Tag: Australia
Nostalgia and Sunshine: Bruce Beresford’s “Ladies in Black”. Sydney in 1959
Senator Fraser Anning and the Smugness of Australian “Values”
Sodding the Australian Voter: Accidental Prime Ministers and Political Indulgence
Prime Ministerial Chaos in Australia: Turnbull’s Last Days
Australia’s Guns: Control, Culture, Bias
Elite Atrocities: Australia’s Special Forces in Afghanistan
Tightly Bound: The United States and Australia’s Alliance-Dependent Militarization
Free Julian Now! Australian People Want Justice for Assange, Melbourne Rally Planned
Sugar Demons, Sweet Lobbies and Taxes in Australia
Standing up Against America
Paying Tribute: Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in the US
Civil Society in Australia and New Zealand Decries FSANZ Approval of GM “Golden Rice”
Senator George Brandis, the Rule of Law and Populism in Australia
Senator George Brandis, the Rule of Law and Populism in Australia
Keeping an Eye on Australia: Admiral Harry Harris Goes to Canberra
Bungling Crown Privilege: Australia’s Cabinet Security Breach
Foreign Influence in Australia: Is the China Lobby Edging out U.S.? The Fall of Senator Sam Dastyari
A New Movement of Rights and the Right in Australia
The Veiled Threat: Australia’s Campaign Against New Zealand’s Refugee Policy
The Biggest UK Pension Fund Backs Coal Mine Set to ‘Destroy’ the Great Barrier Reef
The Deepening Crisis on Manus Island, Australia’s Refugee Detention Centre
Strafing Parliament: Australia’s High Court Citizenship Ruling
The Face of Australia’s Surveillance: Malcolm Turnbull’s Facial Recognition Database
Australian Politics Is Suffering a Death by Boredom
Damaging Damages: Australia’s Actress Rebel Wilson’s Defamation Case
Australia’s Turnbull Government’s Anti-Terror Tool Kit
Target Finding for the Empire: The Pine Gap Joint Defense Facility, America’s Spy Hub in the Heart of Australia
Dismantling Tent City. Gathering of the Homeless in Sydney, Australia
Britain’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson in Australia
The Passing of Mr Football: Les Murray, Australia and the World Game
Australia’s Water Tragedy: Hydropolitics and the Failure of the Murray Darling Basin Plan
Australia’s Secret Military Base: The Pine Gap “Stealth” Anniversary Party
The Cardinal, The Church and Legal Theatre: Historic Procedure in Melbourne Magistrates Court
Australia’s Cinema: To Wake in Fright
Dreams of Detention
Protecting Australia against Japan? The Need for US Military Presence in the Asia-Pacific Region?
Ice and Busts: The Lost War on Drugs in Australia
Afghanistan’s President Ashaf Ghani in Australia.The Hazara Dilemma
Australia Blows Israel’s Credibility on Its “World Vision” Sham Accusations
Romancing Coal in Australia: The Adani Obsession
Australia Participated in 2003 Iraq War Solely to Boost Ties with Bush, Army Think-Tank
Triumphing over Reality: China, Australia and Free Trade
Plucking the Foreign Goose: Australia’s Tax on Backpackers
Flawed Alliances and the “Pivot to Asia”: Australia, the US and Trumpism
Demonising Wind Energy in Australia: The South Australian Blackout
Australian War Crimes in Afghanistan Exposed
Obituary: Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (25 Million BC-2016)
Selling Australia’s Security and Refugee agenda. Prime Minister Turnbull as Fantasist
Australia’s Global ‘Exit’: Tribalism and International Institutions
Islamic State, Lone Wolf Attacks, and Australia
Posing the Unthinkable: Resettling Refugees in Australia
Australia Targets Daesh-ISIS “With Lethal Force” at Home and Abroad
The History of Australia’s Mining Charter Towns in Northern Queensland
Historic Decision: First Australian State to Ban Fracking for Onshore Gas
Australia and the Asylum Seekers: The Hideous Manus Island Camp, Institutionalized Cruelty, “The Nauru Files”
The Terrors of Free Speech: Australia’s Racial Discrimination Act
Bungling the Australian Census
Refugee Trauma: Australia’s Remorseless Detention Camp on Nauru
Aboriginal MPs in Australia Doesn’t Let The Major Parties Off The Hook For Mistreating the Aborigines
Australia – ‘Boiling Anger’, ‘Simmering Resentment’ Over Detention Abuse Videos
Former PM of Australia Kevin Rudd’s Failed Bid to Become the Next UN Secretary General
Has the Grand Mufti of Australia Condemned Terrorist Attacks Overseas?
