Today in The Australian

For the past few months Britain has been a nation busily engaged in building its own funeral pyre.

This week Britain leapt into the roaring flames.

Perhaps something will be saved from the conflagration but, regardless of how Brexit ends, it is becoming harder and harder to believe that Britain will ever be the same again.

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Brexit reveals what parliament thinks of the people_Fri 6 Sep 2019.pdf

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Today in The Australian

The platitude du jour, repeated at every turn by the Treasurer and the governor of the Reserve Bank, is that no one wins a trade war. Pleasing as that homily may be, it reflects neither theory nor experience.

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Some trade wars have been a win for the world_Fri 30 Aug 2019.pdf

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Today in The Australian

Trump is living up to a long U.S. tradition

With the turmoil in Hong Kong, and now the apparent explosion of a Russian nuclear propulsion ­device, focusing attention on the threats Australia faces, there is a growing chorus of voices casting doubt on the stability and predictability of American foreign policy — and hence on the wisdom of continuing to rely so heavily on the alliance.

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Today in The Australian

Whatever one thinks of John Setka, this much is clear: expelling him from the ALP will do nothing to prevent the lawlessness that has become the hallmark of the Construction Forestry Maritime Mining and Energy Union.

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Today in The Australian 

On June 4, 1989, as the tanks rolled into Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, Lech Walesa’s Solidarity movement won a landslide victory over its communist rivals in the first democratic elections to be held in Poland — indeed, in Eastern ­Europe — since its forcible integration into the Soviet bloc.

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China’s future clouded by the road not taken in 1989_Fri 14 June 2019.pdf

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Today in The Australian

Like Aldous Huxley, I am capable of being very stoical about other people’s misfortunes — and never more so than when they afflict Labor and the disastrous policies it took to the election.

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Albanese cannot just be Labor’s new contortionist_Fri 24 May 2019.pdf

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