Investigative reporting on secretive aspects of Australia's strategic relationship with the rest of the world. Founded & edited by
@PeterCronau
@AntLoewenstein
The Australian media too often report the nation as a compliant ally of the US, the UK, and the Western alliance, but ask few questions about why and what it really involves.
Declassified Australia challenges this narrative by publishing in-depth, unique, and ...
Declassified Australia proudly publishes John Pilger's final essay.
He investigates why there is in the media ‘a silence filled by a consensus of propaganda’, as the world's two greatest powers draw closer to conflict.
‘THERE IS A WAR COMING, SHROUDED IN PROPAGANDA’
DECLASSIFIED AUSTRALIA:
A MASSIVE ANTI-RUSSIAN ‘BOT ARMY’ EXPOSED
An Australian university has unearthed millions of Tweets by fake ‘bot’ accounts pushing disinformation on the Ukraine war.
They can’t say they didn’t know…
“Declassified Australia has recently uncovered two direct ways that highlight Australia’s complicity in the Gaza conflict.
“Kellie Tranter found that the device that opens the bomb doors on Israeli F-35 fighters being used on Gaza are produced
DECLASSIFIED AUSTRALIA EXCLUSIVE:
A 14-month investigation by
@EveCogan
+
@sstephanietrann
has found a massive scandal that barely any other media has touched; 100s of millions of $ flowing into
#Australian
universities from the Pentagon and arms companies since 2007:
Shortly after our exclusive Pine Gap was published last night (), an ex-Australian intelligence official messaged:
"[Australian Foreign Minister] Penny Wong and DFAT’s role is to pretend the Defence Department isn’t part of Australia at all. They’re issuing
A stunning look inside the “quiet diplomacy” by the new Labor government on Julian
#Assange
.
The game-planning envisages Australia quietly negotiating with the US, after Assange has been extradited from the UK, and tried & jailed in the US.
Mainstream Western media tells us the Russians have been lying when they say the Ukraine military has been using schools, hospitals & public buildings as cover for its military. But the ABC has unwittingly just confirmed it.
ABC visits a school in
#Ukraine
that has just been turned into a military target.
“This school has been made into a massive military warehouse,” says ABC reporter.
Ukraine military has allegedly been using schools, hospitals & public buildings.
@ABCnews
A clear sign that the Australian government doesn't lead on important issues, like
#Gaza
, but waits to see if it can meekly follow other country's positions:
A clear and present danger in Australia:
"A pro-Israel “surveillance network” that has offered bounties for information on pro-Palestinian protesters is establishing a foothold in Australia and claims to have secured meetings with key federal politicians, leaked messages show.
It’s inconceivable that any mainstream journalist in Australia would write this kind of diatribe against a Jewish leader.
This fits into a long history of Palestinians being smeared across the western world:
#ASPI
is a think-tank funded partly by arms companies.
They're not, as this ABC article claims, "civil researchers monitoring online disinformation."
The fact that Twitter/X no longer works with
#ASPI
is framed as a bad thing:
Exposed: THE SECRET U.S. MILITARY SPYING OPERATION HIDDEN FROM GOVERNMENT IN NEW ZEALAND
NZ’s Waihopai satellite base, like Australia’s Pine Gap, operated a secret program, geolocating targets for US military operations—but nobody told the NZ government.
EXCLUSIVE: INSIDE LABOR’S ASSANGE GAME PLAN
Documents obtained this week thru FOI from the Attorney-General’s Dept, indicate the new Labor Government does not rule out the physical extradition of Julian Assange from the UK for trial in the US.
AUSTRALIA CAPTURED - How the military-industrial complex has captured Australia’s top strategic advisory body. By Michelle Fahy, for Declassified Australia.
via
@DeclassifiedAUS
Latest exclusive report from DECLASSIFIED AUSTRALIA’s Kellie Tranter 👇👇
‘AUSTRALIA’S ROLE IN THE BOMBING OF GAZA’
Being part of the global supply network that supplies parts for the Israeli F-35 jet fighters used over Gaza, implicates Australia in their alleged war crimes.
The majority of Australians prefer a policy of neutrality and oppose joining US wars under the ANZUS alliance, polling shows.
