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Chinese nuclear-powered missile and attack submarines parade for Chairman Xi Jinping. Picture: PLAN

Beijing uses every chance to normalise aggressive activity

Israel became so accustomed to Egypt’s militaristic posturing in 1973 that it didn’t see the real attack coming. A lesson for Taiwan.

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Siding with Hamas no way to bring about peace

Siding with Hamas no way to bring about peace

The idea that a boycott of the Sydney Festival is going to have any influence on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict brings discredit to its advocates.

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Single-issue indies promise much but can do little

Single-issue indies promise much but can do little

With their narrow agendas, the candidates supported by Simon Holmes a Court and Clive Palmer know nothing of the compromise of real government or of running a country.

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As history proves, change is inevitable and we will thrive

As history proves, change is inevitable and we will thrive

In terms of reshaping our economy, the energy transformation is likely to be at least as profound as the information revolution.

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Marcus Aurelius statue, Capitoline Hill, Rome, Italy

In uncertain times, we can draw on wisdom of Stoics

In the West we have come to expect a high degree of control over our lives. Covid has upended all that and the result is anxiety.

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People stand in a queue to submit their passport applications at an office in Kabul on July 25, 2021. - Dozens begin lining up at the passport office in Kabul before dawn most days, and by eight in the morning the queue already stretches for a good hundred metres. (Photo by SAJJAD HUSSAIN / AFP) / TO GO WITH Afghanistan-conflict-passport,FOCUS by Aymeric VINCENOT

US will lose credibility over Afghan withdrawal

If the US can coldly abandon an ally of two decades to its fate, then American security assurances begin to trade at a discount.

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Israel's Iron Dome missile defence system (L) intercepts rockets (R) fired by the Hamas movement from Gaza city towards Israel early on May 16, 2021. - Israel pummelled the Gaza Strip with air strikes, killing 10 members of an extended family and demolishing a building housing international media outlets, as Palestinian militants fired back barrages of rockets. (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

Gaza politics impose defeat on both sides

The Hamas attack has resuscitated Netanyahu’s political fortunes and it has inflamed tensions between Arab and Jewish communities.

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Respect crucial as we move supplies and people to PNG

With a COVID-19 outbreak under way, PNG faces one of its most significant challenges yet.

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Trans-Tasman bubble doesn’t go far enough

Australia views the Pacific as family: we look out for each other in tough times. We must ensure we come through this crisis together.

epa05243207 (FILE) A file picture dated 18 June 2015 shows Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli (not pictured) during their meeting at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, Russia. Putin is one of the allegedly involved as millions of leaked documents published on 03 April 2016 suggest that 140 politicians and officials from around the globe, including 72 former and current world leaders, have connections with secret 'offshore' companies to escape tax scrutiny in their countries. The leak involves 11.5 million documents from one of the world's largest offshore law firms, Mossack Fonseca, based in Panama. The investigation dubbed 'The Panama Papers' was undertaken and headed by German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung and Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), with the collaboration of reporters from more than 100 media outlets in 78 countries around the world. EPA/ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO/POOL

It’s time Australia rose up to defend itself

We need to get on the front foot in this dangerous world of non-traditional threats.

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