Tag: Australia
Australian author leads silence protest over ‘blood debt’ owed to Papuans
Asia Pacific Report
An Australian author and advocate, Jim Aubrey, today led a national symbolic one minute’s silence to mark the “blood debt” owed to...
Have New Zealanders really been ‘misled’ about AUKUS, or is involvement now a foregone conclusion?
ANALYSIS: By Marco de Jong and Robert G. Patman
When former prime minister Helen Clark spoke out against New Zealand potentially compromising its independent foreign...
Australian group warns of new ‘arrests, torture’ in Papuan crackdown
Asia Pacific Report
An Australian solidarity group for West Papua today warned of a fresh “heavy handed” Indonesian crackdown on Papuan villagers with more “arrests...
Censorship over Gaza is a crucial complement of genocide
ANALYSIS: By Somdeep Sen
Last month on the BBC’s flagship news programme, Newsnight, author and journalist Howard Eric Jacobson complained that Britain’s public broadcaster had...
ABC editorial staff call for content chief to resign over Gaza comments sacking
Pacific Media Watch
Editorial staff at Australia’s public broadcaster ABC have again registered a vote of no confidence in managing director David Anderson and senior...
Under pressure, Australia reinstates some visas to Gazans fleeing genocide
By A Firenze in Gadigal/Sydney
Palestinians fleeing war-ravaged Gaza for safety in Australia were left stranded when the Labor government abruptly cancelled their visas.
The “subclass...