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It started off well enough, as all well-intentioned stories do. The Bendigo Writers’ Festival’s marketing for their August event had gushingly told potential attendees all throughout 2025 that this year would be a festival for ‘readers, writers and creative thinkers’ (except for people thinking creatively about genocide, however we digress) and more importantly that, “this…

Following the lead of ousted Senator Fatima Payman, Prime Minister Albanese this week reversed his long-held position of ignoring the ALP’s platform, announcing Australia will recognise the statehood of Palestine at the UN in September.  The remnants of the glacial, melting western liberal order, Macron in France, Carney in Canada, and Starmer in the UK,…

If you ask those who take part in debate content, it’s just the modern version of important discourse to find solutions to the world’s problems. If you ask those who make the content, it’s easy viral content. If you ask those who watch it, it’s just WWE style entertainment. All those people are partially right,…

Like a toddler running from her own soiled nappy, petulant despite the stench, Penny Wong, Foreign Minister, this week unloaded on the ever-soggy halls of Australia’s Parliament, saying: “We are not supplying weapons or ammunition to Israel.”  “As part of the global F-35 supply chain, we are supplying components and parts that are non-lethal in…

Please, if you would, sit down, pop the kettle on, and allow me to explain in totally non-genocidal terms why baby formula is banned from entering Gaza.  Without spittle frothing, without kicking a puppy in the face, I promise this makes as much sense as liberating the women of Iran by bombing them, and “stabilising”…

In six days, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visited three Chinese cities, including a symbolic stop at the Great Wall, where he made key announcements affirming the vital Sino-Australian relationship. As the Trump administration sidelines Australia and global dynamics shift dramatically, the trip carried undeniable strategic weight. Yet, the Australian press corps largely overlooked this pivotal…

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen when Australia’s Antisemitism Special Envoy released her Special Report. Well not quite a cold day in April, but I’m sure you get the gist. It’s no coincidence the words of George Orwell’s famous novel on censorship and authoritarianism have been quoted…

In June of last year I received a distressed call from a friend. A man she barely knew had sent her several vicious text messages completely out of the blue. My friend only knew the man in a professional capacity, having hosted a few online meetings of a group he’d been part of. Apart from…

In her opinion piece for the ABC titled ‘Melbourne Synagogue Fire Shows Australia’s Multicultural Project Needs Urgent Help,’ Patricia Karvelas wrote on the aftermath of two separate events: a protest at an Israeli-operated restaurant with links to the notorious Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF), and an arson incident at an East Melbourne synagogue. After appearing only…

“Children have been shot in other conflicts I have covered. But never before have I watched as soldiers enticed children like mice, into a trap, and murdered them for sport” – Chris Hedges, Gaza, 2001 *** Mainstream Australia, Murdoch’s bile bubble notwithstanding, still harbours a certain amount of affection for the ABC. Maybe it’s a…