Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom have not made one mention of HKOPS since its publication or factored it into their respective foreign policies. They need to explain why.

Last December, terms-of-reference finally appeared . Review-panel leader is former Australian accountant, risen meteorically to Chair of Tesla Inc, Robyn Denholm . She was ticket 37 among 146 Treasury ...

James Carter is a principal with Navigators Global. He previously headed President Donald Trump’s tax team during the 2016-17 transition and served as a deputy assi ...

Australia has been a member of ECOSOC for multiple terms since the Council's creation in 1946 and its term covered most recently the period 2020–2022. During its mandate,Australia has used its ...

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Secretary-General Guterres: The alternative solution is the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS) that you and the ...

The overreaction by many to President Donald Trump's dramatic, new tariffs, for all of one week, stunned even us. Overreaction, that is, not from those on the left, but from those on the political ...

He describes the challenges of balancing risk and benefits of environmental initiatives at his Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York blog.

The author has major concerns about piecemeal disaster mitigation approaches across Australia that are getting us nowhere, over decades. Whole communities, towns and cities have inadequate and unsafe ...

An oxymoron is a figure of speech where contradictory or opposite words are combined to create a striking or thought-provoking effect. Examples include "deafening silence", "organized chaos", ...

Israel's attack on Iran with US support will further push Iran into Russia's and China's arms. For these two countries, it is a heaven-sent development and they will spare no effort to capitalize on ...

Call it abandonment, anxiety, or just latent stupidity. The messy goo of feelings and fuzzy notions behind Australia's most injudicious strategic decision is yielding its nasty harvest. Conceived by ...