The Gold Comes Off: A COVID-19 Outbreak in Sydney

December 26, 2020

Australia has various advantages as an island continent. It is monumental and only accessible in the most impractical ways. It is discouragingly far and almost impossible to invade without…

Australia Pays Heavy Price for Being Uncle Sam’s Lapdog towards China

December 20, 2020

Opinion

It looks like China has had enough of Australia’s duplicity and provocations, deciding to hit Canberra where it hurts – in the pocket. China is reportedly planning to scale back imports of Australian …

Imperialism 2.0

December 18, 2020

Opinion

The new imperialism doesn’t look like old-school ground invasions, it looks like multi-front cold wars, economic warfare, blockades and starvation sanctions, drone strikes, arming proxy militias, CIA-…

Imperfect Releases: Andrew Hastie, War Crimes Reports and Australia in Afghanistan

December 8, 2020

Opinion

If one were to get into the head of Australian government MP Andrew Hastie, a security tangle of woe would no doubt await. Having been a captain with the Special Air Services and having also served in…

Did The Australian Media and Military Collude to Launch an Infowar Attack on Russia?

December 5, 2020

Opinion

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation appears to have colluded with the Australian Defence Ministry to launch an information warfare attack on Russia under the pretext of responding to Foreign Minis…

Doctored Indignation: Australia-China Relations

December 4, 2020

Opinion

Clay foot diplomacy is all the rage in Canberra, and the Australian government has become a solid practitioner. Having stuck its neck out across continents and seas to proclaim the need to inves…

Skewed Responsibility: Australian War Crimes in Afghanistan

November 27, 2020

Opinion

The Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force Afghanistan Inquiry was always going to make for a gruesome read – and that was only the redacted version. The findings of the four-year inv…

The Australian Special Forces’ Culture of Death

November 26, 2020

Opinion

Australia has a culture for war, and that culture breeds atrocities. The Australian government’s own inquiry has confirmed many of the allegations leaked by journalists regarding war crimes in Afghani…