The Guardian • Australia
Issue #2085
Japan eyes Australia for missile testing
Japanese government sources have revealed that Japan and Australia are discussing potential military cooperation in case of “scenarios where emergencies arise simultaneously in both the...
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Issue #2016
The real threat of the United States’ 800 foreign bases
Under the heading “Australia Faces Massive Existential Threat from China,” Christopher Joye writes that: “The spectre of Chinese nuclear submarines, destroyers, fighters and bombers based...
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Issue #2005
Listening to the Solomon Islands: friends to all and enemies to none
The Solomon Islands (SI), with a population of 700,000, has a growing relationship with China. This is a fact and an inevitable trend. In all...
Read moreAfghanistan: what’s next?
Little was said about the horrendous consequences of the US-led invasion of Afghanistan and the tens of thousands of Afghan lives that were lost, and the wreckage and chaos that was left behind following the hasty withdrawal by US and allied troops.
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Issue #2099
‘Squad’ of nations formed to confront and provoke China
A new US-dominated bloc aimed at ‘challenging’ China is now almost complete. The grouping unites the USA, Japan, the Philippines, and Australia in what is...
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Issue #2060
Statement on Wikileaks founder Julian Assange
We strongly condemn the ongoing extradition proceedings relating to Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder under the Espionage Act and Computer Fraud Abuse Act. Assange has...
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Issue #2115
Nuclear weapons for a nuclear war
The United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) came into force in 2021. With its preamble on the “catastrophic consequences” of a...
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Issue #2187
US covertly propagandising Australia
This March, the Trump administration sent a cable ordering its embassies and consulates to launch local campaigns to proactively combat propaganda targeting the US. This...
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Issue #2037
Sub-Imperial Power: Australia in the International Arena
Fernandes explains Australia’s transference of subservience from the United Kingdom to the United States of America since World War II. His lucid explanation reveals that...
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Issue #2007
The Communist Party of Australia and the Communist Party of China – a perspective
As the Communist Party of China (CPC) prepares for its significant twentieth congress in 2022, we may ask how the Communist Party of Australia (CPA)...
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Issue #2103
HALF THE SKY
Skye Dannaher In the shadow of Australia’s colonial history, the voices of First Nations women resonate with a profound urgency, particularly in the realm of...
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Issue #2020
Mass shootings in the USA and Australia
On 24th May 2022 an eighteen-year-old gunman, equipped with an AR-15 style semiautomatic rifle, murdered nineteen students and two teachers at a primary school in...
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Issue #2021
Chile after the coup
It has been nearly fifty years since the infamous coup in Chile on 11th September 1973. The world became aware of the heinous birth of...
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Issue #2045
Immigration: UK Copies Australia
That’s right, you read the headline correctly. Normally it’s the other way round. Australians copy the UK, at least when we’re not copying the US....
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Issue #2127
Electoral ‘reform’: the two-party stranglehold
In 2022, one-third of Australian voters voted for independents and small parties as the electorate becomes increasingly disenchanted with an entrenched two-party system that sees...
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Issue #2124
Australia: even more the 51st state?
The recent National Security and Australia’s Northern Defence paper by the right wing think tank/lobby group, the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) favours permanently expanding...
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Issue #2118
Kanaky: French, Australian, and Chinese ‘influence’
Since 2016 the Australian and French governments have seen the Indo-Pacific as a major theatre of competition against Chinese economic, political and military influence, especially...
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Issue #2124
US election 2024: lessons for Australia
The United States’ election spectacle between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump has dominated Australian screens and social media this year. Between government policies such as...
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Issue #2097
Papua New Guinea, Australia, USA: the good, the bad, and the ugly
Two state visits and an insult of huge proportions. All this in just a little more one rather tumultuous week for Papua New Guinea. There...
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Issue #2095
LETTERS
US / Australian hypocrisy off the scale Dear Comrade Editor, We are often told that a reason for Australia’s subservience to the USA is that...
