Paul Malone
Paul Malone is a journalist with over 40 years experience, having worked for the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian Financial Review and the Canberra Times. He is a former Board member of the National Press Club; a former Treasurer of the Australian Journalists Association (ACT) Branch; and a former member of the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery Committee. Paul Malone has a long-running interest in Borneo. His book The Peaceful People: The Penan and their fight for the forest was published in 2014 by Gerakbudaya, Malaysia.
Paul's recent articles
15 March 2025
Cut defence spending to make us stronger and safer
There’s a simple solution to the problem of Chinese warships sailing around Australia: a reciprocal agreement – you don’t sail off our coast and we won’t sail off yours.
3 June 2024
Log the forest and get carbon credit rewards
Two major Malaysian logging companies that have devastated Borneo’s forests have been granted “Forest Carbon Research Permits” in the first step to enable them to log old-growth forests and claim carbon credits.
16 March 2024
The forgotten war heroes of Borneo
Many Australians are aware of the assistance Papuan New Guinea locals and Timorese locals gave allied forces in World War II. But few know of the assistance Borneo locals provided to Australians during both the Japanese occupation of the island and in the Allied effort to retake it. This extract from the book, Forgotten Heroes: The true story of Sarawak people who fought and died assisting Allied forces in WWII, recalls one story.
1 March 2024
Foreign agents have infiltrated our most secret government establishments
The mass media got itself into a flap this week (28, 29 Feb & 1 March) over ASIO Director, Mike Burgess claim that a former Australian politician sold out their country, party and former colleagues after being recruited by spies of a foreign regime.
1 December 2023
Only journalists who support the Gaza war can report objectively on it
Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No sir: sometimes truth stays on one side only. - Oriana Fallaci
14 September 2023
China, innovation, and competition with the US
The real American terror is not that the Chinese economy will grow bigger than the American economy if it is not already but that the Chinese mixed economy model will prove superior to the rampant free-market, greed model US billionaires and their peddlers promote.
8 July 2023
Propaganda: The Western medias Taiwanese airspace narrative
When it comes to propaganda the Chinese could learn a thing or two from the Western media.
11 June 2023
Terrorists, Saudi Arabia, and the CIA
Documents publicly available make it clear that Saudi Arabian government officials assisted the two 9/11 hijackers, Nawaf Al-Hazmi and Khalid Al-Midhar, who crashed an airliner into the Pentagon. Newly released testimonies further reveal that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was aware of the activities of the two hijackers before the 9/11 attacks and suggest that the agency was seeking to use them to penetrate Al-Qaeda.
30 April 2023
Mystery disease sweeps through Borneo wild boar population
The bearded pig -- the native wild boar that has dominated the jungles of the huge island of Borneo for thousands of years -- may be close to extinction.
19 April 2023
Anti-China witch hunt intensifies with Csergo arrest
In the Csergo case the big question is: does the prosecution have any evidence of a real crime and not just a breach of the ridiculous Reckless Foreign Interference law?
5 March 2023
Why should Australian submarines prowl off the coast of China?
Jon Stanfords response to Brian Tooheys criticism of his promotion of nuclear submarines for Australia deserves a response.
5 January 2023
Western commentators are blind to their limits on China, Russia
When watching or listening to experts on international affairsespecially those speaking on China or Russia and the war in Ukraine -- theres one question you should keep asking yourself. How do they know?
27 November 2022
Dutch court convicts on MH17: what about IA Flight 655?
Should the Dutch Court decision on the downing of Malaysian airliner MH 17 set a precedent for the trial of weapons suppliers?
12 July 2022
False claims again - The Douma Aqaba chemical weapons and air strikes on Syria
The alleged Douma chemical weapons attack provided the justification for the United States,British and French governments airstrikes on Syria on 14 April 2018.
1 July 2022
Albanese's foreign policy
In early July 1971, as opposition leader in a conservative communist-fearing country, Gough Whitlam took the courageous step of visiting red China, a country then seen by many Australians as an invasion threat.
13 March 2022
What has gone wrong with Australian journalisms commitment to free speech?
The decision of the National Press Club to withdraw the invitation to the Russian Ambassador to speak at the club is the latest move taking Australia to a new low in lack of commitment to free speech.
28 February 2022
Theres little understanding of Russian history in the mainstream media
What would the United States do if it had potentially hostile states threatening its borders, much as the Russians face the NATO military alliance?
26 February 2022
There will be no expansion of NATO to the East!
What would the United States do if it had a country on its borders that was a member of a threatening military alliance?
20 February 2022
War and fear mongering are Scott Morrison's best hope for winning the election
Youd think that after the Iraq Weapons of Mass destruction debacle the media would be just a little sceptical about US intelligence feeds.
3 February 2022
Cry havoc: US and UK leaders trying to con Europeans into war in Ukraine
Anglosphere media are uncritically regurgitating Washington and Downing Street propaganda and failing to recount actual Russian-Ukrainian history.
13 January 2022
Don't tangle with Border Force? Lessons from the Djokovic mess
Only the wealthy stand a chance of overturning the arbitrary rulings of Border Force officials. Ordinary detainees and their visitors stand no chance.
23 September 2021
How deep was the Saudi government's involvement in 9/11?
The FBI is still coy on the Saudi governments involvement in the 9/11 terrorist attacks but theres enough in its latest document release to suggest that Saudi government officials assisted with hijacker logistics.
