12 October 2024

What is really going on in Palestine

Foreign Minister Penny Wong was keen to remind Guardian readers that “Australia has not supplied any weapons or ammunition to Israel for at least the past five years”. Only, as the Albanese government was forced to clarify, that excludes components for the US F-35 combat aircraft that is used to bomb Gaza. Australia has made over four billion dollars to date from contributing to the global supply chain: a trade that has continued uninterrupted throughout the past year.

28 August 2024

NT election result may point to the end for Labor

Labor has got its comeuppance in the Northern Territory, losing power in a double-digit swing to the Country Liberals. With a first-ever seat for the Greens, it sets a pattern that could carry through all the way to Canberra and the Federal Election due by September next year.

21 November 2023

The price to Labor for supporting Israeli war crimes and apartheid

What rejoicing greeted the Federal Election result last year, when the corrupt and callous Coalition, under Scott Morrison, was swept from office. Surely now Australians would get political leadership whose priorities would align with their own. Instead, theyve had to stand and watch as Australias federal government a Labor government has given unconditional support to the Israeli occupation forces to slaughter Palestinians in their thousands.

26 October 2023

An unholy alliance is defending Israels slaughter of Palestinian civilians

The Hamas raid into Israel on October 7th, and pounding of the Gazan population that has followed, has seen an unholy alliance reunite: not, or not merely, between Washington and its client states resisting UN calls for a ceasefire, but also in the media, between the Murdoch and Jewish press.

19 October 2023

Devastating Voice defeat, Labor backing Israeli genocide. Time for #LeftVoteStrike

If you are a critic of Anthony Albaneses Labor government, stop whining about it. Do something instead. You can find leverage in the political opportunity structure to pressure the Labor party on three key demands: recognising Palestine; withdrawing from the AUKUS submarine deal, and stopping new fossil fuel projects. Heres how.

13 May 2023

Rime of the AUKUS submariner

Lines composed on Budget Day as Australia starts saving up for our new nuclear-powered fleet.

29 July 2022

Australian media and the Ukraine crisis

Readers of Guardian Australia will have been startled over recent weeks by repeated calls in its columns for all-out war between Nato and Russia. These are the handiwork of Simon Tisdall, until recently the papers International Editor. Just a fortnight ago he urged using Natos overwhelming power to decisively turn the military tide the latest of five separate occasions on which he has made the same argument.