Friends, foes alike at mercy of Trump tariff tsunami
If the US tariffs are, as Adam Creighton suggests, intended to remain in place, then they would do both Americans and Australians great harm.
If the US tariffs are, as Adam Creighton suggests, intended to remain in place, then they would do both Americans and Australians great harm.
The impetus behind Donald Trump’s tariffs is not difficult to understand when seen against the carnage caused to the US by cheap imports and a predatory China.
It’s fine to blame leaders but fiscal discipline is simply impossible if voters don’t want it.
The critics of current law schools aren’t seeking a return to “black letter law”, they are seeking a return to impartiality and objectivity instead indoctrination.
The Trump administration’s attacks on the judiciary and flouting of court orders risks provoking a brutal and destructive struggle between the presidency and the courts.
Claims that the Monroe Doctrine justifies handing Vladimir Putin Ukraine don’t stand up to scrutiny.
Entire swathes of his agenda were subject to legal challenge in Trump’s first term; that is certain to recur but in a legal context that places substantially greater obstacles in his path.
With the tenth anniversary of the attack on Charlie Hebdo approaching there can be no complacency in the face of Islamist rhetoric.
Published in 1964 and serialised in The Australian, the impact of The Lucky Country was immediate and all-pervasive. Donald Horne declared that ordinary Australian people were not the problem: the elites were. Today that seems truer than ever before.
Pigeon fancying, once the gentle pursuit of millions, may go the way of stamp collecting. But the humble pigeon will not be so easily defeated.
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