Tributes, condemnation pour in over slain Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza
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Recognition of the State of Palestine must be combined with principled action to stop Israel’s intensifying genocide in Gaza
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Stand with Mary
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12 August 2025
We need media literacy programs for children, not a ban on social media
Western countries are searching for reasons why the anxiety, neuroticism and introversion of young people are increasing. Social media is being targeted as the major cause. So, Australia has decided to ban social media usage for children under age 16.
11 August 2025
Message from the editor
It has been difficult to focus on much other than the terrible events in Palestine in recent weeks. It is beyond comprehension that the Israeli Government could have made the war even worse, but with the announcement that it will attempt full occupation of Gaza it has done just that.
11 August 2025
When war criminals are nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, what does 'peace' even mean?
In 1939, a member of the Swedish parliament nominated Adolf Hitler for the Nobel Peace Prize.
8 August 2025
Australia needs better China coverage. This ABC story just gave us less
The South China Sea is complicated. The ABC made it simple – and not in a good way. When public media reduces regional disputes to black-and-white, it risks turning policy into performance.
8 August 2025
'Israel doesn't want journalists on the ground': CNN's Jeremy Diamond on the fight to enter Gaza
The foreign press corps in Israel has been battling — unsuccessfully — since the Gaza war began in October 2023 to be permitted access to the Strip in order to report on the conflict and the humanitarian situation there from the ground.
8 August 2025
The shabby and ludicrous politics of provocation, self-defence and divine right
As with other wars, questions of provocation, self-defence and divine right or entitlement are central themes of what the Western mainstream media have had to say about the war in Ukraine, the genocide in Gaza, and the attacks on Iran by the US and Israel in June 2025.
6 August 2025
Israel activates its cells – the Kostakidis case
The conflation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism is the test in the Zionist lobby case against Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis for her Gaza reporting and the outcome will be of great international significance, says Joe Lauria.
5 August 2025
Why every China watcher must be on WeChat
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4 August 2025
Message from the editor
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