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Australia is currently not practising what it preaches regarding international law, nor is it doing what it could to ensure that international systems remain intact.  The sight of more than 40 IDF soldiers competing in the Sydney Marathon was a reminder of the acquiescence in Canberra. In this and many other ways, the veil of…

Australians are walking a tightrope. Imagine a long line of us traversing a chasm. Some of us – not many – have a safety harness that means the risk inherent in falling becomes minor. The rest of us are walking, whether we know it or not, with the risk of plummeting to the rocky terrain…

The iconic Sydney Marathon hosted more than 40 current and former IDF personnel on the weekend. In the same week, Israeli diplomats and military officers callously dismissed the murder of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom.  One year since 300,000 furious, heartbroken Australians marched across the Harbour Bridge to protest genocide, sending the political class a…

It didn’t take the titanic corruption and clown-car incompetence around Trump to tell young people that death-throes capitalism is a disaster, but it sure didn’t hurt.  Trickle-down economics, where tax cuts for the rich supposedly make all of us better off, has shoved light-years between the mega-rich and the rest of us; that’s precisely why…

The NSW Minns government has introduced legislation (more of it) expanding police powers, this time to extract data from mobile phones without a warrant using military-grade Universal Forensic Extraction Devices (UFED) developed by Israeli firm Cellebrite. In isolation, the legislation is alarming enough, but when viewed through the wider lens it fits a rapid clampdown…

This week, the Albanese government, in goose-stepping sync with the Liberals and One Nation, will push into law the “ASIO number 2” bill. This gives our secret police increased powers to pull ordinary Australians off the streets, question and detain us secretly without reasonable cause, and deny us the right to speak about this state-sanctioned…

Those of you not into torturous, pantomime-level political inquisitions may not have been following recent events at the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption, or as it’s more onomatopoeically known, ICAC. If you had, you might have heard that Sussan Ley, while leader of the Opposition on $442,643 a year of your money, drove from Canberra…

Of late, the ABC has been altering the way it sees the world around it. Bound by a national charter, but modified from within after years of ideological, technical, and operational transfer, the organisation is failing in its duty to inform Australians. This is occurring at a time of great uncertainty, when it is needed…

Fresh after the Labor National Conference, Federal Labor Senator Raff Ciccone takes a smiling picture in Washington, proud to announce his delegation participating in the 2026 Australian American Leadership Dialogue (AALD) in Trump’s America. Ciccone joins the defence junta of the bipartisan political class—a cohort of militaristic-minded MPs that function as the steam that moves…

For 64 years – an insignificant speck of time under a sky this large – from a stolen, sacred site of the Arrernte people called Kuyunba, the American military base Pine Gap gathers data that is used to subjugate millions of innocent, ordinary people across this world. Kuyunba still holds ancient rock art and even…