Secrecy thy name is AUKUS: How Labor’s closed-door committee further entrenches excessive secrecy
A committee tasked with reviewing AUKUS should have been a good thing.… Go to Article

More than 1,160 people have been killed by extreme weather events across Asia.

Authorities in Indonesia are scrambling to help residents of Sumatra, after flooding killed nearly 600 people.… Go to Article

Goodbye Julia follows the story of Mona, a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage, who is wracked by guilt after covering up a murder.… Go to Article

Former Israeli Security Minister Avi Dichter expressed this agenda explicitly when he stated: “We had to weaken Sudan and deprive it of the initiative to build a strong and united state.… Go to Article

Neither brutal assaults, nor cruel mistreatment, nor torture have ever led me to beg for mercy, for I prefer to die with my head held high, unshakable faith, and the greatest confidence in the destiny of my country rather than live in slavery and contempt for sacred principles.… Go to Article

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This article misses the point. China is not the problem it is capitalism that is the problem.

China is making trade impossible

On a recent trip to mainland China, I found myself posing the same question, again and again, to the economists, technologists and business leaders who I met with. … Go to Article

The struggle for fairness and safety at work has shaped Australia’s industrial history for more than a century. This collection explores pivotal moments in that story – the West Gate Bridge disaster, which transformed workplace health and safety laws, and the eight-hour day campaign, which redefined the balance between labour and life. … Go to Article

Jimmy Cliff 1944-2025.

“He causeth the grass for the cattle and the Herb for the service of man”
─ Psalms 104:14

‘… the oppressor is trying to keep me down, making me feel like a clown‘ – Jimmy Cliff in ‘The harder they come‘.… Go to Article

The statue of Queen Victoria has stood in this place for over a century, now shrouded in scaffolding net. She holds a globe and an angel but is blinded by the sultry Queensland sun.… Go to Article

More interesting than the Michael West report that lawyers are unregulated was the substantive article by Michael West media that a Canberra public servant had tweeted thousands of times that China is committing genocide on the Uyghurs.… Go to Article

The activists were charged with serious offences.… Go to Article

CPSU/MEAA – ABC

 EBA negotiations at the ABC.

The ABC is putting its proposed agreement out to vote with the ballot opening last Friday (14/11).… Go to Article

“Ce souffle venu des ancêtres” [This breath came from ancestors] — Jean-Marie Tjibaou

Yesterday, as part of the Big Ride for Palestine Australia, a small group walked and rode through the bayside suburbs of Ormiston and Wellington Point.… Go to Article

On 8 October 2023, Adrian Schrinner ordered the Story Bridge bridge to be awash with the Israeli colours.

When the Lord Mayor of Brisbane lit up council assets in the colours of Israel, he created a narrative based on time and place.… Go to Article

Time that is intolerant / Of the brave and innocent, / And indifferent in a week / To a beautiful physique, / Worships language and forgives / Everyone by whom it lives; / Pardons cowardice, conceit, / Lays its honours at their feet.… Go to Article

Juliette Lamont and Hamish Patterson were on the Wahu, which was part of the sumud flotilla, taking baby formula and survival medicines to Gaza.… Go to Article

I met Islam on October 10, 2025. Two years after the genocide started, 77 years after the first Nakba. In many ways he is an exceptional character.… Go to Article

In 1975, President Gerald Ford and Kissinger approved Indonesia’s invasion of East Timor, leading to a disastrous 24-year occupation by a U.S.-backed… Go to Article

“Seriously, how many children, along with their parents and grandparents, we must witness being starved, burned alive, or gathered into plastic bags after Western‑manufactured bombs have shattered them?”… Go to Article

In our local suburb of Brisbane, there is a weapons factory making F-35 parts to be used against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.… Go to Article

Last night at a Foco Nuevo concert, I spoke with my friend, Camillo, a Chilean exile from the 1973 military coup. … Go to Article

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YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations

The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.… Go to Article

Speaking equipment operated by Solidarity Resources Inc has played a crucial role in building a campaign of nearly 100 events over the past two years.… Go to Article