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Peter is the former national president of the National Civic Council and on the News Weekly editorial team.

Aug242019

SPECIAL FILM REVIEW Danger Close: Australia’s fiercest battle of the Vietnam War

History & Philosophy, Music Cinema & BooksAugust 24, 2019

The Battle of Long Tan, a battle fought in August 1966, was the most telling single engagement involving Australian units during the entire Vietnam War. For the North Vietnamese regime, the decision by the Australian government to commit ground forces to assist in defending South Vietnam from invasion in early 1966 required a military response. The Hanoi regime ordered two of its battle-hardened units operating secretly in South Vietnam to inflict a military defeat on the Australian forces that would force a political decision to withdraw from the war. So it was that just two months after Australian forces took…

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Aug102019

Boris Johnson and the EU: Crash through or just crash

Cover Story, Foreign AffairsAugust 10, 2019

Boris Johnson, elected overwhelmingly by the grass roots of the British Conservative Party to replace Theresa May as Prime Minister, faces the awesome task of reuniting the British Government to secure Britain’s exit from the European Union, within just three months. Boris Johnson is an unlikely Prime Minister. The 55-year-old former mayor of London cuts a bedraggled figure, with a mop of characteristically uncombed blond hair, clothes askew, and a penchant for putting his foot in his mouth while quoting Latin aphorisms that nobody understands. Yet he has pursued the prime ministership with singular determination. Theresa May…

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Jul272019

FOREIGN AFFAIRS Boris Johnson and the EU: Crash through or just crash

Foreign AffairsJuly 27, 2019

Boris Johnson, elected overwhelmingly by the grass roots of the British Conservative Party to replace Theresa May as Prime Minister, faces the awesome task of reuniting the British Government to secure Britain’s exit from the European Union, within just three months. Boris Johnson: Never lost for words. Boris Johnson is an unlikely Prime Minister. The 55-year-old former mayor of London cuts a bedraggled figure, with a mop of characteristically uncombed blond hair, clothes askew, and a penchant for putting his foot in his mouth while quoting Latin aphorisms that nobody understands. Yet he has pursued the prime ministership…

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Jul272019

NATIONAL AFFAIRS High power prices lead to more deaths of elderly

National AffairsJuly 27, 2019

Soaring energy prices are leading to an increased number of hospital admissions of elderly Australians, with some dying of hypothermia, according to recent studies by NSW Health and the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. Information released by NSW Health in May revealed that more than 130 people were admitted to NSW emergency departments last winter with cold-related problems, including hypothermia. This is a 34 per cent rise in 10 years. The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) says that wholesale power prices have soared by more than 150 per cent in the last four years but, for many people, prices have gone…

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