Australia has been urged to adjust its sovereign wealth fund after hefty investments in weapons companies and banks involved in illegal Israeli settlements.
According to SIPRI, global military expenditure reached $2,718B in 2024, a 9.4% annual increase and the steepest year-on-year rise since at least 1988.
Clover Moore capitulates to Murdoch media and Chris Minns, cancels Sydney debate on 'Globalise the Intifada'. Andrew Brown writes on the impact of cancel culture.
This report was designed to produce conclusions rather than find them". A response to the interim findings of the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion by Andrew Brown.
The United Arab Emirates will leave the OPEC oil group effective on May 1, its government says, in a long-rumoured move after six decades of membership.
The Attorney General's office used an opaque process to appoint Zionist law firm Gilbert+Tobin as lawyers assisting the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion without open tender.
Seventeen Australian activists are set to join a flotilla attempting to break Israel's siege and deliver food and medical aid to the suffering people of Gaza.
Newcastle student Zach Schofield is heading to Gaza on the Sumud Flotilla this week, one of 17 Australians attempting to break Israel's siege and deliver food and medical aid.
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The Iran war has brought another round of Middle East death and destruction, and with it, new windfalls for weapons companies supported by our superannuation money.