On the siege of Gaza
All the dire predictions at the time Israel banned the UN Relief and Works Agency in January 2025 have come to pass.
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15 August 2025
Israeli officials reportedly held talks about displacing Palestinians to war-torn South Sudan
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15 August 2025
Albanese’s recognition of a Palestinian state implements a long-held Labor ambition
Those who accuse the Albanese Government of breaking with a historic Labor position of opposing recognition of a Palestinian state are wrong.
15 August 2025
Clinton to Trump: How Putin has met, courted and frustrated US presidents
Vladimir Putin has met five US presidents over 25 years. But jazz and fishing have given way to threats and tension. The Alaska summit will be the Russian leader’s 49th meeting with a US counterpart.
15 August 2025
Labor vulnerable nowhere in particular, everywhere in general
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15 August 2025
As deadline looms, advocates call plastics treaty draft 'nothing short of a betrayal'
The process has been completely captured by swarms of fossil fuel lobbyists and shamefully weaponised by low-ambition countries, said the chief executive of the Environmental Justice Foundation.
15 August 2025
An open letter to the Jewish Board of Deputies
I am part of a small group of people who intended to hold an event to discuss the situation in Gaza. Shortly before our event was scheduled, the Jewish board of Deputies pressed our venue operators to cancel the event. This incursion into our right to gather was a striking example of the ethos that informs so much of the Zionist lobby’s methods of silencing any departure from what is perceived as pro-Israel lines of argument. Thus:
15 August 2025
Recognition of Palestine only a start
Prime Minister Albanese’s announcement on 11 August that Australia will recognise the state of Palestine is a dramatic break with the past.
14 August 2025
The great human brain fade
Evidence is piling up that the human brain can no longer keep up with the overshoot crisis which human greed has engendered.
14 August 2025
Dates are 'luxury' – and other ways Israel hinders aid trucks from reaching starving Gazans
From restricting truck crossings to preventing proper cargo securing, Israel has imposed layers of bureaucratic and physical obstacles that hinder every stage of delivering food and medical supplies to Gaza.
14 August 2025
Albanese is crying poor, but we’re losing billions a year from untaxed gas
It’s likely much will be said, but little done, at next week’s economic roundtable.
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