2 September 2025
Avoid Bali and the rest of Indonesia
Cashiered former general Prabowo Subianto was elected president of Indonesia last year on a contradictory campaign image.
2 September 2025
Re-engineering consciousness in Gaza: How the occupation is turning a structured, educated society into a fragmented and dehumanised one
Before the genocide unfolding in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian society was among the most educated and disciplined in the Arab world.
2 September 2025
When spying is subcontracted to gangsters
ASIO deserves a good deal of credit for the cool and professional way in which it gathered and collected information to demonstrate to ministers its belief that members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard had been behind at least two terrorist incidents in Melbourne and Sydney this year. Diplomats not alleged to have known of this have been tossed out as a result.
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2 September 2025
Marking September 2: Lest we forget
This week marks 80 years since the end of World War II. While Europe celebrated the end of the war in May, hostilities dragged on for several months in the Far East until Emperor Hirohito announced the surrender of Japan on 15 August 1945 and this declaration was formalised on 2 September.
2 September 2025
The one big reform not discussed at Labor's roundtable
Despite the strong support for tax reform at last month’s economic reform roundtable, perhaps the most important single reform hardly rated a mention: a carbon tax – or, in the economists’ preferred euphemism, “a price on carbon”.
2 September 2025
The media’s Israeli atrocity treadmill
News outlets are so busy chasing Israel’s latest crime in Gaza — currently its horrific attack on Nasser Hospital — they never pause to piece together the bigger story of genocide.
2 September 2025
UNGA: Move September meeting to Geneva to allow Palestinians to participate
In response to the US State Department's decision to deny visas to Palestinian Authority officials ahead of the September UN General Assembly meeting, DAWN issues the following statement:
2 September 2025
RSL tries to tackle its troubles
The RSL has been a significant force in Australian politics, but it’s clear it is now suffering from a range of problems.
2 September 2025
Western civilisation is not worth saving
Western civilisation is not worth saving. I think that’s been pretty well established by now.
2 September 2025
Reining in the consultant culture in Australia’s public universities
The quiet rise of private consultancy in Australia’s public universities has now reached a point where it is reshaping the sector’s priorities, governance, and capacity to act in the public interest.
1 September 2025
Blinded by 'blood libels', Netanyahu won't praise the West's tough new measures on Iran
Why isn't Israel celebrating fresh steps against Iran? Because praising Australia, France, and the UK would mean admitting they aren't the Israel-hating, terror-supporting antisemites Netanyahu claims.
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2 September 2025
Re-engineering consciousness in Gaza: How the occupation is turning a structured, educated society into a fragmented and dehumanised one
Before the genocide unfolding in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian society was among the most educated and disciplined in the Arab world.
2 September 2025
The media’s Israeli atrocity treadmill
News outlets are so busy chasing Israel’s latest crime in Gaza — currently its horrific attack on Nasser Hospital — they never pause to piece together the bigger story of genocide.
2 September 2025
UNGA: Move September meeting to Geneva to allow Palestinians to participate
In response to the US State Department's decision to deny visas to Palestinian Authority officials ahead of the September UN General Assembly meeting, DAWN issues the following statement:
2 September 2025
Western civilisation is not worth saving
Western civilisation is not worth saving. I think that’s been pretty well established by now.
1 September 2025
Blinded by 'blood libels', Netanyahu won't praise the West's tough new measures on Iran
Why isn't Israel celebrating fresh steps against Iran? Because praising Australia, France, and the UK would mean admitting they aren't the Israel-hating, terror-supporting antisemites Netanyahu claims.
1 September 2025
Immobilising confirmation of atrocities in Gaza
Stefan Tarnowski is an assistant professor and anthropologist based at Cambridge University. His most recent article published by the London Review of Books is Plausible Deniability.
31 August 2025
Usman Khawaja urges Albanese to sanction Israel over Gaza genocide
Meeting Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers on 28 August at Parliament House in Canberra, the Aussie Muslim Test opener, Usman Khawaja, pressed Australia to act decisively against Israel for the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
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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30 August 2025
I fear ignorance about China
The United States and its allies like Australia, have become terrified by the prospect of their citizens learning more about China through the exchange of ideas and people. They apparently do not trust their citizens to assess information from multiple competing sources and reach an acceptable conclusion.
29 August 2025
Australia is one trade deal away from backing authoritarians, says Taiwan
In the grand tradition of diplomatic overreach, Taiwan's deputy foreign minister recently offered some sweet and spicy talking points to our media: semiconductors are tanks, China is akin to WWII Germany, and if Australia doesn't fast-track Taiwan into the CPTPP, we might all wake up speaking Mandarin under a fascist AI regime, as reported by News Corp and 7 News.
29 August 2025
MAGA 2.0: Making China great again
In Donald Trump’s make-believe world prices are falling, the economy is booming, he is bringing peace all around the world, and gas costs less than US$2 a gallon.
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