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Op-Ed
3 February 2017

Published in John Menadue — Pearls and Irritations

It is hard not to conclude that our major parties have been the primary stumbling block.

Op-Ed
10 July 2017

On 7 July 2017, more than 120 countries adopted a treaty at a UN conference that prohibits the production, stockpiling, use or threatened use of nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices. Australia was a notable absentee. So were the nine countries that possess nuclear weapons.

Op-Ed
30 October 2017

The result of the recent snap election called by Shinzo Abe and Japan’s steady military build-up are a portent of things to come. The Korean crisis, which owes at least as much to Washington’s flexing of military muscle as to Pyongyang’s misguided nuclear antics, holds the key to many of these ominous developments.

Op-Ed
1 May 2020

Joseph A. Camilleri, 'Covid-19 - Lessons Not yet Learnt', in Pearls and Irritations, 1 May 2020

Op-Ed
2 November 2020

Much of the commentary on the US election has focused on the personalities, the contest, the likely result. Will it be Biden or Trump again? But is this the nub of the question?

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