20 Best Books I’ve Read in 2018
Happy New Year to The Daily Chrenk readers. If 2018 sucked for you, as it did for many people I know, keep marching on, onward and upward; if it was …
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Australia welcome another Arthur
Long time no ambassador: A?former legal adviser to Ronald Reagan has been nominated as the next United States ambassador to Australia. US President Donald Trump has nominated distinguished lawyer Arthur …
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The kitten diplomacy
There should be more of it: The US embassy in Australia has apologised for an email invitation featuring a cat dressed in pyjamas that was mistakenly sent out by the …
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Of course it’s all about money
An undiplomatic incident in a Canberra restaurant: Environment Minister Melissa Price has been accused of offending a key Pacific leader by declaring the region was “always” seeking cash from Australia, …
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Sinking funds, not sinking islands
Humouring the neighbourhood with taxpayers’ money: Australia will be expected to contribute to a new $US1.5 billion Pacific Resilience Facility to help island nations adapt to the impacts of rising …
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Questions for Alexander Downer
It has been a few months now since “The New York Times” first reported on the curious story how an Australian diplomat might have been the starting point of the …
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Syria: There is no happy endings
The world stands poised on the edge of an abyss, just a few wrong moves away from another world war, all over a large and unattractive expanse of sand on …
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Should Australia accept South African refugees? Yassmin thinks it’s racist
Australia’s Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has asked his department to investigate whether white South African farmers can be accepted into Australia as refugees, following the?spate of anti-white violence and …
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Ten more “hottest” takes on the Iranian protests
Two days ago, I compiled a short list of ten freshest examples of “progressives and the media (but I’m repeating myself) say the darnest things” whenever someone around the world …
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20 best books I’ve read in 2017
I read. Too much. In fact, my New Year’s resolution for 2018 is to read less, and instead fill that time with some more profitable pursuits, like making some profits …
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Kiribati – still not drowning, waving
Islands, particularly Pacific islands, are the poster children of environmental?catastrophe or alarmism, depending on your attitude towards the issue of man-made climate change. Like the polar bears deprived of ice, …
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