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We Need Climate Warriors Like Gideon Polya

Speaking out against injustice – whether it’s a lack of action on climate change, or slaughter in the Middle East – comes at a price,…More

Has The Melbourne Press Club Just Released The Worst Media Statement In History?

October 24, 2019

Has The Melbourne Press Club Just Released The Worst Media Statement In History?

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Special Investigations View all

A Living Hell In A Piece Of Paradise: Life Inside Vial Refugee Camp

It’s one of the world’s most renowned and idyllic locations. But the Greek Islands are…More

Weaponising Rape Myths And Consent In The Hunt For Julian Assange
EXCLUSIVE: On Election Eve, PM’s Office Gave $15m To Rich Party Donor From Money Set Aside To Tackle Black Poverty
Wesfarmers Responds To $15m Indigenous funding scandal
Talk To The Totalitarian Hand: State Responses To The Torture Of Julian Assange, Morally Disengaging Media, And What It Means For Us All

Aboriginal Affairs

Commission Only: How To Launch A Major Inquiry, Then Ignore Its Findings

Indigenous Australia Holds A Key To A Gentler Future

No Bronze Statue For Australia’s Golden Girl

Native Title Gets A Boost (A Very Small One) From The High Court

Koori Mail Chair Passes Away After 24 Years At The Helm

Wangan and Jagalingou Country The Frontline In ‘Adani’s Federal Election’

OUTBACK TOUR: Carpetbagging And The Art Of Doing Business Ethically

Palm Islanders Issue Urgent Call For ‘F**k Tony Abbott’ T-Shirts, On Eve Of ‘Special Envoy’ Visit

Intervention Anyone? Imagine If The Catholic Church Were An Aboriginal Community

EXCLUSIVE: Before You Get In Too Deep Defending The ‘Golly Balloon’ As ‘Not Based on Anything Racist’ …

Clayton’s Apartheid: The Racist Things Alice Springs Does When It Doesn’t Want To Appear Racist

Aboriginal Territorians Need Better Housing, Not More Bureaucracy And Indecision

The ‘R’ Word

January 26 Highlights A Time For Change, But Is Anyone Listening?

Labor, Libs Finally Agree On Something: Stopping A Conversation About Changing The Date

Australian Politics

The Climate Is Heating, The Economy Is Cooling. The Jobless Are Obviously To Blame

CPAC & The High Court: Fighting For Australia’s Future?

Greens To Formally Apologise Over Buckingham Sexual Assault Saga, But Secret Internal Report Still Hangs Over Party’s Head

Labor Now A Party Of Capitulation And Parliamentary Irrelevance

Thanks, Bob Brown, You Helped Labor Lose The Unloseable Election

The Real Tragedy Will Be If Labor Retreats To Its Short-Sighted, Racist Past

For the Sake of Australian Democracy, Resist The ‘Messiah From The Shire’

A Green Insider’s Perspective: Lessons From An Election Campaign

It Was Never An Unloseable Election For Labor, But Still…?!?!

Hawke And Housing And A Half Empty Campaign Launch: The Final Week

Tony Abbott Unplugged: He’s Out ‘Selling His Arse Again’, This Time On Climate Change

Tony Abbott Goes To Ground In Voices Of Warringah Candidate Survey

Gladstone Ports Worker Finds Out The Hard Way You Don’t Rock The Boat

Don’t Cry For Pauline, Because Pauline Is The Problem

Labor Rising: Morrison’s Scott No Plan Beyond A Scare Campaign On Shorten’s Bill

International Affairs View all

Standing On Their Own Two Feet

Charity doesn’t always begin at home, and it can sometimes be a hand up over a hand out. Shira Sebban…More

Environment

Blank Cheque For A Bad Plan: Canberra’s Nuclear Waste Problem Is South Australia’s Nightmare

‘International Rebellion Week’: Brisbane Shut-Down Is The Start Of A Wave Of Climate Activism

Greta Thunberg, A Force Of (And For) Nature (And Righteous Anger)

Australia Burns While We Maintain A Violent Silence On The Climate-Ecological Crisis

If You Think ‘Nobody Is Doing Anything’ To Tackle Climate Change, You’d Be Wrong!