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Issue #2101
Starmer is a socialist but …
There are more countries in the world than the UK, the USA, and Australia, and yet we can’t help noticing parallels between the UK and...
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Issue #2122
Israel and the USA: an axis of terror
An ‘axis of terror’ is operating in Gaza, in Lebanon, in the West Bank, in Syria. It’s the Israeli military, backed by the USA. Israel...
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Issue #2098
UK Rwanda scheme copies Australian failure
The UK has begun mass arrests of migrants in preparation for Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda deportation scheme. The UK Home Office, which manages immigration, has released...
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Issue #2121
University rankings plummet: capitalist destruction
It’s nothing short of a catastrophe. Australian university rankings have plummeted to their lowest ever records in the latest world rankings. While rankings aren’t completely...
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Issue #2093
LETTERS
Genocide Dear Editor, The terrible ongoing genocide continues in Gaza. I’m utterly astounded that after mere allegations by Israel against a few staff out of...
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Issue #2129
10th anniversary of China-Australia Comprehensive Partnership
The year 2024 marks the 10th anniversary of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Australia and the establishment of comprehensive strategic relationship between China...
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Issue #2134
Aluminium, and beyond
When Trump launched his trade war, some nations responded with threats of retaliation. Others sought to find ways to ‘deal ‘with the most powerful economy...
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Issue #2002
West Papuans escalate their fight for justice
In 1962 the “New York Agreement” signed at the United Nations led to the notorious Act of Free Choice that took place in West Papua...
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Issue #2020
ACTU pushes for radical reforms ahead of jobs summit
The federal government is holding a Jobs and Skills Summit in early September this year to address the “shared economic challenges” faced by Australians. The...
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Issue #2043
African slaves in colonial Australia
The Melbourne Gaol is famous for being the place where the bushranger, Ned Kelly, was hanged in 1880. In the early 1970s I saw a...
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Issue #2135
Trump – and the Coalition’s past and future
Have you ever thought that the landscapes around you look too beautiful? Have you ever thought that your life needs a bit more of that...
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Issue #1985
CPA, CPB & CPUSA Trilateral Statement on AUKUS
The Communist Party of Australia, the Communist Party of Britain and the Communist Party of the USA met on 1st October to discuss the implications...
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Issue #2027
DINGO
Last week, “Dingo” reported on Solomon Islands PM Manasseh Sogavare’s address to the UN General Assembly, a voice of the Pacific Islands People in the...
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Issue #2079
The Echidna Strategy: Australiaís Search for Power and Peace
Sam Roggeveen is Director of the conservative Lowy Institute’s International Security Program, and used to work for the Office of National Assessments, Australia’s peak intelligence...
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Issue #2097
Where is the Red Menace?
Australia’s political, military, and media elites and the Americans holding their leashes have been doubling and tripling down on China fearmongering in the last few...
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Issue #2117
Australia-Japan 2+2 and the running dogs of war
The Australia-Japan 2+2 meeting (two foreign Ministers and two Defence Ministers) was held this September, between Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles and Foreign Minister Penny...
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Issue #2121
Israel: failed state
Israel is in the news every day, and seems to be a Middle East nuclear superpower. In reality it is a failed Zionist state. It...
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Issue #2164
Albanese’s neocolonial travelogue
Australian PM Anthony Albanese has been doing the rounds of the Pacific, with visits to Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea. There’s been a lot of...
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Issue #1985
Australia keen to be major defence exporter as sales to Africa revealed
Australia is commonly referred to as “America’s deputy sheriff” because of the support role it plays for US imperialism.
Read moreAustralia’s own goal
US President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and Australia’s PM Scott Morrison lined up like three stooges in a stage-managed virtual presentation to announce the formation of yet another military alliance
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Issue #2077
Australia: A History of Supporting Israel
On 28 October, 120 member states of the UN General Assembly voted Yes to the resolution for an immediate truce to provide aid to the...
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Issue #2156
China-Australia friendship and a shared future
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. More...
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Issue #2073
Australia-Canada – 30 years behind?