The Threat of Racism in Australia: Racist Politics is Being Legitimized in Australian Society
The Death of Public Broadcasting in Australia: Culling Season at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull: The Failure of Success
Australia: “Hung Parliaments” and “Democracy”
Radioactive Waste and the “Nuclear War” against Australia’s Aboriginal people
Thousands of Australian households cut off electricity
Political crisis deepens in Australia’s “double dissolution” election
Clipping Academic Freedom in Australia. “The Use of Social Media to Express Opinions”
Australia’s east coast hit by devastating storms
ASPI think tank warns of war with China and attacks on Australia
Australia’s French Connection and the Submarine Saga. France, Military Supplier for Royal Australian Navy
Leakers Down Under: The Australian Federal Police Raids during Election Campaign
Australia: Labor unveils “tough, unpopular” budget cuts
Australia power union calls off New South Wales strike
Australia: Right-wing witch hunt against La Trobe University academic
Australia’s increasing suicide rate linked to social crisis
Australia: Melbourne homeless continue city protest
Australia: Jobs losses continue to mount amid collapsing wage levels
Australian media vendetta against worker who questioned tax breaks for wealthy
Leakers Down Under: The Australian Federal Police Raids during Election Campaign
Australia: NSW government accelerates privatisation of prisons
Australian rate cut warnings point to economic slump
Young Australian girl forced to go to Supreme Court to seek abortion
Submarine project no solution for South Australia’s employment crisis
Australia: Terror and the ‘Islamic State’ Arrests
Patrick Stevedores threatens to lock out Australian port workers
Australian state government imposes draconian “public safety” laws
Australian Labor shadow treasurer foreshadows post-election spending cuts
Thousands of jobs cut in Australia as slump deepens
Trump’s rise causes disquiet in Australian ruling circles
Australian PM announces “double-dissolution” election for July 2
Australian government boasts of helping US kill its own citizens in Middle East
Australian Workers Union to enforce cost-cutting at Arrium steel
Two refugees set themselves alight in Australia’s Nauru detention centre
Australia: Pseudo-lefts promote the Greens’ posturing on refugees
Australian government defies PNG refugee ruling
Australia’s French Connection and the Submarine Saga. France, Military Supplier for Royal Australian Navy
Papua New Guinea Calls for Closing Australia’s Illegal Manus Island Detention Centre
On Anzac Day, New Zealand leaders talk peace, prepare for war
PNG court declares Australian refugee detention camp illegal
Australia awards $50 billion submarine contract to France
Australia: Another dubious “Anzac Day terror plot”
Increasing suicide rate in Australia highlights social crisis
Australia’s Foreign Wars: Anzac Day Memories, The Sullen Child of History
Australian media demands austerity offensive via “double dissolution” election
Australia’s Manus Island Refugee Detention Camp
Australian government to call an extraordinary “double dissolution” election
Troubled Waters and the Sporting Dilemma in Australia. The Legend of Grant Hackett
Moody’s warns Australian government of credit downgrade
Australian prime minister skirts controversy in China
Australian Labor Party’s populist call for an inquiry into the banks
Australia’s prime minister to make state visit to China
Investigating the Banksters: The Australian Banking Industry
Major Australian companies implicated in Panama Papers
The Dirty Secret of Utopia
Thousands of jobs threatened by Australian steel company collapse
Concern over Australian banks’ stability if housing bubble bursts
Australian government crisis intensifies over austerity agenda
Australian political crisis deepens with humiliating defeat of PM’s state taxing plan
Australian government in disarray over spending cuts
Australian prime minister lurches from one crisis to the next
Australian Labor leader makes a cynical populist pitch
Australian Youth and Workers Denounce Media and Government Racist Hysteria
Cancelling Passports: Australia, Syria and the “Anti-Terror” Initiative
Gay Rights and the Marriage Equality Vote in Australia
Australian and Western Mainstream Media Ignore Massive and Deadly Child Abuse in War and Peace
Diminishing Democracy: The Australian Senate Changes
Funding Fictions: Australia, China and the Defence White Paper
Offshoring Justice: The Fate of Guantanamo Detainee David Hicks, Australia and the UN Human Rights Committee
Manipulating Child Refugees: The Baby Asha Scandal in Australia
The Legal Basis for Australia Joining the US Bombing Campaign in Syria
Australia, Japan “Strongly Support” US “Pivot to Asia”, amid Rising Tensions with China
Civil Rights and “Terrorism” in Australia
Military Analysis: The Royal Australian Navy
Australia Supplies Uranium in Support of India-Pakistan Nuclear Arms Race
Report reveals widening gap in Australian living standards
Abbott Defrocked: Australia PM Ousted in Leadership Vote by Longtime Rival Malcolm Turnbull
“Operation Fortitude”: Australia’s Border Force (ABF)
Bombing Syria: What’s in it for Australia?
Australian by-election becomes test of Abbott’s leadership
Dispute over coal mine highlights Australian political turmoil
Australian transport union calls off Melbourne train and tram strike
Australian union sells out Woolworths warehouse strikers
Australian maritime union in talks with Hutchison to impose cost-cutting
Melbourne transport workers vote for industrial action
Sacked Hutchison workers barred entry after Australian union sells out strike
