31 August 2025
Terrorists are them, never us
Almost as quickly as Anthony Albanese signed up for AUKUS, he has now agreed to join the United States in making Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) the 32nd terrorist organisation designated by Australia.
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.
31 August 2025
Environment: Too much and too little water causing problems from the tropics to the poles
Three-quarters of World Heritage Sites are threatened by water issues. Habitat for orangutans or electricity for the people? Summer 2024 heatwave caused massive ice melt in the Arctic. Humans, dogs, foxes, SUVs, plastics, climate change – parenting is tough for beach nesting birds.
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31 August 2025
Intergenerational equity is more important. But let’s not exaggerate the problem or be misled about the solutions
Treasurer Jim Chalmers identified three priority areas for tax reform he said had attracted support from his roundtable participants: A fair go for working people, including in intergenerational equity terms, An affordable, responsible way to incentivise business investment, and A simpler, more sustainable tax system to fund the services people need.
31 August 2025
A new foreign policy for Europe
The European Union needs a new foreign policy based on Europe’s true economic and security interests.
30 August 2025
Never again – so the world pledged
For 80 years the world has sympathised with and supported Israel through the prism of the indescribably brutal Holocaust.
30 August 2025
Ditch AUKUS Pillar One. It involves Australia too much in US strategy
Defence Minister Richard Marles said in June that if war broke out between the US and China, Australia would inevitably be involved.
30 August 2025
Furious Modi rejects Trump’s phone calls – Asian Media Report
In Asian media this week: India turns its attention to Japan and China. Plus: Trump wants US to own land used for bases in Korea; Despair turning young refugees to armed insurrection; Beijing pushing AI as next growth-engine; Manila ramps up its anti-China stance; The wounds that time cannot heal.
30 August 2025
What the UN could do now on Gaza
The UN has options, now, in Gaza, as long as members states support it, says Mark Seddon, director, Centre for UN Studies, University of Buckingham.
30 August 2025
'It is time to end this spiral of violence' - Greek Orthodox and Latin Patriarchate in Jerusalem
A joint statement by the Greek Orthodox and Latin Patriarchates of Jerusalem has called for an end to the killing.
30 August 2025
Time to dial back the Australia-US alliance
There’s a concept in political analysis known as the Overton Window. The concept holds that at any given time within mainstream society there is a range (i.e. window) of accepted political topics and arguments for discussion.
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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.
30 August 2025
Never again – so the world pledged
For 80 years the world has sympathised with and supported Israel through the prism of the indescribably brutal Holocaust.
30 August 2025
What the UN could do now on Gaza
The UN has options, now, in Gaza, as long as members states support it, says Mark Seddon, director, Centre for UN Studies, University of Buckingham.
30 August 2025
'It is time to end this spiral of violence' - Greek Orthodox and Latin Patriarchate in Jerusalem
A joint statement by the Greek Orthodox and Latin Patriarchates of Jerusalem has called for an end to the killing.
30 August 2025
Israel’s assassination of memory
The razing of Gaza is not a crime only against the Palestinian people but against our cultural and historical heritage. We can’t understand the present, especially when reporting on Palestine and Israel, if we don’t understand the past.
30 August 2025
Albanese is expelling the wrong embassy
Two days after hundreds of thousands of Australians joined nationwide protests against Israel’s assault on Gaza, the Albanese Government abruptly announced that it would expel Iranian diplomats.
29 August 2025
Washington and the Gaza war: How the US uses its support for Israel to assert global dominance
Since the outbreak of the Gaza war on 7 October 2023, Washington has made its position clear: full and unconditional support for Israel.
28 August 2025
The murder of journalists as an act of censorship
Western reporters should by now know almost all journalists, doctors, nurses and teachers in Gaza are Hamas members, just as some UN employees are Hamas militants. - Chris Mitchell, The Australian, 18 August 2025.
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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