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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…

We cross this week to the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion and other assorted grievances, but before we do, it’s important to note this is an inquiry the Albanese government were systematically bullied into in a coordinated campaign by the Israel lobby after the horrific Bondi massacres in late 2025. The Albanese government…

Distinguished academic and prominent global figure Iranian Professor Saied Mohamed Marandi appeared on ABC’s 7.30, where Sarah Ferguson — the national broadcaster’s most distinguished flagship interviewer — prepared to ask the tough questions she reserves for certain guests. The interview was an outright failure, and an example of the unique way Australian journalism interacts with…

Some (many) weeks in Australian politics are so repulsively stupid that resisting the urge to mentally check out before Monday lunchtime is a struggle of biblical proportions. From the moment the group chat shared the news this week’s Discourse™ would centre how “shaggable” the Prime Minister finds Kylie Minogue, his suspiciously electorally friendly aphrodisiacs (local…

Block three of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion is wrapping up this week, zeroing in on online hate, social media platforms, and traditional media. The sessions have pivoted hard towards digital abuse, deepfakes, and supposed platform failures — as if the real emergency is not the continuing rivers of blood in Gaza,…

Where are the tornado warning sirens? The USA is rocketing towards becoming the authoritarian hellscape from which it has spent almost a century pretending to be the refuge. Citizens are being shot in the street. People in a book club are being sentenced to decades in prison for wrongthink. Trump is trying to push through…

Karl Stefanovic has been dumped by Channel 9 for platforming far-right figure Tommy Robinson on his podcast. The timing feels convenient. The longtime morning TV host now conjures darker forces on his independent right-wing show — and appears ready to harness the ‘cancellation’ backlash to fuel his next chapter. In the aftermath of the announcement,…

Pauline Hanson is a Sunny Boy.​​ A bright orange triangle of highly flavoured ice that delights immature palates. She is a nostalgic block that tempts people to long for their simple memories of warm (and White) Australian summers past. Those old enough to remember the iconic Sunny Boy, however, will know that once we’d sucked…

It is difficult to credibly argue that genocide was not committed on Australian shores without sounding like a deranged, budgie-smuggling, onion-eating, supremacist weirdo.  While the bulk of Australian history written across the last 250 years speaks of “discovery”, “settlement” and more recently “frontier wars”, the lived reality on this continent paints an unmistakable, unbroken picture…