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Daryl Guppy

Daryl Guppy

Pearls and Irritations

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ICC takes a scalpel to Western moral authority

With the surgical precision of a scalpel, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has severed what remained of the moral authority of the West. The...

23.05.2024 10

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Polly Waffle policy

16.05.2024 40

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Australia’s new defence strategy fights last war

The Ukrainians changed the face of modern warfare with inexpensive Chinese-made drones equipped with cheap Chinese-made cameras. These provide both...

27.04.2024 60

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The banality of evil redux

Hannah Arendt’s BANALITY OF EVIL report on the Eichmann trial failed to adequately address a key question. How could the German people not have...

03.04.2024 8

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What does Gaza stand for?

The unreasonable delay by the United States in supporting calls for a ceasefire has resulted in thousands of needless deaths that could have been...

28.03.2024 8

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Arc of history favours Wang Yi

The long arc of history dominated the discussion between China Foreign Minister Wang Yi and former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating. “In the...

26.03.2024 6

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ASEAN carpet baggers

Without a hint of embarrassment, Australian Treasurer Chalmers declared that ASEAN was ripe for the plucking by Australian business turbocharged by a...

17.03.2024 7

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Hold the outrage

We need to be careful with the outrage over the sentencing of Yang Hengjun in China. Yang was a former member of the security (intelligence)...

06.02.2024 20

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China seeks harmony not hegemony

“China has a continuous civilisation for 5,000 years” Sun Yeli, CPC central committee member said when launching the World Conference on China...

09.12.2023 8

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Tuvalu: A good deed, gone bad

Australia’s offer to Tuvalu, allowing residents facing displacement from climate change to resettle in Australia, was clearly a good deed. It was an...

16.11.2023 7

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Smothered indigenous voices

This is a story of what a voice can achieve and how easily it is undone by external forces. A little over 35 years ago I was Council Clerk and CDEP...

17.09.2023 5

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