23 August 2025
The Gaza crisis and the Australian Church
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza has illustrated once again that Australian Catholics should not look to their church for high-level collective moral leadership.
23 August 2025
Time to get real on taxing cigarettes and restricting vapes
Australia’s cigarettes are now the most expensive in the world. Excise has been increased cumulatively by over 340% in the past 20 years, clearly helping to depress consumption for many years.
23 August 2025
The real Gaza death toll is impossible to know today, but the minimum isn’t
Note: At the time of writing, a summary analysis similar to the one below was published in Current Affairs, attributed to “Lex Syd.” There are a few differences in our sources and analyses, but the numbers are the same.
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23 August 2025
Albanese's politics of patience: Democracy needs mature leadership
When the Voice referendum failed, political commentators and Opposition leaders demanded an immediate response from Anthony Albanese.
23 August 2025
Trump’s attacks on BRICS could strengthen its cohesion
President Donald Trump, exploiting US geopolitical heft and market power, has ushered in “a new world order of tariffs”.
23 August 2025
Consumer watchdog launches investigation into 'sneaky, confusing' energy retailer tactics
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23 August 2025
The BBC helped kill Anas Al-Sharif
The media are legitimising Israel’s murder of journalists – and they are doing it because they are racist propagandists for a system of Western colonial control in the Middle East.
23 August 2025
The governance crisis in Australia’s universities
Recent media reports that Julie Bishop might have bullied an academic staff representative on the ANU council are alarming.
23 August 2025
Israel, the 'only democracy in the Middle East' – How to win elections and erase people
Israel frequently touts itself as “the only democracy in the Middle East” – a refrain echoed by Western leaders, particularly in the US and parts of Europe.
23 August 2025
Still talkin’ ’bout My Generation
The first time I heard The Who’s My Generation, I was a teenager and it sounded like a punch in the face.
22 August 2025
The US can end the Gaza genocide now
An immediate UN Security Council vote to grant Palestine permanent membership in the UN next month would put an end to Israel’s zealous delusions of permanent control over Palestine. It cannot happen without US backing.
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23 August 2025
The real Gaza death toll is impossible to know today, but the minimum isn’t
Note: At the time of writing, a summary analysis similar to the one below was published in Current Affairs, attributed to “Lex Syd.” There are a few differences in our sources and analyses, but the numbers are the same.
23 August 2025
The BBC helped kill Anas Al-Sharif
The media are legitimising Israel’s murder of journalists – and they are doing it because they are racist propagandists for a system of Western colonial control in the Middle East.
23 August 2025
Israel, the 'only democracy in the Middle East' – How to win elections and erase people
Israel frequently touts itself as “the only democracy in the Middle East” – a refrain echoed by Western leaders, particularly in the US and parts of Europe.
22 August 2025
The US can end the Gaza genocide now
An immediate UN Security Council vote to grant Palestine permanent membership in the UN next month would put an end to Israel’s zealous delusions of permanent control over Palestine. It cannot happen without US backing.
22 August 2025
A coalition of the willing in support of Palestinians
The situation faced by Ukrainians and Palestinians is vastly different, but at the same time similar.
21 August 2025
'Full of tears', 1000 Palestinian children graduate from Gaza school for orphans
The children wept, as no parents were there to share the moment – their parents had been killed by the Israeli army, said one observer.
21 August 2025
The promised ceasefire and Gaza’s shattered hopes
Since the outbreak of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip on 7 October 2023, talk of a “nearby ceasefire” or an “imminent halt to hostilities” has never ceased.
20 August 2025
Open letter to journalists on the vast undercount of deaths and serious injuries in Gaza
Ralph Nader urges prominent journalists [listed below] to reject deliberate undercounting, and accurately report the number of Palestinian killed in the genocide.
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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22 August 2025
Why China commemorates its WWII victory
On 3 September, China will hold a major parade at Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing to commemorate the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. Global leaders will attend the event and the Chinese military will showcase its latest weapons and regiment arrangements.
15 August 2025
Breaking: Chilling ‘News Virus’ sweeps Australia
Chikungunya is a virus first identified in 1952 in what is now Tanzania, carried by mosquitoes, long since a globetrotter.
14 August 2025
China’s consumption weighed down by weak expectations
China’s economy registered a respectable GDP growth rate of 5.3% in the first half of 2025.
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