Sex trumps torture and corruption

Paul McGeough This is about carnal relations, not global security - got it? We're talking sex, so if you're looking for heavy breathing about ethics and morality, move on, turn the page.

Alexander leaves us on a downer

Paul McGeough A great week for huffin'-'n'-puffin', what? First, Alexander Downer takes an airbrush to history. And then, more gobsmackery by our top soldier, on what he ''always knew'' was a raw deal for the...

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Karzai's cabal steals the national capital

Paul McGeough The Kabul Bank fiasco is as much Canberra's legacy as it is Washington's.

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Here's a banking chief worth protecting

Paul McGeough When Muhammad Yunus gets mugged by the government of Bangladesh, our culture of modern hero-worship manifests as blanket indifference.

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Plus ça change for a Europe in crisis

Paul McGeough They talk and talk and talk, but can they ever achieve anything? I'm talking about the Europeans.

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Authoritarian habits prove hard to break

Paul McGeough If the rise of the Egyptian Islamists gives us a few laughs, the refusal by the Cairo generals to relinquish power is the stuff of tears.

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US exit creates army ripe for recruitment

Paul McGeough Numbers coming out of Afghanistan often are scary but try wrapping your head around this one - 123,500.

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Gorran challenge threatens politics of Kurdistan

Paul McGeough Iraq's backroom political strategists may have a new area of uncertainty to reckon with after the nation's vote: the Kurdish north.

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