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Environment by David Mills Premium Content   Australia will not get the comprehensive climate flogging some activists have predicted at Joe Biden's 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 emissions by 36 per cent from 2005 levels by 2030. The US, Japan and South Korea are all poised to an...

Environment by David Mills Premium Content   Australia will not get the comprehensive climate flogging some activists have predicted at Joe Biden's 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 emissions by 36 per cent from 2005 levels by 2030. The US, Japan and South Korea are all poised to an...

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 from it at all and indeed speaking from a position of strength, ‘I could have done more but I did...

Afghanistan War gave '20 years of pacification to the Taliban'16/04/2021|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 to be fighting far away from the American homeland than in the American homeland’ and there has...

'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 Pelosi has to engage in,” he told Sky News. Mr Jackman said the “left flank” of Congress be...