A new report demonstrates that Israel is using LGBTIQ rights as a public relations shield for occupation, apartheid and now genocide, reports Paula Corvalan.
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During the debate on ending the United States’ economic, commercial, and financial embargo on Cuba in the United Nations General Assembly, Cuban foreign affairs minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla delivered a stinging rebuke to remarks made by US ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz. Kerry Smith reports.
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Labor foreign minister Penny Wong is outraged that China is testing its intercontinental ballistic missile, saying it is is “destabilising” for the region. However, as Pip Hinman writes, the RIMPAC26 military exercises — on now, based off Hawai’i — provoke war.
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A rally near the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion protested the conflation of pro-Palestinian voices with anti-Jewish hate speech. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Advocates warn that imprisoned Palestinian paediatrician Dr Hussam Abu Safiya’s life is in danger, following a recent visit with him, reports Ana Vračar.
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Indonesian security forces massacred scores of people in Biak, West Papua, on July 6, 1988. Although the Australian government knew about the massacre, it failed to condemn the Indonesian military for the atrocity — a practice successive Australian governments have continued, reports Susan Price.
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In Buried in Practice, author John C Wilson has preserved a record of truth for the Indigenous peoples of West Papua, writes John Seed.
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese claims he wants Labor’s national conference to “showcase” the party as inclusive, open and democratic. But he is just as committed to avoid discussing AUKUS and Palestine, despite sharp internal divisions on both. Markela Panegyres reports.
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The AUKUS Public Inquiry is looking into how much toxic nuclear waste Australia will be required to store, how many jobs will be created and why we are being prepared to potentially join a war against China — the country’s largest trading partner. Binoy Kampmark reports.
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Sarah Glynn asked Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party MP Berdan Öztürk — who was in Strasbourg for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe — about the “Peace Process” between the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party.
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Australia’s role in the global arms trade and its connection to the AUKUS pact is coming under increasing scrutiny, particularly over the past near three years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Cas Smith reports.
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United States sanctions ensure that most of the foreign currency Venezuela generates from oil sales remains under US control, drastically limiting the funds available for reconstruction following the recent earthquakes, writes Venezuela's Autonomous and Independent Workers’ Committee.