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Labor Hegemony Under Threat? Perspectives on the By-Election in Ipswich West

March 19, 2024 - 10:31 -- Admin

By Denis Bright   The tidal wave swing against Labor in the Ipswich West by-election on 16 March 2024 created no ripples on the stagnant Bremer River. Historic struggles on behalf of the Labor Movement will come and go in the future without any lasting effects from the by-election results. The Timothy Molony Oval in front…

Predictable Outcomes: Australia, the National Security Committee, and invading Iraq

March 19, 2024 - 08:09 -- Admin

Archivists can be a dull if industrious lot. Christmas crackers are less important than the new year announcement in Canberra, when the National Archives of Australia releases documents like the newborn into the information world. The event is not without irony, given that such documents are often aged and seasoned numbers, whiskered by storage and…

Dutton’s bid for nuclear power: hoax or reckless endangerment?

March 18, 2024 - 23:27 -- Admin

It’s incredible. Such is our love-in with Peter “Junkyard” Dutton, our former Border Overlord, who used to play the bad cop dispensing rough justice–doing whatever it took to keep us safe-that today, he’s being cheered by most of the press gallery for reckless endangerment in his punt on nuclear energy. Is it just to please…

Racing the Sun

March 18, 2024 - 14:05 -- Admin

By James Moore   “If you want to know the secrets of existence, do the math. There is no other way. There is only one truth, the truth of mathematics. It is the infallible, absolute truth. All truth-seekers come in the end to mathematics. Pythagoras got there first. It’s time for everyone else to join him…

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Israel government continues to block aid response despite ICJ genocide court ruling, says Oxfam

March 18, 2024 - 12:03 -- Admin

Oxfam Australia Media Release   International community resorts to sea routes and air drops rather than challenge Israel for systemically undermining unfettered access of relief Israeli authorities have rejected a warehouse full of international aid including oxygen, incubators and Oxfam water and sanitation gear all of which is now stockpiled at Al Arish just 40 km…

Siding with Spotify: The European Commission Fines Apple

March 17, 2024 - 12:14 -- Admin

It will come as little surprise that colossal Apple has been favouring its own music streaming service in snuffing and stuffing competitors. The company, it has been alleged, has prevented app developers from informing users of less expensive methods to purchase subscriptions outside the scope of Apple’s own services. Its cosmos was all. Central to…

ACFID welcomes Australian Government’s reinstatement of funding to UNRWA

March 15, 2024 - 15:31 -- Admin

Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) Media Release The Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), the peak body for humanitarian and development organisations, welcomes the Australian Government’s announcement to reinstate the funding of the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA). “This decision is overdue given the urgency of the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and UNRWA’s…

ActionAid “categorically denounces” the reported forcible transfer of millions from Rafah to so-called “humanitarian islands”

March 15, 2024 - 15:12 -- Admin

ActionAid Media Release   Riham Jafari, Communications and Advocacy Coordinator at ActionAid Palestine, said:  “We categorically denounce the reported green light from the US for Israel to undertake military action in Rafah and forcibly transfer the million plus people sheltering in Rafah to so-called “humanitarian islands” within Gaza so Israel can continue its violent rampage which…

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