Month: September 2025

Narratives Under Siege: Part VII Why It Matters Beyond Israel/Palestine Cold Open When Saudi Arabia bought Newcastle United Football Club in 2021, fans waved new flags and sang new chants. But human rights groups saw […]

Chapter 15: Apartheid in South Africa and Parallels in Australia The Birth of Apartheid In 1948, South Africa’s National Party formalised a system of apartheid – meaning “apartness” in Afrikaans. It entrenched racial segregation that […]

The International Criminal Court bash fest is getting ever more frenetic in Washington and among the law shredding members of the Netanyahu cabinet in Israel. Last month, the Trump administration smacked sanctions on judicial members Kimberly […]

Media Release Alison Battisson, Principal Solicitor of “Human Rights 4 All” has commented today on the Senate passage of what is now being dubbed the “NZYQ”, “Unfairness” and “Banishment” Bill. “What has occurred in Parliament […]

Narratives Under Siege: Part V The Shadow War – Spyware, Disinformation, and Covert Ops Cold Open In July 2021, an international consortium of journalists revealed that Pegasus spyware, developed by Israel’s NSO Group, had been […]

By John Haly and Dr Martha Knox-Haly The popular framing of macroeconomic topics in the media stems from a recurrently misguided “common sense” intuition. It is articulated through erroneous hearsay between mutually uninformed individuals. Public […]

Australians for Mental Health Press Release Australians for Mental Health has today welcomed the historic settlement for Robodebt victims, but has also called for urgent whole-of-government reform so that no Australian is ever harmed by […]

Chapter 14: Comparisons – Jim Crow in the U.S. South The Origins of Jim Crow After the U.S. Civil War (1861–65) abolished slavery, white southern states introduced a new system of control: Jim Crow laws. […]

ACOSS Media Release ACOSS has welcomed the announcement of a settlement for victims of Robodebt but said there remain outstanding actions needed to deliver full justice for the devastating impacts of the scheme. “Today’s announcement of a […]

By Walt Zlotow The US remains a disgusting outlier in a world increasingly aghast at Israeli genocide in Gaza. Since Israel went all in for genocide the day after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack, […]

Narratives Under Siege: Part III Words as Weapons – Redefining Antisemitism Cold Open In 2016, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) introduced a working definition of antisemitism. Within a few years, governments, universities, and public […]