Most Australians have Israel fatigue. No stark warning or Royal Commission will change it. My latest piece: 'Greenblatt’s warning and the same old noise' #auspol open.substack.com/pub/joeljenk...
Greenblatt’s warning and the same old noise
Most Australians have Israel fatigue. No stark warning or Royal Commission will change it.
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Our shareholder activism campaigns have pushed some of Australia’s biggest companies to do better for people and the planet. Here's three ways you can get involved! Learn more here: https://www.six-invest.com.au/blog/community-questions-joining-shareholder-campaign
🔴 The Trump administration has become the first US government to finance a private-sector project in occupied #WesternSahara. #USTDA has awarded funding to the controversial #ORNX #greenammonia project, involving US, Spanish & German companies. Read more: wsrw.org/en/news/trum...
We shouldn't fall for the myth that channelling money to the private sector is the ONLY way to build infrastructure. Investing public money directly would give the public 100% ownership over anything we build, avoiding profiteering by private companies. neweconomics.org/2026/04/the-...
The private finance myth
Towards a better balance of public and private infrastructure provision
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The territorial dispute behind Morocco's Trump highway www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
The territorial dispute behind Morocco's Trump highway - ABC listen
Morocco has named a major highway after US President Donald Trump.
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"Everything is just data so we can computer it" has broken so many brains I swear
KNPB plans coordinated demos across Papua on New York Agreement anniversary #asiapacificreport #jubimedia #westpapua #newyorkagreement #protests @westpapuamedia.bsky.social asiapacificreport.nz/2026/08/05/k...
KNPB plans coordinated demos across Papua on New York Agreement anniversary | Asia Pacific Report
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"The politicians basically serve the rich, the wealthy, and their self-interest." Listen to this man in Nigel Farage's constituency.
We’ve just published a new investigation with ACT NOW! exposing evidence of unlawful and inadequate landowner consent under a potential new Forest Clearing Authority (FCA) in Western Province, Papua New Guinea. 🚨 This report is the first in a series we’re publishing over the coming months. 📆
BOOK REVIEW Leveraging Sovereignty: Kauikeaouli’s Global Strategy for the Hawaiian Nation, 1825–1854 By J. Susan Corley. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2022. 292 pp., notes, bibliography, index. ISBN-13: 9780824891039 Lorenz Gonschor doi.org/10.1080/0022...
Friends, a new piece for Crikey - on how Google Earth being crammed with AI slop is the perfect distillation of a company obsessed with doing exactly the wrong thing as fast as possible, in every way imaginable, for as long as they can get away with it www.crikey.com.au/2026/08/04/g...
Stop calling them "data centers." Start calling them pollution centers. 🧵👇
I signed this after watching Four Corners last night. Please sign too: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/fa...
Legislate NSW Labour Hire Licensing
This is not about the businesses who are trying to do the right thing. It’s about making the playing field level so that good businesses aren’t being undercut by bad faith actors operating in these sp...
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China may be spending less abroad, but it still holds major advantages in AI, electric vehicles, and other strategic technologies. Dr. Yu Jie explains how Beijing could use affordable technology and supply-chain partnerships to sustain its influence across the Global South.
column on ceuta and the new phenomenon of "border porn": migration as livestream spectacle, the frontier as computer game www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Ceuta was a carnival of anti-migrant content for hateful opportunists on the right – and a lesson for the left | Jonathan Liew
It was framed as a perfect storm because nativists dearly wanted it to be. Looking on, progressives failed to meet the moment too, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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Insurers are turning to catastrophe bonds to pass on historic levels of wildfire risk to the capital markets.
Wildfires Fan Record Sales of Catastrophe Bonds to Backstop Risk
Insurers are turning to catastrophe bonds to pass on historic levels of wildfire risk to the capital markets.
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The UAE's planned projects would make it Africa's largest investor
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2d agoThe UAE’s imperial push into Africa ft.trib.al/2yAMPti
10k new defense tech companies since 2024! It’s not just war profiteering; it’s the material basis to perpetually wage illegal wars with impunity. Rosa Luxemburg warned us
"The people who spent years blaming migrants [for rising house prices] should now have to explain why their theory no longer fits the facts. More importantly, journalists should be pushing them to explain why," writes @maiyazize.bsky.social in @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
House prices are cooling, exposing a stubborn political narrative for what it is
After years of seemingly unstoppable growth, house prices have begun to moderate. For aspiring home buyers, that will come as welcome relief. But it should also prompt journalists to ask whether they ...
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I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
The family of Kumanjayi White has initiated action with the NT Supreme Court to ascertain whether an NT police officer ultimately decided not to press charges against two colleagues who held the man down until he stopped breathing 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/answers...
Answers Sought Over Why Charges Haven’t Been Laid Over Kumanjayi White’s Custody Death
Kumanjayi White’s family is taking the Northern Territory government to court for answers as to why criminal charges were not brought against the officers that caused his death.
sydneycriminallawyers.com.au
The largest cause of deforestation is, and has been, the expansion of farmland. But the production of which products, in particular, has been driving this in recent decades? A recent study, published in Nature Food by Chandrakant Singh and Martin Persson, answered this question.
"Why data centre greenwashing is about to explode” by climate analyst, @ketanjoshi.co Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
Author @georgemonbiot.bsky.social: "Their massive tax cuts for the rich, crushing of trade unions, reduction in public housing, deregulation, privatisation, outsourcing and competition in public services were all proposed by Hayek and his disciples." Read more: evonomics.com/ruthless-net...
Massive Attack speak about ‘surreal experience’ of being banned from Singapore over Palestinian flag
Massive Attack speak about ‘surreal experience’ of being banned from Singapore over Palestinian flag
British band say they are ‘proud to have made this impromptu expression with our fans in Singapore’, where open display of all foreign flags is banned Massive Attack have called being banned from Singapore a “surreal experience” after displaying a Palestinian flag during their show. On Wednesday, the English trip-hop collective – whose current lineup includes Robert “3D” Del Naja and Grant “Daddy G” Marshall – played a show at the Star theatre. Continue reading...
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Moroccan King Mohammed VI said his decision to give Donald Trump’s name to a $1 billion highway that crosses into the disputed Western Sahara expresses his “deep appreciation” of the American leader
Morocco Says Trump Highway Naming Is Mark of ‘Deep Appreciation’
Moroccan King Mohammed VI said his decision to give US President Donald Trump’s name to a $1 billion highway that crosses into the disputed Western Sahara expresses his “deep appreciation” of the American leader.
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'We committed 7 years ago': SA forges ahead with Indigenous truth-telling commission
'We committed 7 years ago': SA forges ahead with Indigenous truth-telling commission
Kyam Maher says SA will establish a truth-telling commission within months, making good on a promise despite the failed 2023 Voice referendum.
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