Anti-terror: Take our rights — we probably don't need those

28 May 2015 | Our leaders chant repeatedly that terrorism is a dangerous existential threat. They argue terro ...  

Where the political becomes personal: Inside immigration detention

22 May 2015 | As a child of apartheid South Africa, another regime that was “sick of being lectured by the ...  

Has the land of the "fair go" now "fair gone"?

15 May 2015 | Do we want Australia to be known for compassionate solutions to asylum seekers or held up by the ...  

Scott Morrison's childcare package: Unfair, flawed and impractical

12 May 2015 | The Government's childcare package, aimed at pushing mothers back to work as a condition of ...  

Australian media exposed as Rajapaksa's grubby story unravels

8 May 2015 | Why did The Australian's Greg Sheridan fail to investigate the war crimes of former Sri Lankan ...  

Marriage equality and Joe de Bruyn's Shoppies Union

6 May 2015 | More conservative than the conservatives, powerful SDA union leader Joe de Bruyn is defying his ...  

Coles, Woolworths, slavery and the global free market outsourcing racket

6 May 2015 | Four Corners this week showed Coles and Woolworths involved in Australia, through outsourcing, in ...  

Successive Australian governments throw Julian Assange to the wolves

5 May 2015 | Forget about helping a fellow countrymen in peril overseas, Australia’s elected representatives ...  

Bob Ellis: Questions for Deporter Dutton

24 Apr 2015 | Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has some serious questions to answer about the asylum seekers he ...  

The secret country again wages war on its own people

24 Apr 2015 | Australia has again declared war on its Indigenous people, reminiscent of the brutality that ...  

Gallipoli and the Armenian genocide (Part 3): The war over past and present

23 Apr 2015 | We don't hear about the Armenian genocide that occurred at the same time as Gallipoli because it ...  

Gallipoli and the Armenian genocide (Part 2): Bread and circuses

20 Apr 2015 | Though Anzac Day has come to represent a memorial service for the casualties of Australian invo ...  

Gallipoli and the Armenian genocide: The battle for history and understanding (Part 1)

18 Apr 2015 | A hundred years since Gallipoli and a hundred years since the Armenian genocide in Turkey. How ...  

The Tony Abbott red room of pain

16 Apr 2015 | Tony Abbott's hyper masculinity blueprint will not save us from danger. It is the danger, warns ...  

Time for Abbott to impose arms sanctions against Israel’s profit from death

16 Apr 2015 | Julie Bishop told the UN Security Council last December that the Arms Trade Treaty will stop arms ...  

$4.1m refugee telemovie shows a Government lost at sea

15 Apr 2015 | The Australian Government is fund the production of a A$4.1 million telemovie to be screened in ...  

The Allies at Gallipoli: Defeat in 1915, Disgrace in 2015

10 Apr 2015 | On 24 April 1915, Turkey arrested and murdered hundreds of Armenians as part of a genocide. ...  

The murder of Saeed Hassanloo

5 Apr 2015 | An Iranian refugee on a hunger strike teeters close to death on in a Perth Hospital and Austral ...