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How to Sell a Genocide: The Double Standards of Reporting on Gaza
Jeff Sparrow, The University of Melbourne When the University of Queensland Press cancelled the publication of Wiradjuri poet Jazz Money’s book Bila: A River Cycle because of a blog post by its illustrator, 60 UQP contributors signed a letter of protest. Some declared...
Australian political commentator Paul Collits, with Cafe Locked Out. How Did We Get Here.
With Paul Collits. His Substack is called Political Science. Collits, being a somewhat cerebral lad, describes himself as a freelance writer and independent scholar and researcher, with interests in politics, public policy, philosophy, economics and education. To...
Die Laughing: Fred Pawle On Bill Leak and the State of Australia Today
We sit down with Fred Pawle, one of Australian journalism’s great characters, to discuss his recently updated book Die Laughing: The Wild Life of Bill Leak. Though an ill-fit in corporate journalism, Pawle worked at The Australian for many years as a reporter and...
Humans Create Empires For The Same Reason They Create Egos
Reading by Tim Foley: Humans create empires for the same reason they create egos. It’s all about the impulse to control. We come into this world boundless and free with eyes full of wonder, but within a few years our minds create and solidify a
PRODUCTIVITY SUMMIT IGNORES FACT THAT AUSTRALIA CARELESSLY WASTES EXPERIENCE OF ITS OLDER CITIZENS
I have tried and failed to have the huge potential of unused productivity of Senior Australians on to the agenda of the Productivity Roundtable that takes place in Canberra next week. While I have been treated with courtesy and respect, my comments have fallen on deaf...
5 OCTOBER 2026 (NOT 2025). MARK IT IS YOUR DIARY AS EVERALD’S 95th BIRTHDAY WHEN YOU WILL WALK ELEVEN KILOMETRES WITH ME AROUND ULURU TO HELP ME RAISE 100,000 DOLLARS FOR ‘DORCAS ACTS’, A CHARITY OF WHICH I AM PATRON.
My hope is that 100 friends will join me at ULURU on a WALK IN THE SPIRIT and each set a goal of funds they will raise personally for Dorcas ACTS. I hope that another 1000 friends, scattered all over Australia, will do a ‘symbolic’ ULURU WALK IN THE SPIRIT of eleven...
LUNCH WITH GRANTLEE KIEZA
Currently, my friend Grantlee Kieza is Australia’s best selling history author, a honour that he richly deserves. Over the past decade he has published a dozen books about the history of Australia that some of you will have read. Absolute gems like Sister Viv,...
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The One Nation poll surge: Protest or a passing fad?
For much of modern Australian political history, federal politics has been defined by a stable contest between Labor and the Coalition. While minor parties have sometimes disrupted the landscape, they have rarely threatened the dominance of the major parties in any sustained way. That is why recent opinion polls showing
Is Israel heading towards AUKUS? The bigger story behind the submarines
For years, the public debate around AUKUS has been dominated by submarines, costs, delivery schedules and whether the United States will ultimately provide Australia with the nuclear-powered vessels it has promised. Yet those questions have distracted attention from a far more significant transformation taking place beneath the surface.This week, we
The AUKUS secret: How Australia risks becoming part of the US–Israel war machine
Has AUKUS only ever been about the submarines? For many years, this is what the focus has been on: new/old submarines, will they arrive/won’t they arrive… and during this time, the political class and mainstream media has corralled the discussions in a child-like way towards the costs, delivery timetables, industrial