Fukushima Fish Are Doing Swimmingly. The ALP’s Contribution To Sensible Debate, Not So Much

Radiation, Chernobyl And The ‘Scientific’ Mumbo-Jumbo Inexorably Attached To It

A Really, Really Simple Guide To Climate Change For Right-Wingers

A Greener Footprint Is Not Quite As Simple As ‘Plastic UnFantastic’

Ammonia Utopia Or Nuclear Nirvana: Digging Ourselves Out Of A Climate Disaster

The Green Blind Spot On Australia’s Expanding Population

Dirty Power: If We Hate Coal So Much, Why Is There So Much Coal?

Alan Jones, Peta Credlin Expose Climate “Hoax” With A Bowl Of Rice And The Suspension Of Reason And Accountability

Climate Violence: Australia’s Leading (And Most Disturbing) Export

Unturned Stones: 4 Corners On The Climate

Civil Society View all

Blurred Lines: One Hallmark Of An Uncivilised Society Is Celebrating Violence

How far have we really come in condemning violence in sport, asks Matt Poynting. You probably missed the staggering contradiction…More

Media & Culture

The Robots Are Coming. Sensible, Universal Laws On Social Media And Publishing, Not So Much.

Press Freedom: ‘Sound And Fury Signifying Nothing’

Nation Shocked After Brief Spate Of Journalism Breaks Out At Channel 10

Western Elites Spruik Media Freedom While Torturing Julian Assange In Belmarsh Supermax. But What’s Stanley Milgram Got To Do With It?

A Tale Of Two ‘Heroes’: General Jim Molan and Journalist Julian Assange

We Waded Through The Comments On Sunrise’s National Anthem Poll (and Corrected Them) So You Didn’t Have ‘Too’

Beware! Children Wearing Elmo Backpacks Want To Kill The Prime Minister!

Where Is Julian Assange On World Press Freedom Day? And What’s Torture Got To Do With It?

Think You’re Being Abused By A Sexist Troll? It Could Be A Bot

Facebook Now Charging To Distribute ‘Fake News’ Ad Scams

Petition Calling For Intervention Into Assange Extradition Passes 100,000 Signatures

The People (With Power) Versus Julian Assange

Asylum Seekers View all

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Destitute Refugees In Indonesia Show Australia Must Lift Ban On Resettlement

Australia’s refugee scandal is not just limited to the islands of Manus and Nauru, writes…More

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Dear Wentworth Voters: Here’s 93 Things Our Government Did To Refugees

Yesterday, we brought you a list of 123 things the Liberal Government did to ‘tackle’…More

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Royal Flush: Rain Soaks Drought Tour As Dubbo Cops Try To Shield Prince From Embarrassment Of Our Cruel Immigration Policies

He may be a direct descendant of the family that created the first wave of…More

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No Room At The Australian Inn For Gilead’s Handmaids

The promise of sanctuary offered to Gilead’s refugees on arrival across the border is a…More

Business & Consumerism View all

Pinched Some Post-It Notes From Work? Check Your Super Before You Return Them

And you thought workplace theft was a problem… every year in Australia, almost three million workers have around $6 billion…More

Education View all

Tomorrow Students Strike For Their Future. But Like Iraq in 2003, They Shouldn’t Assume They’ll Be Heard

The huge enthusiasm for tomorrow’s school strike for climate could easily turn into its opposite. Let’s make sure we don’t…More

Workers' Rights View all

Underground Underpayment: Subway Caught Ripping Off Its Own Employees. Again.

More than $80,000 in unpaid wages to almost 200 Subway employees in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria has been…More