Dunghutti man Paul Silva is calling on supporters to join him in defying NSW’s new protest ban by going ahead with a pre-planned Deaths in Custody march tomorrow. Wendy Bacon reports. For ten years, the Dungay family have battled unsuccessfully to hold the NSW state government accountable for the killing
The NSW Government’s plan to criminalise the phrase ‘globalise the intifada’ ignores obvious facts about how language works. Analysis from professional linguist Nick Riemer. In the wake of December’s antisemitic massacre on Bondi Beach, the orchestrated moral panic over the phrase ‘globalise the intifada’ has itself been globalised. According to
Australia’s Former PM Scott Morrison will join far-right political figures as a keynote speaker at an Israel-sponsored antisemitism conference later this month. Stephanie Tran reports. Scott Morrison is billed as a keynote speaker at the Generation Truth antisemitism conference in Israel later this month, an event which has drawn criticism
The arrest of alleged kingpin of Australia’s illicit tobacco trade, Kazem “Kaz” Hamad, is a win for law enforcement, but what does it mean for the trade? Criminologist James Martin asks. Declared by an Iraqi court to be “one of the most dangerous wanted men in the world”, Hamad is
President Trump has adopted the position that in international relations, ‘might is right’. What does that mean for smaller, not so mighty countries? Former senator Rex Patrick asks. Donald Trump’s new ‘Donroe doctrine‘ has been applied to the kidnapping of the President of Venezuela, threats to neighbouring Colombia, and his
Federal Parliament will be recalled next week to debate and pass new hate speech laws in the wake of the Bondi massacre. But will it target all hate speech? Al The Writer asks. It’s being hailed as the “toughest hate laws Australia has ever seen” in response to the devastating Bondi Beach
Antisemitism is about to become a criminal offence under the proposed Combatting Antisemitism Hate and Extremism Bill. Andrew Brown checks state over-reach. Until very recently, wearing a T-shirt that said “Fuck Israel fuck Zionism” in public was legally dull. Crude. Offensive. Unpopular in polite company. But constitutionally protected. In 2024
The Albanese Government wants to render Australian citizen Dan Duggan to the corrupt authoritarian regime of Donald Trump. Michael Pascoe wonders at what point we officially surrendered our national self-respect. “It is clear that under this administration, federal authorities cannot be trusted to tell the truth,” the SMH’s Michael Koziol
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a Royal Commission into the Bondi Beach Attacks and antisemitism. Andrew Brown weighs the evidence on Australia’s ‘antisemitism crisis’. Australia is being told it faces an unprecedented wave of antisemitism, a crisis requiring extraordinary measures, including a Royal Commission. But police data, court findings,
Whether jihadists, fascists or just racist thugs, the common thread of violent extremists is vulnerable and angry young men recruited by unscrupulous preachers of dogmatic faith. Al The Writer reports (Part 3 in the series The Anatomy of the Bondi Attacks). There has been a sharp increase in far-right extremism
The Australian government remains silent on Israel banning 37 international aid organisations in Gaza, despite warnings from humanitarian groups. Stephanie Tran reports. Under new registration requirements introduced by Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, NGOs were required to submit lists of their Palestinian employees ...
Albanese’s extraordinary handling of the equally extraordinary aftermath of the Bondi massacre raises questions about the PM’s political judgement. Not for the first time writes Michael Pascoe. Let’s start with the assumption that Anthony Albanese is not totally disconnected from the informed world, that his reportedly tight inner circle has
Dunghutti man Paul Silva is calling on supporters to join him in defying NSW’s new protest ban by going ahead with a pre-planned Deaths in Custody march tomorrow. Wendy Bacon reports. For ten years, the Dungay family have battled unsuccessfully to hold the NSW state government accountable for the killing
The NSW Government’s plan to criminalise the phrase ‘globalise the intifada’ ignores obvious facts about how language works. Analysis from professional linguist Nick Riemer. In the wake of December’s antisemitic massacre on Bondi Beach, the orchestrated moral panic over the phrase ‘globalise the intifada’ has itself been globalised. According to
Australia’s Former PM Scott Morrison will join far-right political figures as a keynote speaker at an Israel-sponsored antisemitism conference later this month. Stephanie Tran reports. Scott Morrison is billed as a keynote speaker at the Generation Truth antisemitism conference in Israel later this month, an event which has drawn criticism
The arrest of alleged kingpin of Australia’s illicit tobacco trade, Kazem “Kaz” Hamad, is a win for law enforcement, but what does it mean for the trade? Criminologist James Martin asks. Declared by an Iraqi court to be “one of the most dangerous wanted men in the world”, Hamad is
President Trump has adopted the position that in international relations, ‘might is right’. What does that mean for smaller, not so mighty countries? Former senator Rex Patrick asks. Donald Trump’s new ‘Donroe doctrine‘ has been applied to the kidnapping of the President of Venezuela, threats to neighbouring Colombia, and his
Federal Parliament will be recalled next week to debate and pass new hate speech laws in the wake of the Bondi massacre. But will it target all hate speech? Al The Writer asks. It’s being hailed as the “toughest hate laws Australia has ever seen” in response to the devastating Bondi Beach
Antisemitism is about to become a criminal offence under the proposed Combatting Antisemitism Hate and Extremism Bill. Andrew Brown checks state over-reach. Until very recently, wearing a T-shirt that said “Fuck Israel fuck Zionism” in public was legally dull. Crude. Offensive. Unpopular in polite company. But constitutionally protected. In 2024
The Albanese Government wants to render Australian citizen Dan Duggan to the corrupt authoritarian regime of Donald Trump. Michael Pascoe wonders at what point we officially surrendered our national self-respect. “It is clear that under this administration, federal authorities cannot be trusted to tell the truth,” the SMH’s Michael Koziol
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a Royal Commission into the Bondi Beach Attacks and antisemitism. Andrew Brown weighs the evidence on Australia’s ‘antisemitism crisis’. Australia is being told it faces an unprecedented wave of antisemitism, a crisis requiring extraordinary measures, including a Royal Commission. But police data, court findings,
Whether jihadists, fascists or just racist thugs, the common thread of violent extremists is vulnerable and angry young men recruited by unscrupulous preachers of dogmatic faith. Al The Writer reports (Part 3 in the series The Anatomy of the Bondi Attacks). There has been a sharp increase in far-right extremism
The Australian government remains silent on Israel banning 37 international aid organisations in Gaza, despite warnings from humanitarian groups. Stephanie Tran reports. Under new registration requirements introduced by Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, NGOs were required to submit lists of their Palestinian employees ...
Albanese’s extraordinary handling of the equally extraordinary aftermath of the Bondi massacre raises questions about the PM’s political judgement. Not for the first time writes Michael Pascoe. Let’s start with the assumption that Anthony Albanese is not totally disconnected from the informed world, that his reportedly tight inner circle has
