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Australia’s relations with China will take another major step forward this week with Foreign Minister Penny Wong travelling to Beijing for the resumption of the bilateral Foreign and Strategic Dialogue, which has been on hold since 2018.
Indigenous community members from the Tiwi Islands off the northern coast of Australia took Santos Limited to court, arguing that the company did not adequately consult traditional owners in its plans to drill in the Barossa offshore gas field.

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Australia’s Racing Industry: The Rights of Race Horses By , October 22, 2019
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Australia’s Foreign Fighters: The Temporary Exclusion “Solution” By , August 31, 2019
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National Security and Press Freedoms in Australia By , July 19, 2019
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Corporate Gangster in Australia: Adani Mining Giant’s Pursuit of Scientists By , July 19, 2019
Australia, Matters of Water: Dubious Approvals and the Adani Carmichael Mine By , June 17, 2019
Australia’s Voters Betray Themselves, Their Homeland and Mother Earth By , May 31, 2019
Australia’s Bob Hawke: Misunderstood in Memoriam By , May 30, 2019
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A Compulsive Matter: Mandatory Voting in Australia and Its Discontents By , May 30, 2019
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Australia: The Disgruntled Former Prime Minister Turnball By , November 30, 2018
Big Mouthed Blue-Eyes: Frank Sinatra in Australia By , November 30, 2018
Shark Attack in Queensland: Fearing Monsters in the Whitsundays By , November 07, 2018
Australian Politics: Wentworth Blues, Another Nail in the Scomo Coffin By , November 03, 2018
Australian Complicity: Nauru and Silencing Journalism By , October 11, 2018
Australia’s Naval Base in Papua New Guinea: Power Play in the South Pacific against China By , September 20, 2018
Senator Fraser Anning and the Smugness of Australian “Values” By , September 04, 2018
Sodding the Australian Voter: Accidental Prime Ministers and Political Indulgence By , August 25, 2018
Readying Knives: The Mortality of Australian Prime Ministers By , August 20, 2018
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Australia: Send in the Troops! Deploying the ADF Against Rioters By , July 03, 2018
Australia Is Attempting to “Contain” China By , July 02, 2018
Australia, The Catholic Church in Resistance: Priests, Child Abuse, and Breaking the Seal of the Confessional By , June 29, 2018
Evading Medical Care: Australia’s Refugee Arrangements with Taiwan By , June 24, 2018
Pushing China’s Huawei Out: Australia, the Solomon Islands and the Internet By , June 14, 2018
Elite Atrocities: Australia’s Special Forces in Afghanistan By , June 10, 2018
States of Cruelty: The Dead Refugees of Manus Island. Australia’s Detention of Asylum Seekers By , June 01, 2018
Australia’s China Syndrome By , May 23, 2018
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The Commercial Heavens: The New Australian Space Agency By , May 18, 2018
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Plunder Down Under: The Rot in Australia’s Financial Services By , May 03, 2018
Australia’s Unintentional Extremist: Rugby Union Player Israel Folau, the Bible and Homophobia By , May 03, 2018
Sugar Demons, Sweet Lobbies and Taxes in Australia By , May 03, 2018
Irresistible Urges: Surveilling Australia’s Citizens By , May 03, 2018
Pacific Moves: China, Vanuatu and Australia By , April 11, 2018
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American Polynesia, Rising Seas and Relocation By , January 06, 2018
Peaceful Protest against the Joint US-Australia Pine Gap “Spy Hub”: The Fate of the “Pine Gap Pilgrims” Activists By , December 09, 2017
The Demise of Civic Journalism: Australia’s Xenophon-Turnbull Deal By , September 20, 2017
Energy Chaos in Australia: Closing the Liddell Power Station By , September 13, 2017
Lacking Transparency: Israeli Drones and Australian Defence By , September 05, 2017
The Rise of the Killer Robot By , August 24, 2017
Setback of “Green Conscience”: The Australian Recycling Sham By , August 13, 2017
Australia’s Refugee Transit Centre on Manus Island: The Fate of Hamed Shamshiripour By , August 13, 2017
Dreams of Detention By , June 09, 2017
The Universal Lesson of East Timor By , May 08, 2017
Ice and Busts: The Lost War on Drugs in Australia By , April 21, 2017
Cyclone Watch in Australia By , March 26, 2017
Australia Blows Israel’s Credibility on Its “World Vision” Sham Accusations By , March 23, 2017
One Nation Train. “Make Australia Great Again”, US-Australian Relations By , March 03, 2017
Populism in Australia: Channelling Trump “Down Under” By , February 09, 2017
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Australia and the Asylum Seekers: The Hideous Manus Island Camp, Institutionalized Cruelty, “The Nauru Files” By , August 26, 2016
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