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In their book, The Locked-up Country — a play on Donald Horne’s The Lucky Country — Tom Chodor and Sharar Hameiri meticulously chronicle how governments opted for seemingly unthinkable measures to control the COVID-19 pandemic. Fred Fuentes reviews.

Two books cast back to the dark days of COVID 19.

Leader of Russia, Putin, and Chinas Xi Jinping are skipping the G20 summit, but their absence will have a big influence on the proceedings.

By Concerned Academics and ExpertsMay 24, 2023,  https://johnmenadue.com/an-open-letter-to-the-australian-government-from-concerned-scholars-regarding-the-aukus-agreement/ We the undersigned are scholars of the humanities and social sciences and other disciplines with expertise in the following issues. We write this open letter to express our concerns regarding the Australia, United Kingdom, United States (AUKUS) trilateral security agreement. Specifically, our concerns relate to pilla...

Jacinda Ardern has resigned as New Zealand's Prime Minister. During her five year tenure she has shown us that kindness and empathy are strength too.

Why is crime a sustainable development issue?

The 2021 presidential election in Chile has resulted in the victory of the Left candidate Gabriel Boric. With nearly 56% of the vote, he has won by a margin of more than 10 percentage points – most presidents had hitherto secured only four or five point leads. In absolute terms, this is a record majority, […]