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Michael Mckinley

Brisbane Times

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The Varghese review of funding for strategic policy work: the triumph of the poverty of imagination

The Independent Review of Commonwealth funding for strategic policy work, conducted and authored by Peter Varghese is now published. It almost...

08.01.2025 4

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Mckinley

The 2-Israel Problem

Palestine’s problem is only partly expressed as a frustrated 2-State Solution; it might, more effectively be understood as a 2-Israel problem....

03.11.2024 3

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Mckinley

Australia’s colonised universities: in partibus infidelium*

 Among a group of corporations which also includes Boeing and BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin is a particular target for this action. Though...

11.09.2024 1

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Mckinley

Engaging Pillar 2 of AUKUS: losing self-respect and encouraging self-harm

Pillar 2 is a thing that AUKUS created: it appears at different times and with different meanings and possibilities and yet is not entirely, or...

21.08.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Mckinley