Byron Shire Council adopted an Ethical Procurement Policy, mandating council to boycott all companies operating in illegal Israeli settlements. Nick Fredman reports.
Israel's war on Gaza
Francesca Albanese鈥檚 report for the United Nations Human Rights Council聽makes for stark and dark reading, writes Binoy Kampmark.
The only beneficiaries of Australia鈥檚聽reversion to colonial subservience to an聽increasingly authoritarian United States president will be a small section of the political and corporate elite 鈥 and at huge cost to the majority, argues Peter Henning.
Nuclear obsession warps our thinking about truth.聽Nuclear armed countries establish so-called red lines around their weapons and yet accept genocide in Palestine, aggression in Ukraine and civil wars in numerous other countries, argues Tony Smith.
The strikes on Iran are the manifestation of a failing international order, where the 鈥渕utually binding rules-based order鈥 is being replaced by the pantomime of strongman politics, argues聽Academics for Palestine WA and Gwen Velge.
Labor鈥檚 position is the culmination of a decades-long process of eroding United Nations鈥 convention commitments and obligations, argues Peter Henning.
Anti-war groups, parties and MPs are demanding the Australian government stop making excuses for the United States鈥 and Israel鈥檚 illegal bombing of Iran. Pip Hinman reports.
An emergency protest outside the Egyptian Consulate was called in response to the Sumud Convoy being blocked and the arrest and detainment of activists participating in the Global March for Gaza. Jordan AK reports.