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The Voice- Problematic Politics?

January 30, 2023 by Peter Holding Leave a Comment

I’ll be voting “yes” for constitutional recognition of the Voice. I’ll vote “Yes” because that is what most Aboriginal leaders have called for, because defeat would set back reconciliation and because it’s Labor policy, and I’m a member of the Labor Party. But I think the politics surrounding the Voice are problematic. There is broad […]

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Una cuestión de identidad

January 25, 2023 by Peter Holding Leave a Comment

Mi madre, Margret Holding, de soltera Sheer, nació en Viena en 1932. Sus padres eran judíos seculares. La familia abandonó Austria poco después de la ocupación alemana en marzo de 1938. En Kristallnacht, en noviembre de ese año, alrededor de 8000 judíos fueron arrestados y 5000 fueron enviados a Dachau. Para 1939, los nazis habían […]

Filed Under: family, In Spanish

A question of identity (written by Margret Holding- date unknown)

October 19, 2022 by Peter Holding

My father was for me a kind of guru. Guide, sage, an abstraction of all-knowing goodness- his belief became my moral philosophy, his views were scrupulously embraced as a pathway to leading an honourable life. His was a voice form beyond the grave, my devotion to his principles was self-imposed. But my fidelity to his […]

Filed Under: family, philosophy, religion

Pearls and Irritations takes aim at Albanese Foreign Policy

July 11, 2022 by Peter Holding

John Menadue is a former private secretary to Gough Whitlam, secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet under both Whitlam and Fraser and a former ambassador to Australia. Menadue edits the online public policy journal ‘Pearls and Irritations’. This week’s edition contains a series of articles critical of the Albanese Government’s early foreign […]

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A Brief Summary of Perspectives on China

June 16, 2022 by Peter Holding

Clive Hamilton, is a Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) and the Vice-Chancellor’s Chair in Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University. He is the author of the 2018 book, ‘Silent Invasion: China’s Influence in Australia. Hamilton is a former Green Party Senate candidate. The Greens do not see China as a threat to Australia and […]

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