MAJORITY OPPOSE U.S. WAR ON CHINA
The latest from ‘Declassified Australia’
EXCLUSIVE: Australia’s official neglect of jailed WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, is revealed in Federal Government files obtained under FOI legislation: Read it now in ‘SILENT COLLABORATOR’.
Latest by DECLASSIFIED AUSTRALIA
Behind the media's push for war with China is an unholy grouping of think-tanks, arms companies, journalists & politicians.
👉 The latest report from DECLASSIFIED AUSTRALIA:
#AUKUS
#ANZUS
#UKUSA
We're proud that this story was done as part of a Declassified Australia mentoring scheme with these journalism students at the University of Technology in Sydney.
A key aim of DA is to help the next generation of investigative journalists.
Our latest report is from Kristo Langker, part of the
@friendlyjordies
team, who details shocking info about war crimes in
#WestPapua
, backed by
#Australia
and a global arms maker.
An issue that's been ignored by many for far too long:
@suigenerisjen
The Assange case has taken another dark turn — as the UK government now admits:
“It would be very difficult to offer assurances to prevent the death penalty from being imposed.”
Kellie Tranter reports the impact of this new development in DECLASSIFIED AUSTRALIA.
A rarity on Australian television.
Declassified Australia’s co-creator was profiled by ABC TV to tell his story of the reality of what Israel is doing in Gaza — more and more people are speaking out on the crimes being done ‘in our name’.
You can read the article, watch the
THE TIME FOR LOUD DIPLOMACY: A COMMENTARY
Despite a year of grace given for ‘quiet diplomacy’ to work, the release of Julian Assange from incarceration looks as remote as ever—so, argues Kellie Tranter, it seems it’s time to get out a loudhailer once more.
It's been a long journey to make this story happen. Months of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests, chasing sources in Australia and the US and many interviews. It's the kind of deeply reported story that few other outlets can or will do.
Murdoch’s Australian newspaper wants you to feel sorry for the Israeli ambassador to Australia while his government continues its onslaught against Gaza.
#notnews
Declassified Australia’s investigations have informed the new legal case referred today to the International Criminal Court, taking Australian political leaders to account over Australia’s support of the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
The two stories are here-
👉
This one graph tells you why China is to be brought to heel by the US.
It explains why sanctions, trade war, blockade and conflict are coming China’s way.
It explains why Australia too is being thrown into the meat grinder, via
#aukus
.
All to destroy or control China’s economy.
The US military presence is about to massively grow in
#Australia
, endangering us all. Instead of offering critical thought,
@SenatorWong
@RichardMarlesMP
play along for the cameras, imagining we're equal. We're not; we're a sub-imperial partner
Almost nothing in this graphic by Declassified UK has been reported in the national media. 👇
Establishment journalists have never been interested in showing the nexus behind the persecution of a publisher - even when their own profession is under attack.
Our story, published with
@declassifiedUK
, has attracted global interest because there's growing public outrage that too many in the media and political classes are dragging us to war with
#China
:
We are glad to have helped inspire this entertaining informative video report on the secretive US surveillance & war fighting base at
#PineGap
in Central Australia 👇
🔥 Our exclusive report from November revealing the use of the Pine Gap base to assist the Israeli military’s
When Youtubers try to investigate the US surveillance base at Pine Gap — as our mainstream media should do — the results are spectacularly impressive.
“We are just a giant American military base floating in Asia.
“If the Americans decide they want to go to war with China,
72 hours after our world exclusive story on
#PineGap
(), there's been zero mentions of this shocking revelation in the Australian mainstream media.
The news has capitulated around the world, clocking up 100s of 1000s of views and being re-published in
👉NEW from Declassified Australia👇👇
THE PATHWAY TO FREEDOM FOR JULIAN ASSANGE
A mere stroke of the pen by US President Joe Biden can see the immediate release of Julian Assange.
The role of the US-Australian Pine Gap spy base — and the Australian staff supporting its operations — must come under increased scrutiny, given the ICJ’s call on Israel to halt the killing of Palestinians and to take steps to avert genocide in Gaza.
Australia has a legal
CIA staff at JDFPG
#PineGap
satellite intelligence base in Central Australia are likely to be part of a new
#CIA
Taskforce assembled to monitor & locate senior Hamas leadership.
