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  • Redacted Justice: Epstein, Power, and the Machinery of Forgetting

    Redacted Justice: Epstein, Power, and the Machinery of Forgetting A Public Reflection by Paul Alexander Wolf, Australian Citizen ⸻ I. The Survivor’s Cold Silence She was 13 when it began.Or maybe 14.The records blur.The names are blacked out.The flights were real. She spoke once – quiet, clear, and trembling.She named her abusers.They were rich. Some… Keep reading →

  • Australia’s role in the Asia – Pacific Region

    “In  my  time  I  have  seen  truth  that  was  anything  under  the  sun  but  just,  and  I  have  seen  justice  using  tools  and  instruments  I  wouldn’t  want  to  touch  with  a  ten-foot  fence  rail”      – William  Faulkner  (Knight’s Gambit 1949)   Justice, balance of power and peace   Former Prime Minister Paul Keating said the…

  • The Asia – Pacific Challenge

      – http://cdn.theguardian.tv/brightcove/2012/3/26/120326ObamaHu-16×9.mp4 “Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.” – Abraham Lincoln  – Speaking about  an increasing shift in US troops from the Middle East, Iraq and Afghanistan to the Asia-Pacific region. – It would seem that the 21st century will be America’s Pacific century with promoting trade and economic ties,…

  • To sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression against human rights and injustice, and create the biggest movement on earth

      – “Each time a man stands up for an ideal or act to improve the lot of others, or strikes against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of…

  • The Art of Leadership and Lessons from the Past – Edward M. Kennedy

    Leadership lessons  (Edward M. Kennedy)   “Ted Kennedy’s life is a reminder that much can be achieved by late bloomers; that you don’t have to have your career all figured out by the time you’re       25, 35, or even over 45.”              – Sarah Green in a post on…

  • The Art of Leadership and Lessons from the Past – Gandhi.

      “A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.”   Mohandas Gandhi Gandhi had been on the political stage for more than fifty years before three pistol shots put an end to his life at the early beginning of 1948. Two generations of Indian patriots were inspired by him…

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