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It seemed almost too much to look back to the events of 9/11 in New York, when there is so much killing and grief swirling the globe now.
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14 September 2025
A lament for Meanjin
For more than 80 years, Meanjin has been a quiet but powerful enabler of Australian literature. It required a mere pittance to keep it alive.
13 September 2025
Why key leaders attended China’s military parade – Asian Media Report
In Asian media this week: Nations “must adapt” to new power politics. Plus: Raid “will hurt” South Korea’s US investments; Trump’s strategic shift towards Pakistan; What’s next after Nepal’s 8 September massacre; Thailand gets its first minority government; Why India has the world’s biggest diaspora.
12 September 2025
Climate change, not China, is the real threat in the South Pacific
Countries of the South Pacific have good reason to encourage China and other countries to assist them with infrastructure. And there is nothing that Australia should, or could, do about it.
12 September 2025
If we want to win the Pacific, we must first listen – and stop blaming China for everything
A 9 September editorial in The Sydney Morning Herald, titled China and Australia in a high-speed race to win control of the Pacific, offered a vivid picture of the daily contest for influence in the region.
12 September 2025
Rupert Murdoch’s greatest scoop
On Wednesday 25 February 1976, The Australian published a sensational front page story headlined Iraq promises $US500,000 to pay Labor’s debts/Whitlam in secret Arab election deal.
12 September 2025
Australia’s media coverage of a military parade in Beijing confounds engagement
The 3 September military parade in Beijing, celebrating victory in World War II, is not a cause for hysterical histrionics. In Beijing, there was no equivalent to waving of the Nazi “Blood Banner” (Blutfahne) as in the intoxication of the 1934 Nuremberg rally.
12 September 2025
Fear is a weapon
This is something that governments the world over have long known. Fear is ubiquitous and is wielded with seeming impunity.
11 September 2025
Displacement and death in Gaza City as Israeli depravity continues
This week, Israel killed my cousin Mohammed, a young and cheerful lawyer, along with his wife Myriam and their only seven-day-old baby, Jaber.
11 September 2025
Murdoch resolves succession drama – a win for Lachlan, a loss for public interest journalism
Rupert Murdoch has succeeded in securing his vision for the future of News Corporation, the global media empire he has always thought of as his family business.
11 September 2025
A good captain can stop this Senator’s social cohesion ‘Titanic’
After the largest public rally with racist associations for migrants we have witnessed since the demise of the White Australia policy, Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price's comments really hurt.
10 September 2025
The ABC is inventing China's war history
When interviewing a guest, journalists are free to ask whatever questions they want. But they can’t have their own facts.
8 September 2025
The headlines Australians read – and what we’re told to feel
Most people don’t read past the headlines of news articles, either because they don’t have time or because the article itself is paywalled (for example, in Australia, News Corp and Nine websites).
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