Major international media outlets face a dilemma over whether to adapt newsroom practices to the World Court’s judgment last month on Israel’s illegal occupation. Major international media outlets face a dilemma over whether to adapt reporting to the World Court’s judgment last month that Israel is an apartheid state illegally occupying Palestinian territory or continue to Continue reading »
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Iran made two attempts to free its oil fields from Western domination. Since the Islamic revolution of Ayatollah Komeini in 1979, Iran has kept Western companies out. They paid a huge price, a trade embargo lasting some 40 years. Is a new attack on Iran in the offing [read more] Continue reading »
Karen Iles, lawyer and founder of the Make Police Investigate Campaign, has called for extensive reform to justice and policing systems across Australia in evidence provided to the Federal Inquiry into Missing and Murdered First Nations Women and Children. Ms Iles said that while the increased national focus on the death of women at the Continue reading »
Australia has a long and proud history of assisting people fleeing war and conflict. The degree and type of assistance we have provided has varied considerably but we have never applied a blanket ban on helping people fleeing war and conflict. Not until Peter Dutton. While the precise details of his policy position are sparse Continue reading »
Over ten years ago, I wrote an article for the Guardian that argued it was time to slay a sacred cow: that the internet is a force for good. Many advised me against writing it, saying it would be read as the views of a laggard, but it became one of the most-read articles published Continue reading »
Fear of China is often used to explain NATO’s desire to expand into Asia. The headline reason masks a longing to restore a romanticised empire. Continue reading »
Long may P & I continue to add its perceptive voice to our national debate. For years now, Kristin and I have been the grateful recipients of John and Susie Menadue’s daily online bulletin of informed and expert opinion, Pearls and Irritations. In a media dominated increasingly by one strident ideological viewpoint, that of neo-liberalism, Continue reading »
Many are disillusioned by the uncaring policies and actions of the two old parties, Labor and the LNP, to the real needs of the Australian public today. Greens believe everyone should be given ‘a fair go’, not just fussing over a pandered elite and multinational corporation lobbies. Read exclusive AMUST interview with Max Chandler-Mather opening Continue reading »
Resolution of the tension between President Biden’s policy of strengthening America’s position through allies and partners, and the US Navy’s (USN) mission requirements, will come to a head in the next president’s term. The AUKUS nuclear-powered submarines will be at the centre. Biden has stressed American leadership in mobilising allies and partners to address global Continue reading »
Former Australian Prime Minister (yep, really), Scott Morrison, has left court after testifying in the Linda Reynolds defamation case, telling friends that he’s relieved to get out of there with his pants not on fire. ”Never good to be in... Read More ›