Misunderstanding China has a long and distinguished history. Much of that misunderstanding has been generated by western media going right back to the Qing dynasty. The Australian ‘Times’ correspondent of the era George Ernest Morrison was unable to speak Chinese and so depended on Sir Edmund Backhouse as a source of primary information. Sir Edmund Continue reading »
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In 1795, in his Treatise on Perpetual Peace, philosopher Immanuel Kant advocated rationality about peace by repudiating any plans for military domination, by respect for non-violence and by aiming to abolish standing armies. In 2023, Australia signed up to an AUKUS alliance with the UK and US to acquire nuclear submarines in preparation for a Continue reading »
A battle of ideas is being fought in Australia. And the front line is the drive to war and the demonisation of China. There is a battle but it is a one-sided affair. Ranged against those who seek a sane and rational world are powerful voices. The government, of whatever persuasion pays think tanks handsomely Continue reading »
The Dark Lord Peter Dutton’s Coalition has today launched their plan to keep the Australian budget in the black, by suing their way to prosperity. ”Australians don’t need to be afraid of any Government that I lead,” said the Dark... Read More ›
Trump’s body man Walt Nauta is just the latest in a long line of lackeys.
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Admitting guilt for war crimes doesn’t come easily to many nations, as Australia knows from our extended investigations of the activities of some ADF soldiers in Afghanistan more than a decade ago. On 30 May, former Foreign Minister Gareth Evans challenged the United States to admit that that actions of its armed forces 75 years Continue reading »
It is 41 years since Lindy Chamberlain was convicted for a non-existent crime, spent nearly five years in prison, and had her family life destroyed. In 2003, Kathleen Folbigg was convicted for the manslaughter of the first of her four young children, Caleb, for the grievous bodily harm of the second, Patrick, and for the Continue reading »
Doing the rounds on YouTube is the case of a black American Tyshon Booker arrested when he was 16 for being present (with a gun) at a murder which he did not commit (the murderer confessed). He was given a 51 year minimum sentence. This case is, of course, is only the disgraceful tip of Continue reading »
The story behind Jenny Hocking’s epic battle against the Australian Government and HM Queen Elizabeth to access the Palace Letters is being told through a new documentary film. Based on the best-selling book “The Palace Letters” by Jenny Hocking, Scribe 2020. The Search for the Palace Letters follows historian Professor Jenny Hocking as she fights Continue reading »
Senator Linda Reynolds is suggesting that she might seek to take her complaints of ill-treatment during the controversy of the Bruce Lehrman rape allegation to the new National Anti-Corruption Commission. That would include, we gather, allegations that Senator Katy Gallagher was briefed by the alleged victim and her boyfriend before the allegations had been made Continue reading »