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John Mitchinson explores how the lessons of the Crimean War still resonate today

A declassified government report says documents about alleged atrocities have gone missing — and officials are flouting recordkeeping rules.

A conversation with Issue 53 cover artist John Hendrix.

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Israel’s allegations against the UNRWA aid organisation in Gaza have been rapidly exposed as lies.

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For almost four days in January protest action with workers refusing to cross the community picket succeeded in preventing work on the ZIM shipping-line at Webb Dock in Melbourne.

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More than 70 Victorian teachers and school staff attended a forum “Teachers for Palestine: why there’s no ‘neutrality’ on genocide” on 22 January, despite the Opposition Education spokesperson calling for the Education Department to discipline attendees.

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After more than four months of determined industrial action, wharfies at DP World port terminals have won a 25.6 per cent pay rise over four years, while accepting changes to rostering.

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The NSW Labor government is set to lock in more pollution through extending the life of Eraring, the country’s largest coal-fired power station.

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The long-awaited review of Australia’s offshore detention was finally made public on 12 February, confirming all the issues with corruption that have been known for years.

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Criminal charges are being considered against a police officer over the death of 16-year-old Jai Wright, after the NSW Coroner suspended the inquest after two days on 30 January.

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About 1.4 million people marched across Germany at the end of January against the far right AfD (Alternative for Germany) party.

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A new armed offensive poses a major challenge to Myanmar’s military dictatorship after years of resistance, writes Vivian Honan

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Hamas grew out of the legitimate Palestinian resistance to Israel’s violence, writes James Supple, but its focus on armed struggle has not delivered liberation

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Episode 12 – the finale for Season 1 in our new Manga series – The Smith Family and their Adventures with Money – is now available. We will let everyone calm down from the excitement for a little while to give us time to write and draw Season 2, which will begin on May 24,…

The book banning isn’t going well. Ron is now seeking some adjustments. Seems some members of his anti-woke mob are out of control. Here he is today: “With objecting – if you go to a school board meeting objecting. If you have a kid in school, okay. But if you’re somebody who doesn’t have a kid in school and you’re gonna object to 100 books? No, I don’t think that’s appropriate. So I think the legislature is interested in limiting what the number of challenges you can do, and maybe making it be contingent on whether you actually have kids in school or not. We just want to make sure we’re not trying to incentivize frivolous objections or any type of games being played.” Who could have ever predicted?

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They counted on MAGA to be stupid. Always a smart bet. This is an interesting tick-tock of the Border/Foreign Aid bill from the NY Times. (Gift link, here) It starts off recounting how the Republicans thought they could back the Dems into a corner by demanding a border component to Ukraine funding which they knew was vitally important to the White House. The Democrats decided that they would call their bluff and negotiate a border bill and one that would be seen as credible by serious border hawks. But they were not surprised when the Republicans balk: The possibility that Republicans would bolt from their own deal had occurred to Mr. Schumer from the start, given his previous experience. “We knew it way back then,” he said. But Mr. Schumer saw a political upside should that occur: Democrats would be able to say they tried and point to the Republican opposition for failing to halt a surge of migrants illegally crossing the U.S. border with Mexico. “It’s a win if Republicans abandon us at the last minute,” Mr.

A GROUP of Coffs Harbour Indigenous Elders have voiced concerns that Closing the Gap initiatives continue to fail to make a real impact in their communities. Closing the Gap is a national agreement intended to enable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and governments to work together to overcome inequality experienced by Indigenous Australians. Advertise...

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