The finding in the Federal Court that Antoinette Lattouf’s sacking from the ABC was unlawful is a great win the for the Free Palestine movement in Australia. (more…)
Category: Politics
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Don’t forget her name
Amina Al-Mufti, a Palestinian child, was only 10 years old. Only a child! She simply stepped out to fetch a bucket of clean water for her family, something for which no child should have to risk their life. (more…)
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Paper reactors and paper tigers
The culmination of Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK was a press conference at which both American and British leaders waved pieces of paper, containing an agreement that US firms would invest billions of dollars in Britain. (more…)
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Productivity and innovation needs business’ own investment in skills
Despite a modest increase in business R&D expenditure in Australia in the latest reported year (2023/24), Australia’s performance on a GDP basis is still woefully worse than its international economic competitors. (more…)
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Recognition of the Palestinian State without halting the genocide: A meaningless decision
Since the occurrence of the war in October 2023, which shocked the conscience of the world, bringing the Palestinian question back to the forefront of international attention, much more legitimacy has accrued to the rights of the Palestinians. (more…)
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The poisonous chalice of recognition: A double-edged sword for Palestine
While we should not regard it as a “historical moment” or a “game changer”, the recognition does have the potential to help Palestinians lead us into a different future. (more…)
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The world isn’t even trying to phase out fossil fuels
This article highlights the global failure to address the most important requirement to minimise the climate threat, the phasing out of fossil fuels. (more…)
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Lawsuits, cancellations and bullying: Trump is systematically destroying press freedom
US President Donald Trump is well advanced in his systematic campaign to undermine the American media and eviscerate its function of holding him and others in power to account. (more…)
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More Boomers are choosing not to retire. Why? They don’t want to
As the great bulge of babies born after World War II has moved through their life course, the world has changed to suit them and their needs. (more…)
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Reclaiming illegally granted Indigenous land: An interview with Wiradjuri man Paul Towney
Proud Wiradjuri descendant Paul Towney was out in front of the Federal Court of Australia on Gadigal land on Macquarie Street in Sydney city on 19 September 2025. (more…)
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Koalas, carbon credits and the fine print of conservation
We congratulate the NSW Government for establishing the Great Koala National Park, which will protect a nationally significant koala population. (more…)
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Nepal is the latest of Asia’s unfinished revolutions that keep politics stuck in a loop
Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina begins with the famous line, “all happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”. (more…)
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I am ANTIFA
I am ANTIFA. Or so says President Donald Trump, branding me and millions like me as terrorists in the same breath he decries “fake news” and “radical left” bogeymen. (more…)
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Disengaging from the dangerous alliance
When, in the course of close — some would say politically intimate — relations between allies, the dominant partner demands that the subordinate partner betray its democratic principles as a cost of receiving favourable treatment, the time has come to terminate the relationship. Such is now the state of the Australia-US alliance. (more…)
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Hamas is better than us
This headline could get me jail time if, as reported, the New Zealand Government is planning to take the same authoritarian turn that the UK has sunk to with its proscription of Palestine Action. It would represent another dangerous conflation of protest with terrorism. (more…)
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Don’t mistake truth for hate, prime minister
Anthony Albanese says Palestinian children are taught to hate. My daughter’s first trip home proves otherwise. (more…)
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UN at 80: Gaza – the deep stain on the UN’s collective conscience – Part 3
The deadly Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 provided the Netanyahu government with the pretext it needed to unleash a vicious war on the land and people of Gaza. (more…)
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Government is planning hardship for older Australians living at home
Aged care has again been in the media for all the wrong reasons. Two failures are attracting particular attention. (more…)
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UN intervention is essential to stop genocide and establish peace in Gaza
The United Nations General Assembly must activate its “Uniting for Peace” mechanism to bypass the UN Security Council veto and establish an armed interventionary force to establish peace and end the genocide in Gaza. (more…)
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Ghosts in the newsroom: How Abe’s Japan became Trump’s blueprint
Japan had Trump before America did: Shinzo Abe, grandson of a war criminal, muzzled the press, bullied broadcasters, and faked statistics. Now Trump, the GOP, and Disney are replaying the script. (more…)
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The creation of a martyr: Eerie parallels
If one wants to understand the current elevation of Charlie Kirk in the US to the status of a martyr, offered as sacrifice linked to national rejuvenation, even salvation, one need look no further than similar elevation by the Nazis of Horst Wessel. (more…)
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From Kimmel’s comeback to corporate reckoning: How your wallet can topple titans
In a plot twist straight out of Hollywood, Jimmy Kimmel is back. Just one week after Disney suspended the late-night host indefinitely, the network reversed course. Why? (more…)
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The perfect storm: Why immigration has become the scapegoat for our age of crisis
Economic shocks, social strains and rising inequality have unsettled democracies everywhere. In this atmosphere of fear and anger, immigration has been cast as the culprit, offering populists a simple story for a complex age. (more…)
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Journalists’ union issues statement backing Kostakidis in legal fight
The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance has released a strong statement of support for former SBS newsreader Mary Kostakidis in her fight to defend free speech against legal and media attacks from the Zionist Federation of Australia. (more…)
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How important is an Albanese-Trump meeting?
Trump’s record suggests that meetings with him frequently fail. Instead, Albanese has an important agenda to pursue at the UN in New York, and when dealing with the US better outcomes are more likely if Australia develops its own policies in its own interests. (more…)
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Israel moves to embrace its isolation
Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent comments that Israel must start making its own weapons and become a self-sufficient “super Sparta” signals that the small colony might be willing to embrace its isolation – all in the name of annihilating Palestine. (more…)
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Treaty delay shows Australia still thinks it knows what’s best for PNG
The Albanese Government appears to want to force Pacific countries into choices they do not want to make. (more…)
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Albanese takes his usual each-way bet on climate change
After last week, Anthony Albanese and his Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen are entitled to a great sigh of relief. (more…)
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Our media and Palestine/Gaza
An article entitled “Israel backtracks on location of hostages”, appearing in the weekend edition of The Australian, evidences the failure of our media to properly inform the Australian public on the Israel/Palestine issue. (more…)
