Tag: United Nations
A new book argues Julian Assange is being tortured. Will our new PM do anything about it?
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It is easy to forget why Julian Assange has been on trial in England for, well, seemingly forever.
Didn’t he allegedly sexually assault...
Should Aussies stranded overseas go to the United Nations for help to get home?
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More than a year since COVID-19 emerged, there are nearly 40,000 Australians overseas who want to come home.
Amid mounting stories of people desperate to return for financial, family and...
The Paris Agreement 5 years on: big coal exporters like Australia face a reckoning
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On Saturday, more than 70 global leaders came together at the UN’s Climate Ambition Summit, marking the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement.
Prime...
Global report gives Australia an A for coronavirus response but a D on climate
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The global Sustainable Development Report 2020, released this week in New York, ranks Australia third among OECD countries for the effectiveness...
Alice Bailey featured in New Dawn magazine
When I contacted New Dawn magazine requesting they review The Unlikely Occultist, my biographical novel of Alice A. Bailey, I was anticipating the usual...