Sydney University's United States Study Centre (USSC) has pointed out that in 2021, the US House of Representatives met for 160 days and planned to meet for 112 days in 2022. And the US Senate met for ...

Last year, I attended the Mailman School of Public Health graduation ceremony at Columbia University. The student selected to deliver a speech on behalf of the student body was an Arab woman. First, ...

At Election 2025, Peter Dutton kicked the own-goal of nuclear-net-zero. Reappointed Albanese Labor climate-Svengali Chris Bowen still spruiks 43% emissions reduction towards net-zero. It's far-fetched ...

Sensing this, the military mandarins, most prominently General Sir Roland Walker, head of the Army, have been more than encouraging, seeing the need to ready the country for war by 2027. Given the ...

Yet even in the midst of horror, it is vital – if we wish to find the hope and courage to fight on – to stop and smell the ...

The implications extend beyond Western Sahara, posing significant risks to the stability of the broader Maghreb region. Morocco faces numerous internal challenges - economic stagnation, widespread ...

The German government forced all its perfectly good reactors to close, resulting in the highest electricity prices and dirtiest air in the European Union. It is considering reversing that mistake with ...

The United Nations (UN) continues to act illegally in flagrant breach of article 80 of its own Charter.

To put Trump's thoughtless decision in the context of the US annual budget, foreign aid in 2023 amounted to $71.9 billion, which represents only 1.2 percent-a minuscule amount-of the US' total federal ...

In England, climate change will put such springs at risk not too far into the future. He reports in his brief inter-chapters on the River Cam that the nationwide privatisation of riverways has put the ...

This is not so different from the approval by European Union countries on May 27 of a €150 billion loan program known as the Security Action for Europe (SAFE) borrowing scheme. A press release from ...

BA (Economics) from the University of Western Australia. He is an independent economic consultant and freelance journalist with a background in policy research.