Australia condemns human rights abuses abroad but still won’t protect them at home. read now...
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has highlighted a marked increase in Defence expenditure as a key element of public sector expenditure, leading to a slightly higher-than-anticipated national economic growth rate of 0.8% in the December quarter 2025 and 2.6% on an annualised basis. As the debate around how much the
A US submarine has sunk an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka in the latest escalation of its war with Iran. The post US sinks Iranian warship
Laws have now passed to set up a parliamentary joint committee on defence, on the advice of an international armed conflict decision-making inquiry. Membership will soon be confirmed. The joint standing committee on foreign affairs, defence and trade had previously recommended that such a statutory committee be focused on defence
Pre-election proof points of the Minns government’s good deeds have continued thick and fast, with the announcement that at least some of the replacements for the state’s nearly half-century-old XPT regional and interstate rail fleet have landed in Australia for testing. But there’s yet to be a proper timetable for
Western Australia Treasurer Rita Saffioti has boasted about her state’s strong economic growth, which she says new Australian Bureau of Statistics national accounts data shows is outpacing the rest of the nation. National economic growth reached 2.5% last year, while WA’s economy grew by 3.3%. On Tuesday, Saffioti said the
Gudanji-Arrernte woman and Indigenous leader Pat Turner has been recognised by the prime minister as her term as National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation CEO and Coalition of Peaks lead convenor comes to an end. Anthony Albanese described Turner as a formidable advocate who worked to make Australia a better
Politicians used to be generals because politics was created as an extension of war.
In the decades of peace, we have forgotten the true nature of civilisation and its predictable need for violence, expansion, conquest, and the machine of war itself to prop up domestic power.
We do not put people in Canberra to fanny around with ‘hurt feelings’ ...
Situation update
The Middle East conflict intensified dramatically on Tuesday, as Israel and Iran exchanged strikes across multiple fronts while regional powers scrambled to respond to a rapidly widening confrontation stretching from Lebanon to the Gulf.
The day began with reports of Iranian drone attacks far beyond the immediate battlefield. ...
The Houthi pirates have gone awfully quiet.
For years, they have been holding the Red Sea shipping industry to ransom while claiming ‘solidarity’ with Palestine.
Like fresh-faced Western socialists, the Houthis wear ‘Palestine’ like a Temu-printed flag, justifying whatever disruptive activity they have in mind as ‘solidarity’. They are funded (or ...
Iran threatened harsh retaliation in the wake of the American-Israeli attacks that killed the country’s supreme leader and many of its senior commanders. Its response consisted of a barrage of missiles aimed at Israel. So far, so predictable. Yet, at the same time, Tehran chose to direct its firepower at neighbouring Gulf states, countries that have ...
The Australian government has deployed six “crisis response” teams to the Middle East to help deal with the consulate overload caused by the huge number of Australians stranded by the conflict that has spread far and wide in the region. Foreign minister Penny Wong said on Wednesday the best
Australia condemns human rights abuses abroad but still won’t protect them at home. read now...
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has highlighted a marked increase in Defence expenditure as a key element of public sector expenditure, leading to a slightly higher-than-anticipated national economic growth rate of 0.8% in the December quarter 2025 and 2.6% on an annualised basis. As the debate around how much the
A US submarine has sunk an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka in the latest escalation of its war with Iran. The post US sinks Iranian warship
Laws have now passed to set up a parliamentary joint committee on defence, on the advice of an international armed conflict decision-making inquiry. Membership will soon be confirmed. The joint standing committee on foreign affairs, defence and trade had previously recommended that such a statutory committee be focused on defence
Pre-election proof points of the Minns government’s good deeds have continued thick and fast, with the announcement that at least some of the replacements for the state’s nearly half-century-old XPT regional and interstate rail fleet have landed in Australia for testing. But there’s yet to be a proper timetable for
Western Australia Treasurer Rita Saffioti has boasted about her state’s strong economic growth, which she says new Australian Bureau of Statistics national accounts data shows is outpacing the rest of the nation. National economic growth reached 2.5% last year, while WA’s economy grew by 3.3%. On Tuesday, Saffioti said the
Gudanji-Arrernte woman and Indigenous leader Pat Turner has been recognised by the prime minister as her term as National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation CEO and Coalition of Peaks lead convenor comes to an end. Anthony Albanese described Turner as a formidable advocate who worked to make Australia a better
Politicians used to be generals because politics was created as an extension of war.
In the decades of peace, we have forgotten the true nature of civilisation and its predictable need for violence, expansion, conquest, and the machine of war itself to prop up domestic power.
We do not put people in Canberra to fanny around with ‘hurt feelings’ ...
Situation update
The Middle East conflict intensified dramatically on Tuesday, as Israel and Iran exchanged strikes across multiple fronts while regional powers scrambled to respond to a rapidly widening confrontation stretching from Lebanon to the Gulf.
The day began with reports of Iranian drone attacks far beyond the immediate battlefield. ...
The Houthi pirates have gone awfully quiet.
For years, they have been holding the Red Sea shipping industry to ransom while claiming ‘solidarity’ with Palestine.
Like fresh-faced Western socialists, the Houthis wear ‘Palestine’ like a Temu-printed flag, justifying whatever disruptive activity they have in mind as ‘solidarity’. They are funded (or ...
Iran threatened harsh retaliation in the wake of the American-Israeli attacks that killed the country’s supreme leader and many of its senior commanders. Its response consisted of a barrage of missiles aimed at Israel. So far, so predictable. Yet, at the same time, Tehran chose to direct its firepower at neighbouring Gulf states, countries that have ...
The Australian government has deployed six “crisis response” teams to the Middle East to help deal with the consulate overload caused by the huge number of Australians stranded by the conflict that has spread far and wide in the region. Foreign minister Penny Wong said on Wednesday the best