You are all potential terrorists. It matters not that you live in Britain, the United States, Australia, or the Middle East. Citizenship…
You are all potential terrorists. It matters not that you live in Britain, the United States, Australia or the Middle East. Citizenship…
Milan Kundera’s truism, “the struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”, described East Timor. The day before…
Editor's Commentary: We published the full length, revolutionary film documentary by John Pilger, The War You Don't See in 2010 and 2011 when it appeared on…
One of my first jobs as a junior reporter was to meet flights bringing famous people to Australia. Growing up in a…
War by media, says current military doctrine, is as important as the battlefield. This is because the real enemy is the public…
In 1963, a senior Australian government official, A.R. Taysom, deliberated on the wisdom of deploying women as trade representatives. “Such an appointee…
In the kabuki theatre of British parliamentary politics, great crimes do not happen and criminals go free. It is theatre after all;…
This week’s Supreme Court hearing in the Julian Assange case has profound meaning for the preservation of basic freedoms in western democracies.…
Lisette Talate died the other day. I remember a wiry, fiercely intelligent woman who masked her grief with a determination that was…
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