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Here we Joh again! Queensland’s new speech bans and police powers

Last month, Queensland's draconian antisemitism bill became law and within hours, the first arre ...  
The hardening of youth in Israel’s nationalist enclave

As a Jewish Australian who spent considerable time in Israel, I noticed, decades ago, something ...  
Cuba is running out of fuel and time

Cuba is in crisis as a global convoy and new alliances move to break a decades-long U.S. blocka ...  
The hard truth about whistleblowing in Australia

Australia praises whistleblowers in principle, but the legal and institutional reality shows those ...  
Labor should practice what it preaches about human rights

Australia condemns human rights abuses abroad but still won’t protect them at home.  
Operation Outlaw: Iran apologists and the assault on international law

While bombs fall on Tehran, Iran apologists in Western capitals dress regime change in the lang ...  
Albanese's victimisation of "ISIS brides" and innocent children is appalling

Despite languishing for years in an atrocious conditions, Australia's PM belligerently refu ...  
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. ...  
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