The Choices That Australia Makes
If you go to the bluff at Kings Park in Perth, Australia, you can overlook the Swan River and enjoy a remarkable view. Across the bay, there is a phalanx…
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Trendy Appointments: Australia’s Special Antisemitism Envoy
Was there any need for this? Australia’s Albanese government, harried by the conservative opposition for going soft on pro-Palestinian protests and the war in Gaza while allegedly wobbling on supporting…
Secret Agreements: The Australian-Israel Defence Memorandum of Understanding
While the Australian government continues to pirouette with shallow constancy on the issue of Israel’s war in Gaza, making vacuous utterances on Palestinian statehood even as it denies supplying the…
34 Ways To De-Nazify Australia & Sanitize A Zionist-Perverted, Genocidally Racist US Lackey
As a UK and thence US lackey Australia has invaded about 85 countries, in 30 cases genocidally. Today US lackey and Zionist-subverted Australia is deeply complicit in the horrendous Gaza…
May His Like Never Be Seen Again: Scott Morrison Departs
His type should never be seen again. Born from the dark well of swill and advertising, former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison was always the apotheosis of politics’ worst tendencies:…
Sovereignty Surrendered: Subordinating Australia’s Defence Industry
One could earn a tidy sum the number of times the word “sovereignty” has been uttered or mentioned in public statements and briefings by the Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese. …
Australia stands to benefit from India only if Indian democracy survives, not from rallies
On 10 Mar, 2023, when Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, took a lap around the Ahmedabad cricket stadium on a make-shift chariot with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi before the…
Scott Morrison and Australia’s Lobby Complex
The former Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, has been somewhat of an absentee in the Federal seat of Cook. Since losing the May 2022 election, he has been aggressively chasing…
Joining the War Club: Australia’s HIMARS Purchase
Another needless, fatuous endeavour; another irresponsible drain on the public purse; another expression that the military-industrial complex Down Under is thriving in all its insidious stupidity. But Australia’s purchase of…
Cowardly US Lackey Australian Labor Government Betrays Promises, Australia, Palestine, and Humanity
A new Australian Labor Government was elected in May 2022, replacing an appalling Liberal Party-National Party Coalition Government. However after a mere 6 months decent, progressive, pro-environment and pro-peace Australians…
Rich Australia Ignores 100,000 Preventable Deaths Annually: The Cost Of Neoliberalism & Lying
Australia was recently number one in the world for median per capita wealth. However, presently about 100,000 Australians die preventably each year from life-style choice and political choice reasons. Of…
Australian PM Morrison’s Pseudo Coup By Secretly Grabbing 5 Ministerial Positions
Australians were astonished by the revelation in August that former Prime Minister Scott Morrison had secretly been appointed by the Governor General, General David Hurley, as a Minister for Health,…
Advertising Gimmicks: Australia’s Nuclear-Powered Submarines
Never trust anything that comes out of a politician’s mouth in an election year. Pledges are made to be broken; promises are made to seduce, not convince. When the subject…
Backing Horses: Australia’s Solomon Islands Intervention
The history of humanitarian or policing missions is a history of taking sides, disruptive partiality and the forfeiture of the very object powers claim when intervening in another country. Things…
Australia’s Afghanistan War Crimes: A Case of Old Habits Die Hard?
