Clive Hamilton
Clive Hamilton is a professor at Charles Sturt University in Canberra and author of Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World.
Opinion
Housing crisis
Blaming Baby Boomers for your money woes is unfair, lazy and wrong
Generational scapegoating places blame on a malevolent generation rather than the political and economic system that creates and perpetuates inequalities between rich and poor.
- by Clive Hamilton and Myra Hamilton
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Culture wars
Wake up, lefties, and reject wokeness
Fear of being publicly shamed, bullied, cancelled or even fired is stifling sincere dialogue – and there’s nothing left-wing about that.
- by Clive Hamilton
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Coronavirus pandemic
Suddenly the ‘lab leak’ theory can’t be so readily dismissed: the stifled search for COVID’s Patient Zero
At last the World Health Organisation realises playing nice with China won’t work.
- by Clive Hamilton
Opinion
Brumby cull
Barilaro’s ‘brumby bill’ has been a catastrophe for the high country
Despite the many warnings, political bloody-mindedness over the culling of feral horses in the Kosciuszko National Park has created an environmental disaster.
- by Clive Hamilton
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Coronavirus pandemic
Where did COVID come from? The case for a leak of a virus engineered in a Wuhan lab
Many were scepitcal, but now the US President wants to know whether the original coronavirus was made in a Wuhan laboratory - then accidentally leaked.
- by Clive Hamilton
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China's Spy Secrets
Why we should suspect China’s secret police are at work on our streets
Xi Jinping’s “Operation Fox Hunt” has been caught tracking down Chinese citizens living in the US. We have strong reasons to believe they are doing the same here.
- by Clive Hamilton
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China relations
Cheng Lei is a strange choice for a diplomatic hostage
Cheng is not a well-known Australian and has worked for many years as part of the Communist Party's propaganda apparatus.
- by Clive Hamilton
Bulls in a China shop: How Beijing cultivated Wall Street's giants
The titans of US finance have for decades been guiding the nation’s China policy. But then US manufacturers grew tired of waiting for the promised land.
- by Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg
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China relations
China has been successful in ramping up its influence in Victoria
China's Belt and Road Initiative agreement with Victoria is the golden fruit of a long process of cultivation of Melbourne’s political elite.
- by Clive Hamilton
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
It would be unwise to dismiss Donald Trump's Wuhan lab leak theory
We wait to see if he can back it up, but the President’s claim is not without basis.
- by Clive Hamilton
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