It would have been easy for Garrett to remain a musician and head of the Australian Conservation Foundation, or join the Greens. Instead, he went for the tough option. Cut him some slack.
Australian uranium
A UN declaration: Did you hear the one about…
There’s a very real chance that Rudd addressing the UN might lead to the spawning of a cruel international joke, writes Chris Graham.
SA the odd state out as Labor gets uranium active
On Tuesday, Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith told India that Australia was cancelling the deal struck by the Howard to begin selling uranium to the country. So what ‘s the future of the uranium industry? Christian Kerr investigates.
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But does India want our uranium?
In Australia the Labor Party Opposition is against the deal Prime Minister John Howard has done with his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh to allow sales of Australian uranium to India.
Cut the blokey crap — Rudd’s indiscretion is serious
I have spent years giving regular briefings to UN missions, the country representatives and the bureaucrats in New York, Geneva and other UN duty stations and it’s actually not a common thing in that world to take a brief to the UN and find yourself in a strip joint, writes a UN insider.
Hurray! A point of policy difference. At last!
In Australia’s careful game of political chess the play in recent times has been very much on the defensive side. Every attacking gambit of Prime Minister John Howard has been matched by Kevin Rudd being prepared to sacrifice a pawn or two like a candidate from the Electrical Trades Union or even a Peter Beattie.
Did Hiroshima Day cause uranium stocks to bomb?
A correction in the price of uranium stocks or a memory of the decimation of two Japanse cities more than 60 years ago by American atomic bombs? What’s causing the de-valuation of the uranium mining stocks?
The problem with selling uranium to India
Selling uranium to India raises a host questions, not least among them how India will use it, writes former Australian diplomat Richard Broinowski.
