The Australian Government must condemn Israel’s genocidal actions in Gaza and its plans to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their homelands. It is also the responsibility of the national broadcaster to hold Canberra to account, by demanding this condemnation of our ally Israel for its gross and indisputable violations of international law. (more…)
Category: Media
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This upside-down world
What an amazing thing is the human spirit. What an amazing thing is human dignity. We, the Palestinians, despite everything this cruel world has dished out to us for over a century, could give the whole world a master-class on how to survive with dignity. (more…)
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Scott Morrison loses the family snapshots… again
Scott Morrison wants his family photo album back. It was mistakenly sent to an op-shop where it was bought by a customer who soon realised they’d acquired a volume of glimpses of our former PM’s life in the 1990s. Holidays in London, living it up at the Sheraton, taking a dip in a lake and recovering after a hard New Year’s Eve — these images had meaning for Morrison it seems. (more…)
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People’s inquiry into campus free speech on Palestine to shine a light on repression
When power oppresses, civil society must hold it to account. Like media and the arts, university campuses in Australia have become sites of censorship and suppression of free speech on the question of Palestine. (more…)
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High seas farce with Chinese characteristics
The melodramatic media story about the small Chinese naval flotilla exercising with “live” ammunition off the Australian and New Zealand coasts has run solid for more than a week. I’m beginning to suspect the Chinese military may have a sense of humour. (more…)
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Yellow Peril! Red Peril! ‘We cannot hide anymore’. Chinese warships in the Tasman Sea
The Western media went into overdrive this past week to work the laconic Kiwis into a mild frenzy over three Chinese naval vessels conducting exercises in the Tasman Sea a few thousand kilometres off our shores. What was really behind this orchestrated campaign? (more…)
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The Chinese invasion begins: Anti-China Media Watch
Is a flotilla of Chinese ships on a reconnaissance mission for a future invasion of Australia or, as the Australian Defence Force admits, is China doing to us what we’ve been doing to them for decades? (more…)
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What the Bankstown Hospital nurses’ affair teaches us
Like heated milk boiling over in a saucepan, the sad Bankstown Public Hospital nurses’ affair has brought to a public head a long-simmering debate, rarely mentioned in polite company, about the extent and legitimacy of Zionist Israel’s interference in Australian political and public life and in our most vital community institutions like national broadcasters or health systems . This is a debate, however awkward, that Australia needs to have. (more…)
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What the Murdoch kids said on the stand in Project Harmony trial
When James Murdoch was considering marrying Kathryn Hufschmid, he invited her to meet his family while they were holidaying on a super yacht off the coast of Australia. During the holiday, she caught Rupert cheating at Monopoly. Murdoch just smirked and shrugged. (more…)
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‘Activist judges’: in the US and Australia, the Right intends to make the law its slave
One of the key strategies used by the transnational authoritarian Right to subvert democratic projects is “playing the refs.” Their strategists work to discredit journalists and media platforms that hold them to account. They tarnish academics, civil servants, agencies and charities that are expert in their inconvenient fields. Fact-checkers are made to look partisan, so nobody is left to call out lies. One target in America and Australia is the judiciary which they disparage with the label “activist judges”. (more…)
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Murdoch family meltdown might bode well
Late last year, Rupert Murdoch launched an audacious effort to amend the terms of the “irrevocable” family trust he had set up in the wake of his divorce from his second wife, Anna. (more…)
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Koreas both fret over Trump-Putin power plays – Asian Media Report
In Asian media this week: Seoul, Pyongyang fear being ignored. Plus: India edges towards closer US connection; Domestic violence surges in South Korea; Beijing brings private sector back into the fold; Military making comeback in Indonesia; Kolkata’s yellow taxis taking last fares. (more…)
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Will New Zealand invade the Cook Islands to stop China?
