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Canada and Australia’s federal elections

17.01.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

Greg Barns

Another victim of the United States’ obsessive anti-China strategy

Another victim of the United States’ obsessive anti-China strategy
16.01.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

Greg Barns

Dreyfus’ trip to Israel makes a mockery of Labor’s foreign policy

“The role of the attorney-general in Australia, even in these partisan times, is to uphold the rule of law,” as the former Chief Justice Sir...

08.01.2025 8

Pearls and Irritations

Greg Barns

Synagogue Attack: The unashamed trashing of the rule of law by news outlets

The attack last week on a Melbourne synagogue is undoubtedly a criminal offence. But according to the News Limited media outlets, many in the...

09.12.2024 20

Pearls and Irritations

Greg Barns

“Systemic criminality”: The reality of Israel’s destruction of Gaza

“Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and...

25.10.2024 1

Pearls and Irritations

Greg Barns

Equality under the law: the differing treatment of Hezbollah and Israel in Australia

Last week the federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton was asked by a journalist about the process for making Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based political...

08.10.2024 4

Pearls and Irritations

Greg Barns

Tasmanian Holocaust Centre must reflect the horror of genocide in Palestine

In the past 5 years both the Morrison and Albanese governments have provided funding to enable each state and territory to build, or expand on an...

01.10.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Greg Barns

UN Palestine vote: Australia shows it lacks a backbone

Why is it that successive Australian Governments cannot bring themselves to call out Israel for what it is? A state that constantly ignores...

19.09.2024 50

Pearls and Irritations

Greg Barns

Israel lobby’s attack on Kostakidis threatens everyone’s right to free speech

Mary Kostakidis is one of Australia’s finest journalists, but more than that, she also resolutely stands against oppression and injustice. I...

16.07.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Greg Barns