Water crisis
- Autumn of the Patriarch
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peaks and folds nearly blinds you. Then the plane tilts and you are circling over the shimmering water ... the presidential vehicle pulled over and stopped in a deep pool of milk chocolate–coloured water, making way ... water began pouring from the sky. More and more water. Today’s test of truth was to come from a water ...
The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2012-05-16 17:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Love thy Leader
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yet they forced him to water down his mandate for health care reform. Julia Gillard, by contrast, ... else, from the sins of white settlement to the triumph of the global financial crisis? The ex-PMs ... The Nation Reviewed, American Presidents, Boat people, Bob Hawke, Conservatism, Global Financial Crisis ...
The Monthly - George Megalogenis - 2012-03-07 15:01 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Lord Monckton and the Future of Australian Media
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for the collection of their welfare cheques: “And when they had gravitated there, I would dope the water up so ... in the hands of News Limited. Increasingly, as the global warming crisis deepens, the opinion-shaping parts ...
Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-02-08 19:23 - 16 comments - 0 attachments
- The Elephant in the Room
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from personal wealth kept so close to the body. Gold played a vital role in the crisis that sparked ... the strategic importance of the Indian Ocean, as a body of water and commercial thoroughfare, ...
The Monthly - Michael Wesley - 2012-02-07 15:57 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- How can climate change denialism be explained?
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is unable to accept the reality and the urgency of the looming climate crisis. With the Left and communism, ... devastating droughts especially in sub-Saharan Africa; eventual massive water shortages in Asia through ... of climate change denialism. Every time an article concerning the climate crisis appears somewhere ...
Blog - Robert Manne - 2011-12-12 10:46 - 31 comments - 0 attachments
- From the Chrysalis
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the waters part and every obstacle becomes a stepping stone, sheer cliffs reveal their footholds, every rival ... appointed, and Sarah Palin, and the Global Financial Crisis. Just days before he announced he was running ... Bush, Obama, Rupert Murdoch, Senate, Social Justice, The Global Financial Crisis) ...
The Monthly - Don Watson - 2011-11-17 11:21 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Plan for China's water crisis spurs concern
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Plan for China's water crisis spurs ... (Beijing, China, Hubei, Tianjin, Water crisis, Yangtze, New York Times) ... River is so polluted it can no longer supply drinking water. The rapid growth of megacities — 22 ...
The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-19 13:21 - 0 comments
- CanDo? Campbell Newman’s Bid for Queensland
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Stadium had been inundated with muddy water. For a time, the most widespread flooding in Queensland ... in recovery, Campbell Newman, another hero of the rising waters, opted for political boldness. In April he quit ... that her popularity surged during those water-logged weeks, despite the evidence of the polls. Rather than ...
The Monthly - Nick Bryant - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- What We Learned in Copenhagen
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of continuing human crisis. Desperate poverty, raging health pandemics and dirty water supplies have slashed ...
The Monthly - Andrew Charlton - 2011-11-28 09:41 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- The Book of Paul
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the Fukushima nuclear reactor into meltdown; the sovereign debt crisis in Europe; and the riots without apparent ... And we don’t really feel like paying for the big transactions, from securing the water supply before ... television, and the global financial crisis for stagflation, and the forces at play conform to a familiar ...
The Monthly - George Megalogenis - 2011-12-01 15:47 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- A Journey through North-western NSW with Filmmaker Ivan Sen
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by the muddy water of the Macintyre River. We were now in the Aboriginal community of Toomelah, also called ... and the water bore, they dated from 1987, after the years of racial violence, and were products of Australia’s ... a kind of mystical crisis, in which he says he came to understand “everything” about films and making ...
The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2012-01-15 15:11 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- What does the Arab world do when its water runs out?
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to a growing regional water crisis ... (Climate Change, Drought, Food prices, Water crisis, Water supplies, Guardian) ... What does the Arab world do when its water ...
The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-19 13:23 - 0 comments
- Population Crisis. Dick Smith in conversation
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5218423 Dick Smith's Population Crisis is Smith's new book exploring the crucial issue of unsustainable population growth ... pressing problems - food production challenges and price rises, water shortages, the unsustainable ...
SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 9 comments - 0 attachments
- Water Crisis: What will it mean for you?
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City of Melbourne Future Leaders 1815941 In this Melbourne Conversations event, academics, environmentalists and opinion makers discuss the impact of the water crisis on costs, health, food production, gardens and our ...
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- Water Crisis: What will it mean for you? A Melbourne Conversations event (p2)
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City of Melbourne Future Leaders 1815879 In this Melbourne Conversations event, academics, environmentalists and opinion makers discuss the impact of the water crisis on costs, health, food production, gardens and our ...
SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Water Crisis: What will it mean for you? A Melbourne Conversations event (p3)
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City of Melbourne Future Leaders 1815802 In this Melbourne Conversations event, academics, environmentalists and opinion makers discuss the impact of the water crisis on costs, health, food production, gardens and our ...
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- The Way to the Watering Hole
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or ‘path’, which originally meant ‘the way to the watering hole’. For Muslims, it means the path to Allah ... is inherently stable, as demonstrated during the global financial crisis, which was sparked in part by predatory ... (watering hole, watering hole) (December 2010 - January 2011, The Monthly Essays, SOCIETY, Business, ...
The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2011-01-04 05:32 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Booze Territory
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The Crisis of Alcoholism ... cheaper than a bottle of water. In spite of themselves, retailers couldn’t help responding to the market. ... than a bottle of water and 5 litre casks going for 8 bucks. Cirrhosis of the liver, anyone? Last ...
The Monthly - Anna Krien - 2011-10-10 13:54 - 2 comments - 0 attachments
- Comment: Ten Years After Tampa
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as an “inept saga of crisis management”, and found it astounding that Howard went into the drama “without any ... waters, carrying 2126 passengers between them. Yet another boat tragically failed to arrive: the so-called ... to boat arrivals given the extent and intractability of the global refugee crisis. Other outcomes can ...
The Monthly - Peter Mares - 2011-09-19 11:05 - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- Out of the Box
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or anything. It just appears, in the dishwater, a lawn sprinkler, a toilet flushing, anywhere there’s water, especially domestic water – but if you catch it in your hand it just turns into a cheap dolphin trinket”. ... powerfully. Lally Katz is now workshopping a play based on a personal crisis her father went through when ...
The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2011-09-03 12:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Comment
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Dick Smith’s Population Crisis ... land to themselves. There’s no ‘population crisis’ out here. ... Dick Smith’s Population Crisis: The Dangers of Unsustainable Growth for Australia (Allen & Unwin, ...
The Monthly - Guy Pearse - 2011-06-02 13:08 - 9 comments - 0 attachments
- The United States of Chris Mitchell
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they can to shut down newspaper editors.” As the global financial crisis deepened, the Australian ... Australian government source. The crises besetting the Rudd government coincided with a personal crisis ... of once-neglected issues, such as Indigenous affairs, water and education. At its best the paper is courageous, ...
The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2011-09-03 12:03 - 3 comments - 0 attachments
- Spirit of Independence
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by water-cannon tanks. Foreign journalists are not allowed in West Papua – neither are diplomats unless they have ... could become a “regional humanitarian crisis”. Sylebus Bobby shares Wenda’s concerns. He says his ...
The Monthly - William Lloyd-George - 2011-06-06 11:07 - 4 comments - 0 attachments
- Who’s Afraid of Marcia Langton?
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for Indigenous responsibility and the crisis of welfarism in Indigenous affairs. Two of Indigenous Australia’s ... crisis in remote communities. She wants the remaining vestiges of race power wiped from the Constitution. ... to the centre of academic life in Australia. Langton arrived in a state of domestic and financial crisis from ...
The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2012-01-18 10:22 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Comment
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to upgrade a sensitive conservation area within Sydney’s water catchment to national park status, thereby ... and demonstrated his toughness towards big business activities that threaten water quality and contribute ... politics. But, with NSW Labor in a state of profound crisis, the Greens may not be given this opportunity ...
The Monthly - Mark Aarons - 2011-09-01 18:05 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
