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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 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.
Funding Fictions: Australia, China and the Defence White Paper By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, February 28, 2016
Offshoring Justice: The Fate of Guantanamo Detainee David Hicks, Australia and the UN Human Rights Committee By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, February 26, 2016
The Rape of East Timor: The Greatest Crime of the 20th Century, Executed and Covered up By John Pilger, February 25, 2016
Manipulating Child Refugees: The Baby Asha Scandal in Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, February 23, 2016
Australia’s High Court Backs Indefinite Offshore Detention By Mike Head, February 09, 2016
Legalising Cruelties: The Australian High Court and Indefinite Offshore Detention By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, February 05, 2016
Trans Pacific Partnership Ceremony a Farce: Tough National Battles Await Bad Trade Deal By Friends of the Earth, February 04, 2016
Australia’s Day for Secrets, Flags and Cowards By John Pilger, January 21, 2016
The Legal Basis for Australia Joining the US Bombing Campaign in Syria By James ONeill, January 21, 2016
How Australia’s Colonial History Helps Shape Its Racist Approach to Syria By Prof. Tim Anderson, January 19, 2016
Global Alteration of Ocean Ecosystem Functioning due to Increasing Human CO2 Emissions. By Science Daily, January 11, 2016
Cherishing the British Empire and the Statue of Cecil Rhodes By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, December 26, 2015
First Coroner’s Court Inquest on Malaysian Airlines MH17 Crash: Australian Police, Dutch Prosecutors Break with Dutch Safety Board By John Helmer, December 16, 2015
Civil Rights and “Terrorism” in Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, December 14, 2015
Virtual Currencies: The Elusive Creator of Bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, December 09, 2015
Military Analysis: The Royal Australian Navy By Brian Kalman, December 05, 2015
Salvaging Democracy for West Papuans in the Face of Australia-Indonesia Obstruction By Camellia Webb-Gannon, November 26, 2015
Australia Supplies Uranium in Support of India-Pakistan Nuclear Arms Race By John Hallam, November 20, 2015
Australia’s Solution to the “Refugee Problem”: The “People Smuggling Industry” By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, October 29, 2015
“Crimes of Silence” in Australia against Refugees and Asylum Seekers By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, October 17, 2015
Australia Says US-Led Coalition Needs No Russian Help in Fighting ISIL By Sputnik, October 16, 2015
Secret Trade Deals. Wikileaks, and the Redistribution of Power By Michael Welch and Dr. Binoy Kampmark, October 04, 2015
The Asian NATO-like Project: How to Offset Obama’s “Pivot to Asia”, Building Regional Partnerships By Andrew Korybko, October 01, 2015
Obama’s “Pivot to Asia” NATO-Like Project By Andrew Korybko, September 30, 2015
America’s Proxy War in Syria: Are Washington War Hawks Losing their Grip over Middle East Politics? By Sean Stinson, September 29, 2015
Time for “Quantitative Easing for People instead of Banks” (PQE): Raining Money on Main Street By Ellen Brown, September 23, 2015
Australia: The Fall of Tony Abbott By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, September 14, 2015
Abbott Defrocked: Australia PM Ousted in Leadership Vote by Longtime Rival Malcolm Turnbull By RT, September 14, 2015
Global Leaders Using Refugee Plight to Push Military Escalation By Sarah Lazare, September 10, 2015
Australia’s Syrian Refugee Solution: “Turning Back the Boats” By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, September 09, 2015
Australia: Tony Abbott’s “Nazi” Problem By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, September 04, 2015
“Operation Fortitude”: Australia’s Border Force (ABF) By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, September 01, 2015
The “Culling of Sharks” and Coastal Marine Ecosystems By Jane Williamson, August 28, 2015
Australian “Anzac Day Terror Plot” Charge Dropped By Mike Head, August 28, 2015
“Butterfly Prison”. The New World Order of Poverty, Oppression, Despair and Destitution By Andre Vltchek, August 19, 2015
Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott and the Electoral Letter of Suicide By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, August 16, 2015
Stalling the Trans-Pacific Partnership: The Failure of the Hawaii Talks By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, August 03, 2015
“Turning Back Boats” and The Human Rights of Refugees to Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 25, 2015
Finding Aliens: SETI, Talking Lions and Wittgenstein By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 23, 2015
J-Bay Open Surf in South Africa: Shark “Attack”, Mick Fanning and Surfing with the Animals By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 22, 2015
