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Thankfully, the government is making the rules for HECS repayments much less onerous, making them work the same way as the income tax scale and yield significant savings to those with debts. #auspol #HECS johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07/c…

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We seem drawn to judging women particularly harshly: mothers, wives, ex-wives, sisters-in-law. Is Patterson the latest in a long line of women tried in the court of public opinion. #auspol #criminaljustice johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07/t…

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Prabowo’s ambitious populist programs and nationalistic tendencies may lead Indonesia towards a more state-directed and fiscally fragile development path. #auspol #Indonesia #prabowo johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07/p…

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The 2025 mandate is a chance to break it—to build a new political economy grounded in public purpose, national ambition, and a commitment to economic transformation.#auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07/w…

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A landmark advisory opinion handed down by the ICJ: countries have a legal obligation to take cooperative action against the climate crisis, in an "urgent and existential threat." #auspol #ICJ #climatecrisis johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07/n…

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A media narrative that casts every Chinese question as a test, every diplomatic contact as compromise, every deviation from a hawkish script as disloyalty. And it turns Australia’s foreign policy into a theatre of imagined ... #auspol #chinaThreat johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07/b…

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Few church people have contributed as much to our nation and to public life as Fr Frank Brennan, SJ. Congratulations on your 50 years as a Jesuit – and all you have done for Australia. #auspol #catholiclife johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07/5…

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Indonesia and Australia differ on almost every cultural, legal and social measure, as leading academics assert. One considered a transit country, the other a migrant destination. #auspol #indonesia #asylum johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07/t…

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The Albanese government has an historic opportunity to remake our trade and industrial structure for a world of rapid technological change and shifting geopolitical alliances. It should not be missed. #auspol #productivity johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07/e…

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In this fluid global order, India must rethink its diplomacy. It will need to recalibrate its external messaging, refine its narrative on terrorism and build stronger, issue-based coalitions. #auspol #Indiapolitics johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07/a…

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The success of the Australia Group over 40 years can be measured by considering the alternative of a world without the group and the Chemical Weapons Convention. David Lee #auspol #chemicalweapons johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07/t…

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Welcome to surveillance pricing, a sneaky practice where big corporations exploit your personal data to charge you more. In Australia, there’s little to stop them. #auspol #surveillancepricing johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07/t…

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John Menadue reflects on the his life and work, the state of national leadership and public institutions including a debased mainstream media. #Auspol #media #thefabians johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07/m…

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US President Donald Trump rarely misses a chance to express an opinion, but so far he has not said much on the Taiwan issue. His silence could not be louder. #auspol #USpol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07/w…

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Israeli officials haveĀ openly declaredĀ their intent to conquer, indefinitely occupy, and ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians so that a planĀ proposedĀ by Trump's coastal enclave can be implemented. #auspol #gaza johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07/f…

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Compared with nuclear war or global heating, the tech explosion is a sleeping giant. But it is fast awakening and may prove even harder to control. If we fail, it will control us. #auspol #technology johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07/w…

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Understanding how these new electric loads behave and how we can manage them is crucial to building a smarter and more reliable electricity network. #auspol #climate #greenenergy johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07/e…

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Chinese consider personal safety -living safely, staying alive - fundamental to freedom, anything we find worthwhile or valuable. If CCTVs help with that, so be it.#auspol #USChina johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07/t…

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The response of a large proportion of Australia to that report has been to repudiate its recommendations and condemn much of its diatribe as unfounded overreach. #auspol #jilliansegal johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07/l…

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Technological leadership must be shaped by principles of equity, sustainability, and justice not merely geopolitical advantage or rooted in systems of violence and exclusion. #auspol #technology johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07/f…