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• The Decline of Australian Foreign Policy - essay, "The Australian's Review of Books", 11 October 2000
• Good German, Good Australian “Canberra Times”: Sunday, 23 December 2001
• Dancing in the darkness of contemporary Australia "The Australian" (1 February 2002, page 11)
• Eureka Street essay 'Sunken Diplomacy' October 2003, pages
  30-31
• US ties jeopardise ordinary Australians "Canberra Times", opinion page, 23 October 2003
• "Our questionable tactics in Iraq" - January 17, 2004, The Age, opinion page
  "Secrets & Allies" - Feature story by Tony Kevin, "Sydney Morning Herald" January 17-18
• US-Australia Free Trade Agreement: recent readings
• Awkward questions of prior knowledge - "Canberra Times", 3 March 2004, Opinion, p.15
• A speech by Julian Burnside that deserves to be read and remembered - AFR page 51, 19 March 2004
• Reasons for keeping troops in Iraq don't stand close analysis- By William Maley, "Canberra Times" Wednesday, 31 March 2004, Opinion, page 21.
• Two articles from 2001 on the Australian government’s use of East Timor intelligence in the referendum year 1999 – posted 17 April 2004"
• Robert Fisk on the forthcoming "handover of sovereignty " in Iraq
• Rethinking our place in Bush's world, by Tony Kevin, Australian Financial Review, Weekend Review page 10, 20 September 2002
• PM’s way is a recipe for further distress (commentary on Iraq) - Tony Kevin, Canberra Times opinion, page 17, 20 May 2004
• With the UN back, which way now for Iraq ? - opinion commentary by Tony Kevin, Canberra Times, 8 June 2004, Opinion page 19

• How Downer and DFAT failed to act on ONA and ASIO warnings prior to the Bali bombings - Tony Kevin commentary of 26 July 2004, and SMH article of 19 June 2003, "I don't remember seeing Bali warning: Downer"

• Labor must hold its nerve on the FTA - by Tony Kevin, Canberra Times, Opinion Page, 21 July 2004

• "Woomera detention centre doctor speaks out" - ABC TV "Lateline" Broadcast: 27/10/2004, Reporter: Margot O'Neill
• "All the makings of a war crime - with Australia silently onside" – opinion piece by Tony Kevin, Sydney Morning Herald, Opinion Page, 9 November 2004.
• No Apologies For Dissent: Truth And Cowardice , a commentary by Paul Street, with thanks to Znet website, 7 December 2004
• "Iraq: In This Mire Of Death, Lies And Atrocities, We Glimpse The Ghost Of Vietnam", by Robert Fisk, The Independent of London, 27 December 2004

• "Scared of deportation? Tatts are just the ticket"

  - A national tattoo system could be the answer in avoiding unwanted exile.

  - Tony Kevin, Opinion page, The Age, 13 May, 2005

  
  http://www.theage.com.au/news/Opinion/Scared-of-deportation-Tatts-are-just-the-ticket/2005/05/12/1115843309311.html

• "It's time for Beazley to act on detention", Professor Jerzy Zubrzycki, Opinion, Canberra Times, 12 May 2005TK Comment: I am pleased to put this important opinion piece by my friend Jerzy (George) Zubrzycki, concerning border protection and mandatory detention policy, on my website – it deserves a wider Australian readership than just in Canberra. TK 16.5.2005

• "A whistleblower at Bundaberg Base Hospital" - commentary by Tony Kevin on New Matilda website, Wednesday 29 June 2005 TK -

• "Iraq in the mirror of Fallujah" – commentary by Paul Rogers, in www.opendemocracy.net , 21 July 2005

• Letter to the Editor, "Touching on raw nerves", by Tony Kevin, published in Australian Book Review, August 2005 issue

• Terrorism and Australian values – two recent Canberra Times" readings - commentary by Tony Kevin, 7 August 2005:

• Two significant recent public readings on freedom of speech and terrorism – Waleed Aly, George Monbiot
• "A Letter from Robin Gollan: 'This two-faced Government rules through fear and lies' Canberra Times, 13 August 2005
• "VP Day: commemoration or celebration?" – The Age, Opinion Page, 17 August 2005, commentary by Tony Kevin.

• The Australian Senate briefly considers the case of David Hicks and the US Military Commission :

  - An agreed Senate opposition parties’ motion was voted down by Government numbers, and a Q and A exchange took place between Senator Natasha Stott Despoja and Justice Minister Ellison, on 5 September 2005 - texts and commentary herewith

• “The Subversion of Australian Democracy” - text of talk on the new terror laws etc., given by Tony Kevin at a Sydney Greens meeting, Mori Gallery, Cockle Bay, Darling Harbour, 17 November 2005. Other speakers were Federal Greens Senator Kerry Nettle, and Keysar Trad. ( An advance release of this text also appeared on Margo Kingston‘s Webdiary , on 17 November – with thanks to Margo)

• Submission Number 173 to Senate Inquiry into the provisions of the Anti-Terrorism Bill (No. 2) 2005 (as accepted and published by the Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee, on 15 November 2005) , from Tony Kevin, Forrest , ACT , 11 November 2005

