Two of Gaza City’s churches are in areas where Israel has ordered Palestinians to leave before a planned attack. (more…)
Category: Politics
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The shrinking US Navy submarine force – Implications for AUKUS Pillar 1 (Part 1)
The US Navy’s attack submarine force had been predicted to reduce to 49 in 2030. (more…)
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As Florida ends all childhood vaccine mandates, doctors fear preventable diseases will ‘come roaring back’
“Florida’s decision to erase school vaccine requirements will cause preventable illness and death,” said one immunologist. “Not just for kids in Florida, for whole communities, of all ages, across the country.” (more…)
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Ambassador for war crimes denial
Arguably the most inflammatory Japanese diplomat ever despatched to Australia, former ambassador Yamagami Shingo, is at it again. (more…)
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The betrayal of Palestinian journalists
Western reporters are full partners in the genocide. They amplify Israeli lies, which they know are lies, betraying Palestinian colleagues who are slandered, targeted and killed by Israel. (more…)
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Global power shift on show at China summit
The sight of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi embracing Russian President Vladimir Putin, before the two walked over hand in hand to greet Chinese President Xi Jinping, with the three leaders then sharing a conversation marked by smiles, laughter and general bonhomie, will be one haunting many Western leaders. (more…)
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Messiness in spookdom: Australia’s Iran Contra deal
With the prime minister’s announcement of the expulsion of the Iranian Ambassador, Australia now has its own Iran Contra scandal. (more…)
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Military experts warn of climate wars
“Accelerating climate disruption is the greatest threat to the human future: our safety and well-being, our homes and communities, and how and where we live and work,” a group of leading Australian military and security experts says. (more…)
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How to stop Israel from starving Gaza
Israel has crossed the clear line into the darkest crimes. (more…)
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If you really want some subs – try this
While there is no doubt that our acquisition of nuclear subs from the US will either be massively delayed and over budget or binned on some Trumpian whim, what’s worse is that we may never get our multi-billion dollar deposit back if that occurs. (more…)
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Canberra and Gaza
It’s time to stop just talking about the Gaza atrocities. It is time to do something about them. (more…)
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Australia should halt plan to deport refugees, migrants to Nauru
Last week, the Australian Government struck a A$400 million (US$260 million) deal with Nauru to deport 280 people to the small Pacific island nation. It is also proposing new legislation to strip those facing deportation of their basic procedural rights. (more…)
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Sprinting to stand still: Still no progress in Australia’s energy transition
August 2025: The Australian Government’s oxymoronically named Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water has just published its 2025 Australian Energy Statistics Update Report. (more…)
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Where have all the flowers gone?
One of my most memorable interspecies encounters was many years ago with an orangutan in a nature reserve in Sabah on the island of Borneo. (more…)
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A tale of two lists: How geopolitics shaped the attendance of China’s parade
On 3 September 2025, a large-scale parade will be held in Tiananmen Square to mark the 80th anniversary of what has been dubbed by Beijing the “Victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War”. (more…)
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Israel, hasbara, antisemitism and Iran
Not long after the Hamas attack of nearly two years ago, I began perceiving a pattern. With Israel’s reprisal accelerating and Gazan deaths climbing, the near unanimous support for Israel in countries like Australia was starting to crumble. (more…)
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What goes around, comes around
With Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attending the SCO (Shanghai Co-operation Organisation) meeting in China this week, we may be witnessing a tectonic shift in international relations, one which could undermine the basis of Australia’s relations with Asia. (more…)
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Beijing invited me to their special celebration. Here’s why I’m happy to go
When Australians at their Bakelite radios heard of China’s victory over Japan in 1945, they knew this was the triumph of an ally. World War II had started with the Rape of Nanjing in 1937 and the Chinese lost 20 million people resisting the invasion. (more…)
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Ishiba’s China policy increasingly contested after electoral setback
In Japan’s July 2025 Upper House elections, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner Komeito suffered a major defeat, while conservative parties such as Sanseito and the Conservative Party of Japan made significant gains. (more…)
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‘Act of bastardry’: Queensland LNP Government kills another giant wind project
The Queensland state LNP Government has scrapped another approved wind project in what is being called “an act of bastardry”, and accusations that the state is openly rejecting renewables as it moves to re-open coal country. (more…)
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Reining in vice-chancellor and executive pay: Restoring governance in public universities
In recent years — especially since the COVID-19 pandemic — executive pay in Australian public universities has drawn increasing public and political scrutiny. (more…)
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For the sins of the father
In the early 1900s, female teachers were not allowed to ride bicycles. It was considered improper, and it was not uncommon for school boards to declare that it promoted immorality among children. (more…)
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Avoid Bali and the rest of Indonesia
Cashiered former general Prabowo Subianto was elected president of Indonesia last year on a contradictory campaign image. (more…)
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Re-engineering consciousness in Gaza: How the occupation is turning a structured, educated society into a fragmented and dehumanised one
Before the genocide unfolding in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian society was among the most educated and disciplined in the Arab world. (more…)
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When spying is subcontracted to gangsters
ASIO deserves a good deal of credit for the cool and professional way in which it gathered and collected information to demonstrate to ministers its belief that members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard had been behind at least two terrorist incidents in Melbourne and Sydney this year. Diplomats not alleged to have known of this have been tossed out as a result. (more…)
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Marking September 2: Lest we forget
This week marks 80 years since the end of World War II. While Europe celebrated the end of the war in May, hostilities dragged on for several months in the Far East until Emperor Hirohito announced the surrender of Japan on 15 August 1945 and this declaration was formalised on 2 September. (more…)
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The one big reform not discussed at Labor’s roundtable
Despite the strong support for tax reform at last month’s economic reform roundtable, perhaps the most important single reform hardly rated a mention: a carbon tax – or, in the economists’ preferred euphemism, “a price on carbon”. (more…)
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The media’s Israeli atrocity treadmill
News outlets are so busy chasing Israel’s latest crime in Gaza — currently its horrific attack on Nasser Hospital — they never pause to piece together the bigger story of genocide. (more…)
