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Development links: Australian aid cuts, G20, happiness economics and more
The big aid news from Australia was the 5 September announcement by the LNP Coalition (now the incoming government) of cuts to growth in the aid program. Early analysis of the…
Movie trailer: The Railway Man
The Railway Man is the story of a former British POW who tracks down the Japanese officer who tortured him. It's a moving trailer on a subject that could hardly be more relevant…
The flaw in Obama's Syria plan
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President Obama's address to the nation today included an explicit assurance against any escalation beyond targeted strikes that would punish the Assad…
Syria: Russia offers Obama a way out
Bob Bowker is a former Australian ambassador to Jordan, Egypt and Syria. He is now an Adjunct Professor at the ANU Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies.
Russia has offered…
Thinking big about democracy
ABC Radio National is creating some nice videos to accompany their interviews, and here's a recent one with Francis Fukuyama and John Keane from the University of Sydney, talking…
Development links: Pacific forum, G20 summit, World Bank, China and more
Before Australia heads to the polls on Saturday, Melissa Park, Minister for International Development, writes on 'Why Labor is the best choice for foreign aid'.
The Maldives is…
Documentary teaser: Unknown Known
Via Fallows, here's a sneak peek at Errol Morris' (The Fog of War) new documentary about the Iraq war, Unknown Known: The Life and Times of Donald Rumsfeld. There's no release…
In conversation: John Garnaut
Tomorrow at 31 Bligh St, former Fairfax China correspondent John Garnaut will speak with East Asia Program Director Linda Jakobson to discuss the future of the Communist Party in…
Tuesday links: Syria, oil, poverty, India, Anglosphere, Germany and more
'Poverty's effects on the mind lead to bad choices. Living with too little imposes huge psychic costs, reducing our mental bandwidth and distorting our decisionmaking'.
The…
Pacific forum fights for relevance
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The 2013 Pacific Islands Forum starts today and the host, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, wants climate change to be the major focus, naming the theme of…