Australian University Severs Ties with Israeli Company Over Genocide in Gaza
The genocide taking place in Gaza has been nonstop for over 30 days now. The death toll in what the UN is calling the “children’s graveyard” has surpassed 10,000 people, with over 70 percent of the dead being women and children. And there’s...
Richard Branson Calls on NSW to Decriminalise Drugs, “For God’s Sake”
“For God’s sake, do something about it,” global entrepreneur Richard Branson told NSW premier Chris Minns, as he ended a video message sent to the constituencies of the ACT and this state, after having pointed out that our part of the...
Truthteller’s Criminal Trial Will Proceed, Despite His Actions Being in the Public Interest
David McBride has become a national figure for truth at a time when the concept of a moral truth -a right or a wrong, justice or the convenient twisting of the fact - has been so spun by the secretive,...
Does Australia’s “Significant” Deployment to the Middle East Anticipate Joining a Regional War?
The death toll in what is euphemistically being called the Israel-Hamas war, which basically involves the all-out slaughter of Palestinians living in Gaza on the part of Israeli forces, was at more than 8,300 Palestinians, according to UNICEF on Monday, which...
Another Teen Death in Custody, Despite 30-Year-Old First Nations Advice to Parliament
The recent death in custody of 16-year-old First Nations boy Cleveland Dodd has yet again highlighted the barbarity the Australian prison system metes out towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander detainees, especially Indigenous youths. For his part, Dodd was on...
The ABC’s Decision to Disclose its Sources Marks a Dark Day for Democracy
Airing on 9 October 2023, the Four Corners documentary Escalation involved ABC journalists engaging with several Perth-based climate defence groups in regard to the rising pushback by WA police against nonviolent protests aimed at defending the climate against human-caused global heating. ...
Israel’s Right to Self Defence Does Not Extend to Genocide
Standing next to Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese in the White House Rose Garden on 25 October, US president Joe Biden reiterated that “Israel has the right, and I would add responsibility” to “defend itself against these terrorists”. By “terrorists”...
The Flaccid Diplomacy of Vassal State PM Anthony Albanese in the US
PM Anthony Albanese has again been in the United States standing side-by-side his local counterpart Joe Biden on podiums just like he did in March, when he and the American president laid out the details of the AUKUS pact, which...
NSW Premier Won’t Introduce Pill Testing, Despite Continuing Deaths and Calls From His Own Party
“Politics often presents the choice between the unpalatable and the disastrous,” said former NSW Labor premier Bob Carr, during a speech he gave to a 2022 Sydney drug law reform conference last year. Indeed, Carr’s alternates sum up exactly the...
Strip Searches: Minns Probes Whether Sexual Assault by the State Is Right for Kids
Redfern Legal Centre released figures on 17 October, outlining how many children - 10- to 17-year-olds - NSW police officers have strip searched over the 24 months to June this year, which revealed that 107 kids had been made to...
