Gunning for the Greens over Gaza - Part 1
Evan Jones

Gunning for the Greens over Gaza - Part 1

After the federal election on 3 May, dissection of the Liberals’ turmoil received top billing.

Spiritual malpractice: The Vatican's dodgy saint-making business
Robert Mickens

Spiritual malpractice: The Vatican's dodgy saint-making business

Pope Leo rubberstamps the controversial canonisation of a multimillionaire Italian's adolescent son.

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Environment: Ken Henry and Xi Jinping agree nature is critical to productivity

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Mamdani’s magnificent primary win – What follows
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Mamdani’s magnificent primary win – What follows

People are asking about my reaction to Zohran Mamdani’s spectacular and decisive upset in the Democratic primary victory for Mayor of New York over ex-Governor Andrew Cuomo.

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Grace McQuilten,  Kate MacNeill

The takeaway from the Venice Biennale saga: the art world faces deep and troubling structural inequality

Creative Australia’s decision earlier this year to rescind the selection of artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino as Australia’s 2026 representatives at the Venice Biennale sent shockwaves through the arts sector.

Israel: The true superpower? Journalist exposes global threat in explosive Sydney talk
Mohamed Ainullah

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In a searing address to a sold-out crowd in Sydney on Saturday night 28 June 2025, award-winning Australian investigative journalist Antony Loewenstein declared that Israel has quietly become the world’s most dangerous superpower, wielding weapons, surveillance technology, and AI systems perfected on Palestinians to control populations across many countries.

Trump tariff deals with Japan, India bogged down – Asian Media Report
David Armstrong

Trump tariff deals with Japan, India bogged down – Asian Media Report

In Asian media this week: Trade pact sealed with Vietnam. Plus: Dalai Lama at 90 – the institution will continue; Region’s newspapers show disdain for NATO; China, Pakistan setting up new South Asian bloc; Canberra, Beijing squabble over project naming rights.

Trump’s Big Ugly Bill is fascism in writing
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Trump’s Big Ugly Bill is fascism in writing

It establishes an anti-immigrant police state in America, replete with a standing army of ICE agents and a gulag of detention facilities, and it was passed by a narrow margin despite popular opinion.

Flood management: Science, technology and people’s responses
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Flood management: Science, technology and people’s responses

To reduce the risks posed by floods requires both scientific input and appropriate community reaction. It is not always clear that both are in evidence.

Fifteen years of UN Women: A call to action, not complacency
Simone Clarke

Fifteen years of UN Women: A call to action, not complacency

Fifteen years ago, UN Women was established with a bold mission: to drive real and lasting change for all women and girls.

World Bank warns that changes are coming in the global economy
John Queripel

World Bank warns that changes are coming in the global economy

The World Bank’s just released flagship report Global Economic Prospects sounds a warning for the global economy, which is projected to slow dangerously through the next few years, while also showing substantial changes.

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Gunning for the Greens over Gaza - Part 1
Evan Jones

Gunning for the Greens over Gaza - Part 1

After the federal election on 3 May, dissection of the Liberals’ turmoil received top billing.

Genocide in Gaza: History repeats itself
Refaat Ibrahim

Genocide in Gaza: History repeats itself

For the past 21 months, I have endured the painful experience of displacement, moving between tents under relentless bombardment in Gaza.

Food aid or firing squads?
Jamal Kanj

Food aid or firing squads?

In Gaza today, hunger has a price – and for far too many civilians, that price has been death.

UN report lists companies complicit in Israel’s ‘genocide’. Who are they?
Federica Marsi

UN report lists companies complicit in Israel’s ‘genocide’. Who are they?

The United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) has released a new report mapping the corporations aiding Israel in the displacement of Palestinians and its genocidal war on Gaza, in breach of international law.

Israel’s genocide and German Staatsräson: Thwarting a youth’s political sensibilities
Norman Saadi Nikro

Israel’s genocide and German Staatsräson: Thwarting a youth’s political sensibilities

It was the third month of Israel’s genocidal onslaught in Gaza, just before the Christmas break in 2023, when my daughter Lelia came home one day and mentioned an unhappy confrontation with one of the directors of her school, the Freie Waldorfschule Berlin Mitte.

