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Trump seeks a currency commitment from BRICS or 100 percent tariffs will apply. The man feeding up to 3,000 Gazans daily has been targeted and...
The wave of enemy destabilisation ploys jumped from Lebanon to Syria this week, with a swarm of foreign-backed extremists breaking into Aleppo....
Terminology, take care. Take care Pearls & Irritations that you don’t fall into the trap – fall into the trap that is being carefully set. What is...
Not since Alaska has the US won a nation so cheaply. A friend joked to me recently that the best news Labor has had this week was being told that I...
Refugee and refugee support groups Australia-wide are deeply concerned about the extremely damaging implications of Australia’s new migration...
The world and its people are facing serious local and global challenges. Climate change, economic instability, limits to free speech, threats to...
In electorates with high numbers of Chinese and Muslim voters, it is time for a reckoning with Labor’s AUKUS policy. A 2024 poll sheds light on...
There is a chasm in outlook between the global climate policy-making elite with their focus on distant goals, market solutions and non-disruptive...
If the world were watching the livestreamed systematic annihilation of Jews in real time, there would be no debating whether that constituted...
Some stand to benefit from the deluge of fake news from the war, while others could pay dearly. On Nov. 21, Maria Zakharova, spokesperson of the...
US President-elect Donald Trump’s protectionist trade policies — marked by high tariffs — have been a major economic setback for the United...
Unfortunately the Australian Friends of Palestine Association’s campaign to ensure that an Israeli team is not registered for any events in the...
Australians have become locked in to US military planning, entrenching our status as a US staging post. In this more dangerous world is a...
A year ago, Mussa Hijazi, a stone-throwing young teenager of the first Intifada who became a long-serving Canberra lawyer, laid out three options...
“Our [Western] media’s role is not to be a check on power, it’s to regurgitate their lies.” This system of reporting is “mood music to get...
While lifting the rate of productivity growth is the obvious solution to the cost of living crisis, judging by the experience of most developed...
My friends will have to excuse me for not being sufficiently riled up about the second coming of Trump. To me, he’s a phase in America’s...
Every year or so Australia gets a bulky new book about an Australian war, military action, hero or some other military matter written by what is...
Palestinians are being intentionally massacred, starved, and stripped of everything needed to sustain human life. There are no words that can...
Draconian laws don’t discourage climate protesters. Hydrogen’s rainbow of colours. CCS continues to underperform. Clean energy investments...
The leading expert on Russia says Trump’s bold claim to end the Russia-Ukraine war within 24 hours is highly unlikely to materialise, and only a...
On November 27, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced that he is seeking an arrest warrant against Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, the...
The ACT Supreme Court was the scene of two uniquely powerful demonstrations of advocacy on the one evening last week. Justice Chrissa...
Like all policy instruments, the Future Fund was created to manage the challenges the country was facing at the time. The government has every...
The US submarine base was always going to come first, not for the sake of supplying useless boats for Australia’s phantom defence needs, but for...
From the Committee to Protect Journalists: “The Israel-Gaza war has taken an unprecedented toll on Gazan journalists since Israel declared...
Third party intervention led by the US and France has achieved a ceasefire in Lebanon. The US now needs to push for a settlement in Gaza where the...