Andrew mitrovica biography

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I grew up in a neurotic, faraway island called Australia during the 1960s.

Even as a youngster, I knew, like millions of frightened Australians, that it seemed only a matter of time before a big, bad boogeyman swooped down and overwhelmed the country, turning it from a sun-kissed land of liberty into a dark, sullen place of brutal, Maoist conformity.

Back then, the looming threat was called “the yellow peril” and the creeping boogeyman was China’s Chairman Mao, who school children, like me, were taught had sinister designs to overrun our not-so-far-away island.

The manufactured mania reached an almost paralysing pitch when, in 1967, Australia’s prime minister, Harold Holt, went for a swim in the ocean one bright Sunday afternoon and never came back. The all-hands-on-deck search for the missing prime minister proved futile.

In the absence of a body or the good sense to conclude that Holt had probably drowned, “yell

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I believe most Americans have abandoned democracy because democracy has abandoned most Americans.

Canadian media’s baseless China hysteria not only tarnished reputations, but also diverted attention from real threats.

The US president finally said out loud what his predecessors always tried to hide behind more agreeable language.

The frontrunners in the Liberals’ leadership race cannot offer the change the party needs to tackle Trump and elections.

The US president has clearly had only Israeli and real estate interests at heart.

There is a renewed attempt in the US, Europe and beyond to minimise and sanitise the horrors of Nazism. 

Relief. Gratitude. Acknowledge. Shame.

When the US president-elect threatens Greenland, Panama and my country, Canada, I don’t think he’s joking.

The outgoing Canadian prime minister was a ‘progressive’ fraud and a liar. History will judge him harshly.

Amid the horror of watching genocide unfold