AUSTRALIA: Winning ‘Hearts and Minds’ in Afghanistan?

Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – Global Politics Online – IPS Tuesday, September 09, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Analysis by Stephen de Tarczynski MELBOURNE, Sep 9 (IPS) – Responses by defence officials in the wake of a recent inquiry into claims that Australian soldiers mistreated detainees in Afghanistan [...]

SOUTH PACIFIC: Climate Change Refugees Look to Australia, N.Z.

Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Monday, September 01, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Stephen de Tarczynski MELBOURNE, Sep 1 (IPS) – With the apparent effects of global warming already being felt among Pacific island nations, Australia and New Zealand are being urged to do more to prepare [...]

AUSTRALIA: Combined Effort to Tackle Human Trafficking

Global Geopolitics Net Monday, August 25, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Stephen de Tarczynski MELBOURNE, Aug 25  (IPS)  – A new collaborative approach among Australian government, police and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) is being developed to tackle the scourge of human trafficking. ”Trafficking is our modern equivalent of slavery,” said the [...]