Showing posts with label Canberra Times. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canberra Times. Show all posts
Monday, January 23, 2017

TERRORISM: Orlando massacre: for a minority of a minority, two worlds collide

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Barely a few days after Americans of all faiths and backgrounds came together to celebrate the life of the great American Muhammad Ali, t...
Wednesday, January 04, 2017

SECURITY: Deradicalisation programs: do they work?

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A 16-year-old boy from suburban Sydney with no criminal record has been charged with an offence whose maximum penalty is life imprisonmen...

CULTURE WARS: A message to mono-cultural chestbeaters

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Abul A'la al-Ma'arri (973-1057BC) was an Arab philosopher and poet who lived to the ripe old age of 84 in the district of Aleppo...

SECURITY: Are we on our way to becoming a police state?

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The greatest comic cop ever to grace a Hollywood screen was Frank Drebin, lead character in the cult comedy The Naked Gun . Readers may ...
Wednesday, July 27, 2016

SECURITY: The rhetoric of madness over terrorism vacillates with little logic

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In January 2009, a Melbourne "cleric" known as Abu Hamza had his face splashed across the front page of the Herald Sun . The he...
Sunday, October 11, 2015

TERRORISM: Balancing security and individual liberty - when radicalisation becomes a threat to government thinking

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We were all radicals in one way or another. Some of us become more radical with age. Tony Abbott's views on abortion (at least as expr...

POLITICS: Cory Bernardi gets in touch with his inner conservative

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Tony Abbott is gone. Malcolm Turnbull is in power. This apparently means conservatives in the Liberal Party have or soon will be vanquish...

SECURITY: Terrorism legislation highlighted as Harun Causevic released on bail

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During the pre-dawn of April 18, 2015, police raided a number of homes in south-western Melbourne. To say the raids were a media circus w...
Saturday, August 08, 2015

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS: Peter Andren we need you more than ever to keep our MPs honest

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It's often said that the major problem with our Parliaments is they are inundated with lawyers. As a lawyer myself, I admit that ...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

CULTURE WARS: An uncomfortable intersection of political interests

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On Sunday, thousands of fair dinkum real Aussies will gather at rallies across Australia, raising the Australian flag and shouting slogan...

OPINION: Belligerent and unhelpful: that's our Prime Minister Tony Abbott

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Soon a huge chunk of the Australian population will be eligible to be stripped of their citizenship. Tony Abbott announced [t]he gove...
Monday, July 20, 2015

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS: Why is Bronwyn Bishop meddling in matters that don't concern her?

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In case you hadn't noticed, Canberra is not the capital of Britain . We do speak something resembling English, and our beloved Pri...
Friday, July 17, 2015

OPINION: Citizenship focus misses wider security issue

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My road to Australian citizenship was long and hard. First I had to be born. Then I spent five months in a rather swish place called ...

OPINION: Tony Abbott getting it wrong on the Rohingya

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Something is very rotten in the state of Myanmar. By any measure and any definition, a tiny ethnic minority of Myanmar is the subject of...