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Like Macklemore and Ed Sheeran, and Ed Sheeran’s band and Ed Sheeran, relations between Penny Wong and myself are “complicated”. As a responsible global citizen and advocate for international law, for three years I have dutifully sought to inform the Foreign Minister of the unfolding genocide in Palestine, a barbarity I have been reporting on…

Over 2 years ago, in July 2024, in the midst of Israel’s genocidal assault on a captive people, a self-described ‘proud Zionist’ launched legal proceedings against me in the Australian Human Rights Commission – a requirement under Australian law before filing in the Federal Court under Racial Discrimination legislation when AHRC mediation fails. The Applicant…

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…