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Comment on Peace President Obama dispatcher of drones killing innocents by Hal Duell.
There is a strong case to be made that at the recent G20 summit in China the US lost its preeminent position in Asia. How the US responds to this new world order now becomes of pressing importance to Australia.
Will they accept that their brief time as the world’s and Asia’s hegemon is over, or will they attempt to reassert their former transient position?
If the former, all well and good for us here in Oz. If the latter, and given that Canberra has historically been incapable of standing up for Australia in the face of demands from formerly the Brits and now the Yanks, then we in Alice are sitting on a very real and unacceptable risk.
Recent Comments by Hal Duell
National Indigenous Art Gallery future in doubt: Gunner
Unless there is a huge change of mind in council, Anzac Oval will not be sold to the NT government.
Unless there is a correspondingly huge change of mind by the recently formed group of traditional owners, the choice of Anzac Oval for any part of the proposed art gallery will not gain their approval.
So in the face of united opposition, Gunner is now saying the proposed gallery may not go ahead. But then he didn’t have the money to build it anyway, so what gives.
I suspect he is circling the wagons up in Darwin.
Gunner is on thin ice. His brand has become toxic.
I wonder, actually I seriously doubt, if he is still Chief Minister this time next year.
GST billions yet we’re still the basket case
Wow! Deep thanks to Erwin’s paper for publishing all this.
The incompetence of successive NT governments is laid out for all to see, but so what? They are hardly alone. Look at the US. Look at Europe. Hell, look at the Globalist World in its incompetent entirety.
Thirty years ago when the USSR’s communist model fell apart, I read an opinion piece somewhere which suggested that if the noise from that collapse (communism) was loud, even louder will be the noise when the other shoe (capitalism) drops.
This goes to the crux of why I appreciate The Donald. His is the most honest face America could be presenting to the world at this point in time. So look at it closely, and marvel at how we got here.
And then fasten your seat belt.
Bid to keep Rock climb open by heritage listing
If the climb ban goes ahead, it will be interesting to read the passenger numbers on the flights direct to The Rock in about a year’s time.
The financial crisis in the Northern Territory
So it sounds to me that the problem is how to provide first-world mostly urban services to third-world mostly remote communities with an eye to budget restraints based on population numbers.
Bearing in mind that many of those remote communities are very remote, and I suspect it cannot be done.
Are the urban populations and the governments responsible for them going to forgo funds in favour of spreading the good oil way outback? No, they are not.
Gunner not the best Chief Minister we can have: McConnell
Where to from here? Too easy. Lose Gunner or lose government. No guarantee you won’t anyway, but with Gunner at the helm, you’ve got Buckley’s.
