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Environment by David Mills Premium Content   Australia will not get the comprehensive climate flogging some activists have predicted at Joe Bidens summit this week, a leading analyst of the US/Australian alliance has suggested. The virtual summit of 40 world leaders taking place on Thursday and Friday has already generated policy momentum, with Washington and Beijing committing to work together on climate issues, and Canada announcing it will cut CO2 emi...

Environment by David Mills Premium Content   Australia will not get the comprehensive climate flogging some activists have predicted at Joe Bidens summit this week, a leading analyst of the US/Australian alliance has suggested. The virtual summit of 40 world leaders taking place on Thursday and Friday has already generated policy momentum, with Washington and Beijing committing to work together on climate issues, and Canada announcing it will cut CO2 emi...

Joe Biden is speaking from a position of strength with sanctions against Russia16/04/2021|2min US Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman says the sanctions President Joe Biden has placed against Russia are a “big contrast to the Trump administration”. Mr Jackman said the Trump administration was often “tiptoeing around its relationship with the Russians” as was evident in the 2016 “interference work by the Russians” and President Biden is highlighting this. “Biden [is] not shying away f...

Afghanistan War gave 20 years of pacification to the Taliban16/04/2021|4min The Afghanistan War provided “20 years of pacification” which denied the Taliban the ability to deliver harm, according to US Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman. Mr Jackman said it was better for troops to be “fighting far away” from home and said it was important for families of soldiers for the public to “say job well done”. “It was a mantra we first heard during the George W Bush administration, ‘better...

Tremendous appetite by far left Democrats to add four justices to Supreme Court16/04/2021|3min The potential for the Democrats to add four justices to the US Supreme Court is stemming from a “tremendous appetite” from the left of the party to control all branches of government, according to US Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman. “Congress, coequal branch of government, incredibly important and so delicately poised at the moment [with] the deft and constant political management that Speaker ...

US Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman says former president Donald Trump’s hints at running for re-election in 2024 are “not surprising” but mainly for the Trump brand. “He’s going to tease like that all the way through, the brand is so important to Trump and that’s the source of a lot of income to Trump as well, irrespective of what his political ambitions are,” he told Sky News. Mr Jackman said keeping the idea of running for re-election is “very important to the Trump business ...

There could be “more coronavirus than they’re seeing” in the United States as testing has dropped amid the vaccine rollout, says US Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman. Mr Jackman said the focus on the amount of vaccinations administered and how this is a “very good news story” was distracting from the number of tests given and impacting infection statistics. “Have they taken the foot off on testing and actually perhaps more coronavirus out there than they’re seeing and indeed if you...

The murder trial of Derek Chauvin is “highlighting a number of poignant issues” in America as the defence is set to make its case, according to US Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman. “What we don’t see on the video footage that captivated the world tragically is this evidence that the defence is seeking to bring in about underlying history of drug use,” he told Sky News. “The claim will be he didn’t die as a result of the police violence, it was drugs he had in his system and the id...

US Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman says people in the United States and Australia are “carefully paying attention” to anything coming out of the Biden administration regarding China. “The issue of human rights in China has long been thought to be part of the ensemble of issues that unites, frankly, the entire American spectrum from left to right around needing to take a tougher line,” Mr Jackman told Sky News. “It’s something that I think China hawks and indeed big part of the forei...

From Crikey While Porter parties, his protection racket inflicts misery As Alan Tudge tried to protect Christian Porter from embarrassment, so Porter is trying to protect Alexander Downer from scrutiny over his role in the bugging of Timor-Leste. Privilege protects privilege. So it seems after further revelations today about how Alan Tudge pressured an ABC journalist to delete a photo taken in a Canberra night spot that, according to Four Corners’ bombshell report on Monday, would have em...