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Australia's nuclear industry has a shameful history of 'radioactive racism' that dates from the British bomb tests in the 1950s, The same attitudes persist today with plans to dump over half a million tonnes of nuclear waste on Aboriginal lands.
It is election time in Australia, and the electioneering took a remarkable turn Thursday night with announcements that the Australian Federal Police had raided the offices of the opposition Australian Labor Party,
Australia’s Uranium Trade: The Pusher in the Pacific
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September 26, 2014
Australia has the world’s largest known uranium deposits – about 28 percent – and is the world’s third largest exporter of uranium with nearly 7,000 tonnes a year.
Refugees as Business
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February 18, 2019
Football, Refugee Rights and Hakeem al-Araibi
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February 12, 2019
26 January: Indian Republic Day (Freedom) versus Australia Day (British Invasion & Aboriginal Genocide)
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January 28, 2019
“Environmental Buccaneering”: Adani’s Stalling Mega-Mining Project in Northern Australia
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December 30, 2018
Crimes Against Humanity: The British Empire
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December 20, 2018
Having It All Ways: Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s “Jerusalem Compromise”
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December 16, 2018
The Case That Dare Not Speak Its Name: The Conviction of Cardinal George Pell
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December 14, 2018
Australia: Principles of Academic Freedom in Jeopardy
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December 13, 2018
Intellectual Freedom at the University of Sydney, “Offensive to Israel”: Prof. Tim Anderson
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December 12, 2018
University of Sydney Professor Tim Anderson Suspended for “Criticism of War Propaganda against Syria, Iraq and Palestine”
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December 08, 2018
The Security Derangement Complex: Technology Companies and Australia’s Anti-Encryption Law
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December 07, 2018
Journey into Obsolescence: Australia’s Adani Carmichael Mining Project
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December 02, 2018
Mutual Decline: The Failings of Student Evaluations
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November 30, 2018
Australia: A Parliament of Irresponsibility
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November 29, 2018
Relocating the Australian Embassy From Tel Aviv To Jerusalem. Scott Morrison’s Recognition Policy Stumbles
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November 16, 2018
Closing Loopholes: Taxing the Digital Giants
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November 05, 2018
The Arms Behind the Sydney “Invictus Games”. “For our Wounded Warriors”
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October 28, 2018
Denials Down Under: Climate Change and Health in Australia
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October 25, 2018
The Morrison Government, Another March of Folly? Australia’s Jerusalem Problem
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October 20, 2018
Vanquishing the Republic: Harry and Meghan in Australia
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October 19, 2018
Evacuating Nauru: Médecins Sans Frontières and Australia’s Refugee Dilemma
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October 13, 2018
The Sessional Curse: Universities and the Casual Work Force
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October 10, 2018
Nostalgia and Sunshine: Bruce Beresford’s “Ladies in Black”. Sydney in 1959
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October 01, 2018
Social Media and The Process of Deplatforming. Germaine Greer
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September 19, 2018
Needled Strawberries in Australia: Food Terrorism Down Under
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September 17, 2018
Australia and the Woes of Climate Change States
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September 16, 2018
Fiji in the Pacific Ocean Isn’t Fighting ISIS-Daesh, It’s Being Used by the US to Send a Signal to China
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September 14, 2018
Battling Contamination of Water and Environment in Australia: Erin Brockovich Down Under
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September 02, 2018
The Carnival of Homelessness: How the Filthy Rich React
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September 01, 2018
Banning Chelsea Manning: The Dubious Tests of Character
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August 31, 2018
Micronesia’s Chuukese Secessionist Vote Next Year Imperils the US’ Pacific Strategy. The Chinese Challenge
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August 25, 2018
Hijacked Democracy: Normalised Instability in Australia
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August 24, 2018
Prime Ministerial Chaos in Australia: Turnbull’s Last Days
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August 22, 2018
Great Barrier Reef Politics
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August 16, 2018
Authoritarian Revocations: Australia, Terrorism and Citizenship
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August 12, 2018
“The Non-University” and the Manager
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August 07, 2018
Thriving on Dark Web: The My Health Record and Data Insecurity
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August 03, 2018
