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Jun62015

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Should we fear China and Russia in the global economy?

Foreign Affairs, UncategorizedJune 6, 2015

As the economies of China and Russia expand and integrate into the global economy, both are extending their economic and diplomatic influence with new multi-lateral organisations. BRICS’ leaders (from left): Russia’s Vladimir Putin, India’s Narendra Modi, Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff, China’s Xi Jinping and South Africa’s Jacob Zuma. Are these new organisations a threat to the post-World Ware II Western alliance, or are will they bring greater global economic and political stability? Phillip Y. Lipscy recently analysed this debate in Foreign Affairs (May 7, 2015), the journal of the US Council on Foreign Relations. Lipscy is the Thomas Rohlen Center Fellow,…

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May232015

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Supreme Court argument goes to heart of marriage

Foreign Affairs, UncategorizedMay 23, 2015

The United States Supreme Court has been discussing the problems, concerns and harms with same-sex marriage. The Supreme Court of the United States Its open discussions stand in stark contrast to rulings by lower courts that there is no rational basis for defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman only. Whereas in Australia marriage is a federal issue, in the U.S. marriage is a state matter. However, the U.S. Federal Supreme Court is now being forced to consider the issue, after many state referenda to define man-woman marriage. In some cases, these referenda were upheld by…

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May92015

CULTURE World war to social media: how we were secularised

UncategorizedMay 9, 2015

Philip Jenkins’ book, The Great and Holy War: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade, des-cribes how most Churches on both sides regarded the conflict as a holy war and called on their young men to join their country’s armed forces (See News Weekly, April 11, 2015). How did this devastating war affect religious…

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May92015

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Advancing Indonesia should abolish death penalty

Foreign Affairs, UncategorizedMay 9, 2015

This has been an appropriate time for Australia to lobby and pressure the Indonesian Government to abolish the death penalty. Joko Widodo The campaign in Australia to stop the execution of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran was supported by a parallel campaign by some in Indonesia. They pointed out that while the Australians were facing execution for drug smuggling, their Government was lobbying other countries on behalf of Indonesian citizens facing the same fate for the same crime of drug smuggling in other parts of the world. Australia has had a long, close and robust relationship with Indonesia. The countries…

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