Before the judges rejected David McBride appeals on Wednesday, Joe Lauria, Jeff Morris, Bill Brown, Kathryn Kelly and John Shipton told a rally outside the court building in Canberra what is at stake in McBride’s case.
The Australian government whistleblower is headed back to jail with no end of incarceration in sight. He is serving nearly six years for leaking documents to the media exposing Australian war crimes in Afghanistan, reports Joe Lauria.
A doctor returned from Gaza where he volunteered at Nasser and European hospitals in Khan Younis speaks live to an audience at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia on Tuesday.
Challenging the numerous insidious aspects of current U.K. foreign policy amounts to nothing less than truly ending the British Empire, writes Mark Curtis.
Despite the risks of colluding in Israel’s war crimes, Australia’s leaders remain wedded to the business of selling weapons and weapons parts to Israel, writes Stefan Moore.
Blocking his ability to tell a jury his motive, a judge sentenced David McBride to 5 years & 8 months in prison, of which he spent his 365th day Wednesday, for leaking evidence of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan.
AU ELECTION: Ahead of the Australian election, Julian Assange thanked incumbent Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for helping him gain his freedom. It was only Assange’s second public statement since being freed 10 months ago, writes Joe Lauria.
AU ELECTION: While denying supplying complete weapons, the Australian government allows exports to Israel of parts and components for weapons and equipment that are being used in the genocide in Gaza, writes Kellie Tranter.