Gay marriage: Why it’s better to be a U.S. Republican than an Australian Liberal

8 Jul 2015 | Behind closed doors Liberal Party strategists must be wishing they were in a similar position to ...  

OECD: Coal investment is most urgent climate threat

8 Jul 2015 | The head of the OECD says wealthy countries should help poorer nations that cannot afford to ...  

Dominoes of Democracy? Europe's Left Finds Hope in Anti-Austerity Vote

7 Jul 2015 | Irish observer says vote is 'potentially the most important political event since the collapse of ...  

Abbott strong on terrorism but weak on climate targets

3 Jul 2015 | After The Hague ruled it's illegal for Dutch government to ignore global warming, Australian ...  

Grexit and the impacts on the 'average' Greek

1 Jul 2015 | The effects of Greece's default today and possible exit from the Eurozone will be immense, not ...  

Eurozone profiteers: How German and French banks helped bankrupt Greece

1 Jul 2015 | The current EuroZone crisis has deep parallels to the U.S. sub-prime mortgage crisis. It is time ...  

Israel's cheer squad (Part 4): Whither Sydney University

29 Jun 2015 | The culmination of the Richard Kemp brouhaha is that the Israel cheer squad remains firmly entr ...  

Paying people smugglers: Business as usual in Australia-Indonesian relations?

29 Jun 2015 | The allegations that Australia paid people smuglers to return their cargo to Indonesia is just the ...  

2014 a record-breaking year for renewables — except Australia of course

26 Jun 2015 | The latest REPN report shows renewable energy is now indisputably the world's new economic powe ...  

Pope Francis recasts debate on climate change

25 Jun 2015 | The papal encyclical on Earth's ecological crisis will shift the political landscape on climate ...  

Israel's cheer squad (Part 3): Richard Kemp as Israel’s frontman

25 Jun 2015 | When controversial Israeli apologist, Colonel Richard Kemp, was asked to speak at Sydney Univer ...  

TPP: Time for Abbott to rethink this 'preferential' and 'dangerous' agreement

25 Jun 2015 | Yesterday, as the U.S. Senate resolved to ‘fast- track’ the TPP, in Australia, the Producti ...  

Israel's cheer squad (Part 2): Buying support and tyrannising opposition

22 Jun 2015 | Jewish communities’ self representation of omnipresent victimhood, in conjunction with faithful ...  

'Stand with Charleston': American communities denounce white supremacy

22 Jun 2015 | In streets, faith spaces, and community centers across America, people are gathering to honor the ...  

Massive Pine Gap expansion: Snowden leak

19 Jun 2015 | The Abbott Government has repeatedly refused to comment on specific disclosures on Pine Gap leaked ...  

800 years post Magna Carta: Why no equal justice for all whistleblowers?

19 Jun 2015 | This week, we celebrated the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta but do we really have equal ...  

Three years on: Time for the injustice handed out to Julian Assange to end

19 Jun 2015 | Starting with her refusal to interview Assange in Sweden in 2010, Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny's ...  

Sunday Times’ concocted Snowden story: Journalism at its worst

18 Jun 2015 | It seems extraordinary that a man like Rupert Murdoch can make a fortune by hiring shonkey repo ...