• “Iraq's people ultimate victims of corrupt wheat deals” – Opinion essay by Tony Kevin, The Age, 3 February 2006
  This text is accessible at The Age website, http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/feeding-them-chaff/2006/02/02/1138836366588.html

• "AWB Inquiry – the truth, the whole truth …” , political commentary by Tony Kevin, posted on Online Opinion, 17 February 2006 http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=4169

• “We must sheet home the blame where it rightly belongs”, opinion piece by Tony Kevin, Canberra Times, 9 February 2006 ( on AWB issue)

• Website Update for www.tonykevin.com - 18 February 2003 (on AWB issue, and a separate commentary on AFP, Bali Nine and SIEV X)

• “John Pilger refuses to fly the flag”, John Pilger, New Statesman, 27th February 2006p

• “Are Muslims the only real Australians?” - Anti-immigrant backlash betrays the multiculturalism on which this country was built by Tessa Morris-Suzuki. This fine commentary first appeared on the Korea-based “OhMyNews” international news website.

• ”Who Cops It in the ACT” – New Matilda, Wednesday 29 March 2006, commentary by Tony Kevin

• “We must not bow to threats over refugees” – commentary by Tony Kevin, The Advertiser ( Adelaide), Opinion Page, 7 April 2006

• “Boat People Again” – commentary by Tony Kevin, first published in Online Opinion, 6 April 2006

• “Facing criticism” – Letter from Tony Kevin published in the Canberra Times, 5 April 2005

• “Democracy not ours to export” - commentary by Neville Wran, Former Premier of NSW, in SMH, 4 April 2006

• “SIEV X and the Banality of Evil: an interview with Tony Kevin”, A. Ashbolt and T. Kevin (2006),  a conversation held in April 2006 for “Illawarra Unity”, the journal of the Illawarra Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History. The transcript can be read in its original form in Volume 6, issue 1, of the printed journal, or on this URL     http://ro.uow.edu.au/unity/vol6/iss1/or this one http://www.uow.edu.au/~morgan/unity.htm

• “ Lebanon : war takes root”, Paul Rogers , Open Democracy website, 3 August 2006

  “The combination of United States global strategy, Israeli determination and Hizbollah resilience mean only one thing: a long war.”- Paul Rogers

• Two new essays on Israel and its neighbours , and the current conflict in Lebanon

  "Two new files today, on Israel and Lebanon, the accompanying file reproducing an opinion essay in the Canberra Times yesterday by former Australian diplomat and commentator Bruce Haigh , and the second (below) by me in On Line Opinion published the same day . Both pieces were written entirely independently, but clearly share much common ground. This is a minefield area to get into public debate on. Obviously, neither Bruce Haigh nor I are in any way anti-Semitic. We have a public obligation to draw attention to the cruelty and self-harming stupidity of what Israel is now doing in Lebanon, and the implications for our own country..."

• “It's time to shed mantle of a victim”, Bruce Haigh , Canberra Times , Opinion, 9 August 2006

  "Experience should have taught the Israelis that the use of overwhelming force against its neighbours will always generate an equal and opposite reaction. But Israel is locked into a pattern of behaviour which shapes and dictates the reaction of its enemies, of which there is an increasing number. Israel has learnt nothing; it believes compassion and negotiation are a sign of weakness...."

• “Good Neighbour, Bad Neighbour: What’s the difference? Australian Indonesian Relations” – address by Tony Kevin, at Uniya Jesuit Social Justice Centre seminar, Adelaide, 22 August 200

• Homily given by Archbishop Mark Coleridge at his installation as the Sixth Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn, at St Christopher’s Cathedral, Canberra on Thursday 17 August 2006

  People of open and liberal minds are open to finding wisdom and truth wherever it appears. I found this printed text when I went to Mass at my church last Sunday morning - the text of the inspiring homily by the newly installed Catholic Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn, Mark Coleridge the previous Thursday. It would be presumptious of me to comment on the content of Bishop Coleridge’s text, except to say that for anyone who cares about Australia’s future, it is well worth the time to read - regardless of your religious beliefs or lack thereof ...

• “Gore film asks us to take a good, hard look” – review of An Inconvenient Truth, by Tony Kevin – opinion page, Canberra Times , 13 September 2006

• “ Australia is still evolving”, by Tony Kevin, published in “ On Line Opinion”, 8 September 2006 . I was recently invited by Australia 's E-journal of social and political debate, On Line Opinion , http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/ , to contribute up to 1800 words to a discussion topic, “What creeds should we hold in common?. Is being Australian a feature of your geographical location, your genealogy or your culture? ” . This autobiographically-based essay was the result ... 

• “Scandal v.set-up: let's rewind the Hilali tape”, opinion essay by Bruce Haigh, Canberra Times, 2 November 2006

• Manning Clark House Weekend of Ideas on 'A Fair Go for Refugees?' - Agreed Statement of Principles" , 1 April 2007 .
  This statement was agreed by consensus at the Manning Clark House Weekend of Ideas on Sunday 1 April 2007. It will go up on the Manning Clark House website www.manningclark.org.au later this week. Approximately 300 people attended the WEID from all over Australia. Details of the weekend programme and presenters are on that website.

• Manning Clark House Weekend of Ideas on 'A Fair Go for Refugees?' - Media Release, 1 April 2007 .