All posts tagged Australia

Wednesday Night #1975
January 22, 2020, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1975

Happy New Year to all who celebrate Chinese (Lunar) New Year this Saturday, 25 January. Although known as the Year of th ...

Wednesday Night #1974
January 15, 2020, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1974

What a week! Headline writers, pundits, analysts, pontificators  and comedians struggle to keep up. Relegating other gl ...

Wednesday Night #1966
November 20, 2019, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1966

November 19 is the anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address 156 years ago,  one of the most insp ...

Climate change, natural disasters 2017- June 2019
June 28, 2019, Comments Off on Climate change, natural disasters 2017- June 2019

9 natural disasters that took the lives of hundreds of thousands The Global Climate Action Summit The Really Big One An ...

China geopolitical strategy
December 13, 2018, 2 Comments

See also China Seas Quartz: China in Africa Panos Mourdoukoutas: What Is China Doing In Africa? (Forbes) Chinese corpora ...

Wednesday Night #1903
August 29, 2018, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1903

The week’s news has been overcome by Senator John McCain’s death and reactions to it, many of which are base ...

Firearms, gun control and politics 2015-2017
December 6, 2017, Comments Off on Firearms, gun control and politics 2015-2017

Bloomberg Topics: Gun Control The Guardian: US gun control Mother Jones: Guns The NRA vs. America How the country’s bi ...

Wednesday Night #1792
July 6, 2016, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1792

As the expression goes, the Brexit story continues to have legs and will likely continue to do so for some time, whether ...

Wednesday Night #1750
September 16, 2015, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1750

The week started with a bang – the news that Australian PM Tony Abbott had been ousted by an internal party vote. ...

Climate change, uncertainty & natural disasters 2014
January 18, 2015, 2 Comments

UN & Climate Change Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are not statistics. Politicians discussing global warming. ...