Jordan chats with Pearls and Irritations editor John Menadue about his time working for Rupert Murdoch and Gough Whitlam... The topic of China might come up....

Australia should send the Israeli Ambassador home and recall our Ambassador from Israel and call again to implement an immediate ceasefire.

Why is Penny Wong vocal about Australian-Chinese journalist Cheng Lei, jailed in China, but silent on Julian Assange, jailed in the UK?

Over twenty ALP branches around Australia have now passed anti-AUKUS resolutions and the list is growing by the day.

Indigenous Australians share citizenship with all of us with distinctive rights. This and other realities support recognition and the Voice.

We've got to fight against our enslavement to the US and against the Pentagon puppets in our own government like our lives depend on it.

Since 1948 Israel has perpetrated crimes against humanity and created an open-air prison for Palestinians the Gaza strip.

AUKUS. The most disastrous defence-policy mistake in our history: In a class of its own as an exemplar of bureaucratic incompetence.

When politicians in Australia rushed to legislate in the wake of 9/11 and the commencement of the so-called ‘war on terror’, some of us warned that such legislation and the bureaucracy it created...

Read the transcript of John Menadue's comments on Murdoch, his earlier days, as an employer, his rise in media and his role in the dismissal

PM Albanese and other senior officials referred to the International Criminal Court for their failure to prevent genocide committed by Israel.

Pezzullo’s alleged actions suggest partisanship and allowed his personal political beliefs to affect his professional role in government.

The failure of Australia to condemn such mass murder shatters Albanese’s “credibility”, and cannot be claimed as “misinformation”.

Every deputy covets their moment in the sun. This can usually be arranged without harm. In the case of Barnaby Joyce little appears to come without harm. The prime minister has taken the extraordin...

Under cross-examination, Federal Environment Minister, Sussan Ley made two major admissions on ABC Radio National last Friday over the destruction of the two ancient Aboriginal rock shelters at...

AUKUS the most expensive project by an Australian government, yet only one Australian had input its planning, our secret PM Scott Morrison.

Julian Assange will soon find out whether he will be granted a final appeal in the UK in his fight against extradition to the US.

Some days I wake up and don’t recognise the country we have become. It is not the country I grew up in. It is not a country I am proud of.

The letters show that the Queen’s responses, and at times even advice, particularly in relation to Kerr’s concern for his own position and the possible use of the reserve powers, played a critical...

In its quest to build nuclear-powered submarines, Australia hired a little-known, one-person consulting firm from Virginia: Briny Deep.

Western political/media class bleat the word “unprovoked” in unison again, in reference to the operation launched by Hamas against Israel.

At this critical time, significant numbers of Labor Party members have found themselves thinking of his government in power as Liberal-lite.

Bruce Haigh, died on April 7. A diplomat and writer; a humanist, with a deep love of his country, who mourned its fading ideals and values.

The loss was not through this alone. News Corp used fear, manipulation and division to campaign against the Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

So the US and the UK just bombed the poorest country in the Middle East for trying to stop a genocide. To support Israel's campaign in Gaza.

The US will no doubt give the required assurances. They will extradite Assange with High Court approval, and then do what they like.

It is up to you, ALP rank and file members attending the National Conference, 17-19 August, to stand up for Australia’s national interest.

Inter-operability and integration into the US war-making enterprise is already with us. So we cannot just stand and hope, we MUST push back.

What if someone analysed the cost and extent of blunders by Australian Governments? Would we fare any better?

PMs Howard, Rudd, Gillard, Abbott, Turnbull, and Morrison have signed a statement by the Zionist Federation of Australia supporting Israel.

There is no shortage of post-political appointments to engage the talents of former politicians to lobby for the gambling industry. In 2010, when Andrew Wilkie was negotiating with Julia Gillard on...

It doesn’t take much to encourage Penny Wong, sporting her ‘deeply concerned’ frown, to rattle the China can, she gave a good shake yesterday.

Flooding the world with more weapons of destruction when we are already being killed by floods, fires and irresponsible politicians?

I came across an interesting quote made last month by a retired Israeli major general about the ongoing IDF assault on Gaza.

Why is our apparently very capable leadership team so timid about questioning the terms and range of preconditions for the AUKUS agreement?

The ten years of the Belt and Road Initiative has proven that the rise of China has not brought colonialism, war, refugees, and crises.

A stain on your otherwise good record as it already is a stain on the collective consciousness of the world as described by UNICEF today.

True respect demands that we question the first ‘Anzac Day’. Why were Australian soldiers at Anzac Cove in the first place?

The ALP: abandoning progressive policies and turning itself into a competent version of the Coalition. Not good for them or democracy.

IPAN is inviting organisations and individuals across Australia to sign the Open letter to the PM on Gaza and freezing of funds to UNRWA.

That the US government can announce Australian military support on behalf of the Australian government is unacceptable at any time.

The African State, a beacon for the world and puts to shame all those countries that lacked courage or worse, enabled the unfolding genocide.

True respect demands that we question the first ‘Anzac Day’. Why were Australian soldiers at Anzac Cove in the first place?

Australia's economy is becoming a war economy. The PM talks of the economic benefits of weapons manufacture, the media and ASPI build fear.

Albanese pretends to tolerate those who oppose his stand on AUKUS, prepared to dispense with them to pursue his politics of appeasement.

The foreign minister was unable to nominate a single piece of strategic statecraft that would attempt a solution for both powers.

Scott Morrison and Arthur Sinodinos have joined Kurt Campbell’s US influence network cashing in on war talk.

Our prime minister is an embarrassment on both the national and the world stage. But few would be surprised at his latest escapade. This article was first published on November 5, 2021. What has been...

