Spare a Thought for Julian Assange Spending His Fifth Christmas Behind Bars
Australian journalist and publisher Julian Assange is about to spend his fifth Christmas in London’s notorious Belmarsh maximum security facility, where the WikiLeaks founder has been remanded on behalf of the US by the UK, as Washington makes its case for extradition....
Sydney’s Pro-Palestinians Drown Out Albanese’s Zionist-Sponsored Speech
As he delivered the 2023 Lowy Lecture at Sydney Town Hall on 19 December, prime minister Anthony Albanese told those before him that Australia is not just an observer “of the interplay of others’ ambitions” and the nation’s “foreign policy is...
Sydney’s Healthcare Workers Rally for Murdered Palestinian Colleagues
For those who’ve travelled further than the western mainstream media version of the multiple war crimes transpiring in Gaza, they know that the Netanyahu government has forged a new low for humanity, in terms of making targeting hospitals a norm of...
US Summons Australia to the Middle East, as Congress Approves AUKUS Bill
US Congress passed the National Defence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, which authorises the transfer of three US Virginia class nuclear-powered submarines to Australia that, in turn, will serve to strengthen US posture in the Indo Pacific region. The bill also...
Hiding Australia’s Complicity: Shoebridge on Wong’s Trumpian Denial of Weapons Export Probing
An Israeli-perpetrated genocide has been underway in Gaza for the last two and a half months, which has resulted in around 18,000 Palestinians having been slaughtered. And more than 7,000 of the overwhelmingly civilian dead have been made up of children. The...
“A Sense of Complicity in Genocide”: UniMelb for Palestine’s Dana Alshaer on the Lockheed Martin Partnership
“Why does our university have a partnership with a weapons manufacturer in the first place?” UniMelb for Palestine organising member Dana Alshaer asked Melbourne University vice chancellor Duncan Maskell, which was a recorded confrontation that has since gone viral across social media....
Albanese Has Thrown Open the Doors to Unquestioned US Military Presence and Control
Hawkish defence minister Richard Marles, in the second last sitting week of federal parliament this year, tabled a bill to amend defence trade control law, which seeks to streamline the financial exchange of defence and strategic goods between the AUKUS powers:...
Sydney’s Pro-Palestinians Condemn Ongoing Gaza Genocide and the Complicity of Albanese
The apartheid Israeli state continues its two-month-long all-out massacre of the Palestinians of Gaza. The operation, first framed around self-defence and revenge in response to Hamas attacks on Israelis, has long been laid bare as a sought-after landgrab awaiting for a...
High Court Rules Against Indefinite Detention, So the Majors Pass Laws to Reinstate It
Successive Australian governments have been undermining the rule of law when it comes to the practice of indefinitely detaining unlawful noncitizens that they won’t settle here and can’t return to their country origin due to international obligations set out in...
The Criminal Offence of Threatening Serious Harm Over the Internet
A United Staes man has been arrested in conjunction with the Wieambilla shootings last year, during which two police officers and four Queenslanders died. Donald Day Jr was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Intelligence in Arizona on 1 December...
