Abbott set to sign highly secretive TPP agreement this month

5 Oct 2013 | The Abbott Coalition looks set to sign off on the highly secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership later ...  

Tony Abbott shuts out local reporters from Indonesian press conference

2 Oct 2013 | Tony Abbott has offended Indonesians by excluding the host country's journalists from a press ...  

Tony Abbott and Australia's declining status in Indonesia

1 Oct 2013 | Tony Abbott must quickly recognise, writes Professor Krishna Sen, that Australia's moral autho ...  

Downer by name, disaster by nature

27 Sep 2013 | Former Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has waded into his old patch in a characteristically ...  

Abbott Government denies Malaysian lawyer visa

25 Sep 2013 | In denying Malaysian lawyer and political activist Haris Ibrahim a visa to Australia signifies a ...  

Global solution for asylum seekers needed

18 Sep 2013 | The global asylum seeker crisis is immense, and so therefore only a global solution ‒ not ...  

A case against U.S. intervention in Syria

11 Sep 2013 | While Obama, his allies, and the international media build a case for war in Syria; alternative ...  

Julian Assange on Wikileaks and the election

6 Sep 2013 | Deputy editor Sandi Keane interviewed Wikileaks founder Julian Assange yesterday, and we published ...  

EXCLUSIVE: Julian Assange — coming home next year?

6 Sep 2013 | In a stunning worldwide exclusive, IA reveals that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may soon be ...  

A primal scream for Syria

31 Aug 2013 | The United States should unleash its most powerful weapon ‒ not bombs, the truth ‒ to help ...  

Where the action is not decided

30 Aug 2013 |   While America and its allies seem set to go to war against Syria, Beirut-based Tim Davis Frank ...  

The Arab Peace Initiative: fear, silence and politics

28 Aug 2013 | What does The Arab Peace Initiative and the 2011 Israeli Social Justice Protests have in common? ...  

Julian Assange: Google and the NSA

24 Aug 2013 |   Google is not only getting paid by the U.S. Government to provide them with surveillance ...  

Tom Watson coming to Australia to take on Murdoch

12 Aug 2013 | Outraged by the Daily Telegraph front page showing Kevin Rudd as a Nazi, British MP and strident ...  

Manning conviction has serious implications for WikiLeaks and whistleblowers

31 Jul 2013 | Although Private Bradley Manning was cleared of aiding and abeting the enemy, his conviction for ...  

Dolly Bunter's adventures in Cyprus

30 Jul 2013 | Alexander Downer has been the special United Nations envoy to Cyprus since 2008 and achieved ...  

The fresh prince of over there

24 Jul 2013 | A new person slips into line for the royal portaloo, writes Ross Jones, who takes a look at this ...  

Paul Sheehan plumbs new depths with Trayvon Martin killing column

23 Jul 2013 | Fairfax embarrassment Paul Sheehan says the unprovoked killing of black teenager Trayvon Martin is ...