All that Melts…, by Alison Caddick
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What does security—the necessity of being able to assume the contours of a relatively stable life-world—mean any more?
This Is not a Truck, by Micaela Sahhar
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Misapprehending terror and recognising resistance in Palestine
Turnbull’s Response to Terror in Brussels
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In Turnbull’s view, terrorists just appear and organise: all we can do is defend ourselves against them. We need good policy over time on social integration and, apart from this, strong security institutions. This is a war debate, or a debate by a society not wanting to think too much about relations with other cultures or institutional development. It is a debate constructed to win an election rather than seriously take hold of what is happening…
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Something Worth Dying For? by Andy Blunden
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How we might understand the motivations and self-sacrifice of ‘foreign fighters’
Proportionality Lost, Australia’s New Counter-Terrorism Laws, by Spencer Zifcak
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New law requires careful deliberation, particularly if it infringes on civil liberties. In this case, it didn’t get it.
Outrage by Noam Chomsky
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Manufactured outrage and the hypocrisy of the West
The Militarisation of Defence
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The Defence White Paper assumes an aggressive posture and receives unprecedented funding
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Afghanistan: Gift or Grand Conceit?
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It is beyond most Westerners to understand today how offers of democracy are really much more than this: there is a widespread incapacity to grasp the social assumptions embedded in our ‘gifts’ writes John Hinkson