurl the flag of the Syrian rebellionThis article first appeared on the ABC Drum website yesterday.
Invasion Day
A number of myths have shaped Australia’s national identity in profound ways. The possibility of a vast inland sea saw many early settlers search the interior of the country unfruitfully, often meeting an untimely death. The kernel of this myth was a 1798 report to the Colonial Office by First Fleet botanist Joseph Banks: