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Peter Greste and Al Jazeera: Death on the Nile

The unjust conviction of Peter Greste and other Al Jazeera journalists continues a long and often ...  
Lost in translation: Iraq III, Rorts for Oil and the Coalition of the Killing

In a joint press conference with Kevin Rudd in Canberra in 2009, now embattled Iraqi PM Nouri ...  
An Abbott abroad III: What the watching world wrote

Tragically for Australia, the conduct of the blundering new government and its boorish leader is ...  
Iraq III and the last of the Missionary Wars

The needless American-led obliteration of Iraq by 32 Christian countries, including serial foll ...  
An Abbott Abroad II: Tony no-friends wants to be like Mike

Part Two of Alan Austin’s report on Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s bumbling visits to Indonesia ...  
FIFA World Cup 2014 kicks off

With the FIFA World Cup began last night in Brazil, resident soccer reporter Lachlan Barker gives ...  
Rapid Chinese coal demand decline may strand Australian assets

As PM Abbott isolates Australia from climate change action and plugs fossil fuels, news emerges ...  
News Corp hacking trial finally heads to jury

After a seven month trial, the jury finally gets to consider its verdict in the British hacking ...  
Abbott embarrasses Australia abroad — again

PM Tony Abbott is touring the world; meanwhile, Australians cringe, mortified, wondering what ...  
How China, the West and the ABC buried the real story of the Tiananmen Square massacre

Historian Dr Adam Hughes Henry says Western media – and notably our own ABC – are presenting a ...  
Ukraine presidential elections and activism through art

With Ukraine holding it's presidential elections today and the country awash with propaganda, Tim ...  
Murdoch and American law

The big mistake that Rupert Murdoch made , writes from News Ltd executive Rodney E. Lever, was to ...  
Murdoch and the law

Rupert Murdoch and James are under pressure over their part in alleged criminal UK phone hacking ...  
Abbott exacerbates Indonesian mess by last minute no-show

Senior public servants at the Departments of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Defence are understood ...  
The next U.S. president: The Murdoch Clinton match

Rupert Murdoch may be about to throw his support behind Hillary Clinton as the first performers ...  
South Africa's new apartheid

In post-apartheid South Africa the ruling elite has been captured by the neo-conservative business ...  
Why are there U.S. marines in Darwin?

The recent arrival of over a thousand marines in Darwin provides a risk for Australia, yet abso ...  
Australia’s food security — much more important than trade pacts

With climate change biting, food security is becoming a vital issue for Australia's future, to ...  

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