Australia

AUKUS Nuclear

Spent Matters: The AUKUS Nuclear Waste Problem

When Australia – vassal be thy name – assumed responsibilities for not only throwing money at both US and British shipbuilders, lending up territory and naval facilities for war like a gambling drunk, and essentially asking its officials to commit seppuku for the Imperium, another task was given. While the […]

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Nuclear Submarine Doubts: US Lawmakers And AUKUS

The policymaking apparatus behind the AUKUS security pact was shoddy from the start. It has raised questions about the extent US power will subordinate Australia further in future conflicts; it has brought into question Australia’s own sovereignty; and it has also raised the spectre of regional nuclear proliferation via the […]

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Joining The War Club: Australia’s HIMARS Purchase

Another needless, fatuous endeavour; another irresponsible drain on the public purse; another expression that the military-industrial complex Down Under is thriving in all its insidious stupidity.  But Australia’s purchase of HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) batteries from the United States can be put down to loneliness – or the […]

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Micronations: Eccentric And Unthreatening

A trolley load of books, chapters and treatises have been written on the subject of sovereignty.  Usually, the concept entails control and power, the latter a corollary of the former.  In international law, sovereignty finds some form of expression in the Montevideo Convention of 1933 but can hardly be seen […]

Mass Surveillance

Data Retention And The Devotees Of Mass Surveillance

It is a stinker in terms of policy, and unconvincing in effect, but the wholesale, indiscriminate retention of telecommunications data continues to excite legislators and law enforcement.  In the European Union, countries continue to debate and pursue such measures, despite legal challenges. The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), passed […]