👉 CIA staff work in Pine Gap’s ‘geopit’ to assemble geolocation intelligence
👉👉 Intelligence
Manufacturing consent for worsening tensions with
#China
and nuclear subs.
Uncritical interviews of military figures isn’t journalism btw.
Todays Sydney Morning Herald front page:
Just over 12 hours since our world exclusive story was published, on the US/Australia spy base Pine Gap being used to assist
#Israel
in its war against
#Gaza
,
#PineGap
and the story has gone global and viral:
The arrogance of power.
A new look at the truth of the
@PalaceLetters
brings a refreshingly clear view of how the Royals sank Australian democracy — and gloated about it.
Prince Charles sent a thank-you letter to John Kerr after Kerr sacked PM Whitlam:
“I appreciate what you do and admire the way you have performed. Please don’t lose heart. What you did last year was right and the courageous thing to do.”
@RoyalCentral
The daily drumbeat of war mongering around a potential war with
#China
continues. Even in this trailer, the lack of critical/skeptical voices is revealing. Arms dealers Lockheed Martin, Raytheon et al will be very pleased.
There are an unknown number of
#Australian
citizens fighting with the
#Israeli
army in
#Gaza
(because they also have
#Israeli
citizenship). This has been happening for years,
#Australians
in the IDF who operate in Gaza, the West Bank and beyond, supporting the longest occupation
Growing dissent within ALP ranks towards
#AUKUS
reflects necessary pressure on the government's leadership to question its wholesome embrace of the US agenda:
These activists know how
#PineGap
is being used by the US to pass along vital "intelligence" to
#Israel
in its war against
#Gaza
due to our recent world exclusive story on the subject:
Activists have this morning blocked a road to the joint military facility at Pine Gap near Alice Springs which they claim is providing Israel with intelligence used to target Palestinian civilians during its war
Defence Department won’t detail dozens of weapons export permits over the past two years to nations accused of mass human rights violations & war crimes.
This is to stop the public knowing as they may want to have a say —you know, like in a democracy.
It's been clear for years that some
#Australians
have been donating $ to illegal
#Israeli
settlements in the occupied West Bank with barely any
#Australian
government concern.
In the wake of 7 October, there's an even greater need to examine this growing trend (via
@jason_a_w
in
One in six Australian federal parliamentarians have accepted free overseas trips since the last election, with strategic flash-points Taiwan & Israel the most popular destinations.
JUNKETS & INFLUENCE tells who's travelling & who's paying.
Former
#Australian
Prime Minister Paul Keating writes today on the unhealthy obsession of many writers to salivate over the US alliance and ask very few questions about our own sovereignty
Author of "The Palestine Laboratory"
@antloewenstein
explains how Israel's arms industry is already profiting from its war on Gaza.
Israel is "live-testing new weapons in Gaza" and "showing it on social media" in what functions as advertising for its arms manufacturers, he says.
"That the waging of war is a source of profits can contradict the goal of having the US lead with diplomacy in seeking to resolve conflicts. Broadly, the outsized influence of defense contractors has resulted in a growing militarization of society."
EXCLUSIVE TO DECLASSIFIED AUSTRALIA — Michelle Fahy tears apart the government’s denial of Australia making “weapons” exports to Israel during the war on Gaza.
“Secrets of the Weapons Trade”
The Australian government is obscuring weapons exports to Israel despite International
Barely anyone in the
#Australian
media is investigating
#PineGap
, the secretive US military base in the centre of the country.
However, we have, including with this exclusive story by
@PeterCronau
in November about the base's role helping
#Israel
in its war against
#Gaza
:
The Australian government denies to the Australian public that Pine Gap is a 'military base', instead maintaining the US-drafted cover story that it is a 'facility'.
The lie is maintained by the US military having a 'no uniforms' policy for its hundreds of military officers
Today is the opening day in the trial of David McBride (
@MurdochCadell
).
Read his words in this interview today.
He helped expose Australian war crimes in Afghanistan and he’s the one on trial 🤬
This is today’s Murdoch Australian newspaper front page with many lawyers, including some in the Zionist lobby, claiming Israel is following international law in Gaza.
Ok then.
