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Alison Broinowski

Alison Broinowski

Brisbane Times

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Australia’s moment of choice: illegal war on show in 2003 Cabinet papers

What has changed since 2003? Nothing, except for the worse. Australian governments continue to accept the US enemies as their own, and shoot whoever...

19.03.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

Alison Broinowski

George Galloway’s time has come

George Galloway is a British MP again, and it’s the moment he’s been waiting for. His victory in a Rochdale by-election, he told Labour leader Sir...

07.03.2024 5

Pearls and Irritations

Alison Broinowski

Australia invites ASEAN for a reset as a big (China-shaped) question lurks

ASEAN is used to summit meetings. Its 10 members' presidents and prime ministers meet at least bi-annually. Ministers and officials gather more often....

01.03.2024 6

The Examiner

Alison Broinowski

Australia invites ASEAN for a reset as a big (China-shaped) question lurks

ASEAN is used to summit meetings. Its 10 members' presidents and prime ministers meet at least bi-annually. Ministers and officials gather more often....

01.03.2024 7

Canberra Times

Alison Broinowski

Fractured consensus, fabricated facts, and the truth of Western wars

Why, when the majority of civil society opposes Australia going to war against China, and public confidence in the United States’ will and capacity...

27.02.2024 5

Pearls and Irritations

Alison Broinowski

It will soon be too late for Gaza

Within two weeks the remaining people of Gaza, herded into Rafah, will all be dead, either from disease, starvation, or murder, an Australian medical...

18.02.2024 5

Pearls and Irritations

Alison Broinowski

Enough is enough for Gaza and Assange

The International Court of Justice has responded rather toothlessly to South Africa’s appeal to the Genocide Convention. In less than a month, a...

29.01.2024 7

Pearls and Irritations

Alison Broinowski

As Australia joins the US war on Yemen, Labor is a house divided

Not since the DLP split in 1955 has Labor been so divided on foreign and defence policy. And always for the same reason. Members are wide apart on...

25.01.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

Alison Broinowski

Eyeless in Gaza

Our foreign minister’s first and hardest overseas task in 2024 is likely to be her visit to Israel. Penny Wong and other foreigners, apart from aid...

10.01.2024 7

Pearls and Irritations

Alison Broinowski

The four reasons there were no 'lessons learnt' from Iraq about futile wars

The cabinet papers released by the National Archives always keep Australian media busy on New Year's Eve. Often, much of what's in the 20 year-old...

05.01.2024 7

Canberra Times

Alison Broinowski

Yemen is none of our business

US presidents are losing their authority as the world’s policemen. Russia fights to keep Ukraine out of NATO. Israel fights in Gaza to wipe out the...

20.12.2023 9

Pearls and Irritations

Alison Broinowski

NATO wants Asia

Not content with expanding its membership from the original 12 to 31 nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is making a grab for a presence...

15.12.2023 10

Pearls and Irritations

Alison Broinowski

When is genocide ever balanced?

‘Balance’ between supporters of Israel and of the Palestinians is what most police and State governments in Australia say they seek. So does the...

19.11.2023 8

Pearls and Irritations

Alison Broinowski

Have Australian troops secretly deployed to an illegal war?

Australians have been assured by the Albanese government of greater transparency and accountability on defence. So soon after the 2022-23...

05.11.2023 6

Pearls and Irritations

Alison Broinowski

The Australian Prime Minister’s talking points for Washington

Prime Minister: You may wish to draw on the following in your meetings with President Biden, Vice-President Harris, Secretary of State Blinken, and...

24.10.2023 6

Pearls and Irritations

Alison Broinowski

Collective punishment, selective truth, and slow genocide

Facts about the Israel/Palestine conflict have always been hard to come by. Some Israeli leaders are now telling more lies than many of their...

22.10.2023 10

Pearls and Irritations

Alison Broinowski

Australia: High five for government inquiries designed to avoid action

Chat GPT can’t tell me which nation now has the most government inquiries running. But it says that common law countries – the Five Eyes,...

29.09.2023 5

Pearls and Irritations

Alison Broinowski

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