Gold and dross in FTA reactions
Jason Soon blogs an excellent post on the Aus/US FTA: As Stephen Kirchner points out, a lot of the recent negativity over the US Free...
The FTA and the Senate – a dead treaty?
John Quiggin blogs some further thoughts on the Australia/US FTA, observing: My understanding of the legal status of treaties is imperfect, to put it mildly....
FTA roundup
T1 and T2 have both been quick off the mark in blogging about the just-announced Australia/US Free Trade Agreement. T1 is predictably laudatory ("It ain't...
Dissecting an Iraq dissection
Wendy James' post What the Left Doesn't See has provoked quite a bit of comment box activity, mostly (it appears) because the quoted author Paul...
Agreeing with Alison
I don't often agree with Alison Broinowski, and indeed much of her article in today's Australian is just her standard kneejerk anti-western cringe that we...
Another national security gabfest (though not without interest)
Over the next couple of days I'll be peripherally involved with the Charles Darwin Symposium titled "The Eye of the Storm: Northern Australia's Location in...
Silly question hit for six
On the day after murderous terrorist suicide bomb attacks on the UN headquarters in Baghdad and a bus in Jerusalem, I can't think of anything...