22 Feb2019

Absurd Rocky Hill decision tarnishes rule of law

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Today in The Australian

While the Queensland government’s review of the Adani project is a farce, the decision of the NSW Land and Environment Court to block the proposed coalmine at Rocky Hill is a tragedy.


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15 Feb2019

Rudd’s tangle over broadband legacy

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Today in The Australian

Now that we are almost as abundantly endowed with ex-prime ministers as we are with coal, it is perhaps unsurprising that emissions from the former have grown to rival those from the latter. But even in a crowded field, Kevin Rudd’s claim that “it was never ­envisaged that the NBN generate a commercial rate of return” merits a special place in the greatest moral challenge facing mankind.

08 Feb2019

Why fill the tumbrels with middlemen?

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Today in The Australian

Even those who delight in life’s ­little ironies will have been troubled to see the major culprits, in this case the banks, emerge from the ­financial services royal commission with what so far is barely a scolding, while the mortgage brokers and financial advisers, who were bit players in the drama, are hauled to the guillotine.

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01 Feb2019

China might dance to Trump’s tune – for a while

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Today in The Australian

As US and Chinese negotiators struggle to reach agreement ­before higher American tariffs on Chinese goods come into effect on March 2, it is increasingly clear that the Trump administration has two distinct, and potentially inconsistent, goals.

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25 Jan2019

We came, we saw, we made the very best of it

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Today in The Australian

We came, we saw, we made the very best of it
As long ago as January 26, 1817, only a few years after the colony of NSW had come into existence, some 40 guests celebrated its founding at the Sydney home of Isaac Nichols, a former convict who was the settlement’s postmaster.

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18 Jan2019

Are we headed towards high noon for democracy?

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Today in The Australian

In 1923, as the Weimar Republic struggled with chaos, the German polymath Carl Schmitt wrote a short but enormously influential book, The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy. Schmitt later destroyed his reputation through his collaboration with the Hitler regime. But if his work is increasingly cited, it is because its contemporary resonance is undeniable.

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