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Australian bombs won't bring peace to Syria, so why do it?

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageThe Al-Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan is home to thousands of the nine million refugees displaced by the conflict in Syria.Reuters/Muhammad Hamed

It would appear that the Abbott government has its heart set on bombing Syria. But it is hard to understand why.

Unlike Australia’s complicity in the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, this proposal has...

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Dramatic sharemarket gyrations may mask longer term dangers

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageTime to panic, or time to chill: which is it?Reuters/Lucas Jackson

The past week saw dramatic movements on global equities markets, triggered by concerns about the Chinese economy. There were steep falls on indices around the world, include an 8.5% drop in a single day, Monday, on China’s benchmark index, the Shanghai Composite.

This raised...

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