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
Message from the editor
Off the back of last week's huge protests for Palestine in Australia, the global movement to end the genocide continues to grow.
1 September 2025
The next pandemic is 'an epidemiological certainty'
The next pandemic disease outbreak is already on the way. Only its identity remains a surprise.
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1 September 2025
Asia must learn from SEATO and build its own NATO
With China’s military assertiveness, North Korea’s expanding nuclear arsenal and defence collaboration between Russia, China and North Korea, there are growing questions about whether Asia needs its own version of NATO. Asia has endeavoured to establish such a structure in the past, with little success.
1 September 2025
How the Fourth Estate failed journalists
Edmund Burke, an Anglo-Irish statesman and political theorist, is credited, with coining the phrase Fourth Estate in 1771.
1 September 2025
A Rohingya mother’s ordeal of rape, loss and survival
In recent times, we have heard many stories of hardship and displacement among the Rohingya people of Arakan State.
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.
1 September 2025
Amnesty condemns abduction and arbitrary arrest of Pakistan’s top triathlete, Shahrez Khan
As Pakistan risks a mass exodus of international talent with democracy in decline, its youth refuse to give up on former cricketing legend and prime minister, Imran Khan’s vision for “justice, humanity and self-esteem.
1 September 2025
Reforming university governance: Restoring accountability and the public mission
Over the past three decades, Australia’s public universities have experienced a profound shift in governance culture.
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.
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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.
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.
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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