Tony Abbott's Syria gamble will backfire: Tariq Ali

By Bianca Hall
Updated September 2 2015 - 10:08am, first published August 27 2015 - 10:51am
Tariq Ali says Tony Abbott "needs a war".
 Photo: Eddie Jim
Tariq Ali says Tony Abbott "needs a war". Photo: Eddie Jim
Tariq Ali
Tariq Ali

The prospect of Australia extending air strikes from Iraq into neighbouring Syria is an act of "desperation" by a prime minister in urgent need of a byelection win, Pakistani-British intellectual Tariq Ali has declared.

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