Defanging China Before It’s Too Late

Some say China will grow old before it grows rich, or that its economy, riven with corruption and distorted by increasing state control, is a house of cards. Perhaps. But Xi or no Xi, a country as powerful as China has become will remain an economic and strategic threat so long as it remains a one-party totalitarian state

Alan RM Jones

Dec 04 2020

6 mins

Parsing the Prime Minister — Part II

Julia Gillard has spent the week ducking, weaving, disembling and presenting herself as the very picture of  outraged probity. It is an image that tarnishes under the light of scrutiny 

Alan RM Jones

Nov 28 2012

26 mins

Parsing the Prime Minister

Emerging in fits and starts, most often from thickets of lawyerly split hairs, Prime Minister Gillard's defence of her honesty and integrity has so far failed to satisfy. Examine her words then and now, and the question of credibility looms large

Alan RM Jones

Nov 27 2012

24 mins

Parsing the PM — Parts I & II

Links to Quadrant Online's forensic examination of Julia Gillard's latest attempt to make the Wilson-AWU scandal go away

Alan RM Jones

Nov 27 2012

1 mins