Big Coles Is Watching You and Collecting Information While You’re Shopping
The early 2024 announcement that Coles Supermarkets Australia was entering into a three-year contract with Palantir Technologies to incorporate its data integration and artificial intelligence platforms into its operations was jarring, as has been its more recent rollout of CCTV...
US Calls on Australia to Join Coalition Against Global “Far-Left Terrorism”
During his opening address at the 16 July 2026 Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism, a Washington DC meeting that involved representatives from more than 65 nations, including Australia, US secretary of state Marco Rubio made certain that the...
Israel Lobby Continues to Conflate Jewish Australian Identity with Criticism of the State
Numerous inquiries have determined that what’s been taking place in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 is an Israeli state perpetrated genocide, whilst over that same time, the Israel lobby has been attempting to hijack the narrative in the Australian...
Australian Integration into Palantir’s Global Surveillance Panopticon Is Not Inevitable
Data analytics multinational Palantir Technologies is building an artificial intelligence-driven surveillance panopticon. The US company provides intelligence operating systems to government and private entities globally, and it is feeding the raw data it sources into its central data-integration systems. And...
Five Eyes Alliance Declares AI Is the Best Way to Combat Increasingly Dangerous AI
Following a meeting of its cybersecurity heads, the usually reticent Five Eyes intelligence sharing alliance released a 22 June 2026 call to action regarding the “evolving landscape of artificial intelligence”, as while AI is creating defensive tools at an accelerating...
AUKUS Nations Are Increasingly Framing Leftwing Activists as Terrorists
The charging of more than a dozen leftwing protesters with terrorism offences in the United States and the sentencing of eight of them to a combined 450 years’ imprisonment on 23 June 2026, marked a significant step in the shift...
Local Activists Ought to Take Heed, as UK Court Sentences Pro-Palestinians as Terrorists
Four pro-Palestinian activists in the United Kingdom were sentenced as terrorists last week in respect of criminal damage charges relating to a direct action on a factory near Bristol belonging to Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems in August 2024. So,...
Israel Repeatedly Shows It Has Impunity to Kidnap, Torture and Sexually Assault Australians
Eleven Australians were amongst 422 foreign nationals kidnapped at gunpoint by Israeli Defence Force officers in international waters close to Cyprus on 19 May 2026. These people were illegally held hostage for four days, and were repeatedly beaten, tortured and...
Foreign Minister Finally Acknowledges Third Cohort of Australians Kidnapped by Israel
Eleven Australians kidnapped off the high seas near Cyprus by Israeli forces have now been released after days of deprivation and psychological and physical torture. This is the third cohort of Australians taken hostage and brutalised by Tel Aviv since...
UN Demands Australia Halts Its Intensification of the Funnelling of First Nations Kids into Prisons
Recent years have seen multiple Australian jurisdictions pass laws that ultimately target First Nations children to ensure more end up in prison and remain there longer. This flies under the radar, as the term “youth justice reform” is colourblind. However,...
