http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/anthony-antioch/ Anthony Antioch is a young writer from Canberra. He studies politics and law at the Australian National University and hopes to offer a youth perspective to contemporary policy debates. 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Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/australias-foreign-aid-is-starved-of-attention/ Over recent years, Australia has doubled its financial commitment to foreign aid. Yet our aid program has remained starved of attention from the government, media and community at large. On Tuesday, Kevin Rudd sought to rectify this by announcing a five-month independent review of the effectiveness of Australia aid. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Anthony Antioch) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/australias-foreign-aid-is-starved-of-attention/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/australias-foreign-aid-is-starved-of-attention/#item4504 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:00:38 +0000 Anthony Antioch | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/political-limbo-hung-for-lack-of-climate-vision/ As the country enters yet another day of political limbo, at least one element of the recent federal election is clear: the Australian people want genuine action on climate change. Over a week has passed since voters rejected both the major parties, creating our first hung parliament in seventy years and only the second in our history. The electorate’s disapproval of each alternative government manifested in a swell of support for the Greens and independents, who now hold the balance of power in both houses of parliament. This unique situation seems in no small part to have arisen from Labor and the Coalition’s reluctance to offer substantive policies to mitigate global warming—the issue heralded as the greatest moral and economic challenge of our time. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Anthony Antioch) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/political-limbo-hung-for-lack-of-climate-vision/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/political-limbo-hung-for-lack-of-climate-vision/#item3928 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:30:48 +0000 Anthony Antioch | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/loopholes-mean-young-voters-will-remain-silenced/ In less than two weeks time, while the majority of Australians flock to the polls and cast their ballots, young people across the country will sit in silence, stripped of their democratic rights by our cumbersome and anachronistic electoral system. Last Friday, the High Court overturned the Howard government’s 2006 changes to the Electoral Act. The amendments had resulted in the electoral roll being closed a matter of hours after the writs were issued. In an action brought by political advocacy group GetUp!, the court held these changes to be unconstitutional, thereby restoring the original seven day grace period in which individuals may place themselves on the roll. As a consequence, an estimated 100,000 additional Australians, predominately youth, are now able to take part in this year’s election. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Anthony Antioch) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/loopholes-mean-young-voters-will-remain-silenced/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/loopholes-mean-young-voters-will-remain-silenced/#item3750 Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:30:49 +0000 Anthony Antioch | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/abbotts-un-cut-is-expensive-and-unnecessary/ This week’s announcement by Tony Abbott that he intends to terminate Australia’s bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council illustrates the profoundly myopic foreign policy of the federal opposition. The abandonment of the bid formed part of a $1.2 billion string of budget cuts proposed by the coalition on Tuesday. In explaining the move, Abbott declared “there are vastly higher priorities for Australia right now than pursuing a seat on the Security Council”. Abbott’s words, however, could not be more short-sighted. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Anthony Antioch) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/abbotts-un-cut-is-expensive-and-unnecessary/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/abbotts-un-cut-is-expensive-and-unnecessary/#item3611 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:35:03 +0000 Anthony Antioch | Author bios | The Punch