Oceania

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 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.
Big Batteries and Tesla’s Lithium Strategic Gambit By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, October 13, 2017
Protesting Against India’s Adani Coal Mining Giant: Australia’s National Day of Action By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, October 09, 2017
The Face of Australia’s Surveillance: Malcolm Turnbull’s Facial Recognition Database By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, October 07, 2017
Australia’s Final Report on MH370 Calls Missing Flight’s Location an ‘Almost Inconceivable’ Mystery By IANS, October 03, 2017
Rapper Macklemore and Australia’s NRL Grand Final: The Politics of Sports By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, October 01, 2017
Holy Days for Sports in Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, September 29, 2017
The Intolerance of Tolerance in Australia: Tony Abbott’s Head Butt Episode By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, September 25, 2017
The Demise of Civic Journalism: Australia’s Xenophon-Turnbull Deal By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, September 20, 2017
Australian Politics Is Suffering a Death by Boredom By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, September 18, 2017
Damaging Damages: Australia’s Actress Rebel Wilson’s Defamation Case By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, September 14, 2017
Energy Chaos in Australia: Closing the Liddell Power Station By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, September 13, 2017
Taking Aim: WikiLeaks, Congress and Hostile Agencies By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, September 06, 2017
Lacking Transparency: Israeli Drones and Australian Defence By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, September 05, 2017
The Flawed Institution: Australian Marriage and the Same-Sex Debate By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, September 02, 2017
Cricket Test Match: Bangladesh’s Victory Over Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, September 01, 2017
The Myth of the Liveable City By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, August 31, 2017
Australia’s Turnbull Government’s Anti-Terror Tool Kit By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, August 27, 2017
Lying About Citizenship: Australian Politicians Before the High Court By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, August 26, 2017
Guam’s People Have Long Been Suffering from the American Bombs By Keith K. C. Hui, August 26, 2017
The Rise of the Killer Robot By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, August 24, 2017
Target Finding for the Empire: The Pine Gap Joint Defense Facility, America’s Spy Hub in the Heart of Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, August 21, 2017
The Burka Comes to Australia’s Parliament: Pauline Hanson’s Panto By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, August 19, 2017
Breaking the Seal: Child Abuse and the Confessional in Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, August 16, 2017
A Plague on Parliament: Australia’s Citizenship Crisis By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, August 15, 2017
Money Laundering in Chief: Scandal at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, August 14, 2017
Setback of “Green Conscience”: The Australian Recycling Sham By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, August 13, 2017
Australia’s Refugee Transit Centre on Manus Island: The Fate of Hamed Shamshiripour By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, August 13, 2017
Dismantling Tent City. Gathering of the Homeless in Sydney, Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, August 10, 2017
Gay Plebiscites: Australia’s Crisis on Same-Sex Marriage By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, August 08, 2017
Trump, Turnbull and Australia’s Refugee Crisis By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, August 05, 2017
Leaked Trump Phone Conversations with Foreign Leaders, Regime Change in America, Cold War 2.0, Risking Things Turning Hot By Stephen Lendman, August 04, 2017
Britain’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson in Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, August 02, 2017
Fanciful Terrors: Bomb Plots and Australian Airport Security By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 31, 2017
Australia’s Secret Military Base: The Pine Gap “Stealth” Anniversary Party By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 30, 2017
Australia’s Water Tragedy: Hydropolitics and the Failure of the Murray Darling Basin Plan By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 30, 2017
The Cardinal, The Church and Legal Theatre: Historic Procedure in Melbourne Magistrates Court By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 29, 2017
Citizenship and the Australian Constitution By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 28, 2017
The Refugee Crisis: Resettlement, the UN and the US-Australia Deal By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 26, 2017
Murder, Spies and Weapons – Three Fascinating ‘Deep State’ Stories By Moon of Alabama, July 23, 2017
Archaic Obstacles: Australia, Parliament and Dual Citizenship By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 20, 2017
Donald Trump Performance Signals Decline of US Power, Australian Perspective By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 18, 2017
Militarising Civilian Life: Australia, Policing and Terrorism By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 17, 2017
A Question of Accountability: Cardinal Pell, the Vatican and Child Abuse By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 14, 2017
Death on the Road: Memory in Australia’s Tim Winton’s Shrine By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, June 22, 2017
“The Hotel Tacloban”: The Depravity of War from The Pacific War Theater to the CIA’s Phoenix Program By Dr. T. P. Wilkinson, June 21, 2017
Australia’s Cinema: To Wake in Fright By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, June 16, 2017
Dreams of Detention By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, June 09, 2017
John McCain in Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, June 02, 2017
Tennis Player Margaret Court and Same-Sex Woes By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, May 31, 2017
U.S. Military World’s Largest Polluter – Hundreds Of Bases Gravely Contaminated By Whitney Webb, May 18, 2017
US Airstrike against Syria: More to the September 2016 ‘Mistake’ Than Originally Thought By James ONeill, May 10, 2017
Protecting Australia against Japan? The Need for US Military Presence in the Asia-Pacific Region? By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, May 09, 2017
The Universal Lesson of East Timor By John Pilger, May 08, 2017
Olympian Politics: The Australian Olympic Committee By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, May 06, 2017
Empty Values: The Australian Concept of Citizenship By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, May 03, 2017
Anzac as Apologia and Religion By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 25, 2017
US Vice President Mike Pence in Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 24, 2017
Ice and Busts: The Lost War on Drugs in Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 21, 2017
Australian Academics Witch-hunted for Challenging US Lies on Syria Attack By Mike Head, April 16, 2017
Australia Beckons a War with China By John Pilger, April 12, 2017
The Syrian Chemical Weapons Nexus: Verdict First, Evidence Later By James ONeill, April 12, 2017
Afghanistan’s President Ashaf Ghani in Australia.The Hazara Dilemma By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 04, 2017
Disaster As Joy in Australia: Cyclone Debbie Strikes By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 30, 2017
Cyclone Watch in Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 26, 2017
Australia Blows Israel’s Credibility on Its “World Vision” Sham Accusations By Dr. Vacy Vlazna, March 23, 2017
Romancing Coal in Australia: The Adani Obsession By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 19, 2017
The History of Free Speech in Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 16, 2017
One Nation Train. “Make Australia Great Again”, US-Australian Relations By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 03, 2017
Australia Participated in 2003 Iraq War Solely to Boost Ties with Bush, Army Think-Tank By RT, February 27, 2017
Copyright, Intellectual Property and the Extradition Saga of Kim Dotcom By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, February 27, 2017
Triumphing over Reality: China, Australia and Free Trade By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, February 10, 2017
Populism in Australia: Channelling Trump “Down Under” By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, February 09, 2017
Trumping Australia’s Refugee Deal By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, February 03, 2017
Aping Washington: Tony Abbott, Israel and Australian Foreign Policy By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, January 04, 2017
Justice for Palestine: The Flaws of UN Resolution 2234 and the “Two-State Solution” By Dr. Vacy Vlazna, December 29, 2016
Monitoring the Miners: Rio Tinto, Drones and Surveillance By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, December 13, 2016
Fossil Fuel Corruption and the Environment: The Problem with Australia’s Adani Mining By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, December 09, 2016
The Virtue of Protest: Democracy, Refugees and Australia’s Parliament By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, December 04, 2016
Plucking the Foreign Goose: Australia’s Tax on Backpackers By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, December 02, 2016
Flawed Alliances and the “Pivot to Asia”: Australia, the US and Trumpism By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, November 26, 2016