Geography Archives: Australasia

Rebel teachers are taking the energy and inspiration of their industrial struggle against the Victorian government into the state election this November.

The screaming about “tax grabs”, “death taxes”, “class war” and “communism” from the sorry brigade of start-up shysters, investors, small businesses, big capitalists, right-wing journos and politicians is an absolute festival of reaction.

McCarthyite censorship leads 180 writers to withdraw from Adelaide Writers’ Week.

Australian officials are still learning about the individuals who carried out the Bondi Beach attack, killing more than a dozen Jews celebrating Hanukkah in Sydney.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics does not collect data on “class”.

“Accelerating climate disruption is the greatest threat to the human future: our safety and well-being, our homes and communities, and how and where we live and work,” a group of leading Australian military and security experts says.

Documentary recounts New Zealanders’ violent follies against Māori freedom fighters.

Julian Assange joined at least 90,000 and as many as 300,000 people who marched across Australia’s most famous bridge on Sunday to protest Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

In its response to AUKUS with its objective of militarily confronting China in the South China Sea, we should not be surprised by Chinese naval vessels sailing around Australia to pick up some intelligence or at least showing us their growing naval power.

I have a friend Julian King, who Duncan Graham reports has been subjected to a stun grenade as our Australian Federal Police burst through his door to seize his PhD research, phone and computers. Reportedly, the AFP are concerned about OPM (Organisasi Papua Merdeka _Free Papua Organisation), the indigenous independence movement in West Papua.

Far from the killing grounds of Gaza, an incredible display of defiance to settler colonialism has broken out in, of all places, New Zealand. The two projects–Israel and New Zealand’s–are linked more than many would like to think. Palestinian leaders raise their voices in support of New Zealand’s Māori people at this critical moment.

Māori MP Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke captured global attention with a powerful haka performed to protest the controversial Treaty Principles Bill.

The Australian Labor-Coalition political class has ignored, and by its actions rejected, UN decisions that Australia is legally obliged to stop its support for the Israeli settler-colonial project, to actively seek to stop Israel’s racial segregation and apartheid, and to cease military, diplomatic, economic, commercial, financial, investment, trade, political, and legal relations with the Israeli occupation.

September 15 marked the third anniversary of the announcement of the AUKUS (Australia, the UK, the U.S.) agreement.

What do two South Pacific countries, two North American countries, one country in the Middle East, and (until recently) one country in southern Africa have in common with Europe?

As the United States’ imperial system and Western hegemony circles the drain, lucid thought is becoming a rare commodity. But there is hope.

A powerful struggle is taking place in Kanaky (New Caledonia) between the indigenous people and French colonial authorities. In the background, the US-led militarisation of the Pacific intensifies.

The thing that stands out for me the most when watching the deeply moving footage of Julian Assange arriving home to Australia is how impossible this all felt until it happened.

After meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken last April, New Zealand’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Winston Peters, sa­id that the two countries had pledged “to work ever more closely together in support of shared values and interests.” In recent moves exemplifying this support, New Zealand has deployed a targeting team to a United States-led coalition conducting strikes against Yemen, extended its military participation in the U.S. proxy war in Ukraine, and is considering membership of AUKUS, the anti-China military agreement between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

The 2000 residents of Diego Garcia were forcibly removed to make way for a giant U.S. military base.