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Beyond the Great Divide: An exploration of territory outside the frontiers of liberalism and conservatism

Cover Story, History & PhilosophyMarch 27, 2020

by Brian Coman Part One of two parts (You can read Part Two here) IN THE FIRST PART OF THIS EXTENDED ESSAY, BRIAN COMAN CLEARS THE GROUND FOR A LATER TOUR OF WHAT MAY COME TO REPLACE THE POLITICAL SETTLEMENT USUALLY DESIGNATED BY ‘LEFT’ AND ‘RIGHT’. HE DOES THIS BY IDENTIFYING THE FRACTURES BETWEEN THEM AND REMARKS THAT THESE FRACTURES ARE WIDENING INTO IRRECONCILABILITY. For most older Australians, at any rate, my title will bring to mind those early Australian explorers and settlers who found their way over the Great Dividing Range and into the vast Australian interior. But it…

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Mar272020

Covid19 outbreak hits China’s growth, imperils Communist Party

Foreign Affairs, Health & EducationMarch 27, 2020

by Peter Westmore The rapid spread of the new coronavirus Covid19 throughout China is already having a dramatic, negative effect on China’s economy, with impacts already seen in the West, and, in China, rising hostility over the Chinese Communist Party’s failure to stop the outbreak. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has consistently claimed that the outbreak is “under control” and there is no cause for alarm. It repeatedly reports a decline in the number of confirmed cases, and reports an influx of health professionals from other parts of China into the worst affected city of Wuhan. However, the facts on…

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Mar272020

Myth-busting China’s ‘soft power’

Foreign Affairs, History & PhilosophyMarch 27, 2020

by Dr Paul Monk Part One of two parts (You can read Part Two here) DR PAUL MONK IS AN AUTHOR AND FORMER HEAD OF THE CHINA DESK AT THE DEFENCE INTELLIGENCE ORGANISATION. HIS BOOKS INCLUDE ‘THUNDER FROM THE SILENT ZONE: RETHINKING CHINA’ AND ‘THE WEST IN A NUTSHELL: FOUNDATIONS, FRAGILITIES, FUTURES’. HE DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE AS AN ADDRESS TO THE NCC’S NATIONAL CONFERENCE OVER THE WEEKEND OF FEBRUARY 7-9, 2020. In 1988, when he was director of the Institute of Political Science in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Yan Jiaqi gave a speech entitled “China is no…

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Project Nettie: Science takes on transgender ideology

Health & Education, Life Marriage & Family, Science & TechnologyMarch 27, 2020

by Terri M. Kelleher “In contradiction of evolutionary history and millennia of human observations, highly esteemed scientific periodicals are running articles undermining the observable reality of biological sex.” So it says on the website of Project Nettie, founded by British developmental biologist Dr Emma Hilton and New Zealand feminist Jenny Whyte. Project Nettie is “an online and regularly updated record of scientists, medics and those in related disciplines who … assert the material reality of biological sex and reject attempts to reframe it as a malleable social construct.” The Project Nettie statement on the website says: “Biological sex is fundamentally…

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