Following last year’s revelations of the secret shipping of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel through Thailand from Sydney, new documents show parts being routed onto passenger jets through the U.S., Peter Cronau reports.
While Washington sets the priorities and commands decision-making, Australian operational staff at the base are outnumbered by Australian “guards and gardeners,” writes Peter Cronau.
Mary Kostakidis was known as “the face” of Australia’s SBS evening news. A former head of SBS TV told CN’s award ceremony that Kostakidis was the “conscience” of SBS, for among things, wanting to tell the Palestinians’ story.
The Australian PM says a surveillance plane sent to the Gulf is purely defensive but the plane is part of U.S. combat operations. Sen. David Shoebridge and Peter Cronau join CNLive!
Australia’s support for the U.S.-Israel war against Iran by hosting of a string of U.S. military bases and providing a ‘spy’ plane to defend the Gulf states is a critical contribution to the U.S. war machine, writes Peter Cronau.
Revelations of secret F-35 fighter jet parts shipments to Israel have exposed a yawning hole in Australia’s sovereign national defence, writes Peter Cronau.
Queen Elizabeth II of England advised the governor-general he could overthrow the elected government of Australia 50 years ago today – and he did, Jenny Hocking and Peter Cronau report.
At least 68 shipments of F-35 fighter jet parts have been flown on commercial passenger planes to Israel from Australia as recently as last month, leaked documents reveal, reports Peter Cronau.
Peter Cronau on a 2009 Brookings policy paper outlining how Washington could use Israel to wage war on Iran while justifying it with a false narrative of failed nuclear negotiations.
Canberra’s failure to detect live-firing by Chinese warships has exposed weaknesses in Australia’s defence, which in just a couple of weeks has changed for the worse, writes Peter Cronau.