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ARTICLES

Can Australia escape the clash of civilisations?
by Adrian Morgan

The West's failure to understand Putin's Russia
by John Miller

Seven things you didn't know about China
by Jeffrey Babb

Why do so many indigenous children
fail at school? Seven wrong answers
by Geoffrey Partington

Britain's cowardly officers?
by Hal G.P. Colebatch

Reversing the decay of representative government
by Jeffrey Babb

Lessons of history?
by Geoffrey Partington

BOOK REVIEWS

Gregory Copley et al., Energy Security 2.0:
How Energy is Central to the Changing Global Balance in the New Age of Geography
Reviewed by Warren Reed

Mark Aarons, The Family File
Reviewed by John Ironmonger

Patrick Moore, Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout
Reviewed by Bill Muehlenberg

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National Observer: Australia and World Affairs, No. 85, 2012