World Affairs: Australasia
Lead Feature
The battle for Aboriginal rights
An apology from Kevin Rudd to Australia's aboriginals and a pledge about closing the life expectancy gap are steps in the right direction
In australasia
Australia's hidden empire
- By John Pilger
- 06 March
That Canberra runs an imperial network is unmentionable, yet the chain of control stretches from the Aboriginal slums of Sydney to the South Pacific
Another country
- By Simon Carr
- 06 March
Going As Far As I Can: the Ultimate Travel Book
Duncan Fallowell Profile Books, 256pp, £12.99
Catching the last tram home
- By John Pilger
- 21 February
Beyond today's bathers, untanned and often fat, there is a glimpse of the down-at-heel city that Sydney was: the same peeling paint and worried eyes of refugees
Was Northern Rock the worst of it?
- By Howard Reed
- 18 January
IPPR chief economist Howard Reed ponders our economic prospects for 2008 as part of a newstatesman.com series
Happy 10th birthday Kyoto
- By Peter Hardstaff
- 12 December
As people at the Bali conference sing 'happy birthday dear Kyoto' Peter Hardstaff reports on America's blocking game
International Climate Cookery for Beginners
- By Peter Hardstaff
- 04 December
WDM's Peter Hardstaff continues his Bali Conference Blog with: Recipe 1: How to make a ‘climate conference deal’
Feature
Euthanasia, censorship and NZ
Paul Evans reports on strict laws in New Zealand censoring what citizens there can read and argues there is a growing resistance to this 'assault on free speech'
More in australasia
Rudd was a safe bet
- By Peter Wilby
- 29 November 2007
Still the lucky country
- By Julianne Schultz
- 16 August 2007
No more victims
- By Noel Pearson
- 16 August 2007
A pretty determined bastard
- By Tom Bentley
- 16 August 2007
Over here
- By Ryan Heath
- 16 August 2007
Fletcher's legacy
- By Diana Souhami
- 04 June 2007
Australia's frothy city
- By Simon Busch
- 28 May 2007
