Today in The Australian
With longstanding liberties under serious challenge, not least by emergency powers legislation that lacks adequate safeguards, today’s anniversary of the Eureka Stockade seems more relevant than ever.
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Today in The Australian
Good thing the phones are smart; many of the people who use them clearly aren’t. But whether the boorishness involved in sending lewd photos by text message justifies Cricket Australia’s treatment of Tim Paine is an open question.
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 All Paine, no justice and even less sense_Fri 26 Nov 2021.pdf | [ ] | 207 Kb |
Today in The Australian
It was the past, not the future, that changed at last week’s plenary session of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee.
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| Chinese Communist Party rewrites the past to glorify Xi Jinping’s regime_Fri 19 | [ ] | 282 Kb |
Today in The Australian
If nothing is more precious than the gift of life, we are not only richer but also more equal than ever before.
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Today in The Australian
“He who decides on the exception is sovereign”, the German polymath Carl Schmitt famously wrote, in what remains the most frequently cited sentence from his vast body of work.
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| Emergency powers must never stifle our rights_Fri 5 Nov 2021.pdf | [ ] | 169 Kb |
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It may well be that the “National Indigenous Visual Arts Action Plan, 2021-2025”, which the government released late last week, contains some worthwhile initiatives. But it was hard not to be struck by a statement tucked away among the indicators of “what success looks like”.
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| Nothing authentic in an artless argument_Fri 29 Oct 2021.pdf | [ ] | 153 Kb |