18 August 2021
Transparency in the dark on foreign interference.
The Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Act does nothing to enlighten us on who is exerting undue influence on Australias political or election processes
15 July 2021
Boris sends naval fleet to revive British colonialism on the Chinese coast
Double standards: In the shipping war games its Freedom of Navigation for one side and an unwelcome intrusion into our waters for the other.
6 April 2021
What would US-China war really mean?
Do the commentators who talk of war with China actually think about what this would mean?
4 April 2021
Pollies, sex, school, privilege and bad behaviour
After weeks of accusations of scandalous behaviour by Coalition staffers and Members of Parliament, Scott Morrison is aiming to achieve cultural change through a reshuffle of his Cabinet. But the unrepresentative school background of Morrisons Ministers - not just the gender balance of his Cabinet and his MPs - may contribute to the attitudes and unacceptable behaviour we have seen.
28 December 2020
Media Manipulation from WWII to today
Theres a place for the rogue journalist who refuses to be manipulated and managed by the military. A place that has been explored extensively by Australian journalist and war correspondent Wilfred Burchett.
10 December 2020
Do the laws of armed conflict apply in guerrilla war?
Australias first special forces, fighting in the jungles of Borneo in WWII, fought in a war where neither side adhered to the international rules of armed conflict.
21 November 2020
Ministerial war crimes
Those who will not be put on trial as a result of investigations into Australian operations in Afghanistan will be those most responsible the ministers who committed Australian troops to a protracted war where our forces could not readily distinguish friend from foe.
28 October 2020
Watches and wages
Its easy for the public to understand and get enraged about executive gifts of Cartier watches but the far more important issue is the steady shift of wealth to a privileged minority.
8 October 2020
Media failure again on alleged chemical weapons attacks in Syria
Two new reports from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons challenge claims that chemical weapons were used in two alleged attacks in Syria.
17 September 2020
ASIO Doublespeak
A party member lives under the eyes of the Thought Police: He can be inspected without warning and without knowing that he is being inspected; He should live in a continuous frenzy of hatred of foreign enemies and internal traitors..
9 September 2020
Freedom and protests in 2020 Australia
Where is the national outcry at the erosion of our freedom to protest?
27 August 2020
No Fair Go for Labor back-bencher in ABC 7.30 interview
The truth takes second place in the ABC 7.30 interview of Labor backbencher Shaoquett Moselmane
26 August 2020
Media sensationalism of the virus
The media in Victoria gave widespread coverage to the death from Covid-19 of a man in his twenties the youngest death from the virus in Australia. But it turns out he didnt die from the virus!
15 August 2020
The Coronavirus does discriminate
An advertising campaign in Victoria seeks to convince young people that the Coronavirus is a threat to young and old. But the most startling fact is that as of the time of writing no-one under 30 in Australia has died from the virus.
1 August 2020
Chinese hackers or spies
Are the US Justice Department's alleged hackers Li Xiaoyu and Dong Jiazhi Chinese spies or merely run-of-the-mill criminals?
30 July 2020
US Assistant Attorney General fuels Chinese hacking conspiracy
Despite what the US alleges against China, would any government spy agency be so stupid as to combine extortion for profit with spy activities?
25 July 2020
Hagia Sophia reconverted to Mosque
Converting Hagia Sophia into a mosque is more than a mere re-classification of an ancient, extraordinary building. It is another step in the Turkish eradication of the Greek-Byzantine history of Istanbul/Constantinople.
4 July 2020
Scott Morrison. We're not in the new 1930s
Leaders seem to want to believe that theyre living in the worlds most interesting times but theres a real danger if they make it so.
12 May 2020
PAUL MALONE. The anti-Chinese bias of media commentators on China
How is it that commentators on China get away with outlandish statements that dont pass the most minimum scrutiny?
25 March 2020
PAUL MALONE.Whos pushing foreign influence in Australia?
In seeking to target foreign interference in Australia, the Federal Government has two countries in its sights, but its not just the Russians and Chinese who play the interference game.
20 February 2020
PAUL MALONE. Is the United States a democracy?
The disenfranchisement of much of the population, the unequal distribution of wealth and power and the muddled voting systems calls into question the US claim to be a democratic state.
10 February 2020
PAUL MALONE. Australia's American view of the world
The Australian medias view of the world is dictated by the US
29 January 2020
PAUL MALONE. The Australian media and the alleged Douma chemical weapons attack.
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons inspector who led the team investigating the alleged Douma chemical weapons attack in Syria in April 2018 has gone public saying that his investigation team had serious misgivings that a chemical attack had occurred.
29 December 2019
PAUL MALONE.- Doubts continue about the alleged Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack in 2018
Some 20 months after the alleged Syrian government toxic chemical weapons attack on Douma in April 2018 the evidence to back the claims of a gas attack has been blown apart.
1 December 2019
PAUL MALONE. Rating a defecting spy!
Theres a basic system for intelligence agencies to assess the credibility of someone, such as Wang Liqiang, who purports to be a defecting spy a simple matrix running on one axis from say 1 to 6 and on the other from A to F.
13 July 2018
PAUL MALONE. Justification for Syrian airstrikes evaporates.
The justification for the US, British and French airstrikes on Syria on April 14 has evaporated with the new finding by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons that no organophosophorous nerve agents or their degradation products were detected in the environmental samples or in the plasma samples taken from alleged casualties.