by DAVID HARDAKER | Aug 18, 2025 | Opinion, The world
If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands, If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands, If you’re happy and you know it, then your face will surely show it, If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands. This little kindy tune...
by DAVID HARDAKER | Aug 12, 2025 | Analysis, The world
What’s with the outrage over the Albanese government’s decision to break with the US and recognise a Palestinian state? The gesture is close to meaningless given the one-in-a-million chance of there ever being a two-state solution, for the many reasons The Politics...
by DAVID HARDAKER | Aug 7, 2025 | Analysis, The world
This week Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson visited the occupied West Bank — not to see conditions on the ground for Palestinians but to spend time at an Israeli settlement. He became the highest-ranking US official to do so. Settlements are illegal under...
by MURRAY HOGARTH | Aug 6, 2025 | Opinion, The world
Let’s assume that elements of the youthful firebrand left-winger Anthony Albanese still exist within his complex and evolved political make-up. This version of the prime minister would be alert to the prospect that an era of vocal social discontent and popular protest...
by DAVID HARDAKER | Aug 5, 2025 | Opinion, The world
Sunday’s pro-Palestine march of 100,000 or more in the drenching rain over the Sydney Harbour Bridge crystallised a moment in history for Australia and the watching world. To be caught in such a moment is exhilarating, shocking, disturbing and/or discombobulating,...
by DAVID HARDAKER | Aug 4, 2025 | Opinion, The world
A leading US evangelical Christian is in charge of aid distribution in Gaza. Should this be a concern? What does it say about US intentions in the Strip? Amid the war of words over who is and who’s not responsible for starvation in Gaza (or even if there is...
