Japan to Join Broadening US Force Posture in North Australia, Unless Trump Pulls the Plug
The 17th Trilateral Defence Ministers’ Meeting involving Australia, the US and Japan took place in Darwin on Sunday, 17 November, marking the first such meeting on local soil, and the big announcement of the day was that regular deployments of...
International Criminal Court Issues Global Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant
Six months after its first announcement, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on Thursday, 21 November, in relation to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and that nation’s former defence minister Yoav Gallant in response to a swag of alleged...
Uncle Robbie Thorpe’s Genocide Prosecution Against Netanyahu Adviser a Global First
Leading Israeli paper Haaretz recently caught wind of the fact that a private prosecution launched against Australian Israeli citizen Mark Regev by Krautungalung elder Uncle Robbie Thorpe in the Magistrates Court of Victoria appears to be the only such case...
Trump’s Mission to Strip LBGTQIA+ Rights, And How It Could Impact on Australia
It seemed outrageous for Trump to be elected as President in 2016 when he was up Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, a person many saw as an inclusive candidate with a clear vision for the future, and the policies to go...
Prosecuting the King, the Attorney General and a Netanyahu Advisor Over Genocide: A Yarn with Uncle Robbie Thorpe
The state of Israel has engaged local lawyers to represent it, on behalf of former senior advisor to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mark Regev, as the Australian Israeli diplomat has been charged with advocating genocide, contrary to section 80.2D...
“Genocide as Colonial Erasure”: Francesca Albanese’s Second Report on Gaza
In her new report Genocide as Colonial Erasure, Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, suggests that the last year of genocidal violence perpetrated by Israel upon Palestinians...
The Potential Impact of Trump’s Election on Civil Liberties in the US and Abroad
It may have seemed far-fetched in 2016 that a demonstrably misogynist, racist, and sexist man who defrauded and destroyed many in the past during his failed business ventures, many of which ended up in bankruptcy, to be voted as the...
Sanction Israel Now, Demanded Sunday’s Protesters on Gadigal in Sydney
A strong message needs to be sent that our nation will not sit idly by while the Israel’ state perpetrates genocide and war crimes with impunity. As thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters plied their way along Macquarie Street upon Gadigal Country...
Australia Called Out on Appalling Track Record of Systemic Racism and Human Rights Abuses
Australian politicians and the mainstream media are up in arms about China’s foreign ministry spokesperson, Lin Jian, accusing our nation of ‘being plagued by systemic racism and hate crime’. Mr Jian drew attention to Australia’s appalling record on human rights,...
Tertiary Educators Nationwide Demand Universities Boycott Israel
The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) for Palestine, the National Union of Students (NUS) and Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) held a National Day of Action on Wednesday, in support of implementing an Institutional Academic Boycott of Israel, of which...
