Author: G. CLARK

Postings

Russia and Ukraine

Russia and Ukraine Vladimir Putin rarely uses English in his speeches. So if in his speech to the recent BRICS meeting in Kazan he insisted the reason for Russia’s 2022 attack on Ukraine was that he was ‘duped’ (he pronounced it ‘dooped’) by Germany and France in the 2014-5 Minsk

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What an Aborigine Lady can teach us

What an Aborigine Lady can teach us, Remember the fuss about the ‘stolen generation’ –  aborigine children being taken away from their mothers to be raised in Australian families? Conventional thinking at the time said this was a denial of the child’s aborigine culture, not to mention the feelings of

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PEARLS AND IRRITATIONS

Remember the fuss about the ‘stolen generation’ – mainly mixed-race, aborigine children being taken away from their mothers to be raised in Australian families? Thinking at the time saw this as a denial of the child’s aborigine culture, not to mention the feelings of the mother. But a recent article

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LIFE STORY

Chapter 42 – The East Timor Tragedy

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES To The Limits of Cruelty 1. The ‘Dangerous’ Fretelin2. The Canberra Debates3. A Voice of Reason, Bill Pritchett4. The Whitlam Apologists5. Crunch Time 6. Going Public7. The Renouf Factor8. The Devious Mr Renouf9. The Remorseful Mr Woolcott?   The

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