December 1, 2015
Oil and water
Politics
Australia blurs the lines with Timor-Leste
Mark Aarons
By this author
May 5, 2011
The Greens and fundamentalism
Politics
From 1 July the Senate will have a genuine centre-left majority for the first time in 60 years. The 1951 double dissolution election stripped Labor of its Senate majority; it has never again held or shared a majority with an avowedly left-wing party. …
March 1, 2013
Mate of the Union
essay
How to corrupt a party
March 3, 2011
NSW Labor
Politics
The impending rout of the New South Wales Labor government on 26 March will be unprecedented in modern Australian politics. With the ALP marooned on 24% of the primary vote in the last Newspoll of 2010, and 20% and 22% respectively in the first Galaxy …
August 5, 2010
The hollowmen
Politics
The destruction of Kevin Rudd’s prime ministership is unprecedented in the history of the Australian Labor Party. Never before had the parliamentary party treated a successful ALP leader with such disrespect and disloyalty, especially when it was only …
June 2, 2010
Water policy
Politics
When Malcolm Turnbull announced his retirement from politics in April, he trumpeted his achievement of “a truly revolutionary reform of the way water is managed in Australia”. He rightly referred to the decades of “state run mismanagement of the …
March 1, 2009
Hideout
Society
Australians can for the most part be proud of our international reputation for promoting human rights and opposing and punishing those who violate them. Australia is not perfect, but it nevertheless ranks among the world’s best nations. Except when …
August 1, 2007
Timor’s future
essay
Xanana Gusmão and José Ramos-Horta
August 2, 2006
Beloved companheiros
essay
What happened in East Timor
April 5, 2006
Truth, death & diplomacy in East Timor
essay
A commission’s report confirms Australian duplicity & cowardice