Richard Marles went to Singapore to meet the US and UK about AUKUS and came back with a slap in the face - then pretends it’s good - he was told that if we ever get any Virginia class submarines they will ALL be second hand, none will be new. If that’s the good news … end AUKUS!
Many of the submissions in the royal commission into antisemitism are jaw-dropping examples of outright anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab racism, explicitly demanding the erasure of any reminder of our existence from public life.
In March last year over 500 Australians were fighting in the Israeli Military, according to a FOI from Israel.
Yet the Australian Government does not track people fighting in foreign militaries.
I put these questions to the Department.
I worry that as authoritarian conservative institutions spread globally, their policies will synergize with internationalized systems of commerce and finance, resulting in a global chilling effect on general freedoms even in regions that are not under those governments
Asking the Royal Commission into Social Cohesion and Antisemitism if Muslim communities can't give evidence and false claims of antisemitism which conflate a bake sale or wearing a keffiyeh with antisemitism go unchallenged, what exactly is this royal commission for?
@FerrierSteph You’ve seen the injuries, so why include the “Israel denies” when you know that denial is a lie? The ABC’s Editorial policy says “balance of the facts”.
The Iranian Ambassador gets immediately expelled after a synagogue door is set on fire, which had nothing to do with Iran, but the Israeli Ambassador gets 'called in' for a word with a DFAT staff member after the Israeli government gloats about torturing prisoners. Sickening.
Empirically so. As this study shows, the existence of the Soviet bloc disciplined western capital and its political functionaries to a level hitherto unseen before ot after. You just have to look at the world in 2026 to understand how shackled the USSR kept western capital.
They will continue to blatantly flaunt their violations of international and human rights law until anything is actually done about it, the fact that nothing is being done is a stain on all of us too.
A budget detail many missed last night was how the Albanese Labor government is addressing what it calls social cohesion. It is cutting $9 million from the Australian Human Rights Commission, the independent body that protects and serves every community equally.
I love how republican states can gerrymander their maps in a day. But Democratic ones can't even with a multi month long process and letting the voters decide. Absolutely ridiculous.