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Julia Gillard

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Julia Gillard, a former prime minister of Australia, is Chair of the Wellcome Trust.

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  1. Climate Change Is a Health Crisis
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    Climate Change Is a Health Crisis

    Nov 1, 2021 Julia Gillard calls for a global strategy to minimize illness and death related to global warming in the coming decades.

  2. Transforming Education After the Pandemic
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    Transforming Education After the Pandemic

    Jun 30, 2021 Julia Gillard calls on governments to ensure learning opportunities for the world’s most vulnerable children.

  3. Closing the Education Gender Gap
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    Closing the Education Gender Gap

    Oct 11, 2017 Julia Gillard emphasizes how much work remains to be done to put girls into school, and then into meaningful work.

  4. Syria and the Refugee Iceberg
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    Syria and the Refugee Iceberg

    Mar 17, 2016 Julia Gillard reminds us that millions more worldwide are displaced by conflict – and all but forgotten.

  5. Winning the Fight For Global Education
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    Winning the Fight For Global Education

    Jul 13, 2015 Julia Gillard argues that all the pieces are in place to uphold the right of all children to go to school.

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    The EPA’s Rejection of Climate Science Threatens Everyone

    Gary Yohe warns that the agency’s reappraisal of its “endangerment finding” will provide cover for anti-climate action.
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    ASEAN Should Expand to Counter Trump’s Tariffs

    R.M. Manivannan thinks adding Timor-Leste and Sri Lanka as members will help strengthen the bloc’s hand against the US.
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    No, Le Pen Was Not Railroaded

    Jan-Werner Mueller

    Following French far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s conviction on embezzlement charges and her five-year disqualification from holding elected office, even some impeccably liberal voices are worried that the judiciary has undermined France’s democracy. Their arguments do not withstand scrutiny.

    rebuts arguments against a verdict barring the French far-right leader from the 2027 presidential election.
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    Opposing Trump

    Adam Michnik interviewed by Irena Grudzińska Gross

    With Donald Trump's administration constantly commanding the news cycle and throwing the entire world into chaos, what are the Democrats and the rest of the American opposition to do? The first step, former Polish dissident Adam Michnik says, is to understand what gave rise to the regime.

    about the new US administration and how pro-democracy forces can best confront it.
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    Will Qatari Gold Sink Netanyahu?

    Konstanty Gebert explains the latest scandal to hit Israel's increasingly illiberal, norm-breaking government.
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    The US and Russia Are Negotiating in Bad Faith

    Nina L. Khrushcheva thinks the Kremlin is laying the groundwork for a highly favorable deal on the Ukraine war.
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    Europe’s Tech Sovereignty Demands More Than Competitiveness

    Marietje Schaake & Max von Thun warn that the European Union’s deregulatory push could undermine its autonomy and fundamental values.
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    How Should Africa Respond to Foreign-Aid Cuts?

    Ifeanyi M. Nsofor touts the potential of foreign remittances to sustain public services as external support shrinks.
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    How Should China Respond to Trump’s Tariffs?

    Huang Yiping urges Chinese policymakers to fill the leadership vacuum created by America’s protectionist turn.

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