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Duncan Graham

Pearls and Irritations

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Prabowo’s Middle East peace gambit is long on theatre, short on strategy

Prabowo’s Middle East peace gambit is long on theatre, short on strategy

The weapons are fast and devastating, driven by big bucks and high tech. They’re being used in a war of religions that’s almost 14 centuries old....

05.03.2026 10

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Prabowo’s Middle East peace gambit is long on theatre, short on strategy

Prabowo’s Middle East peace gambit is long on theatre, short on strategy

The weapons are fast and devastating, driven by big bucks and high tech. They’re being used in a war of religions that’s almost 14 centuries old....

05.03.2026 10

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One error and damned forever?

Women and children held in Syrian detention camps force Australia to choose between rhetoric and the rule of law. Snared in the war-ripped Levant are...

22.02.2026 10

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Handshake diplomacy with Prabowo won’t secure shared values

Australia’s new security treaty with Indonesia is heavy on symbolism but light on substance. As President Prabowo Subianto tightens his grip on...

15.02.2026 20

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Herzog’s visit exposes Australia’s legal weakness on human rights

06.02.2026 8

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Indonesia’s economy wobbles as policy ambition outpaces planning

02.02.2026 9

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Irony abounds: Indonesia gets human rights protection job

27.01.2026 7

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Best of 2025 - Out of darkness comes a shaft of cheer

07.01.2026 10

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Prabowo’s first year: all power, no accountability

16.12.2025 6

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Blood, silence and history: questioning Indonesia’s 1965 narrative

10.12.2025 8

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Indonesia’s Gaza peacekeeping bid raises more questions than answers

01.12.2025 10

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Fatal free lunch

19.11.2025 10

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Trick or treaty? Don't know, can't say

14.11.2025 10

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Rewriting Soeharto's story

08.11.2025 10

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The morality we need, the asylum they seek

29.10.2025 10

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Vanity, defence or just wanting to show off?

15.10.2025 10

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Do politicians ever listen to the people or only the powerful?

07.10.2025 10

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Turmoil in tummies, pains in purse

30.09.2025 10

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Out of darkness comes a shaft of cheer

15.09.2025 10

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Xi targets Prabowo and ditches Trump

09.09.2025 10

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Indonesian riots update

02.09.2025 10

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Avoid Bali and the rest of Indonesia

01.09.2025 10

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Absent – The 3D essentials: Discipline, direction and determination

28.08.2025 10

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Know thy neighbour – he's getting gun-happy

20.08.2025 10

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Once Australia was important to Indonesia

05.08.2025 10

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No Indonesian high-speed rail wizardry for Oz

29.07.2025 9

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The penalty for being late is to be doomed forever

24.07.2025 8

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Collateral damage? Focus on the principle, not the fallout

18.07.2025 10

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Not waving, drowning - Indonesia may lose warming battle

10.07.2025 10

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Scrubbing away the bloodstains, tipping out the truth

29.06.2025 10

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Let one version win – ours

24.06.2025 6

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Pregnancy as a death sentence

22.06.2025 9

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Is Marles the right fit for defence?

15.06.2025 10

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As Keating advised, it's time for Australia to seek its security in Asia

09.06.2025 10

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Don’t stir Semar – He seeks harmony

16.05.2025 10

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Indonesia's old guard wants its old world back

12.05.2025 10

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Trump shoves Indonesia into China's hands

07.05.2025 10

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How to lose friends and help rivals

14.04.2025 6

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Does Jesus need a barber? The question is a trap

18.03.2025 9

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The creeping crisis we’re ignoring

05.03.2025 8

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Free meals threatened – and threatening

16.02.2025 10

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ABC at risk of Coalition’s Trump-style policies

07.02.2025 10

The New Daily

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Sound the alarm: ABC at risk

05.02.2025 10

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Yesterday’s man is stuffing up

21.01.2025 9

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Jakarta pips Dutton in nuclear race

13.01.2025 10

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Debunking deforestation

Indonesia’s new president, former disgraced general Prabowo Subianto, is making an awkward discovery:  gaining respect in the international...

07.01.2025 20

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Farewell fair go, hello despair

It’s true. The night fears have come to pass. The evidence is too great to ignore any longer. My country, our nation, is racist. The seer carrying...

12.12.2024 9

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