by leon | Aug 18, 2016 | Blogs
Australia has a deep tradition of racism towards its First People and the Turnbull government’s calling of the Royal Commission into the abuse of youths in the Northern Territory corrections system following explosive revelations aired on the ABC’s Four Corners...
by leon | Aug 13, 2016 | Blogs
Donald Trump’s candidacy for President of the United States has been an example of kamikaze politics. Who in their right mind would run for President of the United States and alienate the Hispanics, the one group the Republicans need to get on board in order to win?...
by leon | Aug 7, 2016 | Blogs
The populist anger expressed in the Brexit vote and the underlying support in the US for the dark vision of Donald Trump can be sheeted home to the central banks around the world. Following the global financial crisis in 2008, central banks in the US, Europe and Japan...
by leon | Jul 23, 2016 | Blogs
Politico reports that Nielsen ratings data shows that an extraordinary 32.2 million people watched Donald Trump accept the Republican nomination on Thursday night across ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, Univision, Fox Business Network, CNBC and NBC Universo. In...
by leon | Jul 17, 2016 | Blogs
There are historical parallels with China saying it will declare an air zone over the South China Sea after the international tribunal in The Hague rejected China’s argument that it enjoys historic rights over most of the South China Sea and saying that China had...
by leon | Jul 16, 2016 | Blogs
Turkey’s leaders said they have largely quelled an attempted military coup, With army officers claiming to have seized power, clashes persisted in major cities as tanks blockaded roads. Soldiers have been fighting with police. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a...
by leon | Jul 9, 2016 | Blogs
The black US Army reservist who shot dead five officers during a Dallas ‘Black Lives Matter’ protest was shot by a police robot. Dallas police chief David O Brown told reporters that a hostage negotiator was able to talk with the suspect for hours before...
by leon | Jul 2, 2016 | Blogs
For those watching the election tonight, here are some issues to monitor. 1. Will Tony Windsor beat Barnaby Joyce in New England? We don’t know. The seat looks safe for the Nationals but Windsor held it for 12 years. There’s no official margin. Watch this...
by leon | Jun 25, 2016 | Blogs
So does the Brexit vote tell us that Donald Trump will be the next president? Writing in Ha’aretz,Chemi Shalev says the Brexit vote which defied opinion polls, bookmakers and politicians has made the election of Trump a distinct possibility. “Like the recent elections...
by leon | Jun 19, 2016 | Blogs
Apple says it won’t offer any support for the Republican convention in Cleveland in July citing Donald Trump’s incendiary rhetoric about women, immigrants and minorities. Politico reports that Apple has told the Republicans it won’t provide cash or technological...
