When the National Press Club cancelled an October 2025 address by US Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges, as he was to present a speech on Israel’s targeted killing of Palestinian journalists, the respected Australian institution was tarnished. But this week, as it allowed Israeli ambassador Hillel Newman to justify these same killings, the ...
Two months after 3,000 New South Wales police officers set upon the participants at the 9 February 2026 protest of the official visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog with unbridled force, no apology for this violence has been forthcoming from the ministers and top cops who oversighted the response to the civilian protesters, which means that what ...
Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese called for a “de-escalation” in the US-Israeli war of aggression on Iran at the National Press Club on Thursday, 2 April 2026, as he considers the war objectives “have been realised”, while US president Donald Trump still plans on bombing Iran “back to the Stone Age”, and both leaders are ignoring that Tehran ...
Don’t bite the hand that feeds you. In geopolitics, the vice is uglier still: entire governments now bite the hand that shields them.
That is the modern Western arrangement in one line: America is the wealthy, capable, relentlessly active grandfather who still pays the bills, still fixes the roof, still shows up when danger turns financial or physical, ...
It’s challenging to take Chris Bowen seriously, even though he appears to have shed his ‘Climate Change’ portfolio handle while dealing with the fuel shortage.
He’s a government minister torn between a theoretical apocalypse and a guaranteed crisis.
Speaking to news crews in advance of the Easter holiday weekend, the Energy Minister said:
‘As the ...
On Wednesday, NASA lit the fuse on its Artemis II rocket, and the world watched four astronauts begin the first crewed journey toward the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.
The back-patting was immediate and thunderous.
LIVE: Artemis leaders are discussing the successful launch of NASA's Artemis II mission and the next steps for the astronauts headed on ...
Desmond Filby, the man commonly called by the media "Dezi Freeman", was shot by police, but should instead be remembered for his alleged child sexual abuse, argues Tom Tanuki. read now...
In 1979, US President Jimmy Carter went on national television during an oil crisis and delivered a 32-minute address diagnosing a ‘crisis of confidence’ eating away at America’s soul.
It was overwrought.
It was preachy.
It arguably ended his presidency.
But at least the man showed up with a theory of the case.
On Wednesday night, Anthony Albanese ...
Despite his intense paranoia regarding ‘conspiracy theories’, Anthony Albanese chose April Fools’ Day to make a rare national address about his role in Europe’s largest chocolate heist. Four hundred thousand special edition KitKat bars were stolen from a truck in Italy, prompting a viral social media marketing campaign.
Regarding recent press coverage ...
ABC staff walked off the job last week and the public broadcaster instantly switched to BBC programming. Prof. Vince Hooper discusses whose interests the ABC now serves — citizens or others'. read now...
When the National Press Club cancelled an October 2025 address by US Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges, as he was to present a speech on Israel’s targeted killing of Palestinian journalists, the respected Australian institution was tarnished. But this week, as it allowed Israeli ambassador Hillel Newman to justify these same killings, the ...
Two months after 3,000 New South Wales police officers set upon the participants at the 9 February 2026 protest of the official visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog with unbridled force, no apology for this violence has been forthcoming from the ministers and top cops who oversighted the response to the civilian protesters, which means that what ...
Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese called for a “de-escalation” in the US-Israeli war of aggression on Iran at the National Press Club on Thursday, 2 April 2026, as he considers the war objectives “have been realised”, while US president Donald Trump still plans on bombing Iran “back to the Stone Age”, and both leaders are ignoring that Tehran ...
Don’t bite the hand that feeds you. In geopolitics, the vice is uglier still: entire governments now bite the hand that shields them.
That is the modern Western arrangement in one line: America is the wealthy, capable, relentlessly active grandfather who still pays the bills, still fixes the roof, still shows up when danger turns financial or physical, ...
It’s challenging to take Chris Bowen seriously, even though he appears to have shed his ‘Climate Change’ portfolio handle while dealing with the fuel shortage.
He’s a government minister torn between a theoretical apocalypse and a guaranteed crisis.
Speaking to news crews in advance of the Easter holiday weekend, the Energy Minister said:
‘As the ...
On Wednesday, NASA lit the fuse on its Artemis II rocket, and the world watched four astronauts begin the first crewed journey toward the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.
The back-patting was immediate and thunderous.
LIVE: Artemis leaders are discussing the successful launch of NASA's Artemis II mission and the next steps for the astronauts headed on ...
Desmond Filby, the man commonly called by the media "Dezi Freeman", was shot by police, but should instead be remembered for his alleged child sexual abuse, argues Tom Tanuki. read now...
In 1979, US President Jimmy Carter went on national television during an oil crisis and delivered a 32-minute address diagnosing a ‘crisis of confidence’ eating away at America’s soul.
It was overwrought.
It was preachy.
It arguably ended his presidency.
But at least the man showed up with a theory of the case.
On Wednesday night, Anthony Albanese ...
Despite his intense paranoia regarding ‘conspiracy theories’, Anthony Albanese chose April Fools’ Day to make a rare national address about his role in Europe’s largest chocolate heist. Four hundred thousand special edition KitKat bars were stolen from a truck in Italy, prompting a viral social media marketing campaign.
Regarding recent press coverage ...
ABC staff walked off the job last week and the public broadcaster instantly switched to BBC programming. Prof. Vince Hooper discusses whose interests the ABC now serves — citizens or others'. read now...
