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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…

Two years into the US-Israeli genocide of Palestine, which includes invasions into Lebanon and Syria, the bombing of Yemen, and most recently Iran, it’s difficult to summon any kind of language to describe the age of barbarity and horror we’ve entered. I just watched another video of a screaming Palestinian man holding a headless baby.…

“They’ll say we’re disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war” – Howard Zinn Spell it out. It’s absurd. There’s this freaky little Nazified genocidal colony swallowing Palestine, 82% of Israeli residents are in favour of ethnically cleansing Gaza, 47% of them want to…

Are there any Federal departments in the US that don’t have their own militia that can be set upon its unwitting population at will? The US Postal Service, NASA, the Fish and Wildlife Service, even Amtrak has its own police force – just four of the 73 separate law enforcement agencies whose members routinely wander…

AUKUS is falling apart, just as the world slips further into chaos under Trump’s America.  Weeks after being told to lift our defence budget into another arbitrary measure of GDP by morning-drinking US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Richard Marles was fumbling through his words in the usual manner, trying to defend AUKUS now the Trump…

“It’s not so much staying alive, it’s staying human that’s important. What counts is that we don’t betray each other” – George Orwell It is not difficult to understand the darkness swallowing Gaza.  Like comfortable, educated, middle class Germans living in leafy Berlin suburbs with train stations that daily sent thousands of Jews to death…

Saturday’s Labor victory was its biggest win since the Chifley era, with a lower primary vote (34.7%) than Bill Shorten (34.73%) in his 2016 loss to Malcolm Turnbull. It was a historical victory, with 8-15 seats gained for the ALP, while the Coalition is looking to have lost at least 19, including the Opposition Leader…