Nilüfer Koç, the foreign affairs spokesperson of the Kurdistan National Congress, addressed a conference on the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne and its consequences for the Kurdish people. Peter Boyle reports.
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A packed-out public meeting called for AUKUS to be cancelled, because it makes war on China a greater risk while making Australia more complicit in United States-led war crimes. Peter Boyle reports.
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Anthony Albanese is right that the Australian state has been sovereign for more than a century and its close military alliances with Britain and the US were not just struck freely, but enthusiastically. Peter Boyle argues that his big deceit is asserting that this is in our common interest.
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is failing to win people to Labor’s commitment to the United States on AUKUS, which, as Peter Boyle argues, explains why he was less-than-honest in his John Curtin Oration speech.
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Protests across the country condemned Israel’s continued starvation campaign in Gaza and Australia’s complicity in the genocide. Pip Hinman, Peter Boyle and Jordan AK report.
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Nearly 600 First Nations people have died in custody since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody was tabled. We need a lot more truth-telling and real action, argues Peter Boyle.
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Even before Donald Trump got the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to agree to raise military spending, Oxfam said that less than 3% of the richest seven countries’ annual military spending, about US$1.5 trillion, could totally eradicate world hunger. Peter Boyle reports.
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Protests across Australia demanded the Labor come out strongly against the Israel-United States attacks on Iran, and reiterated the need for sanctions on Israel for its war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank. Pip Hinman and Peter Boyle report.
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Peter Boyle speaks to Indonesian socialist Ignatius Mahendra Kusumawardhana about the disturbing return to the former Suharto dictatorship era’s notorious “dual function” policy for the military.
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a roundtable of big business, unions and civil society to “support and shape our government’s growth and productivity agenda”. History sheds light on what we expect from such a plan, writes Peter Boyle.
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A senior delegation from the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES/Rojava) had its first official meeting with the central government of Syria, on June 1, reports Peter Boyle.
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Several hundred unionists rallied outside the NSW Treasury to demand NSW Labor drop its proposed cuts to workers’ compensation laws. Jim McIlroy and Peter Boyle report.