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Category Archives: global issues

The barely relevant Liberal National Party LNP (or should it be NLP?) has decided to abandon the bipartisan Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions policy: the market will drive energy policy, bring down emissions – and prices …really??

Cartoons for the latest issue of Australian Socialist. Issues covered include: the US playing chicken with China; Israel doesn’t go rogue – it goes by the Pentagon’s green light; Land Back, close Pine Gap – the US base in central Australia; the root causes of the war in Ukraine.

Turning Point USA CEO and co-founder Charlie Kirk once said, “I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage.” He preferred the word ‘sympathy’. That is an insight.

At the moment, globally , empathy doesn’t rate highly.

Empathy isn’t to be trashed. It is a skill. It helps find that small piece of common ground between widely divergent stands, a starting point …

Australia’s biggest gas project, Woodside’s North West Shelf, has received final approval to extend operations through until 2070.

‘Israeli rights groups call the war on Gaza genocide for first time’

Netanyahu: ‘The IDF is the most moral army in the world’

Louise Adler: The special envoy’s plan is the latest push to weaponise antisemitism in Australia, as a relentless campaign pays off.