Keywords: Hillary Clinton
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AUSTRALIA
- Benedict Coleridge
- 14 February 2012
12 Comments
Russia's opposition to military intervention or orchestrated regime change in Syria runs deeper than mere contemporary strategic interest. Its interest in Syria and the broader Middle East stems also from its historical conception of itself as the protector of eastern Christians.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 05 December 2011
1 Comment
A few years ago, western leaders welcomed the about face of Libya's Colonel Gaddafi. Their enemy became their friend, but it ended badly. International opinion should not rescind Burma's pariah nation status until its leaders have taken definitive action that includes ending the use of landmines.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Kevin
- 18 November 2011
9 Comments
Australia is now indelibly associated with Obama's strong messages to China in Canberra. We were used. But our government wanted this, because it will all be popular with the middle ground former Labor voters Gillard is trying to win back from Abbott and the Greens.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 07 February 2011
6 Comments
Barack Obama's calls for the protection of freedoms in Egypt failed to mention one of the Egyptian authorities' most striking violations — their switching off internet access for five days. It's likely he was treading warily due to the US Government's own plans for an internet 'kill switch'.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 10 January 2011
2 Comments
The character flaws of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange are being exaggerated in order to shift the burden of shame from embarrassed governments on to Assange himself. We need to be told why it's in the public interest to hide the undermining of the international cluster bombs ban by the British Foreign Office.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 06 December 2010
43 Comments
The character flaws of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange are being exaggerated in order to shift the burden of shame from embarrassed governments on to Assange himself. We need to be told why it's in the public interest to hide the undermining of the international cluster bombs ban by the British Foreign Office.
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AUSTRALIA
- Adrian Phoon
- 26 July 2010
2 Comments
Malcolm Turnbull recently compared Kevin Rudd to the Shakespearean character Coriolanus, a reviled control freak. Politicians sometimes invoke Shakespeare to flatter their own cause. But
this is fraught with dangers:
they can come off sounding pompous, or their analogies
may backfire.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Remember the man who yelled 'iron my shirt!' at Hillary Clinton? No doubt Clinton knows the
problems women face in their fight to be taken seriously in the
workplace. Acclaimed The Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow has similarly found that male peers seem more
interested in her body than her body of work.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 12 November 2009
4 Comments
Hillary Clinton worked hard on a three day charm offensive encouraging Pakistanis to engage in a new trusting relationship with the US. But Pakistanis cannot trust
themselves at the moment, let alone the world superpower which has
funded Taliban militants.
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 07 January 2009
3 Comments
There are lessons to be learned from Sarah Palin's quip that the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull terrier is 'lipstick'. In Western politics, women are acceptable if they look 'youthful' and are attached to powerful men to whose authority they defer. (September 2008)
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AUSTRALIA
- Jim McDermott
- 27 October 2008
8 Comments
In 1982 African-American Tom Bradley ran for governor of California. He lost, despite polls that showed him to be up by 12 points. Since then, analysts refer to the percentage point melt for African-American candidates on election day as the 'Bradley Effect'.
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 18 September 2008
9 Comments
There are lessons to be learned from Sarah Palin's quip that the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull terrier is 'lipstick'. In Western politics, women are acceptable if they look 'youthful' and are attached to powerful men to whose authority they defer.
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