At a time when Australia is intensely debating constitutional recognition of Indigenous people, it is interesting to look at Canada. They wrote recognition of Aboriginal...
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Issue #2012
Australia “opposes” US statement on UN report into human rights abuses in Israel and Palestine
Australia has refused to sign a statement, alongside over twenty other countries, released by the US regarding an inquiry into human rights violations in Palestine...
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Issue #2087
Australia and New Zealand’s ‘seamless’ march to militarisation
The latest step in the militarisation of the Indo-Pacific has been taken. The inaugural ANZMIN ‘2+2’ joint meeting of Australian and New Zealand foreign and...
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Issue #2078
GREEN NOTES
Who’s the pariah? How often do you hear the Western leaders, including Australia’s, point the finger at the People’s Republic of China as the world’s...
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Issue #2164
GLOBAL BRIEFS
IRAN: Iran announced immediate suspension of all cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Israeli Foreign minister Gideon Saar urged European signatories of the...
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Issue #2012
Workers win historic wage increase in Annual Wage Review
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has struck a strong middle ground with a 5.2 per cent wage hike announced on 15th June. The minimum wage...
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Issue #2011
The LGBTQ+ struggle in Australia
The month of June is known as Pride Month around the globe. Originating out of the US to commemorate the Stonewall riots – a series...
Read moreSubs, subservience and stupidity
It’s been less than a month since the US tore out of poverty-stricken Afghanistan after losing a twenty-year dirty war, with Australia dragging behind, and already they have announced a new absurd military scheme, AUKUS
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Issue #2100
China’s new development – Australia’s new opportunity
What people should worry about is not whether China’s growth would peak, but whether they would miss the opportunities in China. China’s economy has made...
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Issue #2037
CPA History Website
The party has a website dedicated to its 100-year history. It is called www.100redyears.org. During the Party’s centenary an exhibition was planned. However, the COVID...
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Issue #2143
Australia’s complicity in genocide
The Albanese government has made Australia complicit in the most serious and inhumane of crimes. It has repeatedly denied that Australia has exported weapons to...
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Issue #2181
PEACE NOTES
How many US Bases do we have? Recently there has been some internal discussion about the number of US Bases in Australia. The peace movement...
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Issue #2171
Annabel Crabb’s Civic Duty
If you want to understand Australian democracy and you’re not allergic to twee jokes, the ABC has a show for you. In Annabel Crabb’s Civic...
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Issue #2169
What’s happening with rare earths?
Western imperialism, aka the ‘rules-based order,’ is supply chain dependent on its strategic rival China. This is the context for the recently announced increase in...
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Issue #2062
NO TO NATO
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese attended the summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in Vilnius, Lithuania on 11 - 12 July. Albanese was present as part...
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Issue #2141
Tariffs blackmail will backfire
On 2 April, US president Donald Trump imposed sweeping, so-called “reciprocal tariffs” ranging from 10% to 50% on almost all nations based on the US’s...
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Issue #2052
May Day gathers strength
May Day celebrations and protests across Australia have concluded, held across every state and territory as well as many regional centres. May Day is a...
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Issue #2097
DINGO
The government of Papua New Guinea continues to reject Australia’s attempt to force it to abandon its relations with China. Twenty years ago, the then...
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Issue #2055
PEACE NOTES
Hannah Middleton Papua New Guinea is being pressurised by the US and Australia to join their plans for war on China. PNG’s location north of...
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Issue #2193
Australia making explosives for Israel
According to a recent report in The Shot, despite months of reassurances from Foreign Minister Penny Wong, Australia has been manufacturing the explosive that goes...
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Issue #2160
Cannon fodder from down under
A mother speaks to her son as he prepares to go to war: “Now as you go forth to do your master’s bloody business, ahead...
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Issue #2173
OP-ED: Rare earths deal
Western imperialism, aka the rules-based order, is supply chain dependent on its strategic rival China. This is the context for the recently announced increase in...
