Australia

Destroying Chilean Democracy: Australia’s Covert Role Five Decades On

The tear-squeeze remembering those who died in the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington has become an annual event.  In the words of US President George W. Bush, it was an attack on “our very freedom”.  The US had been targeted because it was “the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in […]

Children in Police Watch Houses: A Nasty Queensland Experiment

They really are a brutal lot.  While the Queensland Labor Government croons on matters regarding rights, liberties and, it should be said, the plight of the First Nations Peoples, its policy, notably on youth detention, is a contradictory abomination.  This situation finds itself repeated across the country, though the Sunshine State, as it is sometimes […]

Australia’s Drug Regulator Admits it Doesn’t Know Extent of Covid Vaccine Harm

Australia's drug regulator, the TGA, has admitted it has no idea how many of the adverse events reported to its database are actually caused by the Covid vaccines, despite assessing this being one of its key duties.
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Educating the US Imperium: Australia’s Mission for Assange

An odder political bunch you could not find, at least when it comes to pursuing a single goal.  Given that the goal is the release of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange makes it all the more striking.  Six Australian parliamentarians of various stripes will be heading to Washington ahead of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s October visit […]

Criminalising Activism: Woodside, Protest and Climate Change

On August 1, protesters against the Burrup Hub expansion in Western Australia, a project of one of Australia’s most ruthless fossil fuel companies, took to the Perth home of its CEO, Meg O’Neill.  The CEO of Woodside was not impressed.  In fact, she seemed rather distressed.   “It doesn’t matter if you’re a member of the […]

Weasel Words in Aviation: Protecting the Flying Kangaroo

Ambrose Bierce, whose cynicism supplies a hygienic cold wash, suggested that politics was always a matter of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.  It involved conducting public affairs for private advantage.  How right he was.  One way of justifying such an effort is through using such words as the “national interest” or “public interest” […]

How a Sloppy Australian Conspiracy Unravelled in Just Two Weeks

Igor Chudov notes the evolving nature of conspiracy theories in Australia, citing the proposed 'Indigenous Voice to Parliament' constitutional change as another case of the Government and fact-checkers lying to the public.
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Defriending Canada: Natural Disasters and Facebook’s Information Scrub

Australia experienced this in February 2021.  Facebook had gotten nastily stroppy, wishing to dictate public policy to the Commonwealth government.  To teach Canberra mandarins a lesson, it literally unfriended the entire country, scrubbing all news platforms of content and making any posted links through the platform inaccessible.  It mattered not that the content involved the […]