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Alison Broinowski

Alison Broinowski

Brisbane Times

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Who feels unsafe and why?

Who feels unsafe and why?
24.01.2025 6

Pearls and Irritations

Alison Broinowski

Netanyahu intends to attack Gaza as soon as hostages are released

Netanyahu intends to attack Gaza as soon as hostages are released
20.01.2025 8

Pearls and Irritations

Alison Broinowski

The US war on terror strikes home

15.01.2025 6

Pearls and Irritations

Alison Broinowski

Are we the terrorists?

It’s ten years since the Lindt Café siege by a member of Islamic State who, despite multiple warnings, was not of concern to ASIO or the police....

16.12.2024 4

Pearls and Irritations

Alison Broinowski

If you want peace, don’t prepare for war

In a series of baby but not blindfolded steps, our Government is making Australia ready for war. The latest of these appeared in the small print of...

04.12.2024 4

Pearls and Irritations

Alison Broinowski

The Forever War won’t end until we face the State terrorists

At the Imperial War Museum in London, there’s a moving display about Nazis and the Holocaust, the ‘ultimate human evil’. Seeing it in May this...

04.11.2024 1

Pearls and Irritations

Alison Broinowski

Ending Apartheid: Think local, act global

Boycotts, divestments and sanctions are back. Students are urging universities to reveal their investments and connections with Israel, and to end...

28.10.2024 1

Pearls and Irritations

Alison Broinowski

Make aid reach Gaza, but not until children starve to death for another 30 days, says US

For years, the Israeli authorities have restricted food, fuel and essential supplies to the Palestinians in Gaza, turning the deliveries on and off...

18.10.2024 1

Pearls and Irritations

Alison Broinowski

Julian Assange gets a positive hearing at last

Appearing in public for the first time since he returned in June to Australia from Britain’s Belmarsh Prison, Julian Assange will give his first...

26.09.2024 1

Pearls and Irritations

Alison Broinowski

Why we’re still at war with terror

The talented comic song-writer Tom Lehrer, from a family of secular Jewish New Yorkers, complained during the Vietnam war that nothing was funny...

12.09.2024 1

Pearls and Irritations

Alison Broinowski

What will our US alliance get us into from November?

A Trump administration, and even a Harris one, will pose new challenges for Australia: sycophancy or independence? Non-alignment or more complicity...

19.08.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Alison Broinowski

Australia’s to-do list: stop supporting war, avoid becoming US satrap

Gathering in New York in September 2024, the world’s nations will be challenged to ‘end the scourge of war’, before it’s too late. All of them...

12.08.2024 1

Pearls and Irritations

Alison Broinowski