AUKUS

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.

The only beneficiaries of Australia’s reversion to colonial subservience to an increasingly authoritarian United States president will be a small section of the political and corporate elite — and at huge cost to the majority, argues Peter Henning.

Despite Trump’s most extreme ramblings and declarations that he doesn’t care about international law, Labor is still going along with it, Sam Wainwright told the Green Left Show.

We didn't vote for AUKUS - protesters outside the American Chamber of Commerce luncheon

Anti-AUKUS protesters rallied against Australia’s military involvement with the United States in the Middle East outside the American Chamber of Commerce. Elias Boyle reports.

NSW Greens Senator David Shoebridge told Suzanne James that Israel and the United States’ attacks on Iran were “outright illegal”, with “no evidence” that Iran is close to having nuclear weapons.

As Labor pitches AUKUS as an opportunity for “high tech” jobs, the City of Newcastle is conducting a survey that urges respondents to approve of a missile factory, adjacent the Newcastle Airport/Williamtown Air Force base.

The strikes on Iran are the manifestation of a failing international order, where the “mutually binding rules-based order” is being replaced by the pantomime of strongman politics, argues Academics for Palestine WA and Gwen Velge.

Israel’s unprovoked and illegal attack on Iran, with the support of the United States, threatens regional conflict at great cost to human life and has to be opposed, argues Sam Wainwright.

The prime minister’s grovelling to United States President Donald Trump over Gaza and AUKUS has landed Australia in the odious and unenviable position of estrangement, distrust and contempt from its closest neighbours, writes Peter Henning.

United States President Donald Trump’s decision to order a snap review of AUKUS has spurred opposition to AUKUS here, including from less likely quarters. Kerry Smith reports.

Labor should cancel AUKUS, regardless of US President Donald Trump’s review of the military pact, argues Pip Hinman

John O’Brien, a founding member of Geelong Socialist Alliance, passed away at the age of 89, after a short illness, writes Jacqui Kriz.