ALP delegates back Julia Gillard on uranium exports to India despite an emotive round of speeches against the proposition. Andrew Crook reports from the national conference floor at The Stump.
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Would uranium sales to India breach a key Labor treaty?
Uranium sales to India may be in breach of a key international treaty established by the Hawke government in 1985, according to one of Australia’s most eminent international lawyers.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Journalists fail us on nuclear proliferation
Crikey readers have their say.
Uranium sales, arms control fails
NAJ Taylor discusses uranium exports in the context of nonproliferation and disarmament, after Labor yesterday announced its proposal to sell uranium to India.
Labor’s incoherent nuclear policy
Exporting uranium to India will boost its civilian and military nuclear programs. But it’s unclear exactly how Labor feels on the issue.
Pakistan’s Independence Day: bloodshed more visible than hope
64 years after partition, contemporary Pakistan could hardly be further from Jinnah’s vision of a secular, non-sectarian, stable, democratic and secular safe-haven for the subcontinent’s Muslims, writes Shakira Hussein.
travel From Indian spiritual odyssey to fluff pieces about Kareena Kapoor’s pets
Iona Salter headed off to volunteer at a newspaper in Bangalore, India, expecting to write hard-hitting stories and wander around in her fisherman pants. She didn’t expect to attend star-studded parties and forget her journalism ethics…
Mumbai: the price it pays to be the city of freedom
Growing up a young girl in India, Sonia Faleiro saw the city of Mumbai as the future, a place where females could wear shorts and go out at night. But the latest terror attacks on Mumbai are crushing its destiny as India’s City of Dreams.
My enemy’s enemy is my friend: fragile US-Pakistani relations
Pakistan needs to retain a strong alliance with Afghanistan, no matter who is in power, more than it needs the US.
Guns, germs and gramophones: reflecting on the first Linguistic Survey of India
In the 1920’s a small number of Indians got to participate in a historic event – the first ever Linguistic Survey of India. Nowadays there is something deeply moving about listening to their voices, writes Aung Si.
Extreme sport subcontinental style
According to Global Post, in India, there’s currently a quiet boom in adventure travel and extreme sports is nevertheless underway.
From Tequila to Sunrise, China quietly hopes for climate consensus
China has been more than happy to keep a relatively low profile at Cancun, and seems quite content to let Japan take the rap as the resident bad guy.
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The world’s most energetic cities
A look at the most dynamic cities in this post-GFC world, judging each city by employment and growth of income. Melbourne is the only Oz addition, with the rest mainly being in China, India, South East Asia and South America.
Is the Harry Potter franchise killing India’s owls?
BBC South Asia broke a story about an alarming connection between the Harry Potter franchise and the trade in wild birds – particularly owls in India. The truth isn’t crystal clear but it appears that India’s owls are in serious trouble, writes Bob Gosford.
Monkeying around a serious election issue in India
In the village of Chainpur in India locals have formed a political movement designed to draw attention to their long-running war against around 500 rampaging monkeys, which have adversely affected an estimated 50,000 people.
Stuff the dirty dunnies, it’s the religious violence that could halt Delhi
Yes, many Indians are very embarrassed over the poor state of the dunnies at the athletes’ village in New Delhi. But they are more concerned about the threat of communalist violence.
The real Delhi: not as dirty, scary and chaotic as the media thinks
Over the past few weeks, we’ve read Western sporting officials declare that Delhi’s Commonwealth Games won’t work because the city (and in particular the athletes’ village) is “filthy”, “uninhabitable” and “seriously compromised”. It’s only half the story.
Commonwealth shame — why the Indian Games should go private
New Delhi’s turn to host the Commonwealth Games was supposed to showcase India on the world stage. Instead, the build up has been plagued with problems. An efficient private sector should be running the games, not the Indian government, writes Salil Tripathi.
Commonwealth Games: why New Delhi has no excuse
There is no excuse for large-scale sporting events to fail. Sure, there can be security issues, but there is no good reason why Indian organisers should fail in their fundamental duties, writes Naomi Levin.
Crikey Wrap: India’s shame Games
Eleven days out from the Delhi Commonwealth Games and rather than working on the best sporting clichés, the world’s media is going for gold examining the current shambles in Delhi.
Crikey Says: A blocked toilet? Oh the horror
We had a whole editorial written but then we saw this reader comment on our website, and thought, well, that says it all really…
Delhi’s Commonwealth Games fiasco
Crikey Media Wrap: A bridge collapse is the latest event in a flood of negative press for the already beleaguered Commonwealth Games organisers. And the hyperbolic headlines are running hot.
Delhi: An anxious city lies in wake
The 2010 Commonwealth Games are fast approaching and Delhi is an anxious city ahead of its impending transformation. Behind the excitement, however, lies potentially devastating social, environmental and political consequences for the region’s next superpower, writes Mitu Sengupta.
Google — putting geopolitical disputes on the map
Google — everyone’s favourite ‘frenemy’ — are stirring up trouble again. This time they have embroiled themselves in a long-running geopolitical dispute between India and China. John Gravois investigates.
