Independent Analysis and Reportage
The Australian government has committed to an independent investigation into the assaults, sexual assaults and torture of the Gaza Flotilla humanitarians. Michael West Media reports. By Andrew Brown in Sydney This is the biggest story most Australians have not yet grasped. Australian survivors of physical, psychological and sexual abuse by Israeli authorities met with Foreign
By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific A human rights activist in Fiji is calling for the joint police-military taskforce on drugs to be disbanded, but the Fijian government says it does not support the call. It comes as the military revealed more than 60 witnesses have been spoken to in an investigation into the death
One woman said her husband and his friends told her that, in Australia, police strip-search women who complain about domestic violence.
She was a trusted mentor to young militants whose 1976 uprising shaped the country forever.
COMMENTARY: By Nuri Vitacchi The US on Wednesday night destroyed civilian water utilities serving 20,000 Iranian people. “The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression,” US Central Command said in a statement on X. The punishment was “in response to yesterday’s downing of a US Army Apache helicopter,” the US Centcom said. READ
Efforts to protect land and environmental resources, including fighting climate change, often end up displacing people who have lived in those places for generations.
The government says proposed move-on orders will tackle disorder. Critics argue they risk punishing homelessness while doing little to address its causes.
Violence continued in Belfast after a man from Sudan was charged with attempted murder following a knife attack.
Understanding what drives recruitment into these academies is not a defence of fraud. It is a precondition for dismantling it.
The nebulous nature of narco-terrorism has allowed presidents from Reagan to Trump to deploy the term when it serves broader political goals in Latin America.
The modern rhetorical and political resistance to racial equality finds its roots in the conspiratorial segregationists of the civil rights era.
The big question now is how this new media-politics-money combination will form an effective force on the right of Australian politics.