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The Australian Bureau of Statistics defines anyone over 65 as old. You don’t qualify for the means tested old age pension for two more years, and when politicians talk of ageing, they focus on nursing homes and care, dementia and falls. Ageing policy is confused and confusing.
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Vote for humanity: Caring for Palestine
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Israel's war against Gaza
Media coverage of the war in Gaza since October 2023 has spread a series of lies propagated by Israel and the United States. This publication presents information, analysis, clarification, views and perspectives largely unavailable in mainstream media in Australia and elsewhere.
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27 April 2025
Environment: Australian Governments sacrifice the environment for dollars and votes
The sham of biodiversity offsets for coal mining. Will the climate benefit if Australia hosts the COP in 2026? Albanese further weakens Australia’s outdated environmental protection laws.
27 April 2025
A minority Labor Government's policy agenda – Part 1
A minority Labor Government is widely seen as a likely outcome in the forthcoming election.
26 April 2025
The legacy of a Jesuit pope
Francis was a pope prepared to blur the edges of doctrine, or at least its application, opening the doors of the Church to all those seeking love, mercy and forgiveness.
26 April 2025
Why has there been no discussion of asylum-seekers in this campaign?
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26 April 2025
On ‘moral panic’ and the courage to speak: The West’s silence on Gaza
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26 April 2025
How is the US civil service responding to the Trump administration?
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26 April 2025
If Einstein spoke today, he would be accused of antisemitism
In 1948, as the foundations of the Israeli state were being laid upon the ruins of hundreds of Palestinian villages, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to the American Friends of the Fighters for the Freedom of Israel, condemning the growing Zionist militancy within the settler Jewish community.
26 April 2025
The Syrian genocide and its dangers for Australia
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27 April 2025
Vote for humanity: Caring for Palestine
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26 April 2025
On ‘moral panic’ and the courage to speak: The West’s silence on Gaza
Palestinians do not have the luxury to allow Western moral panic to have its say or impact. Not caving in to this panic is one small, but important, step in building a global Palestine network that is urgently needed.
26 April 2025
If Einstein spoke today, he would be accused of antisemitism
In 1948, as the foundations of the Israeli state were being laid upon the ruins of hundreds of Palestinian villages, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to the American Friends of the Fighters for the Freedom of Israel, condemning the growing Zionist militancy within the settler Jewish community.
25 April 2025
Even in sickness, Pope Francis reached out to Gaza's Christians
For months, the pontiff spoke by telephone almost every night with people sheltering in a Catholic church in the battered enclave, a ritual he tried to keep up in the hospital.
24 April 2025
The uniform public utterances of our days
British scholar Leonard Schapiro, writing on Stalinism, observed that “the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade. But to produce a uniform pattern of public utterances in which the first trace of unorthodox thought reveals itself as a jarring dissonance. And it seems that in the current sanctioned discourse, the jarring dissonance is speaking up against a genocide streamed live on our phones.
23 April 2025
Pope Francis dies at 88 after final appeal for Gaza ceasefire
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23 April 2025
Beyond fear and false choices: Why loyalty to the major parties is no longer tenable
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22 April 2025
Silence is no response to slaughter, so at least recognise Palestine
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25 April 2025
Election looms, time to ramp up the China scare campaign: Anti-China Media Watch china, media, politics
Hampered by an underwhelming election campaign — where the Labor/LNP “uniparty” faces the harsh reality that the punters don’t think China is about to invade Australia — Murdoch media is going all out to put those commie bastards front and centre. There’s the inconvenient truth that the Australian military is gearing up to hit China with a barrage of US-made missiles; the Chinese Communist Party is meddling in the affairs of the Catholic Church; and a 60 Minutes report tells us Barbie has fallen victim to the Chinese.
24 April 2025
Memory shapes China's response to Trump’s tariffs
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