Author: Paul Cleary
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Norway, Canada show the way to cash in on resources boom
The Australian NSW has decided to put its property stamp duty windfall in infrastructure. Cashed-up Canadian pension funds have been very active in Australia of late, with a strong focus on agriculture, and so has Norway’s $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund. It’s no coincidence that these resource-rich countries have been extending their global investment reach…
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Norway’s billion dollar Rockefeller lesson
The Australian How a Kansas master’s degree helped shape the Norwegian oil and gas industry When Norwegian economist Arve Johnsen undertook a master’s degree on a Fulbright scholarship in 1959-60, his country was making a modest living from fishing, forestry and shipping. Norway‘s per capita income was in line with that of Greece. Following the…
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Timor Sea solution surfaced decades ago
The Australian As Australia and East Timor met overnight at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, the Britain-Norway settlement of the 1960s provides an instructive case study of how to resolve the dispute over oil and gas fields in the Timor Sea. When Britain and Norway negotiated to divide up the oil-rich North…
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Jeffrey Grey: ADFA military historian gained international recognition
The Australian During this centenary of Anzac, Australians are being inundated with popular books on World War I and every other conflict in which our Diggers fought. In this environment, academic historian Jeffrey Grey certainly swam against the tide of populism and achieved a towering reputation. Grey, who died in late July, aged 57, taught…
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Anzac Day 2016: Keith Hayes alive thanks to ‘the lady with the long face’
The Australian From the time that Keith Hayes’s seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren have been able to speak, they have asked him about the large photo of a Timorese woman on solemn display in his living room. The littlest ones call her “the lady with the long face”. The woman, Berta Martins, risked her life…
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Scullion to follow indigenous registrar Anthony Beven’s emails
The Australian Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has asked the Prime Minister’s Department to investigate a senior official after the disclosure of embarrassing emails that indicate a “compromised” relationship with the chief executive of a wealthy Aboriginal corporation. Senator Scullion’s office confirmed the investigation to The Australian when asked if the minister still had confidence…
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Meyne Wyatt puts personal tragedy behind him for King Lear role
The Australian Meyne Wyatt appears strong and confident in the role of Edmund in King Lear at the Sydney Theatre Company, even though he had to deal with personal tragedy going into the show. Acting alongside Geoffrey Rush and Robyn Nevin would be nerve-racking for any young actor, but Wyatt, 26, has had to cope…
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Drug trial: A test of ethics
The Australian When the Australian Defence Force sent troops to Bougainville and East Timor 15 years ago, medical officers saw an opportunity to test new anti-malarial drugs. Across three years, about 2500 soldiers were used in trials of drugs that were unapproved or had serious side effects on mental health. Some soldiers say they were…
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Farmers against Whitehaven and Shenhua in battle of the plains
The Australian Whitehaven Coal’s Werris Creek colliery in northern NSW is a modest mine by any measure. At 2.5 million tonnes of coal output a year, this is one mine that was meant to underscore claims that mining could coexist with intensive agriculture. But jump on to any satellite website and you’ll get some idea…
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Iraq, Afghanistan veteran Callender offers insights in ‘After the Blast’
The Australian Garth Callender wrote reports “to save lives” during an eight-month tour in Afghanistan in 2009, his third deployment to a war zone in five years. His dispatches contained forensic analysis of the improvised explosive devices used by insurgents to kill and maim coalition troops and Afghans, which at this time were taking out…