The U.S. administration could stop the war with one phone call. With one vote in the UN. The horror of Khan Younis is their own to bear.

By working with AUKUS partners like the UK, or with Japan, Australia is betting on the past. It’s certain that the future will be different.

The Australian Friends of Palestine (AFOPA) must be commended for inviting Ms. Albanese to deliver the 19th ESML.

The majority opposes Australia going to war against China, and confidence in the US capacity to defend Australia is declining, so why AUKUS?

The “rules-based international order” the US and its allies claim to uphold is not based on rules at all; it’s based on power.

After seventy-five years of trying Israel must know it will not be able to finish the Palestinian people off and force them to surrender.

When the holocaust returned in the 21st century it came denouncing anti-semitism and wearing a Star of David.

AUSMIN 2023 has further surrendered sovereignty and tightened the US military grip on Australia. The US grip on Australia must be broken.

Australia has the veneer of a developed capitalist economy: but below the surface points to a classic study of an underdeveloped economy.

How much more of this can onlookers take? When will the violent excesses of the Israeli Zionist state be called out? Why are you so scared to speak out?

Can the Albanese government find a conscience of its own rather than mimicking the deceitful utterances of its US and Israeli “friends”?

Julian Assange weeks away from being extradited, the campaign to save Assange has reached its highest pitch.

Khan Younis: some 210 Palestinians' bodies have reportedly been discovered in a mass grave, the victims of a gruesome massacre.

If Australia joins an allied naval intervention in the Red Sea that becomes a war against Yemen, Syria, and Iran it will be long and nasty.

Nearly everything the Labor government says about nuclear subs is ludicrous and highly damaging. An edited version of a talk by Brian Toohey.

AUKUS: They say Australia would be at risk of being attacked by China because the US wants to use Australia to attack China.

There are few who think as clearly, who are as articulate, and who are prepared to speak out in Australian politics as Paul Keating.

The real Israeli objective in Gaza is to drive out the population and destroy infrastructure as part of a plan to expel Palestinians.

So why has our Government just jumped to Israels request and pathological intent to destroy the only lifeline Palestinians have?

I agree strongly with many other critics that we have been placed in peril by our government’s submarine agreement with the US and the UK.

Civilians killed by Israel in Gaza, in three weeks, exceeds the number of civilians killed by Russia in 19 months of the Ukraine war.

The cracks in Labor ranks over AUKUS won’t be going away despite Albanese staring down dissenters at Labor’s national conference. A pitched battle over the choice of submarine base is guaranteed —...

The emptiness of Labor is now on full display: maligning refugees, promoting fossil fuels, pandering to the wealthy, condoning mass murder.

China has indeed changed while in Australia fear of China is still so entrenched Australians fear that invasion is imminent.

The empire is not entitled to expect all commerce keeps normality during an active genocide. Israel is not entitled to zero consequences.

The US must be told that we will not be involved in any way in a war with China over Taiwan. After Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan the signs of our entrapment again in US war planning are everywhere....

The AJDS calls for sanctions against Israel in an open letter to penny Wong. Time to send a clear message to the Israeli government.

The Australian people have been betrayed by their own Government, morally, legally, economically, financially, militarily and politically.

Labor has squandered its time and its opportunities. It needs leadership of guts and vision, not timidity, caution of offending anyone.

Peter Hartcher has a lot to answer for, writes Paul Keating in a response to the Nine columnist that did not make it to print. This article was first published on November 17, 2021. I should have...

Our track-record of blindly following allies into wars that don’t concern us is unworthy of the independent country we should aspire to be.

So then, as you were. It’s all the way with the USA, and journalists will be fine as long as they are not revealing any US wrong doing.

Are we prepared for full-scale conflict? Our panel of national security experts says no.

The whole debate about an Indigenous Voice to Parliament demonstrated, with brutal clarity, is that Australia is a morally backward society.

We may see the likes of Bill Hayden again, but I doubt it. He set up the Australian Labor Party to put it in a position to change the country.

Lawyers around the country are shaking their heads in trying to understand just what the Prime Minister means by the ‘Rule of Law’.  The crux of the Rule of Law is that decisions in the courts are...

We are a nation in denial that we are ‘joined at the hip’ to a dangerous ally that is becoming even more dangerous with the increasing privatisation of the US ‘war complex’  The complex is less and...

The ABC deals with the Israeli Palestinian conflict from an Israeli perspective, adopting all its claims, propaganda without question.

It lacks an ethical core, resulting in the country being paralysed by the politics of ennui and hopelessness. Albanese seems all at sea.

War crimes are cruel power abuses where soldiers with bombs and guns prey on babies and moms and grandpas and shop owners.

Albanese demands “full accountability” from Israel for the killing of Zomi Frankcom yet remains silent on 32,000 other killings.

Let us do everything we can to welcome China into the international community. Let us also do everything to prevent war in the Pacific.

The western political-media class are acting as though this was a completely unprovoked attack launched against the innocent.

Remembrance Day, the juggernaut of war is crushing thousands in Gaza and the Ukraine. Reflections on Australia’s role in the Great War.

Israel is like a domestic abuser. Palestinians have always faced the threat of extermination by the Zionist settler-colonial regime.

A feast of anti-China stories again from the Coalition and our media over the incident between HMAS Toowoomba and a Chinese PLA-N destroyer. 

Our leaders have rendered us USA's pawn, contractually abrogating the right to choose peace with China. Dumbly. Unnecessarily. Deceitfully.

The opinion of millions, probably billons of the worlds citizens is known. Israel has crossed an uncrossable line.

There is growing support for a government-owned “people’s bank”, like the original Commonwealth Bank, operating through post offices.

The recognition of the State of Palestine has been an issue for the current Labor government since it came to office. Do it Anthony!