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Issue #2145
It’s really your ABC
Australia has one of the highest concentrations of media ownership on earth. Participation in the mainstream media is limited to a very small group of...
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Issue #2134
DINGO
Australian soccer star Samantha Kerr has been found not guilty of racially harassing a London policeman after calling him “stupid and white” during an incident...
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Issue #2139
Australia: An Unofficial History
Australia: An Unofficial History is an uncomfortable watch in an important way. This may seem odd for a documentary series which presents itself as a...
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Issue #2210
Maritime Union unites with international unions to fight automation
Dockworkers from across Australia, Canada, the United States, and New Zealand have united to escalate the international campaign against automation being used to destroy jobs,...
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Issue #2147
Not a trade deal
The Albanese government is looking to enter a trade agreement spanning Pacific and European countries called the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership. But...
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Issue #2077
A place under the table
It’s always a stressful experience meeting the boss, so perhaps we should sympathise with Anthony Albanese who has just been to Washington to catch up...
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Issue #2099
UN votes for Palestine, genocide continues
The United Nations has voted on whether to grant Palestine’s right to recognition as a member-state. The votes have been counted. The killing goes on....
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Issue #2085
Palestine: Australia complicit in genocide
It beggars belief that Australia has suspended funding to the UN agency providing aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. It did so following unsubstantiated...
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Issue #2126
Democracy: more than a sausage
The electoral reform Bill that Labor is right now trying to push through Parliament has some things that look good, and may look like avoiding...
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Issue #2202
DINGO
African nations have been urged to step up preparations for what could become one of the strongest El Niño events on record, say scientists. Climate...
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Issue #2088
EDITORIAL
This editorial is written one day before Julian Assange’s last trial hearing. Significantly, Assange himself is too sick to attend the hearing, after years being...
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Issue #2090
Government opposes Palestine ceasefire
Benjamin Netanyahu’s language has gone biblical again. In a statement issued 29 February he repeatedly called for “total victory” and God’s “vengeance,” stressing the support...
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Issue #2164
Australia recognises Palestinian statehood (finally)
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has welcomed the decision taken by Australia, along with the United Kingdom and Canada, to recognise the State of...
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Issue #2122
Australia and Norway marching as one to a martial drum
Australia and Norway have a lot in common. At least that’s the claim being made by the defence ministers of the two countries. Norwegian Defence...
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Issue #2203
Communists call on international peace movement to mobilise to stop AUKUS
The Communist Party of Australia, Communist Party of Britain and Communist Party USA held a trilateral meeting during the 24th International Meeting of Communist &...
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Issue #2137
EDITORIAL
New US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has been depressing a lot of mainstream commentators with his comments about Europe and Ukraine, but one mainstream paper...
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Issue #2154
The Australian Special Envoy’s Proposed Plan to Combat Antisemitism
On 10 July 2025, Special Envoy Jillian Segal AO submitted her Plan to Combat Antisemitism for the Australian government’s consideration. A broad spectrum of stakeholders...
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Issue #2201
Gaza – the hidden tragedy
Gaza has slipped from the headlines of most mainstream media outlets, but the killing continues and the aftermath of previous assaults is ongoing. ORPHANS Since...
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Issue #2181
NO WAR ON IRAN!
When the United States and Israel began bombing Iran in an unprovoked act of war, they opened the way for conflict to escalate in the...
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Issue #2120
Cost of living crisis pushes Australians ‘to the brink’
New research from charity Good360 Australia reveals an unprecedented surge in community demand for non-food aid, with 82 per cent of charities reporting that demand...
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Issue #2120
Lebanon: Israeli slaughter, backed by USA
The Israeli invasion of Lebanon continues. Hundreds of women and children are among the more than 2,000 Lebanese now dead. More than a million Lebanese...
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Issue #2148
Act now against genocide
The Jewish Council of Australia (JCA)is a diverse coalition of Jewish academics, lawyers, writers, and teachers. Here’s what they say: “For the past 19 months...
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