Politics
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Australia cannot look away from Iran’s atrocities
With Iran holding parliamentary elections for the first time in four years on Friday February 21 and the 43rd Session…
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How two women from a conservative Queensland town made the deportation of a local Tamil family national news
It was a sunny spring evening when more than 50 people from the central Queensland town of Biloela gathered at…
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Syria facing ‘massacre’ on a scale never seen before, UN warns
The UN is warning an unprecedented bloodbath is looming in northwest Syria without international action to restrain the Assad regime.…
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Merkel condemns ‘poison’ of racism after gunman kills nine in Germany
A gunman with suspected far-right links shot dead nine people, some of them migrants from Turkey, in an overnight rampage…
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Are voters prejudiced against ethnic minority candidates?
Many people now accept that governments and parliaments should try to reflect the diversity of the people they seek to…
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Could a Multibillion-Dollar Canal Be Erdogan’s Undoing in Turkey?
He and his ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, claim they spur economic development and create jobs. Clare Busch…
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s adviser Andrew Sabisky resigns after past comments linking intelligence to race
Andrew Sabisky said he was quitting because he had become “a distraction”. ABC news MPs from both the Opposition and…
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Regular Democrats Just Aren’t Worried About Bernie
Judging by media coverage and the comments of party luminaries, you might think Democrats are bitterly polarized over Bernie Sanders’s…
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Rising Power: India Is Building More Aircraft Carriers
Key point: Carriers are costly and difficult to build well. However, New Delhi is up for the task as India seeks…
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Independent Scotland ‘would face five year wait to rejoin EU’
And it warns that Scotland would effectively be forced to adopt the euro or see its influence shrink within the…
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The Dalai Lama’s succession rests with Tibet, not China
There are things they do well — provide sane advice, take care of the grandchildren — and everyone thanks them…
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Michel Barnier rejects UK’s call for Canada-style trade deal
The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has rejected British demands for a Canada-style trade deal that would free the…
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Dark day for Polish coal
WARSAW — Ostrołęka C was supposed to be Europe’s last new big coal-fired power plant. Paola Tamma Politico It likely…
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Queen Elizabeth won’t get involved in Julian Assange case
The statement seemingly confirms that Assange’s detention is a political, not criminal, matter. Web Desk/Reuters Daily Times With WikiLeaks founder…
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Constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians must involve structural change, not mere symbolism
The PM anchored his government’s work on the co-design of a Voice to Government back to the 2018 parliamentary inquiry…
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A city divided: ‘Penetration not integration’ in East Jerusalem
Their teacher, an Orthodox Jew with the strings of his prayer shawl dangling at his hips, focuses on key words…
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