This blog charts the big issues around the world - where nations and people align and collide - and how these events act to shape Australia. WorldView features the latest mix of analysis, reporting and reader's opinion to keep you in-the-know on global affairs.
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Identity theft
Daniel Flitton Gaspar Llamazares has good reason to complain. Every time he joins a queue at the airport or tries to go a soccer match, there's a good chance he'll get pulled up by security, dragged into a side ...
America’s heart: sweet and sour
Daniel Flitton Britney Spears has brought her Circus to Melbourne. I went along.
Vote count: Australia's Security Council bid
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A heavy barrow of cow-dung to push up-hill? I was asked this question (or something close to it) more than once while making the dozens of phone calls all around the world to
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Hope that Barack Obama can bring his special brand of change to global warming debates might be stronger if he was President of Australia — according to a new poll, Americans simply don’t see the ...
Climate: who cares?
Odds & ends: the aid sector
Daniel Flitton Interesting discussion from Tim Hartford in FT, ...
The price of giving
Daniel Flitton A substantial share portfolio is not an asset you might typically link with a charitable foreign aid organisation — but quite a number of these not-for-profit groups do in fact invest in the stock ...
Border (out of) control
Daniel Flitton Australians are generally comfortable tucked away behind the moat. Complain as we might about the tyranny of distance when travelling abroad for holiday or business, when it comes to protecting ...
Tyrants and tourists
Daniel Flitton Planning a holiday? Burma sounds good — idle beaches, palm trees, plenty of sun and cheap tourist deals.
Truckloads of Defence jargon
Daniel Flitton Kevin Rudd has set an infectious verbal example for his fellow parliamentarians.
Ending the nuclear stand-off
Daniel Flitton A noiseless flash. With those few words in the New Yorker in 1946, John Hersey captured the power of a nuclear explosion.
