Rule of law at risk in Trump’s war on courts
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.
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.
Penny Wong praises Bob Hawke’s memory – but her words bury him, along with the good he did.
If the Syrian tragedy has a lesson, it is this: in the Arab Middle East, with its deep hatreds, long memories and searing fractures, only sheer power counts.
Ed Husic grossly misrepresents the nature of the scientific enterprise by saying Indigenous Australians were ‘the nation’s first scientists’. But he is not alone. A burgeoning industry now promotes ‘Indigenous science’ across our schools and universities.
The ICC is not as powerful as it would like to be, but the sad reality is that many Western governments, including Australia’s, take it seriously.
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