Despite Labor’s trenchant attacks on the Howard Government’s Pacific Solution – under which asylum-seekers were processed offshore – it has now emerged that Kevin Rudd’s Indonesia solution has been in process since the 2007 election. Map showing Tanjung Pinang. The detention centre in which the Rudd Labor Government wanted to place the 78 asylum-seekers picked…
The central issue in the climate change debate is whether carbon dioxide is a pollutant which is causing the world to heat up uncontrollably, or whether it is a beneficial minor component of the atmosphere which has little or no effect on the world’s climate. The Rudd Government, with support from Malcolm Turnbull, refuses to…
The policy of the governments of Australia and New Zealand to impose sanctions on the judiciary in Fiji has backfired, leading to the expulsion of Australia’s and New Zealand’s high commissioners. Australia’s policy of punishing the government in Fiji is hypocritical, as it has not imposed any sanctions on other more repressive governments, including the…
A massive expansion of natural gas production, fuelled by new technology, is changing the global energy landscape, removing fears that the world is running out of petroleum, and dramatically pushing down the price of natural gas. While Australians are aware of the expansion of conventional gas output in the Timor Sea, the most interesting development…
