Managing ed, The Interpreter @lowyinstitute. Formerly diplomatic editor @theage International issues and outbursts on #gotiges.
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Headlines, "World is Fukt". Meanwhile, in Australia.
Australian murderer loses bid to eat Vegemite in prison bbc.in/4z89SvQ
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Prime Minister of Tuvalu Feleti Penitala Teo, Fiji's Minister for Information, Environment and Climate Change Lynda Tabuya, and UN Women representative for the Pacific Alison Davidian write in The Interpreter about climate finance for Pacific women.
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Tuvalu’s PM Feleti Teo, Fiji’s Lynda Tabuya and UN Women’s Alison Davidian, writing together for @LowyInstitute’s The Interpreter ahead of COP31: Pacific women are already the climate response. The finance needs to follow. lowyinstitute.org/the-interp…
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Dezi Freeman and Helen Haines’ alleged attacker Brendan Nugent needed mental health help before attacks. None came theage.com.au/politics/feder…
Carlton and Richmond are set to lose their primetime slot in Round 1 of the 2027 season.
After years of opening proceedings at the MCG… and having an FTA slot, the league has concerns about the quality of the game.
Sat/Sun afternoon looming. @7AFL @7NewsMelbourne
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Looks like the PLA-Navy carrier Shandong is into its 10th month in the drydock at Yulin Naval Base, having gone in on the 20th of January. Clearly a pretty thorough period of maintenance, and the first time it's been conducted at Yulin. Imagery courtesy of @planet
Iran's foreign minister saying "Iran is prepared to give diplomacy another chance if we see strong evidence of a sincere desire on the part of the US" - but also risk to "the wellbeing of all regional states" if further escalation. ft.com/content/61bf9676-ea46…
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Ebola doesn’t stop at a border | Ebere Okereke ift.tt/wLP0i9I
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Balancing power is no job for kitchen scales | Mark Pierce ift.tt/3uOp8Tn
Xi "presides over an enormous enterprise, exercises commanding authority, and remains perpetually disappointed by the people expected to carry out his wishes." Nice line from @neilthomas123 et al. asiasociety.org/policy-insti…
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Possible wreckage of Amelia Earhart's plane likely to be trees, say researchers bbc.in/4Bb1T2N
Trump might like this idea, but will Xi? "Chinese officials have concerns about allowing a geopolitical side show to overshadow their designs to use APEC as a showcase of China’s role in the region, said some of the people close to the discussions."
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A pipe under the Taiwan Strait outlasts the politics above it | Leonie Spangenberg ift.tt/tQOkEgV
Then ONI head Andrew Shearer to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in the days before Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine: “I can’t believe we’re having this conversation in the 21st century.” via @gideonrachman ft.com/content/3a56575e-ecfb…
Fabulous last line in Maureen Dowd’s column riffing off the main image. “Doug Mills has proved once again that a picture is worth 1,000 words, or in my case, 1,283.” Must’ve been tempting to use that as an opening but lands sharply as a reward for readers. nytimes.com/2026/10/17/opini…
“The latest government estimates put Australia’s fox population at about 1.7 million.”
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Each of the candidates received at least two discourage vote from a veto-wielding permanent member of the Security Council raising questions about the viability of current slate of 7 candidates. The top three frontrunner has 2 discouraged votes from permanent members
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“There is still a public impression, and also the impression maybe with Trump, that Ukraine will lose the war if the U.S. can’t help anymore. But this is not true.” nytimes.com/2026/10/16/world…
Sigh - this didn’t age well @KiwiTiger12.
