Dutton’s interrogation of Gaza asylum policy is not remotely racist
On all the evidence, many Gazans, possibly a majority, support Hamas in principle. Australia can and should have a generous refugee policy without accepting radicalised people.
On all the evidence, many Gazans, possibly a majority, support Hamas in principle. Australia can and should have a generous refugee policy without accepting radicalised people.
Margaret Thatcher understood, among many other things, that in a civilised society the police must have the monopoly on the use of force. Because without authority there is no freedom.
There are so many pivotal actors, so many moving parts, in the Middle East security theatre that miscalculation and devastating conflict are real possibilities. Two other factors make the situation even worse.
In choosing Tim Walz as her running mate, she has made the same kind of mistake as Donald Trump made with JD Vance.
It’s hard to track and difficult to thwart and raising the threat level to ‘probable’ is well overdue. Our experts break down the complex landscape of extremism in Australia.
There is clearly a lower level of rebuke for the representative of the chief state sponsor of terrorism in the world, than was meted out to the representative of the Middle East’s only democracy.
Tony Burke’s appointment as Home Affairs Minister is bizarre. He was among the most disgraceful politicians in responding to the Hamas terrorist atrocities.
The former president’s failings have let Kamala Harris back into the race.
The scenes at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony were a perfect example of what Pope John Paul II called ‘the culture of death’.
It is at least possible that Hezbollah’s attack on Israel was a test for the Biden administration in its dying days, and particularly for Kamala Harris.
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