The Death of Investigative Journalism? Australia’s Channel Nine’s Takeover of Fairfax
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August 01, 2018
Defeat in Sochi: Australia’s World Cup Campaign Ends
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June 27, 2018
Dark Precedents: Matteo Salvini, the MV Tampa and Refugees
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June 15, 2018
Tightly Bound: The United States and Australia’s Alliance-Dependent Militarization
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May 30, 2018
Without a US Ambassador: Australia Awaits
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April 30, 2018
A World War Has Begun. Break the Silence
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March 22, 2018
Paying Tribute: Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in the US
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March 01, 2018
Trump Uses Australian PM’s Visit to Threaten North Korea
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February 25, 2018
Why an Iraq War Inquiry Is More Necessary Than Ever
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February 21, 2018
Keeping an Eye on Australia: Admiral Harry Harris Goes to Canberra
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February 10, 2018
Free Trade Fantasies: Canada Must Reject Both NAFTA and TPP
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February 04, 2018
Bungling Crown Privilege: Australia’s Cabinet Security Breach
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February 03, 2018
Djokovic at the Australian Open, Tennis and Player’s Unions
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January 24, 2018
Palestine, Israel, the US, and How the South Pacific Countries Are Selling Their Votes
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January 20, 2018
Trump’s “Shithole” Countries: US Bans Haiti, Belize and Samoa From Temporary Visas
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January 18, 2018
US Deployed Nuke-Capable Bombers to Guam During Korea Talks
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January 12, 2018
Flaunting British Neo-Imperialism in Asia-Pacific
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January 09, 2018
American Polynesia, Rising Seas and Relocation
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January 06, 2018
Gangs, Race and Melbourne
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January 03, 2018
Cost and Indulgence: Gloating over New Year’s Celebrations
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December 29, 2017
Australia’s Refugee Hub and the Politics of Manus Island: Responsibilities and Contracts
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December 26, 2017
Foreign Influence in Australia: Is the China Lobby Edging out U.S.? The Fall of Senator Sam Dastyari
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December 14, 2017
Peaceful Protest against the Joint US-Australia Pine Gap “Spy Hub”: The Fate of the “Pine Gap Pilgrims” Activists
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December 09, 2017
Investigating the Banks: A Royal Commission in Australia
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December 02, 2017
Foreign Policy Blues: The Australian Foreign Policy White Paper
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November 26, 2017
Violence against Refugees and Asylum Seekers. Manus Island and the Clearing of Lombrom Naval Base
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November 25, 2017
A New Movement of Rights and the Right in Australia
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November 21, 2017
The Veiled Threat: Australia’s Campaign Against New Zealand’s Refugee Policy
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November 19, 2017
The Biggest UK Pension Fund Backs Coal Mine Set to ‘Destroy’ the Great Barrier Reef
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November 18, 2017
A Tale of Two Teams: Australia, Italy and the World Cup
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November 17, 2017
The Expensive Affirmation: Australia Says Yes to Same Sex Marriage
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November 15, 2017
War “Commemorations” and Remembrance Day “Celebrations”
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November 12, 2017
Fixations of Propriety: The Refugee Convention and the Manus Closure Scandal
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November 11, 2017
The Deepening Crisis on Manus Island, Australia’s Refugee Detention Centre
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November 05, 2017
An Acceptable Obscenity: Adani Coal Giant Cultivates Queensland
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November 02, 2017
Madness on Horseback: Australia Commemorates The Light Horse Charge at Beersheba against the Ottoman Empire
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November 01, 2017
Chaos on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island: Australia’s Manus Island Refugee Detention Centre
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October 30, 2017
Strafing Parliament: Australia’s High Court Citizenship Ruling
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October 29, 2017
Environmental Protest in Australia
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October 24, 2017
A Matter of Fifty Degrees: Climate Change in Australia
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October 21, 2017
The Trans-Tasman Spat Show: New Zealand-Australian Tensions
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October 20, 2017
Australia’s Citizenship Bill Fails
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October 19, 2017
Australia’s Climate Change Insurgent: Tony Abbott’s Crusade
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October 15, 2017