Pearls and Irritations – Public policy journal
Devil in the detail of UAE trade deal reveals failure on Labor policy. The Labor government has a policy which requires enforceable commitments to internationally recognised labour rights and environmental standards in trade agreements, and to safeguard the rights of …
Coups are not electorally disqualifying, just look at the dismissal
5 hours ago · Many Australians will be surprised that voters across the US could cast a vote for Donald Trump after a (poorly) attempted coup on January 6, 2021. The only reason we might find this shocking is because we don’t talk about the Dismissal of the Whitlam government in 1975 as what it really was – a ...
Act now: The case for UN membership for Palestine is overwhelming
5 hours ago · John Whitbeck’s plea for sanity – UN Membership for Palestine Now, 14 November 2024, should not be put into the too hard basket.At present, of course, the State of Palestine has only non-member observer status, having failed in an application for full member status in 2011.
John Menadue, Author at Pearls and Irritations
John Menadue. John Menadue is the Founder and Editor in Chief of Pearls and Irritations. He was formerly Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet under Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser, Ambassador to Japan, Secretary of the Department of …
Summing up - Pearls and Irritations
The world and its people are facing serious local and global challenges. Climate change, economic instability, limits to free speech, threats to independent media reporting, and increasing social inequality all signal the breakdown of democratic systems across the world.
Two paramount human-made existential threats: Nuclear weapons …
3 days ago · Tilman Ruff AO is immediate past Co-President and a board member of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (Nobel Peace Prize 1985); and co-founder and founding international and Australian Chair of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, the first to an entity born in Australia.
Pearls and Irritations: A unique source of independent comment …
Pearls and Irritations is a unique source of independent comment and analysis. Readers know that they will learn more and have a better and different understanding of important policy issues than is available from the mass media.
Myths of the Referendum - Pearls and Irritations
A year on from the defeat of the ‘Indigenous Voice’ referendum of 14 October 2023, some myths have arisen about the process and the outcome.
A new hope - Pearls and Irritations
From the 2024 Manning Clark Lecture delivered by Simon Holmes à Court on 10 September 2024, on the topic The Politics of Energy Transition.
Podcast - Pearls and Irritations
Israel-Gaza war, justice and hope: the ‘sublime ideal’ of inalienable dignity. Distinguished moral philosopher and public intellectual Raimond Gaita (FAHA), Professor, University College London, and Melbourne Law school, discusses his approach towards a moral understanding of the Israel Gaza war based on the ideas collected in the book ‘Justice and …