Howard’s Duping the Public on Iraq Should Stand as Warning to the Present
Australia following the US into a foreign war is pertinent at present. The slow understanding that China was starting to be framed as an adversary in the media commenced circa 2017 and, since last March’s San Diego AUKUS announcement, it’s...
“A Kick in the Guts”: Higginson on Minn’s “Retrograde” Crackdown on Youth Crime
The major parties are fast losing touch with their respective constituencies. And no matters reveal this more clearly at the federal level of late than the genocide in Gaza and the AUKUS submarine deal. But state governments are too failing...
SAMS (Special Administrative Measures): A Key Reason Assange Can’t Be Extradited
The treatment the United States metes out to detainees is notoriously harsh, especially if you are considered an enemy of the state, and at times, it plainly constitutes torture. The extreme abuse at the black site of Abu Ghraib in...
A Lack of AUKUS Subs May Cause Domestic Frowns, But Uncle Sam Is None Too Fazed
Australia was confronted with the news that the first of three second-hand Virginia class nuclear-powered submarines, we are is supposed to receive in 2032, may not be forthcoming just prior to Thursday’s one year anniversary of the 2023 San Diego...
Cold War Implications of Dan Duggan Extradition Heat Up as Security State Closes Ranks
The extradition case involving Australian citizen Dan Duggan, which has seen the father-of-six remanded in prolonged isolation on request of the US for over 500 days now, has always maintained an air of legitimacy about it, despite its stark anomalies,...
ASIO’s Chinaphobic Threat Assessment Ignores the Risk Posed by US Warmongers
ASIO director general Mike Burgess reminded the nation during his 28 February annual threat assessment that despite a nation having gone rogue, breaking all norms of war and undermining the international justice system for five months now, the local focus...
Is a Criminal Offence Considered More Serious If Motivated by Hatred or Prejudice?
Australian Women’s Soccer Captain Sam Kerr has found herself on the wrong side of the law in London, England after an alleged altercation with a taxi driver over a fare early last year. The Matilda’s captain put in a stellar...
FAMINE: Israeli-Made, Australian-Backed, Utter Colonial Bastardry in Gaza
The Anglosphere - the AUKUS powers, Canada and New Zealand - rallied around Live Aid in 1985, which was a massive multicontinental rock concert spanning 16 hours that featured the world’s biggest performers and raised money to provide food aid...
Despite the Evidence on the DFAT Site, Wong Still Denies Recent Weapons Exports to Israel
“We know that Australia is not just silent when it comes to the genocide, but Australia is deeply complicit,” said Greens Senator David Shoebridge at the 25 February Palestine Action Group rally in Gadigal-Sydney’s Hyde Park. This was the 20th...
Australia Will Detain Citizens in Long-Term Isolation Without Charge, On the Say So of the US
The use of solitary confinement or isolation is controversial to say the least, as this method of punishing an inmate by detaining them alone in a cell is said to cause psychological harm. And when it comes to prolonged isolation,...