New Zealand’s leading newspaper, the New Zealand Herald, screamed out this headline on 10 February: “Should New Zealand invade the Cook Islands?” (more…)
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Locked up in Beijing: Anti-China Media Watch
An Australian national is locked up in a Beijing jail for five years. Led by Sky News, the media maintains his innocence, based on nothing more than his word… and the “fact” that innocents are locked up because the Chinese police are jealous. (more…)
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Moral panics, from Teddy Boys to antisemites
Seventy years ago, British youth, dressed in tight jeans, pointed winkle picker shoes and with greasy duck’s arse haircuts, gathered on the beaches of seaside towns, usually well know for their Victorian piers. By adding rock’n roll music to their unusual appearance, the young Teddy Boys, also referred to as ‘Folk Devils’ added a colourful but challenging culture to a dour post-war Britain. (more…)
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Gaza: The deafening sound of silence in Western political and media circles
Western governments and media remain silent on Israel’s genocide in Gaza while cracking down on those who speak out. (more…)
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The betrayal of Creative Australia
The board of Creative Australia, formerly the Australia Council, has betrayed its mission by enabling censorship and gross political interference in the arts, and its members must resign or be sacked. (more…)
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Beware of Zionist entrapments: Manufacturing the antisemitism narrative gone wrong
Zionist lobby groups have been in an unholy alliance with complicit media outlets to fabricate antisemitism narratives since the start of the Gaza genocide in order to silence supporters of Palestine. (more…)
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The government hasn’t exactly been doing nothing
With a Federal Election looming, Australians will soon be asked to make a choice about which party they want to lead the nation — whether in majority or minority government — for the next three years. (more…)
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Sourcing antisemitism: ‘Paid actors’ and urgent questions to be asked
In a recent podcast, award-winning US journalist, author, and film maker Max Blumenthal underlined the importance of following up stories “that are on the public record, but not getting adequate attention”. A concerning example was explored in his podcast, titled “Australian Authorities: ‘Paid Actors’ Spreading Anti-Semitism from Abroad”. (more…)
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Snouts in the trough
Ah! Peter Dutton loves the past when sheilas knew their place, blokes were blokes and boozy lunches were a key characteristic of the business environment. (more…)
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Pitt may not be best fit as ambassador to the Holy See
Diplomatic appointments usually don’t get much news coverage unless it’s a retiring politician getting appointed. Apparently Australian ambassador to the Holy See is one such plum job. (more…)
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Free meals threatened – and threatening
Before the 18th century Enlightenment, church and state in Europe were one. In Indonesia, fears that Islam will infiltrate civic affairs go back to the founding of the Republic. Instead, the threats are not from the mosques, but the military. (more…)
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ABC sycophancy erodes our democracy
As a 60 year veteran consumer of the ABC on radio, television and on-line, I am dismayed with the national broadcaster’s declining relevance, professionalism and integrity. The place is a mess, clearly made worse under the control of Ita Buttrose and David Anderson. (more…)
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Seeking the truth on Syria: Tulsi Gabbard vs the ABC
“If Barack Obama decides to attack the Syrian regime, he has ensured — for the very first time in history — that the United States will be on the same side as al-Qa’ida.” Robert Fisk, The Independent, 28 August 2013
“I hate that we have leaders who cozy up to Islamist extremists, minimising them to so-called rebels.” Tulsi Gabbard to US Senate Committee Hearing, 30 January 2025 (more…)
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The Gaza ceasefire is being sabotaged by Israel, by Trump, and by the media
The Gaza ceasefire (if you can even call it that) is already in grave peril. (more…)
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Australia’s ‘suspicious’ links to DeepSeek: Anti-China Media Watch
The ABC’s Andrew Greene has found an Australian link to Chinese AI platform DeepSeek, a Chinese national who holds post-graduate degrees from Monash University and the University of Adelaide. No surprise, ASPI is lurking in the background of the sinister allegations against an Australian educated PhD, while that researcher, Dr. Zizheng Pan, is hiding in plain sight. (more…)
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The Hasbara’s foot soldiers
Supporters of the state of Israel have ready access to the pages of the mainstream media. Strangely their descriptions of the object of their devotion and of its actions bear no resemblance to reality. (more…)
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Breaking barriers: The transformative impact of people-to-people exchange
American talk show host Jimmy Fallon humorously remarked, “Americans would literally rather learn Mandarin than use Instagram Reels!” Recently, more than 700,000 users who call themselves “TikTok refugees” from the United States flocked to a popular Chinese social media app named RedNote (or Xiaohongshu). This unexpected “migration” has connected netizens from the two great nations like never before. (more…)
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Denigrating refugees: Media Watch is no exception
Australian citizens and residents who originally came to this country seeking asylum, as they are clearly entitled to do under international law, have been in the news recently, through no fault of their own and not in a good way. Sections of the media and some politicians have attacked them for doing what all citizens and residents have a right to do, that is to bring their partners and close relatives to Australia. (more…)