Not content with one antisemitism envoy, the Federal Government appointed a university antisemitism watchdog in a questionable process. Andrew Gardiner reports. There are red flags aplenty around university anti-Semitism watchdog Greg Craven, an academic with many links to staff at the office that chose him. A rushed selection process –
It’s only Day Five of the war but surely the epic stupidity of Australia so cravenly backing the US Israeli invasion of Iran is evident by now. Michael West reports. We are led by fools and sycophants. The illegal, unprovoked invasion of Iran is not just garden variety stupidity. This
BHP has had almost an entire court case muzzled and its demands met to toss out a coal miner’s case without even filing a defence. Stephanie Tran reports. In a judgment published on Monday evening, Justice Needham of the Federal Court found that Simon Turner’s case “had no reasonable prospects
A decision brief on protecting the threatened Maugean Skate shows the Labor Government puts extinction second to politics. Transparency Warrior Rex Patrick reports. A long-awaited brief, prepared by the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW), has now been released after an FOI fight in the Administrative
Treasurer Chalmers is floating tax reform balloons ahead of the May budget but Michael Pascoe warns he’s fighting the last war. The next one is nuclear. If a week is a long time in politics, two months before the May budget is an eternity, plenty of time to float balloons
The NSW government is creating a heavily resourced policing unit of around 250 officers, prioritising hate crimes above other violence. Andrew Brown asks why. Every four minutes in New South Wales, police respond to a domestic violence incident, a relentless cycle of harm that rarely makes front-page news. Two women
BHP has won sweeping suppression orders against coal miner Simon Turner after a court threw out the miner’s case. Stephanie Tran reports. The Federal Court of Australia has struck out a landmark case brought by an injured coal miner against BHP Group Limited and related entities, refusing him leave to
While Australia is yet to respond to Donald Trump’s Board of Peace invite, several Muslim countries have, including Indonesia. What does President Prabowo hope to achieve, asks Duncan Graham? The Board of Peace was set up as a “global collaboration platform to support the stabilisation of conflict areas and post-conflict
Months of infighting at the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) culminate in a no-confidence vote today. Stephanie Tran reports. The RACP board is meeting today to consider bullying allegations against the President and CEO and decide on the future of the embattled board of directors. More than 100
Sixty years on from the Vietnam War marches, Australian union bosses are mostly MIA when it comes to protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Andrew Gardiner reports. The genocide in Gaza, and moves to muzzle talking about it in universities and schools, have rank-and-file unionists up in arms. But union officials
While top bureaucrats are now earning one million a year, the tribunal that decides who gets what is doing its best to keep its decisions secret. Rex Patrick reports. The head of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet gets over $1 million a year, and the Secretaries of
Jewish orgs request Tony Burke reject Australian visa for Israeli journalist as his funders’ links to IDF emerge. Stephanie Tran reports. A coalition of Australian Jewish organisations has written to the Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, urging him to cancel the visa of Israeli journalist Zvi Yehezkeli on character grounds,
Not content with one antisemitism envoy, the Federal Government appointed a university antisemitism watchdog in a questionable process. Andrew Gardiner reports. There are red flags aplenty around university anti-Semitism watchdog Greg Craven, an academic with many links to staff at the office that chose him. A rushed selection process –
It’s only Day Five of the war but surely the epic stupidity of Australia so cravenly backing the US Israeli invasion of Iran is evident by now. Michael West reports. We are led by fools and sycophants. The illegal, unprovoked invasion of Iran is not just garden variety stupidity. This
BHP has had almost an entire court case muzzled and its demands met to toss out a coal miner’s case without even filing a defence. Stephanie Tran reports. In a judgment published on Monday evening, Justice Needham of the Federal Court found that Simon Turner’s case “had no reasonable prospects
A decision brief on protecting the threatened Maugean Skate shows the Labor Government puts extinction second to politics. Transparency Warrior Rex Patrick reports. A long-awaited brief, prepared by the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW), has now been released after an FOI fight in the Administrative
Treasurer Chalmers is floating tax reform balloons ahead of the May budget but Michael Pascoe warns he’s fighting the last war. The next one is nuclear. If a week is a long time in politics, two months before the May budget is an eternity, plenty of time to float balloons
The NSW government is creating a heavily resourced policing unit of around 250 officers, prioritising hate crimes above other violence. Andrew Brown asks why. Every four minutes in New South Wales, police respond to a domestic violence incident, a relentless cycle of harm that rarely makes front-page news. Two women
BHP has won sweeping suppression orders against coal miner Simon Turner after a court threw out the miner’s case. Stephanie Tran reports. The Federal Court of Australia has struck out a landmark case brought by an injured coal miner against BHP Group Limited and related entities, refusing him leave to
While Australia is yet to respond to Donald Trump’s Board of Peace invite, several Muslim countries have, including Indonesia. What does President Prabowo hope to achieve, asks Duncan Graham? The Board of Peace was set up as a “global collaboration platform to support the stabilisation of conflict areas and post-conflict
Months of infighting at the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) culminate in a no-confidence vote today. Stephanie Tran reports. The RACP board is meeting today to consider bullying allegations against the President and CEO and decide on the future of the embattled board of directors. More than 100
Sixty years on from the Vietnam War marches, Australian union bosses are mostly MIA when it comes to protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Andrew Gardiner reports. The genocide in Gaza, and moves to muzzle talking about it in universities and schools, have rank-and-file unionists up in arms. But union officials
While top bureaucrats are now earning one million a year, the tribunal that decides who gets what is doing its best to keep its decisions secret. Rex Patrick reports. The head of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet gets over $1 million a year, and the Secretaries of
Jewish orgs request Tony Burke reject Australian visa for Israeli journalist as his funders’ links to IDF emerge. Stephanie Tran reports. A coalition of Australian Jewish organisations has written to the Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, urging him to cancel the visa of Israeli journalist Zvi Yehezkeli on character grounds,
