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Good thing the phones are smart; many of the people who use them clearly aren’t. But whether the boorishness involved in sending lewd photos by text message justifies Cricket Australia’s treatment of Tim Paine is an open question.
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It was the past, not the future, that changed at last week’s plenary session of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee.
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If nothing is more precious than the gift of life, we are not only richer but also more equal than ever before.
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“He who decides on the exception is sovereign”, the German polymath Carl Schmitt famously wrote, in what remains the most frequently cited sentence from his vast body of work.
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It may well be that the “National Indigenous Visual Arts Action Plan, 2021-2025”, which the government released late last week, contains some worthwhile initiatives. But it was hard not to be struck by a statement tucked away among the indicators of “what success looks like”.
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There will, no doubt, be more than a touch of theatre to COP26. It is true that with Xi Jinping and possibly Narendra Modi too busy rearranging their stamp collections to attend, the organisers might as well stage Waiting for Godot. But while Vladimir’s weary admission in Godot that “I get used to the muck as I go along” perfectly encapsulates the numbness BoJo’s big show elicits, it would be wrong to dismiss the event as just another display of performance art.
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