Keywords: South East Asia
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INTERNATIONAL
- Mark Raper
- 18 January 2010
Significant agreement was achieved in Copenhagen on the present and future
forcible displacement of people because of climate change and
environmental degradation. Can global cooperation for the protection of vulnerable displaced persons be renewed to meet new circumstances?
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INTERNATIONAL
- Matthew Smeal
- 21 October 2009
3 Comments
Globally last year, 65 children out of every thousand died before the age of five. Recent figures suggest that, with the right approach, the road to ending preventable child deaths could be a short one.
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AUSTRALIA
- Hanifa Deen
- 17 September 2009
6 Comments
Visits by our senior politicians offering glib reassurances
will not halt the turndown in Indian enrolments in our tertiary institutions. We need to revisit the days when we treated international
students as people rather than statistics in an export industry.
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AUSTRALIA
- Luke Fraser
- 09 September 2009
The relationship between Australia and Russia is over 200 years old. It
began with great promise, but relations cooled following the Russian
Revolution. The financial crisis presents an opportunity for both
countries to look to each other with optimism once again.
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AUSTRALIA
Kevin Rudd's visit to Malaysia this week reminds us of stormy
bilateral relations under former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. With Mahthir's son now serving as an important deputy minister, some now fear a return of 'Mahathirism'.
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AUSTRALIA
- Margaret Rice
- 29 April 2009
1 Comment
The outbreak of swine flu has crossed the species barrier and spread quickly from human to human. Amid the general gloom, medical companies' stocks have risen since Monday, particularly those which produce ant-virals.
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INTERNATIONAL
- David Holdcroft
- 21 April 2009
3 Comments
During the Indochinese crisis, the Fraser Government engaged in a policy of cooperation with other countries in the region. More than a million people were moved, and the boat people phenomenon in Australia ceased for nearly ten years.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 02 March 2009
2 Comments
The medical pledge to do no harm no matter what the cost effective
benefits, and the conscience of the doctor are still
key elements in any law which promotes good medicine. –Frank Brennan, addressing the Medico Legal Society of Victoria
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Irfan Yusuf
- 22 October 2008
12 Comments
When a Muslim woman was kidnapped by the
Byzantine empire, the Caliph in Baghdad threatened to
send a vast army to rescue her.
Today, Muslim leaders do nothing to help
women being mistreated and held in captivity in their own countries.
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AUSTRALIA
The internet was once touted as a force for democracy. China has successfully turned this threat to its own advantage, and could show the way to other totalitarian nations.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
The most profound shock to Australian foreign policy was not 9/11 but our change of government in 1996. Under Rudd Labor, Australia's international agenda is once again becoming less about national security and more about being a good international citizen.
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INTERNATIONAL
- David Rosen
- 19 March 2008
3 Comments
The United Nations estimates that 5,000 honour killings occur annually. These killings are a rebellion against modernity, attempts to hold on to older traditional
values, especially concerning social relations and sexuality.
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