Opinions
OPINION
Why Australia (and the world) needs more legal anthropologists
At a time of collective resistance to legal authority, when laws and governance systems around the globe are being questioned, challenged and renegotiated, the complicated, nuanced and embodied understanding that legal anthropologists offer about how power and social ordering works is more necessary and imperative than ever.
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Neoliberalism has won: Australia is privatising its foreign policy
Who would have thought it possible? The Government is reportedly going cap-in-hand to the corporate sector to fund its most recent foray into “soft diplomacy” – the PNG Chiefs NRL team.
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President Xi rang President Trump – and President Trump missed the point
Western commentary on the Xi-Trump telephone conversation on 23 November has been muted. Understandably so – the primary source is Donald Trump’s take on the call, which he appears to think was about fentanyl, soybeans and “our great farmers”.
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Labor’s COP30 fossil fuel phase-out doublespeak
You could be forgiven for thinking Australia’s support last week for the COP30 declaration on a “transition away from fossil fuels”, means the Australia Government is, or at least intends to transition away from fossil fuels.
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'The good has become the enemy of better’: why the Senate refused to accept Labor’s first EPBC draft
'Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good’ has become the catch-cry of proud 'centrists' in Australia. But it’s time we admitted that the good has become the enemy of better.
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Hope for Net Zero in Trump politics
There is much cause for hope on Net Zero. There is enough happening as we go over the waterfall to see a better future now emerging.
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Streaming services bias American music, which is bad for Aussie artists
November 27 is AusMusic T-Shirt Day, a day which raises money for SupportAct, because the popularity of Australian music is in such decline that it needs a charity to help
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Introducing ‘payments to destroy’ under national nature laws – lessons ignored from the NSW scheme
Everyone agrees the current laws are failing, but that doesn’t mean any change is an improvement. When it comes to offsets, it’s clear things are going to get worse not better.
