Media

Kneecap's Mo Chara has been charged with terror offences by British police for displaying a Hezbollah flag at a concert, but that won't silence the group's support for Palestine, reports Isaac Nellist.

I lost my Facebook account because I dared to do something apparently unthinkable: I spoke up as a Jewish person who cares about children in Gaza, writes Michael Cohen.

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Community Radio 3CR’s annual Radiothon is coming up, with a fundraising target of $275,000 by the end of June to keep the station operating, reports Stephanie.

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Singapore’s People’s Action Party, which has ruled since 1959, used various tactics to cripple opposition parties and maintain its supermajority in the lead up to the general election, report Mark Tan and Alex Salmon.

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PEN America reported that authoritarian regimes around the world jailed more journalists and writers last year than ever before, writes Julia Conley.

When Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu was detained by the Turkish state, the country was rocked by its largest protests in a decade, which, despite a violent crackdown, have only grown more creative and resilient, writes Ela Buruk.

The Islamophobia Register found a disturbing doubling of in-person and online incidents of Islamophobia over 2023–24, compared with the previous year. Janet Parker spoke to report author Naser Alziyadat.

Murdoch, Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos

Mainstream media outlets may pretend not to be mouthpieces for the powerful, but in the end they are loyal to their billionaire owners and the class interests they represent, writes Tamara Pearson.

Antoinette Lattouf’s unlawful dismissal case against the ABC reveals the extreme lengths to which the media establishment will stoop to silence dissenting voices, argues Isaac Nellist.

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Hundred heads of state and gurus of the digital industries, such as Elon Musk and Sam Altman, are gathering in Paris to promote the benefits of Artificial Intelligence, prompting Éric Sadin to organise a counter summit. He explains why.

Sarah Schwartz, executive officer of the Jewish Council of Australia, has been attacked by the right for criticising Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s conflation of Jews with Zionism. Pip Hinman reports.

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Narratives surrounding the California wildfires deflect from the urgent need to address the root causes of climate disasters, argues S A Hamed Hosseini.