MH17, a crime pinned on Russia
MH17, One Year On: What Really Happened, And Why By Patrick Henningsen, July 21, 2015
Federal Coalition MP George-Christensen
The Acceptable Face of Racism: Islam and Reclaim Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 20, 2015
Australia “Gentle Raidings”: American Psycho and Censorship in the City of Churches By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 18, 2015
Warring Against Windmills: Australia’s Renewable Energy Policy By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 17, 2015
Australian Greens Senator Talks of War with China By James Cogan, July 15, 2015
British, Australian Activists Shut Down Israeli Weapons Factories on Anniversary of Gaza Invasion By Celine Hagbard, July 08, 2015
World Medical Body Denounces Australia’s Refugee Detention Censorship Law By Will Morrow, July 07, 2015
Australia: When is Free Speech Unfree? When it involves the Abbott Government By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, June 26, 2015
Australia’s Double Game on Terrorism By Prof. Tim Anderson, June 26, 2015
Chilling the Net: The Anti-Piracy Obsession in Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, June 24, 2015
The Tyrannical Mandate: Ministerial Discretion and Stripping Citizenship By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, June 19, 2015
Attacking State Run Medical Schemes: The Trans-Pacific Partnership Spells Privatization? By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, June 18, 2015
Paying the People Smugglers: Australia’s Abbott Government Joins the Industry By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, June 14, 2015
The Technology of Self-driven Cars, Trucks and Buses By Nick Fillmore, June 13, 2015
“The Terrorist Imaginary”: Australia’s Tony Abbott and the ISIS Phenomenon By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, June 12, 2015
Australia: How Greed and Capital Triumph By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, June 07, 2015
Fanciful Threats: The “Plot” on the Australian Prime Minister By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, June 05, 2015
Escalating US-China Tensions: Australia “Actively Considering” Dangerous Provocation in South China Sea By Peter Symonds, June 02, 2015
Citizenship and Terrorism in Australia: The “Abbott Recipe” By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, June 01, 2015
Refusing to Resettle: Australia’s response to the Rohingya Asylum Seekers By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, May 26, 2015
New Zealand: Workers Rights in the Fast Food Industry By Socialist Project, May 22, 2015
Australian “Free Range” Chicken Company Alleged To Exploit Migrant Workers By Pratap Chatterjee, May 20, 2015
Animal Rights in Australia: Eco-Terror and the “War on Terrier” By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, May 19, 2015
US Bombers to Australia: Washington’s Deployments in the Pacific By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, May 18, 2015
Police Shift Their Line on Australia’s Latest Terrorism “Plot” By Mike Head, May 14, 2015
“In the Coming Days”: Mother’s Day and “Teenage Terrorism” By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, May 13, 2015
New Zealand and the Production of White Phosphorous Bombs Used against Children in Gaza By Dr. Vacy Vlazna, May 07, 2015
Monsanto Secretly Gave Money to Farmer Caught Contaminating Organic Farms with GMOs By Christina Sarich, April 30, 2015
The Message of Anzac: Put Out More Flags, or Shut Up By John Pilger, April 28, 2015
Beware the Children: The Young Terrorists are Here! By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 28, 2015
Security Cocktails in Australia: Mixing Anzac and Terror By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 23, 2015
Australia: The Secret Country Again Wages War on its Own People By John Pilger, April 22, 2015
Climate Change Politics in Australia: The Lomborg Factor By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 19, 2015
Branding War in Australia: Anzac Vulgarity and the Cult of Austerity By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 17, 2015
Deterrence by Celluloid: Using Film Propaganda to Scare Refugees By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 13, 2015
Australia: Refugees in Indefinite Detention, Endless Incarceration By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 09, 2015
“Data Retention” and Australia’s Police State Consensus By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 31, 2015
Australia To Start Taxing Bank Deposits By Zero Hedge, March 30, 2015
Australia’s Mission in Afghanistan. The Failings of “Operation Slipper” By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 25, 2015
“Counter-terrorism” and Australia’s “National Data Retention” Program: Repeal of Privacy and Personal Freedoms, Media Censorship By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 23, 2015