Now for some hard facts, via a stunning report in Israeli/palestinian outlet
@972mag
:
"When Ukrainians fight back against their occupying power & launch attacks outside of Ukraine, their bravery & ingenuity are openly celebrated in the west, and they are given massive amounts of military aid -- When Palestinians do exactly the same thing under exactly the same
The Middle East is on fire but Australian Foreign Minister
@SenatorWong
writes an op-ed that repeats the failed talking points given to her by the US State Department:
This week could not be more important for the fate of
#Wikileaks
founder Julian Assange, facing the UK High Court.
@KellieTranter
has uncovered more disturbing elements of this case including the risk of Assange being given the death penalty in the US:
Today’s Murdoch Australian front page.
These armchair warriors want Australia to be directly involved in a potential wider war in the Middle East.
Good to know these are their priorities 😡
If US conflict or blockade of China halts trade between Aust & China, Australia’s economy would sink.
Classified govt studies conclude “no other markets could replace China as a market for Australian commodity exports”.
Aust/China decoupling ‘impossible’
“Under the guise of protecting the national interest, Australia’s security establishment acts in secret to uphold the global US-led imperial order.”
SECRECY AND EMPIRE | Declassified Australia’s latest.
Arms trade secrecy says Defence Department has something to hide.
“Australia has one of the most secretive and unaccountable weapons export systems in the world.”
The Australian media rarely examines how the pro-
#Israel
lobby operates + who it influences and bullies.
A rare insight into the country's major
#Zionist
lobby group,
#AIJAC
, who speak for nobody but themselves (because they're a privately run group with no transparency over
The latest on the Assange case from
@DeclassifiedAus
. Article by
@KellieTranter
.
“Labor and Assange:
The Australian government is straining credibility in insisting the Assange case is not a political prosecution.”
Edited by investigative journalists Peter Cronau and Antony Loewenstein,
@DeclassifiedAUS
aims to provoke and inform. Tip-offs are welcome. We can be reached at DeclassifiedAUS
@protonmail
.com
OUR LATEST INVESTIGATION:
@KellieTranter
has been one of the most dogged reporters on the case of
#JulianAssange
for years and we're honoured to publish her latest investigation that makes for disturbing reading:
Now ‘live’, in the National Press Club —
#JenniferRobinson
, lawyer, speaking about the detention and extradition of
#JulianAssange
.
DECLASSIFIED AUSTRALIA is there - tune in now to hear our question - from our correspondent Kellie Tranter.
Without Australia's contribution to the F-35 global supply chain, the F-35 wouldn't get off the ground in the Middle East let alone be capable of bombing civilians in
#Gaza
.
#auspol
#CeasefireInGazaNOW
Former prime minister Paul Keating has accused ASIO boss Mike Burgess of “trying to undermine the Albanese government’s efforts to stabilise relations with China” — and is calling for his dismissal.
👉 “Burgess runs the primary goon show.”
👉👉 “These people display utter
Declassified Australia is proud to co-sponsor the forthcoming ‘Belmarsh Tribunal’ — to be held in Sydney this Saturday.
Come along or YouTube in, to hear testimony from prominent journalists & professionals.
Explaining why
#Assange
should be free & why
#FreePress
is endangered.👇
Coming up on
#CNLive
!
March 4, 7pm AEST - 8am GMT - 3am EST
THE SYDNEY BELMARSH TRIBUNAL
Where some of Australia's most prominent politicians, lawyers, journalists, victims & his journalist union will testify for
#Assange
& call for his release.
Watch👇
There's a long list of
#Australian
journalists and politicians taking free
#Zionist
lobby trips to
#Israel
, often not declaring them publicity, an issue that inevitably impacts how the Middle East is viewed and treated here:
There are serious allegations against IDF Major-General (Res) Doron Almog, currently in Australia, and yet it's barely mentioned in the media.
For The Australian Jewish News, he's a hero () but many
#Palestinians
would beg to differ. Eg:
Doron Almog is walking around freely in Australia. He has been too scared to visit the UK since his 2005 evasion of justice because he fears he will be forced to answer to the allegations against him. Why should he walk freely while his victims suffer?
@SenatorWong
@andrewjgiles
REVEALED: AUSTRALIA’S SECRET PROPAGANDA UNIT
Declassified files reveal Australia set up a secret propaganda unit to run influence operations in the Asia-Pacific, with the help of the UK.
