Keywords: To Change China
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Selma Sergent
- 07 September 2011
13 Comments
A lot of people refused to leave. Sydneysiders with waterfront properties could not fathom that the mansions that had cost them millions of dollars were going to be under water. There were stories of eastern suburbs socialites loading their antiques into boats. And drownings. Lots of drownings.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Meg Mundell
- 03 August 2011
7 Comments
In her field some ethnic markers can be overlooked, but skin colour has an undeniable influence on earnings. These are suspicious times. Even the new finance minister, whose grandmother was Aboriginal, caved in to pressure and became noticeably lighter prior to his new appointment.
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AUSTRALIA
- Neil Ormerod
- 01 August 2011
36 Comments
In the 1980s computer journalists used to refer to the 'FUD factor' and its impact on computer purchases. FUD — Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. Tony Abbott has become the master of the FUD factor in the debate over climate change and the carbon tax.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Fatima Measham
- 08 July 2011
18 Comments
There is nothing radical about fixing a carbon price. While our politicians and pundits quibble, the rest of the world is already implementing its commitments. Gillard's greatest challenge in selling her carbon scheme is in normalising it in the public mind.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Bruce Duncan
- 05 July 2011
14 Comments
Unless countries are prepared to implement draconian birth-control policies like China's, realistically there is no alternative but to prepare for a world of 9 billion people. But the increase in global population need not provoke a catastrophe.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Smith
- 14 December 2010
6 Comments
While WikiLeaks' exposures of US government secrets have created a media storm, the case of Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei, which reveals much about the authorities in China, has attracted little comment. China has moved towards capitalism but not democracy.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tony Kevin
- 22 November 2010
6 Comments
Australians can rejoice in the good year our farmers are having. But farming in southern Australia continues to be a high-risk business. Climate change is inevitably going to make it harder to sustain all kinds of agriculture in inland southern Australia.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Stephen Minas
- 10 November 2010
10 Comments
How many foreign heads of state could be depicted in a cartoon in an Australian newspaper, as Indonesian President Yudhoyono was, in an act of sodomy? Despite widespread negative perceptions, Australia's neighbour is achieving many positive changes, quickly.
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ENVIRONMENT
The new Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Christiana Figueres is well qualified
to help heal the wounds of Copenhagen. If the West can learn the lessons of those failed talks and move forward with modesty, flexibility and sensitivity, we may hope for progress.
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AUSTRALIA
- Nicholas Taylor
- 04 June 2010
8 Comments
The negotiation of a nuclear-weapon-free zone is the only
non-proliferation initiative to have been accepted by all Middle East states, including Israel. Why has it taken 30 years?
Because Egypt, Israel and Iran have competing reasons for promoting the idea.
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AUSTRALIA
- Brian Toohey
- 03 June 2010
9 Comments
An earlier generation of politicians feared impoverished Asian hordes would pour down and eat our lunch.
Current PM Kevin Rudd worries their offspring can now afford to come armed with the latest weapons and steal it. His fretting comes at great cost to the nation.
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AUSTRALIA
- James M. Dorsey
- 19 April 2010
5 Comments
Boosted by technologies that facilitate mass
distribution without government control, the heavy metal and hip-hop music scene in the Middle East recalls the role
music played in the velvet revolution that toppled regimes in Eastern
Europe and Indonesia.
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