Cameron Stewart recently attempted to vaunt the virtues, so to speak, of the AUKUS nuclear submarines via an article in The Australian newspaper. In part, it’s threaded together with tufts of intellectual fluff from Kim Beazley, his one-time offsider, Paul Dibb, Peter Dean from the United States Study Centre in Sydney, Mike Pezzullo formerly of Continue reading »
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Why didn’t the Sydney Morning Herald mention the Pope’s visit to the region? Continue reading »
At a lavish ceremony at the Highline Venue in Bankstown, NSW on Sunday, 15 September, the independent Australian Muslim Times newspaper celebrated its 10th anniversary. The celebration’s key theme concerned the invaluable role of independent media in addressing question about justice, whether in domestic policies or concerning international relations. The evening’s keynote speaker, Senator Fatima Continue reading »
A series of columnists have resigned from the paper over fabrications in articles by former IDF soldier Elon Perry. Now victims of the publication's false claims are speaking up
Labour says press regulation must be effective and independent. As never before, the press industry’s tame complaints body stands exposed as neither. For all our sakes, the government must call time, argues Brian Cathcart.
“News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.” Byline Times exposes a practice used by Rupert Murdoch's daily tabloid to suppress negative celebrity stories
The Director of the Climate Media Coalition explained the role of media moguls in demanding a crack down on climate protestors
In Asia media this week: Myanmar recalls retired veterans. Plus: Race starts for Japan’s new PM; US Gaza stance an obstacle for AUKUS; Kolkata protests over gruesome rape-murder; China-Africa summit strengthens South-South ties; Pope’s Indonesia visit contradicts ‘clash of civilisations’. Myanmar’s military junta is becoming more desperate and more brutal as it battles to retake Continue reading »
Mick Hall analyses an Australian Broadcasting Corporation story — 11 months into a genocide — on the Israeli military’s use of the Hannibal Directive to kill its own citizens. Special to Consortium News At the weekend Australia’s national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, featured a story reporting the Israeli Defence Forces had indeed carried out Continue reading »
Israel was created as a rampart of “Western civilisation” in the barbarous east, but now the rampart is at risk of being overwhelmed. A wave of censorship in the “Western” world might be said to be turning “liberal democracies” into authoritarian states except they never were liberal. The red lines were always there in what Continue reading »