There are few figures in Iranian politics as simultaneously familiar and enigmatic as Javad Zarif. To some in Washington he remains the smooth-talking apologist of the Islamic Republic; to hardliners in Tehran, he is still the man who gave too much away in the nuclear negotiations. When such a figure publishes the necessary elements for a new US-Iran ...
Here we go again. Last February I wrote about the latest wave of ‘catphobia’ – my new word, do use it – prompted by a report (more accurately, an anti-cat rant) published by the Scottish Animal Welfare Commission. The report suggested the ‘compulsory containment of cats in vulnerable areas’ and the banning of cats altogether in some new housing ...
A friend who spent much of his life as an archaeologist in Israel once told me that there were three levels of authenticity when it came to Christian pilgrimage sites in the holy land. There were those that were almost certainly inaccurate but soaked in prayer. Those that may or may not be the real thing, of which there are many. Finally, those that ...
Two young Canadian pilots were killed in a tragic accident on 22 March. What should have been an occasion for sober reflection, compassion and prayer, has regrettably turned into an undignified dispute about bilingualism.
Captain Antoine Forest, 30, and First Officer Mackenzie Gunther, 24, died when a fire engine crossed the runway in front of them as ...
The famous dictum – that all political lives end in failure- was certainly true of James Callaghan. The man who became Prime Minister exactly 50 years ago today, will be forever associated with the so-called Winter of Discontent – a disastrous wave of strikes in late 1978 and early 1979 which effectively brought down his minority Labour government. ...
Tractors at ten paces: given the current price of diesel, this petrol-powered Cub could give today's turbo tank a run for its money! read now...
The Albanese Government is about to consider a cabinet submission on the 26-27 migration program. Former Immigration Department Deputy Secretary Dr Abul Rizvi has drafted IA's submission. read now...
Australia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong has been attacked by Iran on social media website “X” (formerly Twitter) accusing Wong of lying about the Iran War. Iran would have likely had their […]
The post Penny Wong attacked by Iran on social media for war lies appeared first on Kangaroo Court of Australia.
Around dawn on Friday, a McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle from the US Air Force’s 494th Fighter Squadron was shot down over south-western Iran. Although the Iranians initially talked about a ‘massive explosion’, it seems that anti-aircraft fire tore off the F-15E’s tail fin, causing it to crash; but the two crew members seem to have ejected before ...
Some days I wonder if I’m going mad – and you don’t need to be a psychiatrist to know that’s not a good sign. I work in a specialist NHS service for people experiencing first episode psychosis – young people at their most vulnerable, teetering on the edge of severe and enduring mental illness, some of them already sliding towards schizophrenia. Day in ...
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 ...
A state deciding when it may end a human life outside war is always crossing a line, even when it insists it is doing so for humane reasons. Two democracies are now approaching that line from opposite directions.
Israeli hostages are taken because Israel places such value on individual lives. Prisoners are released because Israeli society will accept ...
There are few figures in Iranian politics as simultaneously familiar and enigmatic as Javad Zarif. To some in Washington he remains the smooth-talking apologist of the Islamic Republic; to hardliners in Tehran, he is still the man who gave too much away in the nuclear negotiations. When such a figure publishes the necessary elements for a new US-Iran ...
Here we go again. Last February I wrote about the latest wave of ‘catphobia’ – my new word, do use it – prompted by a report (more accurately, an anti-cat rant) published by the Scottish Animal Welfare Commission. The report suggested the ‘compulsory containment of cats in vulnerable areas’ and the banning of cats altogether in some new housing ...
A friend who spent much of his life as an archaeologist in Israel once told me that there were three levels of authenticity when it came to Christian pilgrimage sites in the holy land. There were those that were almost certainly inaccurate but soaked in prayer. Those that may or may not be the real thing, of which there are many. Finally, those that ...
Two young Canadian pilots were killed in a tragic accident on 22 March. What should have been an occasion for sober reflection, compassion and prayer, has regrettably turned into an undignified dispute about bilingualism.
Captain Antoine Forest, 30, and First Officer Mackenzie Gunther, 24, died when a fire engine crossed the runway in front of them as ...
The famous dictum – that all political lives end in failure- was certainly true of James Callaghan. The man who became Prime Minister exactly 50 years ago today, will be forever associated with the so-called Winter of Discontent – a disastrous wave of strikes in late 1978 and early 1979 which effectively brought down his minority Labour government. ...
Tractors at ten paces: given the current price of diesel, this petrol-powered Cub could give today's turbo tank a run for its money! read now...
The Albanese Government is about to consider a cabinet submission on the 26-27 migration program. Former Immigration Department Deputy Secretary Dr Abul Rizvi has drafted IA's submission. read now...
Australia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong has been attacked by Iran on social media website “X” (formerly Twitter) accusing Wong of lying about the Iran War. Iran would have likely had their […]
The post Penny Wong attacked by Iran on social media for war lies appeared first on Kangaroo Court of Australia.
Around dawn on Friday, a McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle from the US Air Force’s 494th Fighter Squadron was shot down over south-western Iran. Although the Iranians initially talked about a ‘massive explosion’, it seems that anti-aircraft fire tore off the F-15E’s tail fin, causing it to crash; but the two crew members seem to have ejected before ...
Some days I wonder if I’m going mad – and you don’t need to be a psychiatrist to know that’s not a good sign. I work in a specialist NHS service for people experiencing first episode psychosis – young people at their most vulnerable, teetering on the edge of severe and enduring mental illness, some of them already sliding towards schizophrenia. Day in ...
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 ...
A state deciding when it may end a human life outside war is always crossing a line, even when it insists it is doing so for humane reasons. Two democracies are now approaching that line from opposite directions.
Israeli hostages are taken because Israel places such value on individual lives. Prisoners are released because Israeli society will accept ...