Human Rights
Gaza genocide accelerates crisis within Israel’s settler-colonial project

Israel’s destruction of Gaza may have strengthened short-term dominance, but it is deepening the ...  
Welcoming a war criminal: Herzog signals death of social cohesion

As protests erupt nationwide against the visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Australians are ...  
Government pressed on legal implications of Isaac Herzog visit

As Israeli President Isaac Herzog begins his visit to Australia, the Federal Government faces ...  
Selective context: Why Isaac Herzog’s visit deepens Australia’s moral failure

Calls to ‘consider the context’ of President Herzog’s visit obscure Israel’s ban on dozens ...  
With crime decreasing, Australia has far too many citizens in gaol

The latest prisoner numbers raise several important questions.  
The case for an independent national custodial deaths authority

Thirty years after the Royal Commission, deaths in custody continue and accountability remains ...  
Gangsters, genocide and gagging dissent

As Trump's world domination plans go into overdrive, managing editor Michelle Pini discusses the ...  
#5 TOP IA STORY OF 2025: 'March for Australia' is not common patriotism — it’s Nazi-led mobilisation

With Israel calling out everyone but actual Nazis this week over alleged "antisemitism", this Aug ...  
#8 TOP STORY 2025: Skilled visas expose cracks in Government immigration policy

Dr Abul Rizvi has yet another Top 10 Story of the Year. This former Immigration Department head ...  
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#9 TOP STORY OF 2025: Why six Australian Jews accused leading local Zionist of antisemitism

When a leading Zionist calls six other Australian Jews "antisemitic" – and worse – over c ...  
Bondi after the bullets

I was at a birthday dinner when I received a message from my brother that immediately felt wrong. ...  
Beyond suffering: Reclaiming the Palestinian story

It’s time to move beyond narratives of suffering and imagine Palestinian joy.  
Trump scores an own goal for FIFA

FIFA invents a “Peace Prize” to flatter Donald Trump, proving once again that football’s ...  
From Ja’mie to Jerusalem: Redefining racism in the Israel debate

If the Middle East conflict is a race war between Arabs and Jews, does it mean supporters of ...  
UN endorses Trump-backed Gaza plan, drawing condemnation from Palestinians

Palestinians and human rights advocates have slammed the UN’s new Gaza resolution as a neo-co ...  
Trump cancels World AIDS Day in fresh blow to LGBTIQA+ rights

In a cruel policy move, the Trump Administration cancelled funding for World AIDS Day commemora ...  
Unseeing genocide: How the West lost Its moral compass in Gaza

A brutal reckoning with the West’s complicity, as Gaza shatters the illusion of morality and ...  
JEFF MCMULLEN: The boy with no eyes — the dangers of a new nuclear arms race

Trump’s reckless nuclear testing threats risk reigniting an arms race and repeating the horrors ...  

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