Why Australia should recognise Palestinian statehood
The question for the Australian Government is, how can we most constructively persuade Israel to change course?
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29 May 2025
The Coalition splits, maybe not
If there was ever any question about the dire state of conservative politics in Australia after the Coalition’s comprehensive election rout, the self-indulgent posturing of the past week leaves no doubt.
29 May 2025
Japan needs diversity amid demographic decline
In Japan, diversity is increasingly becoming a demographic necessity rather than a policy choice.
28 May 2025
Our retreat from Asia has become a rout
On almost every measure, Australia has gone backwards on engaging with our region, and particularly with China, and it is time to do something about it.
28 May 2025
Australia still doing little as the Gaza genocide gets worse
Australia doesn’t mind imposing sanctions on nations or groups it regards as being deserving of punishment for their nefarious activities, Russia, Iran and Zimbabwe to name a few.
28 May 2025
Cultural institutions are policing Palestine solidarity. Karen Wyld is just the latest target
Last week, Martu writer Karen Wyld was stripped of a literary fellowship just hours before she was due to receive it, not because of the quality of her work, but because of her expressions of solidarity with Palestine.
28 May 2025
I will always remember you, Ali Kazak!
I first met Ali Kazak soon after he arrived in Australia in the early '70s when I was in my early twenties.
27 May 2025
The cost of conscience in post-October 7 Australia
Over the past 18 months, it has become harder and harder to speak publicly in this country if you are Muslim, brown, and pro-Palestinian.
27 May 2025
China’s calm response to US’ impulsive tariffs gets noticed
Shortly after China and the United States announced tariff adjustment measures in Geneva, Switzerland, Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist Aron Solomon argued in a Newsweek article that the US now has an administration that “governs not with strategy, but with impulse”.
27 May 2025
A defining moment for the future of Palestine
A United Nations conference in New York between 17 and 20 June will be a defining moment for the future of Palestinian statehood and the endlessly debated, but never resolved, policy known as the two-state solution.
24 May 2025
Ready for real education reform?
Funding and regulating schools in our federation is wildly duplicative and complicated.
24 May 2025
Remembering Race Mathews
Gareth Evans Eulogy, State Memorial Service, Melbourne Arts Centre, 23 May 2025 Race Mathews had a wonderfully rich and productive life, which he lived to the full for 90 years. He accepted his last years of declining health with serenity, and died — as I guess we all hope we will — peacefully and painlessly, surrounded by loving family. But none of that means that we — his family, friends and admirers — will mourn his passing any less, or miss him any less.
23 May 2025
Weaponisation of ‘antisemitism’ hides primitive savagery of Palestinian genocide
As expressed in the UN General Assembly, the vast majority of the world’s governments and peoples agree that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and now the West Bank.
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