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...
US Case Against Duggan Is “Vague, Embarrassing and Oppressive” Lawyers Tell Dreyfus
As she stood before the press at Sydney’s Hyde Park Barracks on Monday morning, Saffrine Duggan asserted that the US can’t “just snatch Australians off the street and send them to the US based on” flawed evidence and questionable process....
The Right to Rape Prisoners and Other New Lows in the Nation of Israel
Many Australians may have missed the right to rape political prisoners debate, the rallying and the rioting in support of it that has occurred over the last month or so in the state of Israel, as it didn’t feature prominently...
As Victoria Police Targets Protesters, Palestinian Message Rings True: An Interview with WACA’s Sam Castro
Labor leaders jumped to attention last October, as they ardently spruiked the falsehood about Israel and its right to defend itself, while the Netanyahu government was actually perpetrating a wholesale slaughter and starvation project upon the 2.3 million Palestinian civilians...
Germany Sets Cannabis Driving Limits, While NSW Continues to Unfairly Criminalise Users
German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier signed off on legislation a fortnight ago to set a limit for driving under the influence of cannabis, with the new legal limit that’s now taken effect being 3.5 nanograms of THC per millilitre of blood....
Albanese Cuts Secretive Military Deal with Indonesian President-Elect Prabowo
Indonesian president-elect Prabowo Subianto was in Canberra early last week to meet with soon-to-be counterpart prime minister Anthony Albanese and to further negotiate a new defence deal, in his current capacity as Indonesian defence minister with our own defence minister...
“A One Stop Genocide Shop”: Disrupt Land Forces’ Nathalie Farah on the Imperative to Mobilise
For some reason, in 2022, when the organisers of Australia’s biggest weapons manufacturing trade show, Land Forces, decided to vacate Meanjin-Brisbane as its base, due to the ongoing disruptions from a long-term campaign against it, Disrupt Land Forces, they moved...
Australia’s Role in the Coming US-Stoked World War is Ever-Increasing
US Republican congressman Michael McCaul was recently here spruiking the benefits of the inroads his nation is making onto this continent, which consists of, as our defence minister Richard Marles recently put it, US “force posture now in… every domain:...
