The latest reports of a massacre of dozens, perhaps 300, ethnic Yazidis by fighters from the self-proclaimed Islamic State has again raised fundamental questions about what can or should be done to protect this ethnic minority. The question is all the more pressing as while the Yazidis have been threatened with genocide, the […]
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As was widely anticipated, former foreign minister Bob Carr has resigned from the Senate, opening the way for the appointment of a new Labor Senator in New South Wales. In announcing his resignation, Carr described his period as foreign minister as being the learning equivalent of “a dozen PhDs” and an exercise in continuity. In […]