#disinformation
#freepress
A real journalist questions any and all official statements so ABC reporter
@tomrjoyner
was simply doing his job.
This is what passes for news at Murdoch’s Australian newspaper on the front page:
An essential question:
Should Australia publicly call for and contribute to the immediate provision of humanitarian aid to the civilian population of Gaza?
Yet more evidence that
#AUKUS
is less about protecting
#Australia
and more focused on enriching the defence sector.
"Former ministers Joel Fitzgibbon and Arthur Sinodinos have embarked on an adventure together, co-chairing a business organisation aimed at taking advantage of the
There’s a strict media ban – “no media, no cameras, no mobile phone filming” – as Arthur Sinodinos and Joel Fitzgibbon hit the road for a series of events to “unleash” the power of AUKUS,
@antonknilsson
reports.
Australia too sells parts for the F-35s that Israel is using to bomb Gaza’s civilians.
“In all, more than 70 Australian companies have been awarded over $4.13 billion in global production and sustainment contracts through the F-35 program to date.”
The Foreign Office has been forced to admit in a court case that it has 28 licences for arms sales to Israel that it classifies as "high risk".
Why won't Rishi Sunak impose an arms embargo on Israel?
@pmillerinfo
investigates.
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Australian Tribunal refuses to allow the release of old intelligence documents on secret Australian intelligence operations in 1971-74 in Chile, at the behest of the CIA - as release would “cause damage to the security, defence or international relations”.
The Australian government continues to falsely suggest that the
#Assange
case is legal and not purely political. They know the truth but want to maintain the illusion of UK and US sovereignty (when
#Australian
sovereignty is being destroyed)
“We’re facing the prospect of ever tougher laws, police raids, arrests, and even jailings – and they’re not targeting war criminals, but the news journalists.”
WHO'S NEXT? The rising threat to media freedom
via
@DeclassifiedAUS
Declassified Australia’s latest article: ‘JUDGING GENOCIDE ‘
Australia’s reluctance from afar to recognise Israel’s genocide in Gaza, is being challenged by the genocide case against Israel in the World Court.
More confirmation that the
#Albanese
gov has no intention of seriously intervening in the
#Assange
case. If/when they do, will
#Assange
even be alive?
Our correspondent
@KellieTranter
discovered this fact via
#FOI
in 2022 (and it's confirmed again below):
A new
@dfat
#FOI
release on
#Assange
confirms the Australian Govt is waiting “until Mr Assange's legal processes have concluded." The reality is
@AlboMP
is waiting until Julian has been extradited, tried, sentenced and is rotting in a US super-maximum security prison. 1/2
#auspol
What will happen tomorrow with Julian Assange, explains
@BarnsGreg
👇
“The extradition request was made to prosecute or punish Assange for his political opinions, which is unlawful under the UK-US extradition treaty.”
👉 ‘Critical week: Torture, US jail, awaits Julian Assange
largely hidden stories that reveal the reality of Australia's relationships with both democracies and dictatorships.
From the arms trade to whistleblowers, defence policy to surveillance, espionage to free speech,
@DeclassifiedAUS
also examines relations with Israel, China...
An Australian Senator, Liberal MP David Van, travelled to
#Ukraine
last year courtesy of a drone company,
#DefendTex
, and then returned to
#Australia
and promoted its products without telling the Senate who'd paid for the jaunt
Australia is buying weapons that are not defensive & can only be intended for an attack on bases in China.
Why
@RichardMarlesMP
?
‘The AARGM-ER is a medium-range air-to-ground missile employed for the suppression or destruction of enemy air defense systems’
This is how the "mainstream media" frames war and peace. We're told that war is (almost?) inevitable with
#China
and yet dissenting voices are rarely heard. And yes, Washington is using a compliant
#Australia
to become a major target.
This isn't journalism.
SMH misses the tough questions.They’re the irresponsible headlines that will ensure we go to war. The question the media should be asking is what the public want to know: Why are we being the US lackey in a war we cant win?
#China
#Ukraine
Reminder to the
#Australian
government; nobody is fooled by constant remarks about "sovereignty" when we all understand that we're actively courting ever-increasing US military assets on our territory: