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Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers his new year's eve address on dec 31, 2023

Taiwan’s fate can’t fall to Xi’s warrior diplomacy

Taiwan, as a place of human habitation and community, is more beautiful than ever and almost entirely because it has not been governed by the Chinese Communist Party.

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Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens during a news conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. U.S. health officials called for an immediate pause in usingÃÂ Johnson & Johnson's single-dose Covid-19 vaccine after six women who received it developed a rare and severe form of blood clotting. Photographer: Leigh Vogel/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images

US must come clean on what it’s hiding about Covid origins

The primary reason we don’t know how Covid emerged is that the CCP is determined to bury the truth. But there’s a second guilty party: the US government.

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TOPSHOT - This pool photograph distributed by Russian state owned agency Sputnik shows Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping interacting during a welcoming ceremony at the Third Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on October 17, 2023. (Photo by Sergei SAVOSTYANOV / POOL / AFP)

We need a new world order to contain axis of dictators

The West needs to think through the next evolutionary step – or face a breakdown of order, peace and prosperity on a gigantic scale.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 09: A member of the public casts an early vote at a polling centre in the central business district on October 09, 2023 in Sydney, Australia. A referendum for Australians to decide on an indigenous voice to parliament will be held on October 14, 2023 and compels all Australians to vote by law. Early voting began on Oct. 2, with voting getting underway in all states. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)

Three objections to voting Yes, and why they matter

The reason why the Yes vote appears to have been shrinking is that the Yes camp has refused to allow that there is a bona fide case for the No vote. They insist on propaganda and hectoring.

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UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1754: The School of Athens' , 1511 (detail). Fresco. Raphael (Rafael Sanzio 1483 -1520) Italian painter and architect. Plato and Aristotle (centre) in discussion. Ancient Greek Philosophy Science Learning (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Learned high roads still lead to Rome

A showcase for the enduring relevance of ancient Mediterranean political debates provides a refreshing example of the university environment at its best.

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(L-R) Chief Executive Officer of the Victoria 2026 Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, Jeroen Weimar, Victorian Deputy Premier Jacinta Allan, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews andVictorian Minister for Regional Development Harriet Shing during a press conference at Parliament House in Melbourne, Tuesday, July 18, 2023. The Andrews Labor Government has cancelled the 2026 Commonwealth Games, slated to be held across Victoria. (AAP Image/James Ross) NO ARCHIVING

Danny boy, you’ve just dropped the relay baton

It beggars belief that Daniel Andrews would have entered into the Commonwealth Games commitment on a wing and a prayer. But why is it that this cost blowout doesn’t seem at all surprising?

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NSW /Prem Bob Carr (L) warmly greets former /PM Paul Keating following 03/02/99 memorial service for former ALP /MP Jim

Labor heavyweights stoke confusion over Beijing, NATO

Bob Carr and Paul Keating now proudly lead the pack of pro-Beijing voices in Australia. Both deserve severe censure.

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China's President Xi Jinping speaks following his arrival via high-speed rail across the border in Hong Kong on June 30, 2022, for celebrations marking the 25th anniversary of the city's handover from Britain to China. (Photo by Selim CHTAYTI / POOL / AFP)

Message to Xi: We are all Hong Kongers now

The challenge is to stare down Xi and dare to say to him: ‘No. Your dream is a nightmare and we’re not buying it.’ If we cherish our liberties, we are all Hong Kongers now

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Sydney Harbour vs Melbourne's Southbank.

Sorry, Sydney – Melbourne wins by a country mile

When I was a boy, my father used to say: ‘Sydney is a great place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there. Melbourne is a great place to live, but you wouldn’t want to visit it.’

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FILED - 21 December 2004, Schleswig-Holstein, Schleswig: Russian President Vladimir Putin and former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (l) speak to each other at a press conference at Gottorf Castle. Gorbachev, the Russian Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Soviet leader, is dead. He died in Moscow at the age of 91. (to dpa:

Imperial ambition: history puts Putin in his place

Insightful analysis of the Ukraine war casts beyond what’s driving Vladimir Putin to a new more cooperative Russia, the role imagined for it by Mikhail Gorbachev almost 40 years ago.

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