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Nov 28, 2024 | 
australianbookreview.com.au | Clare Corbould |James Curran |Clinton Fernandes
A recent advertisement in The Guardian headed ‘Can’t get enough of the US election?’ prompted reflections on our seeming obsession with the current presidential campaign. Myriad readers follow the contest closely, almost compulsively. On the hour, we check the major websites for the latest polls or Trumpian excesses. In a way, the election feels more urgent, galvanising, consequential, and downright entertaining then next year’s federal election.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
australianbookreview.com.au | Clinton Fernandes |Arts Highlights
The End of Empires and a World Remade is Martin Thomas’s magnum opus. Subtitled ‘A global history of decolonisation’, it is more than 600 pages long, of which nearly 300 pages consist of Notes and Bibliography covering more than 2,000 articles and books. The overwhelming majority of these were published in the twenty-first century – an indication of the burgeoning academic interest in decolonisation.
The book is divided into two parts.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
australianbookreview.com.au | Clare Corbould |James Curran |Clinton Fernandes
A recent advertisement in The Guardian headed ‘Can’t get enough of the US election?’ prompted reflections on our seeming obsession with the current presidential campaign. Myriad readers follow the contest closely, almost compulsively. On the hour, we check the major websites for the latest polls or Trumpian excesses. In a way, the election feels more urgent, galvanising, consequential, and downright entertaining then next year’s federal election.
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
australianbookreview.com.au | Clinton Fernandes |Arts Highlights
Twenty-five years ago, an international peacekeeping force entered East Timor, delivered it from Indonesian occupation, and placed it under United Nations administration. Known as the International Force East Timor (InterFET), it had 11,000 troops from twenty-three countries and was commanded by an Australian major general. Everything about these events seemed miraculous. East Timor’s independence had long been regarded as impossible; a top adviser to President Franklin D.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Clinton Fernandes |UNSW Canberra
BOOK REVIEW East Timor, Rene Girard and Neocolonial Violence: Scapegoating as Australian Policy. By Susan Connelly. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. First published: 07 March 2024 No abstract is available for this article.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
australianbookreview.com.au | Clinton Fernandes |Arts Highlights
Hans Kundnani, a British citizen, began working at the European Council on Foreign Relations in 2009. He considered himself a ‘pro-European’ supporter of European integration and regarded the European Union as a force for good. He came to realise that much of what he thought he knew about the EU and its history were self-idealising myths that had been created by the EU about itself.
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Sep 24, 2023 | 
australianbookreview.com.au | Clinton Fernandes
A senior public servant writes that the history of corporations shows that there are ‘some things which a Government cannot do officially, and which are best accomplished when the people take the lead, while the State lends its support, remaining in the background until it is required to interfere’. This is ‘almost forgotten now in these days of international law, of diplomats, and of quick intelligence sent to headquarters by wire from the uttermost parts of the earth’.
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Aug 29, 2023 | 
dialnet.unirioja.es | Clinton Fernandes
Éxitos políticos de Australia en Timor-Leste[1]University of New South WalesLocalización: Estudios de Asia y África, ISSN-e 2448-654X, ISSN 0185-0164, Vol. 57, Nº. 3, 2022, págs. 453-475Idioma: españolTítulos paralelos: Australia’s Policy Successes in Timor-LesteEnlacesTexto completoResumenespañolUn Timor-Leste independiente planteaba un dilema para la política exterior australiana.
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Jun 29, 2023 | 
johnmenadue.com | Clinton Fernandes
AUKUS commits us to futile wars; an independent defence is possible. In an April 2023 interview with Nine Entertainment, Vice Admiral Mark Hammond, the Chief of Navy, urged Australians to ignore ‘hand-wringing’ doubters of the AUKUS pact. Hammond ‘implored Australians to see it as a nation-building endeavour on a par with the original creation of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric scheme’.
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Mar 17, 2023 | 
smh.com.au | Clinton Fernandes
Opinion Academic and former intelligence officer The AUKUS $368 billion submarine deal announced this week sets Australia on a trajectory from which it will be very difficult to depart. The deal, in which Australia purchases submarines from the US and UK means that those countries' future is now intertwined with ours for decades. The danger is that our defence force winds up as a component of the US armed forces rather than a sovereign force.
