An article published in the Medical Journal of Australia earlier this year points to increased private equity (PE) activity in Australian healthcare, conservatively estimating A$4.5 billion in acquisitions across general practice and selected specialties in 2022 alone. The paper refrains from extensive commentary on the drivers and implications of this trend. However, it points to Continue reading »
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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 »
In one seventeenth-century panoramic drawing of London, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre is mistakenly labeled “Beere-bayting.” The mistake is understandable—the arena in which live animals were tormented was cheek-by-jowl with the one in which epic history plays were staged. A few centuries from now, those looking back on the TV debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris […]
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Peter Dutton’s shadow minister for home and foreign affairs, Barnaby Joyce, has told colleagues that he is puzzled by Presidential candidate, Donald Trump, being upset by people eating pussy. ”I understand that for men of a certain generation there is... Read More ›
Even before making his endorsement, Kennedy was surrounded by far-right supporters of Donald Trump.
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Residents of Springfield, Ohio, worry that politicians are inciting violence against Haitian immigrants. It’s a long U.S. tradition.
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In a recent significant article in the US journal, Foreign Policy, David E Rosenberg, the economics editor of Haaretz, clarifies how a minority of religious extremists have come to wield so much power in Israel today. It is a chilling, informative read. Rosenberg adeptly summarises how Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has sold his soul (if Continue reading »
The response to a piece I wrote for the SMH/Age recently has been very interesting in a number of ways. It has also been very revealing. I have been called a “dog”, been accused of rewriting history and of “letting the side down”. Every one of the responses had ignored the basic premise of my Continue reading »
The talented comic song-writer Tom Lehrer, from a family of secular Jewish New Yorkers, complained during the Vietnam war that nothing was funny any more. He would agree now about the war in Gaza. Continue reading »