Lushington D. Brady: Is Their Savagery Really as Good as Our Civilisation?

Liberal democracy is a hard-learned process

For a while during the international occupation, Afghanistan hosted one of the most dangerous roads in the world. Not because of IEDs, but because American engineers spent billions building spanking new highways across the graveyard of empires. Afghanistan had just 80 kilometres of paved road in 2001; five years later, it had over 16,000 kilometres.

Jeremy Sammut from Australia: Hard conversation about Aboriginal culture and child protection

Conservative social commentators have indulged in 'divisive grandstanding' by linking Aboriginal culture to the abuse and neglect of Aboriginal children, according to Ngiare Brown, the deputy chairman of the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council.

These claims suppress the hard conversation we need to have about Aboriginal culture and child protection.