Global good guy in want of survival skills

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Gary Scarrabelotti

If we want to beat the people smugglers, we need cojones more than we need neighbours.

By Gary Scarrabelotti*

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Changing boats

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Lyle Dunne

The Houston report on refuge policy could be a watershed.

By Lyle Dunne

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Fatal lot of Christianity’s homelands

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Gary Scarrabelotti

The final death of Christianity in its Middle Eastern homelands seems increasingly possible within our lifetime.

By William Dalrymple* | The Australia | August 09, 2012

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Abbott said what needed to be said about China

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Gary Scarrabelotti

The Chinese economy, how it’s really performing and who benefits from it — it’s not the masses, it’s the Party.

By John Lee* | The Australian | July 26, 2012

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Labor and the Greens: free-for-all or fake fracas?

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Lyle Dunne

Labor’s faux friendship with the Greens.

By Lyle Dunne

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