Opinion

Australia’s defence – navigating US-China tensions in changing world

SPECIAL REPORT: By Peter Cronau for Declassified Australia Australia is caught in a jam, between an assertive American ally and a bold Chinese trading partner. America is accelerating its pivot...

Dan McGarry: Marc Neil-Jones is dead. His legacy lives on.

TRIBUTE: By Dan McGarry In Bislama, they say, "Wan nambanga i foldaon". A great tree has fallen. The nambanga, or banyan...

Marshall Islands: How the Rongelap evacuation changed the course of history

SPECIAL REPORT: By Giff Johnson The late Member of Parliament Jeton Anjain and the people of the nuclear test-affected...

Caitlin Johnstone: Even more assaults on free speech to silence criticism of Israel

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Notes from The Edge of the Narrative Matrix Acting on orders from the White House, immigration...

Rainbow Warrior back in Marshall Islands on nuclear justice mission

By Reza Azam of Greenpeace Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior has arrived back in the Marshall Islands yesterday for a...

Academic ‘tsunami’ at USP shakes regional Pacific institution to core

COMMENT: By Michael Field An alleged bizarre swinging punch towards an academic from a senior management figure at the top of the University of the...

PNG corruption – ‘Our people think MPs are automatic teller machines’

EDITORIAL: PNG Post-Courier Are the voters responsible for the corruption in the country? Papua New Guinea’s Health Minister and Member for Wabag, Dr Lino Tom, seems...

The Voice isn’t apartheid or a veto over Parliament – this misinformation is undermining democratic debate

ANALYSIS: By Dominic O’Sullivan Many different arguments for and against the Voice to Parliament have been heard in the lead-up to this year’s referendum in...

Stan Grant stands up to racist abuse. Our research shows many diverse journalists have copped it too

ANALYSIS: By Bronwyn Carlson, Faith Valencia-Forrester, Madi Day and Susan Forde Stan Grant, a well-known Aboriginal journalist and soon-to-be former host of Q+A, has made...

Memories of war haunt ‘slippery slope’ to a militarised Pacific

ANALYSIS: By Barbara Dreaver in Port Moresby When I was growing up in Kiribati, then known as the Gilbert Islands, New Zealand divers came to...

Human rights arguments have lost credibility over West’s double standards

ANALYSIS: By Kalinga Seneviratne in Suva At a time when the West has weaponised human rights, the United Nations body that promotes freedom of expression...