Secret cargo: Inside Australia's covert F-35 parts pipeline to Israel
At least 68 shipments of F-35 fighter jet parts have been flown on commercial passenger planes to Israel from Australia as recently as last month, leaked documents reveal.
Recent articles in Politics
7 October 2025
Australia faces a looming crisis of older women retiring in poverty. Here’s what we can do
Australia faces a serious challenge. Despite important progress on gender equality over recent decades, a looming crisis now threatens the economic security of older women. Without urgent and bold action, we risk consigning further generations of women to poverty in retirement.
7 October 2025
Steerage for the Australian-PNG navy?
The mutual defence treaty between Australia and Papua New Guinea could be a masterstroke for both countries, if our defence boffins could think laterally. I bet they won’t.
7 October 2025
Rio Tinto flags early closure of Queensland’s biggest coal generator as LNP prepares new energy plan
The clock is now ticking for the ageing Gladstone coal-fired power station after its owners told the Australian Energy Market Operator that they’re bringing forward the closure date of the biggest power plant in Queensland by six years, to March 2029.
7 October 2025
‘Ban Israeli football’: Scholars urge UEFA to bar Israel over Gaza horrors
In a letter, legal experts have underscored the killing of Palestinian footballers and a UN panel’s finding that Israel is committing genocide.
7 October 2025
7 October 2023: shocking yes, surprising no
A new book on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Road to October 7 - a brief history of Palestinian Islamism, by Erik Skare, shows how the seeds of the Gaza war were sown over decades.
7 October 2025
World water in crisis
Almost two-thirds of the world’s rivers are in a dire condition, either drying up or supercharged with floodwaters, according to the latest report on the emerging global water crisis by the World Meteorological Organisation.
7 October 2025
Charlie Kirk, Andrew Hastie and the 'Christian' West: Some Christian pushback
The horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk is being invested with all sorts of meaning, well beyond the personal tragedy it is for his family.
7 October 2025
What are international protests revealing about Palestine, Israel and public opinion?
When I first saw the figures on international protests from October 2023 to September 2025, I was fascinated. I hadn’t realised which countries had been most active and the results surprised me.
7 October 2025
Loot boxes are still rife in kids’ mobile games, despite ban on ‘gambling-like’ features
In September 2024, Australia introduced a new classification approach for games with gambling-like content.
6 October 2025
7 October 2023: What really happened? Part 1
At dawn, on 7 October 2023, Hamas fighters blast over 100 holes in the walls and fences that separate the Gaza Strip from Israel.
6 October 2025
Message from the editor
If you do a Google search for the US federal health department (Health and Human Services) site, as I did this week, a big red banner pops up (over a homepage filled with happy snaps of Trump and Kennedy, and the Make America Healthy Again slogan).
6 October 2025
Chris Hedges – Statement by the National Press Club ( 4 October 2025)
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges' forthcoming address to Australia's National Press Club on Gaza has been cancelled, as revealed in an article published during the weekend. The National Press Club has responded in a media statement.
