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Paul Taucher | Pearls and Irritations
Paul is a Lecturer in History at Murdoch University and a Fellow of the Indo-Pacific Research Centre. His research examines how command responsibility was...
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https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/05/after-centuries-of-puzzling-over-the-meaning-of-life-is-ai-the-new-god/
Is AI the new God? | Pearls and Irritations
Paul Ham’s book, The Soul, A History of the Human Mind_, is a stimulating challenge to our human ingenuity, which we must value in the face of soulless...
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Ben Saul | Pearls and Irritations
Ben Saul is UN special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism.
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https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/04/australia-needs-to-address-fuel-use-and-security/
Fuel security needs a rethink – and rail is part of it | Pearls and Irritations
Australia’s reliance on imported fuel, declining reserves and road-heavy transport system have created vulnerabilities that require urgent policy reform.
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https://johnmenadue.com/letters_to_editor/2026/03/act-justice-system/
ACT justice system | Pearls and Irritations
How unfortunate that the only view of the ACT justice system is given to us by one of the people to profit from its existence. Andrew Fraser (barrister) should...
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Eugene Doyle | Pearls and Irritations
Eugene Doyle is a writer based in Wellington. He has written extensively on the Middle East, as well as peace and security issues in the Asia Pacific region....
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Oct 29, 2025 - During his lifetime, John Menadue has had a distinguished senior professional career in the media, public service and the corporate sector.
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Trump and Netanyahu: two madmen playing God | Pearls and Irritations
The war on Iran reflects a convergence of unchecked power, psychological pathology and religious delusion – placing the world at extreme risk.
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Ross Gittins | Pearls and Irritations
Ross Gittins is the Economics Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald.
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Dennis Altman | Pearls and Irritations
Dennis Altman AM is a Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at La Trobe University and the author of 15 books on politics and sexuality. A collection of his essays,...
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https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/05/connect-people-leaving-prison-with-a-job-it-works/
Connect people leaving prison with a job: it works! | Pearls and Irritations
Almost everyone in prison today will return to our communities. Whether they reoffend depends on what we do to prevent recidivism. In Western Australia, we...
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Eddie Kowalski is a civic-innovation leader focused on strengthening democratic participation. His background in market, social, and policy research has...
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Carbon Offsets are a Delusion | Pearls and Irritations
Any government, corporation, industry or nation, that is relying on carbon offsets to justify claims to be “Net Zero” is relying on bogus accounting – looking...
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Boutons, irritations, allergies : le printemps affecte-t-il vraiment notre peau ? - Marie Claire
On fait le point sur les mythes et réalités qu'entourent la belle saison.
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https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02/the-show-looks-grand-the-reality-doesnt/
Handshake diplomacy with Prabowo won’t secure shared values | Pearls and Irritations
Australia’s new security treaty with Indonesia is heavy on symbolism but light on substance. As President Prabowo Subianto tightens his grip on power, warm...
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https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/05/america-builds-ai-china-uses-it-that-gap-may-decide-the-future/
America builds AI, China uses it to transform systems | Pearls and Irritations
The US continues to lead in developing AI, but risks falling behind in deploying it at scale. China, once seen primarily as a follower, is positioning itself...
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David Armstrong | Pearls and Irritations
David Armstrong is the Editor-in-Chief of Pearls and Irritations. David is one of Australia's best respected reporters, editors and media executives, with more...
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Light rations from the Antisemitism Royal Commission thus far | Pearls and Irritations
The recommendations from the interim report of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion are tentative, lightweight and backed by scarcely any...
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Myopic thinking in Australia on electric vehicles and renewable power | Pearls and Irritations
Everyone’s looking at the transition to renewable power but ignoring another massive transition that has huge implications for the grid - the transition to...
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Warpower is a write-off | Pearls and Irritations
Cheaper and more effective ways of waging war are emerging, but then there’s the American (and Australian) way that still sees the waste of horrendously...
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Resisting Trump's extreme religiosity | Pearls and Irritations
Trump’s extreme Christian nationalism poses a dual threat. By dragging the US and the West further toward the ideological right, he is both fuelling...
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https://johnmenadue.com/letters_to_editor/2026/05/cost-and-competence/
Cost and competence | Pearls and Irritations
This article enables focus on the systemic failure of the idea that capitalism and private markets produce the best social outcomes. That is due to the focus...
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The NDIS reform is a real test of Labor’s courage | Pearls and Irritations
The proposed NDIS overhaul marks a rare moment of substantive reform – and a test of whether the Albanese government is willing to follow through in the face...
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John McCarthy AO FAIIA is Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at Melbourne University, a senior adviser to Asialink, and a former ambassador and high commissioner to the...
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Reclaiming democracy: join the conversation | Pearls and Irritations
Democracy is faltering. Elected government action is increasingly constrained by the preferences of powerful industrial, commercial and financial interests. To...
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Dr Alison Broinowski AM is a former Australian diplomat and a member of Australians fr War Powers Reform
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Abul Rizvi | Pearls and Irritations
Abul Rizvi PhD was a senior official in the Department of Immigration from the early 1990s to 2007 when he left as Deputy Secretary. He was awarded the Public...
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https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/05/farrer-by-election-wholl-win-and-what-does-it-all-mean/
Farrer by-election - who’ll win and what does it all mean? | Pearls and Irritations
The distribution of third-place preferences will be fundamental in this weekend’s Farrer by-election. Whoever wins, be assured that the voters will have...
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The Liberal party, Moira Deeming and political Christianity | Pearls and Irritations
In Australian politics at federal and state level, it is desirable and appropriate that politicians with a religious commitment are elected to office, while...
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Jane Anderson is a social anthropologist and Adjunct Research Fellow, University of Western Australia. She works with marginal Noongar peoples of the South...
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Crispin Hull | Pearls and Irritations
Crispin Hull has written for The Canberra Times for 30 years on a huge range of topics, but mainly legal and constitutional. He was Editor for seven years. He...
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https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/04/school-funding-is-undermining-equality-and-cohesion/
School funding is undermining equality and cohesion | Pearls and Irritations
Australia’s school funding model is widening inequality and weakening public education. Without reform, it risks undermining social cohesion, productivity and...
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https://johnmenadue.com/letters_to_editor/2026/04/improving-the-greens-vote/
Improving the Greens vote | Pearls and Irritations
Drew Hutton’s article on how the Greens could significantly improve their vote is insightful, sympathetic and in my view spot-on. As a relatively longstanding...
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Damien Kingsbury | Pearls and Irritations
Damien Kingsbury Professor Emeritus, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University; author of ‘‘Politics in Contemporary Southeast Asia:...
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Matt Terrell | Pearls and Irritations
Matt Terrell is an assistant professor in the School of Communication and Media at Kennesaw State University in Atlanta.
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https://johnmenadue.com/letters_to_editor/2026/05/australias-need-for-a-national-human-rights-act/
Australia's need for a national Human Rights Act | Pearls and Irritations
I refer to John Menadue’s article of 4 May advocating for a national Human Rights Act that properly protects basic rights and which is long overdue. We’re...
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