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Duncan Graham

Pearls and Irritations

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Yesterday’s man is stuffing up

Yesterday’s man is stuffing up
21.01.2025 9

Pearls and Irritations

Duncan Graham

Jakarta pips Dutton in nuclear race

Jakarta pips Dutton in nuclear race
13.01.2025 7

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Debunking deforestation

Indonesia’s new president, former disgraced general Prabowo Subianto, is making an awkward discovery:  gaining respect in the international...

07.01.2025 5

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Farewell fair go, hello despair

It’s true. The night fears have come to pass. The evidence is too great to ignore any longer. My country, our nation, is racist. The seer carrying...

12.12.2024 4

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War games? Let’s play peace

Why volunteer for the military? Academics have some answers. A benign reason is that pay and training opportunities attract, so a return to...

25.11.2024 2

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One word fouls straits settlement – “Overlapping”

It was supposed to be the Tour Triumphant, showing that Indonesia – the globe’s fourth-most populous nation – has a cosmopolitan new boss who...

15.11.2024 5

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Moderates begone: ‘TIS THE AGE OF THE DESPOT

Prabowo Subianto has got his diary right: First overseas handshake from the new President of Indonesia is for his bankers in Beijing, President Xi...

08.11.2024 2

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Come in now Indonesian democracy, your time is up

It took less than a week for the reality to be exposed. Even Deputy PM Richard Marles must now acknowledge that the nation next door he praises for...

30.10.2024 1

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Gender equality? – Not our culture

Half the 280 million people in Indonesia are women, though not in the 48-member ministry; just five were drafted this week by the fresh president...

23.10.2024 2

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Small, smart and struggling

Where’s the torrent of cash expected to flow from Google, Meta and other overseas behemoths plundering Ozzie journalism? Here’s the lates t...

16.10.2024 1

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Can this Odd Couple survive?

Before debating with Democrat VP candidate Tim Walz, the Republican nominee JD Vance  said the contestants’ views matter little because voters go...

10.10.2024 4

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Looming now in Indonesia: The age of uncertainty

There’ll soon be a new leader next door – ageing hardliner Prabowo Subianto. He’s Indonesia’s dark lord with a worrying past of alleged human...

29.09.2024 2

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The cursed stone resists return

In an age of logic and evidence-based reasoning, modern research has revealed a thousand-year curse. It could be stopping the superstitious and...

13.09.2024 2

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Never mind the quality, feel the words

The paperwork signing late last month   by Defence Minister Richard Marles and his Indonesian counterpart Prabowo Subianto in Magelang ( Central...

03.09.2024 1

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Father knows best? Not this time

How comfy the throne, how rapid the change; a humble Republican from a riverbank shack is plotting to be King of Indonesia surrounded by his regal...

26.08.2024 1

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The ABC of telling tales

ABC chair Kim Williams reckons the Corporation should focus more on hard news than lifestyle fillers. While purging the pap, he might also look at...

20.08.2024 1

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Neither treaty nor pact, just troubling facts

ABC foreign affairs reporter Stephen Dziedzic ’s ’exclusive’ claim that “Australia and Indonesia are on the brink of sealing an upgraded...

12.08.2024 1

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How to get good publicity? Ban journos

A tip for politicians worried about bothersome journos upsetting talking points with probing questions: Don’t invite peskies to your pressies....

07.08.2024 1

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Street charity – Thank Allah it’s friday

Following the 7 October Hamas outrage Australia has been suffering an outburst of race and religious hate. Lawyer Jillian Segal has been made a “...

31.07.2024 30

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When will we treat Indonesia seriously?

Guarantee: This report is free of US political toxins. The contents are purely local. The title question deserves a cynic’s response: Only when...

24.07.2024 2

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Facts sacred, pacts not

It’s a hoary oldie publicity hook: Imagine something improbable, then feed off the controversy. Launching a balloon’s a common tactic in...

10.07.2024 1

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