Jennifer Marohasy

It was a public holiday here in Australia today, because of ANZAC day. Across the country we remembered the men and women who went to war, particularly the men who fought at Gallipoli during World War 1.
Noeline Franklin (from Brindabella and the Miles Franklin family) emailed me exactly a year ago asking that [...]

Ms. Marohasy,
I am writing from the Council on Foreign Relations, in New York. We wanted to alert you to a piece we recently published which might be of interest to your readership.
It is on the recent protests over natural resources in Papua — a topic of reasonable significance to Australians. You can find [...]

A fascinating report titled the Human Security Report was published last week by Oxford University Press. It documents a dramatic decline in the number of wars, genocides and human rights abuse over the past decade. The Report argues that the single most compelling explanation for these changes is found in the unprecedented upsurge of international [...]

Today is the 20-year anniversary of the sinking of the Rainbow warrior in Auckland Harbour by French secret service agents. It was an act of terrorism against Greenpeace.
Greenpeace has various events organised to commemorate the occasion.
“It was an unbelievable act and it was of course one of the dumbest things the French government has [...]

This post has absolutely nothing to do with the environment - but everything to do with getting over the bombings of last Thursday. I am of British stock. My mother migrated to Australia from England after WWII, my father’s family way back in 1860. I remember being in London as a teenager in [...]

Alexandra Downer writing in today’s Australian has reiterated that:
“Long-term hope for the world’s poor — in Africa, in Asia and elsewhere — will also depend on removing trade barriers and creating a more vibrant and open global economy. When coupled with good governance and sound domestic reform in developing countries, trade liberalisation is one [...]

Sydney Lawyer Irfan Yusuf has written an insightful piece about London, and Islam, and the bombings, published today by e-journal Online Opinion,
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=3651 .
Yusuf concludes, “The nation that cheered for its cricket team even when captained by one Nasser Hussein deserves to feel secure in the knowledge that its Muslim citizens openly and publicly condemn the [...]

It is perhaps fitting that I post something from Scotland.
The Scotsman is reporting 12 dead and 150 injured from the bombings in London.
The same newspaper quotes Paul Wilkinson, a terrorism expert from St Andrews University, saying “It is quite clear that a major terrorist attack has been carried out on London. The attack has all [...]

Greenpeace co-founder and its first President Bob Hunter died yesterday aged 63 following a battle with prostate cancer.
Hunter was a journalist by training. He wanted to stop whaling and nuclear testing and in many ways succeeded with his brand new environment group Greenpeace where others had failed.
He wanted to “affect the attitude of millions”. [...]

Noeline Franklin (High Country crusader and member of the Miles Franklin family) emailed that today we might also remember the horses that went to war.
About 160,000 horses from Australia went to WWI.
Australia’s mounted soldiers included stockmen from the High Country - mostly volunteers who took their own horses.
The story goes, that at war’s end, many [...]