“Killed, and for What End?”: Tasnim Sammak on Marking October 7th for Palestine
The October 7th vigils marked a year since the Israeli military launched its offensive against the 2.3 million Palestinians of the Gaza Strip. And in taking place on Gadigal in Sydney and in Naarm-Melbourne, they were the solemn, peaceful events,...
Securing Greater Israel Requires the Eradication of Palestinian and Lebanese Civilians
The wholesale massacre and starvation of Palestinian civilians trapped in the walled-in Gaza Strip has continued on for a year now, with the official death toll close to 42,000 people. And as this grim anniversary drew nearer, instead of any...
The 52nd Free Palestine Rally on Gadigal in Sydney Was a Testament to Social Cohesion
Despite a week of dog whistling from prime minister Anthony Albanese, NSW premier Chris Minns, and an enhanced effort by Liberal opposition leader Peter Dutton, who basically bared his canine-like teeth to the press, the 52nd Free Palestine-Free Lebanon rally...
Justice Has Been Denied to Julian Assange, Who “Plead Guilty to Journalism”
“I eventually chose freedom over unrealisable justice, after being detained for years and facing a 175 year sentence with no effective remedy,” multi award-winning Australian journalist and publisher Julian Assange remarked, as he was addressing the Parliamentary Assembly of the...
Flag Furore Reveals Politicians Are More Concerned About Symbols Than Civilian Deaths
The rogue state of Israel launched a full-scale attack in Beirut last Friday, which saw Israeli forces justify the levelling of six apartment blocks in the Lebanese capital, as, along with the hundreds of civilians killed, the attacks also resulted...
Human Rights Lawyer George Newhouse Commended by the International Bar Association
During its recent annual conference in Mexico City, the International Bar Association presented its 2024 Award for Outstanding Contribution by a Legal Practitioner to Human Rights to Iranian Canadian lawyer Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, the former Chef de Cabinet to the...
The Fifty First Gadigal-Sydney Free Palestine-Free Lebanon Rally in Photos
A massive crowd turned out before Sydney Town Hall on Gadigal land on Sunday 29 September for the 51st week of the Free Palestine rally, which means Israel has continued the mass slaughter and starvation of the Palestinians of Gaza...
Sleepwalking into War with China: Annette Brownlie on the 2024 IPAN Conference
Like AUKUS, the Quad is the other strategic partnership between nations in the Indo Pacific region that commenced playing a significant role in this nation’s foreign policy outlook in 2021. And the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue comprises of Australia, India, Japan...
Israel’s Terrorism Attack on Lebanon Sets Precedent for Future Commercial Device Attacks
At around 3.30 pm on Tuesday in Lebanon, pagers belonging to Hezbollah-affiliated individuals peeped as a message arrived that served to garner attention and explode the devices that had been tampered with prior to purchase, so that they acted as...
The Soft US Military Takeover of Australia Is Simply a “Pooling of Sovereignty”
Australian sovereignty has always been tenuous, as the grounds upon which the British Crown claimed the great southern continent as its own were based on the Doctrine of Discovery and the legal concept of terra nullius, which stipulate that an...
