United Nations
- The Insult
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through school and national service in the Greek army. Everyone was puzzled by this Greek boy who couldn’t ... in these places. Something cheaper, too. He had this idea of making modular units out of shipping containers, small ... for storing food. Takes up no space. One tiny air-conditioning unit’s all you need. He explained how you had ...
The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2012-05-03 12:19 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- A White Cube in a Black Box
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which he likes best of the score or so of national pavilions that fill the shaded landscape ... has the chaste Danish pavilion in mind rather than the United States’ air-conditioned version ...
The Monthly - Deyan Sudjic - 2012-05-03 11:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- A Cad and a Gentleman
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to Hardy with his latest film, Trishna (in national release 10 May), a loose adaptation of Tess ... the robust, Delicacy (in national release 3 May), a frothy but pleasant French confection from first-time ... Liechtenstein were walking with the United States.” But if he’s not innately debonair, he’ll work out how ...
The Monthly - Luke Davies - 2012-05-03 12:20 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- US temperature records shattered in 2012
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US temperature records shattered in 2012 " It has been so warm in the United States this year that national records were not just broken, they were deep-fried. Temperatures in the lower 48 states were 8.6 degrees (4.8 degrees Celsius) above ...
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- Autumn of the Patriarch
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his speech to the UN Security Council. He was briskly interrogated about his United Nations trip ... Referendum, United Nations) ...
The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2012-05-16 17:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Rockin’ Rupert
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for President of the United States, not the telecommunications company. Another unseemly ambiguity marred his ... in capitals. Given the commercial opportunism that prompted his change of nationality, it’s Murdoch’s ... dream”, Murdoch takes the opportunity to re-pledge his personal faith in the messianic United States: ...
The Monthly - Peter Conrad - 2012-04-05 16:48 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Once Were Warriors
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of the ‘New Class’ model developed in the United States by neo-conservative intellectuals during the 1960s ... be assessed against the national interest and the sentiments of mainstream Australia.” Mainstream ... to the Liberal’s hypocritical language. Invoking the spectre of class warfare prevents a serious national debate ...
The Monthly - Nick Dyrenfurth - 2012-05-08 17:08 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Comment: Blessed are the Wealth-makers
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the “most entrepreneurial” in his country’s history. Think about that. In the United States, what ... (comment blessed wealthmakers, blessed wealthmakers) (April 2012, The Nation Reviewed, British ...
The Monthly - Don Watson - 2012-04-27 10:48 - 8 comments - 0 attachments
- One Morning with Malcolm
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to the future of the nation – the rise of China, the global politics of climate change, the need in Australia ... in the United States, and accepts that growing inequality is an issue governments need to be concerned with. ... that multiculturalism threatened to turn Australia into a nation of tribes. His deputy, Peter Costello, thought ...
The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2012-04-04 09:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Julie McKay
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returned from the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, what we heard very clearly from ... tainted the conversation. The United Nations talks about ‘temporary special measures’ instead. ...
Letters to the Editor - admin - 2012-03-28 12:38 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- The best and worst places to be a woman
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The best and worst places to be a woman " Best place to be a politician: Rwanda. Rwanda is the only nation in which females make up ... and United Arab Emirates." ...
The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-03-09 14:33 - 0 comments
- Love thy Leader
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In this they echo the national inability to seek meaning from our own past. What other people would allow themselves ... about the very definition of their party, and through it, its claim on the national soul. Their argument ... takes aim at himself. If he doesn’t, he will be a paid-up member because the thing that unites Malcolm ...
The Monthly - George Megalogenis - 2012-03-07 15:01 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- The 0.01 Per Cent: The Rising Influence of Vested Interests in Australia
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on retaining a strong, united, middle-class society. We will need a nation which calls on everyone’s skills; ... with a decent social safety net for the vulnerable, that had served our nation so well for so long. Today, ... always prided ourselves on being a nation that’s more equal than most – a place where, if you work hard, ...
The Monthly - Wayne Swan - 2012-03-02 06:58 - 89 comments - 0 attachments
- Global Shifts: A Broader Perspective on Refugees. Antonio Guterres
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Distinguished Speaker Series address, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, ...
SlowTV - admin - 2012-02-22 10:42 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- The Reluctant Son
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and then News Corp chief Peter Chernin, began undermining Lachlan soon after his arrival in the United States. ... Corp: the work that goes on at business unit level, raising capital, satisfying shareholders ... to identify and their influence in the nation’s political discourse obvious. Back then, the Packers, ...
The Monthly - Paola Totaro - 2012-03-01 10:44 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Children’s Lib
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the United States and Australia have mostly been positive. Badinter has been described as “refreshing” ... French mothers have higher birth rates than those of many other western nations, is this really due ...
The Monthly - Anne Manne - 2012-03-01 10:44 - 5 comments - 0 attachments
- Lord Monckton and the Future of Australian Media
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the disadvantage over against the more libertarian, right-thinking people in the United States who have got Fox ... of the central importance of Fox News to contemporary politics of the United States and therefore of the world. ... television business in the United States and the most lucrative arm of News Corporation, earning upwards ...
Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-02-08 19:23 - 16 comments - 0 attachments
- Syria is used to the slings and arrows
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Syria is used to the slings and arrows " The violence grows worse. The Arab League throws up its hands in despair. Madame Clinton may huff and puff at the United Nations. But the Syrian regime and the stalwarts of the old Baath party don't ...
The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-02-01 14:24 - 0 comments
- Long in the Tooth
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(February 2012, The Nation Reviewed, England, House of Lords, Parliament of the United Kingdom, Pharmacy, ...
The Monthly - Paola Totaro - 2012-02-07 15:42 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- In the Picture
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brought a freshet of previously unthinkable reforms. Suu Kyi’s National League of Democracy (NLD) has ... in state-building, together with our national experts and expatriates.” Despite initial scepticism about his ... army unit fighting DBKA rebels. The 21 year old described how he and fellow convicts were trucked ...
The Monthly - Sebastian Strangio - 2012-02-07 16:15 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Comment: Address to the US President
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of Another Visit from the President of the United States ... have good buddies I know, but I think I am right in saying that buddyship is not the core national ... that have made the United States a beacon to the whole world. And fondly do we hope, Mr President, fervently ...
The Monthly - Don Watson - 2012-02-23 14:54 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Philosophic Emissions
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about international bodies like the United Nations, with what authority could one nation or group ... the taxing nation would obtain data on the carbon footprint of every item it imports. Scruton surely doesn’t ... election. In undemocratic nations he distrusts the will of the government to enforce the laws in the manner ...
The Monthly - Peter Singer - 2012-02-08 14:44 - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- The Looks Department
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to present as higher earners. Indeed, a 2005 study in the United States found that 70% of consumers who ... department) (February 2012, The Nation Reviewed, Cosmetic medicine, Cosmotology, Disease, International ...
The Monthly - Tanveer Ahmed - 2012-02-07 15:40 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Divided We Fall
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as the other minor parties who rose and fell before them: the Democratic Labor Party, One Nation ... politics. In sheer percentage terms they have eclipsed the National Party, whom they now out-poll by three ... political party, the United Tasmania Group, in 1972. Greenland recalls that Brown was hesitant “because ...
The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2012-03-01 10:55 - 7 comments - 0 attachments
- So Who the Bloody Hell Are You?
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the Gweagal people of the Dharawal nation, the traditional owners of the land now occupied by his ... was an active member of the Uniting Church in Bondi Junction, where his father says he became “a dedicated ... to Kevin Rudd’s national apology to Indigenous Australians that had brought the chamber to its feet ...
The Monthly - Nick Bryant - 2012-02-07 15:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
