Author: canberra boy

With two days to go before the largest-ever gathering of international leaders at the UN Headquarters in New York, the likely outcomes are still unclear and the world’s media has hardly covered the event. And the looming...

I had thought that Colin Powell was one of the more honest and reputable members of the Bush Cabinet until he gave the dreadful WMD presentation to the UN Security Council in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.  You might...

The UNDP’s 2005 UN Human Development Report shows that overall global living standards are improving, and points to successes such as Vietnam’s reduction of child deaths and Bangladesh’s gains in education and...

The Australian Budget for 2005-06 (our fiscal year is from 1 July to 30 June)was ‘brought down’ (introduced) in the Australian Parliament last night (Tuesday 10 May) by Treasurer Peter Costello.  It is his and...

Every time I click on one of the regional threads, or a new diary, the new page loads and is displayed for only 3 to 5 seconds before it is replaced by a page which is blank apart from the ‘blogads’ strip down the...