Global climate tipping points are getting closer, creating danger zones for the biosphere and human societies. Naturally regenerating forests must be left to grow for longer. The North Atlantic Ocean has swapped cod for nanoplastics. (more…)
Category: Politics
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Justice for Palestine: Why Hamas must be involved
What next for Palestine? Gaza is a wasteland, a dystopian scene of devastation and starvation. The occupied West Bank is under siege from rampant Israeli settler gunmen. (more…)
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Spy novelist Stella Rimington, the first female head of MI5, was a ‘true trailblazer’
Dame Stella Rimington, former director-general of the UK’s domestic counter-intelligence and security agency, MI5, and author of several spy thrillers, has died this week, aged 90. (more…)
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From Hiroshima to Gaza: Eighty years of failing to contain violence
Note from the editor: For months Refaat Ibrahim has been writing for P&I from the centre of Gaza in unimaginable conditions. Today I add the note he sent with the piece, so you can see the sacrifice he makes every day. (more…)
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Israeli military plans to occupy Gaza City in major escalation of war
Israel’s security cabinet has approved a plan by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the military occupation of Gaza City, located in the north of the Palestinian enclave. (more…)
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Eighty years with the bomb: How long can our luck continue?
It cannot be said too often that it is only sheer dumb luck that has enabled the world to avoid for 80 years a repeat of the indescribable horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (more…)
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How we at Physicians for Human Rights Israel decided that the Gaza war is a genocide
When examining all the factors together, we identify a clear pattern that indicates Israeli intent to kill Palestinians in Gaza. The systematic nature is the smoking gun. (more…)
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As Netanyahu moves toward full takeover of Gaza, Israel faces a crisis of international credibility
For all its claims of being a democracy that adheres to international law and the rules of war, Israel’s global reputation is in tatters. (more…)
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IDF chiefs break ranks
Israeli military and security chiefs are active participants in Netanyahu’s biblical holocaust on Palestinians. (more…)
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Digital screen use by infants and toddlers risks long-term health and education outcomes
Greater public health awareness of the harms of digital screen use is needed to reclaim parents as their first and irreplaceable teacher. (more…)
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Australia leads the world on rooftop solar, now it needs to catch up with how to manage it
It is an irony of no small significance that Australia, while leading the world in per capita uptake of rooftop solar, finds itself in 2025 well behind the pace on how best to manage this huge and valuable resource as part of a modern, increasingly renewables-powered grid. (more…)
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Trump and Kennedy are destroying global science. Even Einstein questioned facts – but there’s a method to it
Eight months into Donald Trump’s second term as president of the US, truth and science are again under attack – with global consequences. (more…)
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Gaza doesn’t need another gesture, it needs real action
Like many Australians watching the unfolding devastation in Gaza, I read about Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s recent announcement of $20 million in additional humanitarian aid with mixed emotions. (more…)
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Layered perversion of Australia’s defence policy
An amazing thing has happened. Our taxpayer-funded think-tank Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has commissioned analysis by Robert Macklin which shows that the public debate on Australia’s defence has been biased. (more…)
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The Segal report and the universities
The Segal report presented to Prime Minister Albanese on Thursday, 10 July, represents an unprecedented challenge to Australia’s 39 public universities – to their autonomy, their independence and to their reputation both here and internationally. (more…)
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Australia needs better China coverage. This ABC story just gave us less
The South China Sea is complicated. The ABC made it simple – and not in a good way. When public media reduces regional disputes to black-and-white, it risks turning policy into performance. (more…)
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‘Israel doesn’t want journalists on the ground’: CNN’s Jeremy Diamond on the fight to enter Gaza
The foreign press corps in Israel has been battling — unsuccessfully — since the Gaza war began in October 2023 to be permitted access to the Strip in order to report on the conflict and the humanitarian situation there from the ground. (more…)
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Beijing steps up as Washington steps back
US President Donald Trump’s tariffs are having two broad impacts on the global economy – they are eroding international confidence in US leadership and disrupting global supply chains, and causing rapid geographic restructuring of international trade. (more…)
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Under Trump, ‘the federal government itself is a threat’: Report details plot to subvert 2026 elections
“The administration is setting the stage for election subversion. This power play poses a grave threat to the future of US election infrastructure. It is also, in many respects, illegal.” (more…)
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Middle Australia marches
As fully paid members of Middle Australia, my partner and I had a clear middle row view on Sunday’s March for Humanity. (more…)
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Call for national action to prevent ‘torture’ or death of incarcerated First Nations children
Paediatricians in the Northern Territory see the dire effects of entrenched structural racism on Aboriginal children on a daily basis. (more…)
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Gendered violence in war isn’t a flaw. It’s a feature
When people ask, “Why are children always the first to suffer in war?” I find myself thinking about Gaza. (more…)
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The shabby and ludicrous politics of provocation, self-defence and divine right
As with other wars, questions of provocation, self-defence and divine right or entitlement are central themes of what the Western mainstream media have had to say about the war in Ukraine, the genocide in Gaza, and the attacks on Iran by the US and Israel in June 2025. (more…)
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Watermelons in the rain
We knew a thousand police couldn’t arrest 90,000 of us, so the march for Palestine was always going to happen. An 11th-hour decision by Justice Belinda Rigg just made it legal. (more…)
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Open letter to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese MP from Australian former diplomats
As pressure mounts on the Australian Government over Palestine, a group of highly respected Australians, who have represented our nation overseas, have gone straight to the top with a letter to the prime minister. (more…)
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Mike Burgess on the ASIO soapbox, again
Those with a regard for their welfare would do well not to get between ASIO chief, Mike Burgess, and a soapbox. (more…)
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‘Total war’
I was just nine when World War II ended. I still have quite vivid memories of that Wednesday in August 1945. (more…)
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Roundtable will fix nothing unless we can all park our self-interest
I’m not sure if it’s happening by accident or design, but we may be about to convince ourselves that, though our democracy isn’t nearly as stuffed up as America’s, we’re fast making ourselves ungovernable, unable to agree on how to fix our problems. (more…)
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Recognise Palestine? Then free Marwan Barghouti!
The world’s most important hostage must be released. Powerful Western countries have signalled that in the face of the genocide they may recognise the state of Palestine. States need leaders. That’s why Marwan Barghouti — often dubbed the Palestinian Mandela — must be freed. (more…)
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Interfaith groups come together to call for Gaza action
A coalition of Australian interfaith and community organisations — including leading Muslim, Christian, and Jewish groups — is calling on the Albanese Government to sanction Israel and to urgently recognise Palestine as a sovereign state. Full page advertisements have appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers. The signatories represent a broad spectrum of religious, ethnic and political affiliations, united in an unprecedented show of solidarity. Their joint message is clear. The time for action is now. (more…)