Gaza’s Hunger Games
Chris Hedges

Gaza’s Hunger Games

Israel is weaponising starvation. The objective is to dismantle all remnants of civil society and reduce Palestinians to herds of desperate scavengers who can be driven from historic Palestine.

Flour instead of homeland: manufacturing the crisis and the end of the Palestinian dream
Refaat Ibrahim

Flour instead of homeland: manufacturing the crisis and the end of the Palestinian dream

Since 4:00 p.m. on 14 May 1948, the Palestinian cause has been one of a homeland seized by force, a land torn from its people by Zionism through weapons and terror.

Courage needs to be shown in politics – Israel is no longer above the law
Stuart Rees

Courage needs to be shown in politics – Israel is no longer above the law

In the past weeks, an estimated 500 more Gazans have been killed, bombed out of existence by the IDF or killed while queuing for food.


John Menadue's book on Israel's war against Gaza

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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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China’s rapid adoption of AI demands greater scrutiny of the social impact
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China’s rapid adoption of AI demands greater scrutiny of the social impact

In contrast to the perception that Beijing has placed a lot of guardrails on AI, China’s AI regulation so far has been limited.

China is taking Silicon Valley’s market ‘hacks’ to a whole new level
Karman Lucero

China is taking Silicon Valley’s market ‘hacks’ to a whole new level

From blitzscaling to leveraging network effects, China is using the same methods to dominate supply chain and disrupt markets.

No time to dye: ABC’s China bias is licensed to kill credibility
Fred Zhang

Anti-China Media Watch

No time to dye: ABC’s China bias is licensed to kill credibility

The ABC has long held a reputation as Australia’s sober, publicly-funded bulwark against tabloid sensationalism – the broadcaster you turn to when you want analysis, not alarmism.


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International law: Who in Australia cares?

John Queripel — Newcastle

The same applies exactly in Australia. My letter to all mainstream media in Australia follows. Only Crikey published it. And so the Australian Government, supine to the US as usual, after deferring, now announces support for the US bombings in Iran, actions clearly contrary to international law. Article 2(4) of the 1945 UN Charter states: “Prohibition of Force: Members must refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the UN’s purposes.” Evidence for Iran developing nuclear weaponry is very weak....
Gaza genocide

Dieter Barkhoff — Victoria

Like Refaat Ibrahim, I am appalled by the way the Western world not only looks away, but enables Israel to commit genocide in Gaza. I have been passionately crusading on behalf of Palestine, my initial interest aroused by a founding member of the Israeli Air Force, a South African-born man, who left Israel in total disgust at the country's behaviour. This was the in the late 1970s to early 1980s. What irks me about Refaat's article is his selectivity about previous genocides. My question is, why only mention what the Germans did in Namibia and Tanzania? Surely the Belgian...
Chilling words

Tom Knowles — Parkville Vic

The headline and last words of Jamal Kanj's piece on the lethal shooting of unarmed, starving Palestinians are chilling. Firing squads and Gaza assassination trap are shocking phrases, as is Haaretz's Killing Field. They're what we need after being numbed by Israel's relentless mantras of the most moral army in the world, we were targeting Hamas militants, and the IDF will investigate. It's a wonder that there are enough personnel to produce the hundreds (or is it thousands?) of reports into deadly incidents involving Israeli forces. One report that we really need is an analysis and exposé of the...
No mention of lobbyists?

Glenda Jones — Carlton 3053

How can one write an article criticising full-scale institutional failure inside Australia’s peak cultural agency, Creative Australia, without mentioning the trigger for the turmoil that unfolded? The Zionist lobbyists complained about the selection of artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino as Australia’s representatives for the 2026 Venice Biennale. Just like at the ABC, there must have been initial letters of complaint. Julian Leeser, that well-known Liberal Party Zionist, stirred the pot, but who provided the initial complaint?



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