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 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…
2023 was another landmark year for electric transport in Australia with rapid growth in both EV sales and charging infrastructure, according to the Australian Electric Vehicle Industry Recap 2023 released today. The Recap, produced by the Electric Vehicle Council finds: EV sales (including both battery EVs and plug-in hybrids) grew by 120% The total Australian EV fleet…
Parliament of Australia Media Release The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) today tabled its Advisory Report on the Defence Amendment (Safeguarding Australia’s Military Secrets) Bill 2023. The Committee’s unanimous report recommended that the Bill pass and made four recommendations for the Government’s consideration including: assessing the existing legislation and procedures and whether they sufficiently…
How delicious is political hypocrisy. Abundant and rich, it manifests in the corridors of power with regularity. Of late, there is much of it in the US Congress, evident over debates on whether the platform TikTok should be banned in the United States. Much of this seems based on an assumption that foreign companies are…
By Denis Bright The issue of AUKUS has resurfaced from the murky depths of undersea politics. ABC News graphics remind readers of the latest additional payment to fast track the AUKUS deal with its proposed cost of at least $US368 billion. Public policy interest in the AUKUS submarine saga is now being propelled by doubts…
By James Moore There was a line, but we pretended it did not exist. That was the best way to get through each day as we came of age. In our factory town, there were the laborers and the management, and the families in our neighborhood supplied the muscle and bone to build the cars…
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Media Release Join Craig Foster, refugee communities and dignitaries for the Sydney leg of the Big Walk 4 Refugees – a 2.5km walk from the Maritime Museum to Fleet Park – this Sunday 17 March. In the first four weeks of the virtual walk, hundreds of people in all states and territories have powered through 40,000 kilometres to show support…
As I often remind everyone, the trouble with conspiracy theories is that they start from two central truths of life: You can’t trust people in authority. Always look carefully at the evidence. The Illuminati is controlling everything. Now my more astute readers will have noticed that I listed three things when I said that there…
The liberal international order has been responsible for a great many deaths. If the “anti-liberal internationale” becomes ascendant, however, we will see those numbers multiplied exponentially. It is not a stretch to say that the Liberal Party’s campaign in the Dunkley by-election places them firmly in the illiberal category. This is hardly surprising since several…