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The Antarctic Treaty is turning 60 years old. In a changed world, is it still fit for purpose?


It is also the foundation of a rules-based international order for a continent without a permanent population.
The treaty is remarkably short and contains only 14 articles. Principal provisions include promoting the freedom of scientific research, the use of the continent only for peaceful purposes, and the prohibition of military activities, nuclear tests and the disposal of radioactive waste.
However, since the treaty was negotiated in a very different era and there have been a number of environmental, resource and geopolitical disputes related to Antarctica in recent decades, it begs the question: is it still fit for purpose?
Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies (left) at the first Antarctic Treaty consultative meeting in Canberra in 1961. ....

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Government to take fiscal U-turn 70 years after 'horror budget'


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“We make no apology for giving you a budget which will entail sacrifice,” concluded the Menzies government’s Treasurer Arthur Fadden in September 1951, less than two months after
The Australian Financial Review started publication.
But Sir Arthur’s punishing tax assault on households and businesses was not well received by Australia’s upstart first national newspaper.
“FADDEN’S DISASTROUS BUDGET FOR 1951-52,” screamed its page one headline.
Sir Arthur Fadden arrives at Parliament House to deliver the federal budget aiming to rein in a runaway economy. 
Harry Martin
“No more disastrous series of financial proposals can ever have been presented to Parliament than the Budget for 1951-52,” thundered the ....

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