Not much of AUKUS adds up – at once there is too little and too much information. It looks like the bedrock of Australia’s security policy since the war is being swept aside. (more…)
John Menadue
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Labor! Tell the story of us
The story of ‘us’: there’s a great tale Labor could tell about how it would govern – it just needs to start telling it. (more…)
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The repeated lie that Morrison stopped the boats. An updated repost from March 11, 2021
Our corporate media will not acknowledge that Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison did not stop the boats. Despite clear evidence, the Canberra Press Gallery fell for the spin. With a tame media and cooperation by the military, the big lie was repeated time and time again and became accepted as fact. This was all before Donald Trump and his big lies. (more…)
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Jacob Hornberger: Why not joint war crimes trials?
The U.S. mainstream media is calling for the criminal prosecution of Russian president Vladimir Putin, as well as Russian military personnel, for war crimes committed as part of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. (more…)
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Privatisation and the hollowing out of Medicare by the Morrison Government
The Coalition has for years been undermining Medicare. Bob Hawke was correct at the last election when he said that the Coalition was aiming to privatise Medicare. It was not a scare tactic as some unthinking journalists keep saying. The Coalition has been privatising by stealth for years our universal health care system. (more…)
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Kenny Stancil: Copycat Cruelty – The Australian solution – Britain to send refugees to Rwanda
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s move to deport asylum-seekers to another country thousands of miles away will “only lead to more human suffering, chaos, and at huge expense to the U.K.,” said one refugee advocate
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Derek Woolner & David Glynne Jones – From AUKUS to the Solomon Islands: Australia’s urgent need for a cohesive strategic policy
The major issue for Australia’s program to acquire nuclear propelled submarines has little to do with the vessels. (more…)
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Tim Battin: Waiting for the result of the small-target tactic with baseball bats
If the ALP cannot secure victory in the coming election, the result will expose the fallacies on which the small-target approach is based, and we should be ready for it with baseball bats. (more…)
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Matt Robson: Sleepwalking to war: NZ is back under the nuclear umbrella
As Minister for Disarmament in the 1999-2002 Labour-Alliance Coalition I was authorised to state that we would pursue an independent foreign policy and we would not march off to almost every war launched by Great Britain and then the United States – our “traditional” allies. (more…)
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Brett Wilkins: The US arms industry, Ukraine and the media
“The people who have the most interest in influencing the direction of the media coverage of the Ukraine War are weapons-makers.” (more…)
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Philip Huggins: Easter and the universality of forgiveness at a pivotal moment in our nation’s history
Forgiveness from the heart is profoundly beneficial and very demanding. That is why the Cross is such an enduring symbol. Both on Good Friday and then, thankfully, the Easter Sunday Cross, garlanded with flowers. (more…)
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Eric Hunter: What’s God’s answer?
The world watches as an extremely distraught Ukrainian man sobs in front of a camera after seeing his daughter and young granddaughter killed in the Russian missile assault on the city of Mauripol, “God, why have you visited this on me?” A good question and tragically ironic! (more…)
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Erik Paul: Australia beating the war drums
Given Australia’s strategic alliance with the US and the militarisation of the continent in preparation for war against China, Australians should decide whether they want to go to war against China. (more…)
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Brett Wilkins: Jimmy Carter says that the US is the ‘Most warlike nation in the history of the world’
The only US president to complete his term without war, military attack or occupation has called the United States “the most warlike nation in the history of the world.” (more…)
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Our democracy is decaying from within. A repost from 16 September 2021
We need a summit of community leaders to help chart democratic renewal. (more…)
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Johnny Mok: Is Hong Kong’s rule of law in decline?
Hong Kong’s global ranking on the rule of law is close to the UK’s and has changed little since 2015 (more…)
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Keith Mitchelson: The perfect rort…gas-guzzling SUVs and utility trucks and more
The Morrison Government is nothing if not inventive. If you need to rort votes there is always a danger that people will notice. How to devise the perfect rort that is the question? Free vehicles for anyone! (more…)
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Margaret Beavis: What really makes Australians more secure?
We are assured nuclear powered submarines and missiles will make us more secure, but with hospitals chronically underfunded and poverty and homelessness on the rise, are they the actually the right choice? (more…)
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The Saudi involvement in 9/11
The FBI has quietly revealed further evidence of Saudi government complicity in the September 11 attacks. But the full story is yet to be told. (more…)
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William Xu and Li Bingcun: Three senior Australian judges show confidence in HK’s legal system
Three Australian judges－William Gummow, Anthony Gleeson and Robert French－stated in an email to the South China Morning Post that they support the judges of the Court of Final Appeal in their commitment to judicial independence. The Canadian judge, Beverley McLachlin, also intends to stay on, according to media reports. (more…)
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Admiral Prune: Defending Australia Part 4 of 4: People and Process
After thirty years of hand wringing about our deteriorating strategic circumstances, Australians have a right to know from the new government how it will fix Australia’s military weakness, without waiting decades. They must start with “The System”. (more…)
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Admiral Prune: Defending Australia Part 3 of 4: What sort of ADF do we need?
Commentators suggest that the Morrison Government is attempting to frame a “khaki election”. It would be far better were it a “blue election” – sea and sky blue. (more…)
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Jonathan Holmes: In real terms the ABC is still going backwards
Dave Sharma, the Liberal federal member for Wentworth in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs, is fighting for his political survival against independent candidate Allegra Spender, who supports a well-funded ABC. (more…)
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Charles Pierson: Biden promised to stop supporting Saudi aggression in Yemen. He lied
Will Biden betray Yemen once again in return for cheaper gas for suburban moms’ SUVs and victory at the polls in November? (more…)
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Admiral Prune: Defending Australia Part 2 of 4: Are we delivering the ADF we need?
There will probably be more grand announcements in the lead up to the Morrison Government’s attempt to frame a “khaki election”. What we are doing, as opposed to talking about doing, is not reassuring. (more…)
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Herbert Wulf: Double standards
War criminals must be held accountable. But this rule of law is universal. And it is precisely those who emphasise the rules-based international order that should strictly adhere to these rules themselves. (more…)
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Ray Edmondson: Coalition jobs for the boys and girls before the “Caretaker Period” start with the AAT!
Public institutions need the guidance of expert boards, and appointments to them should be well considered, transparent, merit-based and non-political. In many countries that’s normative and taken for granted. But not in Australia. Under the Coalition government the boards of some of our great institutions have been thoroughly politicised. (more…)
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David Van Deusen: No love for Putin: No guns for Nazis in Ukraine
Ukraine in fact has a serious Nazi problem. (more…)
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Greg Wilesmith: Who Needs the ABC? A book review
Why taking the ABC for granted is no longer an option. (more…)
