Bilal Cleland

• Bilal Cleland is a retired secondary teacher who has taught English as a second language in secondary schools and English Language Intensive Centres in Victoria as well as adult education programs in Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia.

  He has consulted to the Schools Commission Disadvantaged Program and worked as Organiser of English in the Workplace and International Education programs.

  Bilal has held postions as Secretary of the Islamic Council of Victoria, Assistant Editor and Member Executive Committee of Australian Muslim News (AFIC), Chairman Muslim Welfare Board Victoria, Australian representative for Board of Governors, International Business Forum in Istanbul, President Independent Business and Industry Association of Australia and Secretary Australian Federation of Islamic Councils.

  He is now a columnist for Al Watan (a Melbourne Arabic-English monthly) and the Australian Muslim Times.

   

   

   

   

Articles written by Bilal Cleland (73)

• 2 October 2024 | Middle East genocide bears parallels to Australian colonisation
• 1 August 2024 | Israel lobby ramps up scare campaigns in fear of truth
• 12 July 2024 | Zionist lobby shaking up politics in Australia and UK
• 5 June 2024 | Media stifles Gaza narrative
• 26 April 2024 | Australia too soft on war criminals
• 26 March 2024 | Australia's reputation among Pacific neighbours weakening
• 14 February 2024 | History of genocide repeating itself in Gaza
• 5 January 2024 | 'Criminal practices': Israel's cruel apartheid against Palestinians
• 26 November 2023 | It can be another way: Jews and Muslims can live peacefully
• 23 October 2023 | Australian colonialism bares its fangs
• 22 September 2023 | Voice vital to the rights of First Nations people
• 3 September 2023 | Imperialism is not dead and Australia should watch its back
• 21 July 2023 | Robodebt aftermath urges increased sympathy for the poor
• 22 June 2023 | Indigenous Voice vital to Closing the Gap
• 20 June 2023 | Antidote for the poison of Australian racism
• 24 May 2023 | The hypocrisy and destruction of the War on Terror
• 12 April 2023 | Australia still reluctant to respond to climate crisis
• 21 March 2023 | Paul Keating fires shots at AUKUS, corporate press takes casualties
• 30 January 2023 | Taxing the super-rich a good start to ending wealth inequality
• 23 November 2022 | U.S. bravado hides a deeply damaged democracy
• 21 September 2022 | King Charles III — defender of the Islamic faith
• 25 August 2022 | Secret ministerial makeover smacks of rule by divine right
• 21 June 2022 | Islamophobia: Asia's ugly growth industry
• 25 May 2022 | The Seven Mountains of control — a threat to democracy
• 24 April 2022 | Siberia's mineral wealth: Russia has it — China wants it
• 10 April 2022 | Double standards stir racist-Australia comments
• 25 March 2022 | Sickness of racism still alive in Western culture
• 21 February 2022 | No peace for Muslims in Morrison's Australia
• 25 January 2022 | Colonial myth pushing government right-wing agenda
• 8 January 2022 | Pandemic politics fuelling right-wing response
• 27 November 2021 | Corruption and extremism threaten government legitimacy
• 24 November 2021 | Conspiracy cults breeding terrorism through protests
• 31 October 2021 | Goward article galling
• 9 October 2021 | The vaccination saga: Infections, hesitancy and inequality
• 22 August 2021 | Conspiracy theories continue to spread during COVID-19
• 16 July 2021 | Climate change spelling doom on a biblical scale
• 3 July 2021 | Conspiracy theories and religion invade political mainstream
• 18 June 2021 | Democracy under attack
• 27 May 2021 | Freedom of speech helping to fade the Israeli narrative
• 1 May 2021 | Mixed messages from the religious LNP
• 13 April 2021 | How to deal with the problem of far-right extremism
• 20 March 2021 | Elite schools a breeding ground for arrogance
• 24 February 2021 | Politics of racism: Australia's Parliament and the malign effect of the Right
• 13 February 2021 | Systemic 'bogan' racism is on the decline in Australia
• 26 January 2021 | Australia needs to move on from the racist ideology upon which it was founded
• 4 January 2021 | Terrorism: Some lessons for Australia from the New Zealand Royal Commission
• 27 November 2020 | The Federal Government is out of touch with Australian values
• 21 November 2020 | How the U.S. Election affected the American Muslim community
• 22 October 2020 | English language test requirement deemed a 'racist measure'
• 15 July 2020 | Questions remain over U.S. and CIA role in Whitlam's dismissal
• 30 May 2020 | The global economic transformation after COVID-19
• 14 April 2020 | The pandemic: A consequence of our destructiveness
• 23 February 2020 | Australia lurches from one crisis to another
• 22 December 2019 | Whitlam and Corbyn's labour parties attacked by establishment
• 25 October 2019 | The drive for small, dependent Middle Eastern States
• 29 September 2019 | The poor worse off while companies profit from cashless welfare card
• 19 September 2019 | Morrison Government profits from the 'depravity' of the poor
• 18 July 2019 | Srebrenica, 11 July 1995: The 'White Genocide'
• 28 May 2019 | The Liberal Party, scare campaigns and Menzies-style conservatism
• 26 May 2019 | This Election saw the revival of white supremacy, nationalism and exclusion
• 21 May 2019 | The Coalition's politics of fear a tried and true election recipe
• 25 April 2019 | ANZAC and the Muslims of the Empire
• 28 March 2019 | White supremacist terror: The new Australian export
• 18 March 2019 | Christchurch and Muslim versus non-Muslim terrorism
• 3 February 2019 | The legacy of eugenics and racism
• 30 January 2019 | January 26 continues to divide the nation
• 8 January 2019 | Dutton, Morrison and Prakash: The politicising of Muslim extremism
• 25 June 2018 | The defence of Western Civilisation: It's not over yet
• 19 October 2017 | Nothing learnt: Balfour and Britain's generosity with other people's lands
• 19 September 2017 | Frank Walker's 'Traitors: Why Australia and its allies betrayed our Anzacs'
• 20 May 2017 | The Turnbull Government, Australian values and the dogwhistle
• 16 May 2017 | Reclaiming Australia's white supremacy
• 11 December 2015 | ISIS fails to maintain anti-Muslim bigotry