Every time you start to believe that West is your model of morality, you get a jolt. Recent revelations of horrific war crimes committed by the Australian soldiers in Afghanistan…
Australian War Crimes in Afghanistan: Redacted Brereton Report & 2 Centuries of Australian War Crimes Ignored
Australia has been rocked by the release of a heavily redacted report about the killing of 39 unarmed Afghan civilians or prisoners by some 25 elite Australian Special Air…
Warriors vs Australia’s CoverUps, War Crimes and Thug Culture
War crimes committed by the losers are punished and pilloried in news articles, books documentaries, movies while military coverups of atrocities by the victors are standard issue for evading justice.…
Australia-China Relations: Down Under Squabbling
These are proving testy times for Australian-Chinese relations. Last week, Chinese authorities announced that an investigation would be conducted into claims that Australia has been using unfair dumping practices for…
Battles over Barley: Australia, China and the Tariff Wars
It promised to be bruising to both dignity and wallet. However brazen Australian politicians have been drumming up support for an international inquiry into the origins of the novel coronavirus,…
Strafing Parliament: Australia’s High Court Citizenship Ruling
And they fell like ninepins. Weeks of predictions, optimistic readings, and hopeful signs were dashed as the members of the highest court of Australia laid waste to members of Parliament.…
The Demise of Civic Journalism: The Xenophon-Turnbull Deal
It was never spectacular, but the Australian media scape is set to become duller, more contained, and more controlled with changes to the Broadcasting Services Act. In an environment strewn…
The Flawed Institution: Australian Marriage And The Same-Sex Debate
It’s a pretty curious thing to see: marriage being defended at all. Like slavery, and not necessarily inconsistent with it, marriage is an institution. It embraces codes. It imparts obligations,…
Loving The Bollard: Turnbull’s Anti-Terror Tool Kit
It has been a week of bollards. And defence barriers. And hedges and vegetation. No, not the radio garden hour, or the herbaceous borders special featured on prime time television,…
Fanciful Terrors: Bomb Plots And Australian Airport Security
In the classroom of international security, Australia remains an infant wanting attention before the older hands. During the Paris Peace talks, Prime Minister William Morris (“Billy”) Hughes screamed and hollered…
Having A Flutter: The Melbourne Cup And The Australian Gambler
“In terms of prize money, the Melbourne Cup is worth more than the Grand National or any race in America, and it is far more popular in terms of national…
What It’s Like To Be A Muslim Australian
A recent Essential Research poll had found 49 per cent of Australians support a ban on Muslim immigration, including 60 per cent of Liberal-National Coalition voters, 40 per cent of Labor…
Bungling The Australian Census
Each country needs its exceptionalist message, its sui generis theme. We do something here no one else does, and such like. In Australia, there are many things deemed exceptional. Compulsory…
Refugee Trauma On Nauru: The Leaked Incident Reports
“Do I have to kill myself to go to Australia?” Asylum seeker, Nauru, March 2, 2015 Human sensibility has been given another sound beating with the leak of 2,116 incident…
Rubbishing Pauline Hanson: The Campaign Continues
A virus of populism, as it has come to be called, has rattled established classes across the countries of Europe, the United States, and, to a lesser extent, Australia. The…
The Scourge Of Youth Detention: The Northern Territory, Torture, And Australia’s Detention Disease
“What we’re changing is a culture in an organisation within the youth detention system and I think we’ve come a long way in that time.” Adam Giles, NT Chief Minister,…
Resurgent Pauline Hanson, Australian Islamophobia And Terror Hysteria
What can decent people do? Decent people must (a) inform everyone they can, (b) urge and apply zero tolerance for racism and lying, and (c) urge and apply Boycotts, Divestment…
Australia’s Malcolm Turnbull: The Failure Of Success
The term “mandate” has been sluicing through the Australian electoral system in its predictable wash-up. In that particular country, it never matters whether one wins by one vote or a…
Neoliberal Australia Re-elects War Criminal, Climate Criminal, Pro-Apartheid, Child-abusing Coalition Government
In July 2016 a substantially ignorant, greedy, racist, pro-Zionist, US lackey, extreme right-wing and neoliberal Murdochracy Australia re-elected (albeit by a wafer-thin margin) a mendacious, corrupt, anti-equity, anti-science, anti-environment,…
Banning And Banishing: The Nonsense About Muslims
He was the kingpin of the whole affair by suggesting it. In December 2015, the US Republican presumptive nominee for President, Donald Trump, came up with that daft suggestion which…
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