Politics
Lessons from the jungle
Lessons from the Jungle: My Father’s Hard-Earned Wisdom from New Guinea I never intended to write this. For most of my life, my father’s stories about the war in New Guinea remained locked away like […]
Year: 2026
Politics
Costly and Depleting: The Growing Problems of Operation Epic Fury
The big drain on military resources has begun. A war apparently already won (and not), against an adversary supposedly without means to fight back, its air force and navy destroyed, its missile capabilities blunted, is […]
Politics
The shoes, those shoes!
By Alasdair Black Was there ever a more declarative metaphor for the Trump Administration, they can’t even fill their own shoes? I would rather risk the end of my political career, than wear such […]
Politics
“No Quarter, No Mercy”: Pete Hegseth’s War Crime Declaration and the Path to Gazafication
Introduction: The Words That Condemn On March 13, 2026, United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth stood at a Pentagon briefing and declared: “We will keep pressing. We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, […]
Politics
Can Zionist Israel survive?
In 1944 Hannah Arendt predicted Zionism’s self-destruction in an essay ‘Zionism Reconsidered’ in which she explained Zionism and the colonial project of creating an exclusively Jewish state in what was then Palestine, to ‘recreate’ the […]
Politics
From Entebbe to Gaza
It was the height of the 1970s, a decade defined by political turbulence and the rise of international terrorism. On June 27, 1976, the world’s attention was hijacked along with Air France Flight 139. The […]
Politics
Trump Cabinet (minus Hegseth) and GOP Congresspersons (minus Graham) must deliver Trump his ‘Goldwater moment’
By Walt Zlotow Some are calling for the Trump cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office for committing war crimes in Iran and lurching the world economy to ruin. Alas, […]
Politics
The Photo-Op Refugee: Australia’s Selective Compassion
The Knight in Tarnished Armour: Australia’s Hypocrisy and the Iranian Footballers Like Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner, Australia wears its albatross with pride; only ours is not a bird, but a shackle of our own making. We […]
Satire
So Is It Really Operation E.F. ?
So the US is involved with Operation Epic Fury… Which begs the question: Did the person who called it that realise that it was potentially Operation E.F? Which could be Operation Epstein Files. Or Operation […]
Health
The Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme the latest in a long line of toothless investigations
Australia’s repeated failure to enforce accountability allows harm from crime to persist. Only urgent, decisive action to hold institutions and leaders accountable will break this harmful cycle. After 21 major inquiries in Australia, most close […]
Politics
Looking tough is not a strategy
By Peter Brown During his first presidency, Donald Trump repeatedly boasted that he knew more about defeating ISIS than the generals did – a claim met with widespread ridicule, yet one that captured the essence […]
Politics
The Desperation of Netanyahu and the Cost in Lives
Introduction: A Leader in Freefall There is a pattern to despots and demagogues that repeats across centuries. When they cannot win with results, they reach for prophecy. When they cannot convince with evidence, they claim […]
Politics
What Have the Independents Ever Done for Us?
The record is extraordinary. The case for bringing more community independents into parliament has never been stronger – and in Farrer, the next chapter is being written right now. By Sue Barrett There is a […]
Politics
Iran just checked Trump into their ‘Hotel California’
By Walt Zlotow On February 28th Trump made the most self-destructive presidential military decision in America’s 250 years. He sucker punched Iran with a massive bombing campaign while falsely negotiating a peace deal. It has backfired […]
Politics
The Great Silence: How Australia’s Political Class Lost its Voice – and its Soul
In a week when American senators are finally beginning to ask serious questions about the US$1 billion per day cost of the war on Iran – funds diverted from domestic programs that American families rely […]