by DAVID HARDAKER | Aug 15, 2025 | Opinion, Politics
Last night two simultaneous events captured precisely the Australia-Gaza-Israel-US knot of relationships. As US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee told the ABC’s 7.30 of the Trump administration’s “disgust” with Australia for recognising a Palestinian state, a...
by DAVID HARDAKER | Aug 13, 2025 | Opinion, Politics
How wondrous to live in a time when no-one gives two hoots about what the Murdochs splash on their front pages or screech about on Sky. The grand exception remains the Liberal Party, yet again up for a whirl with its very own media partner. And the good news is the...
by DAVID HARDAKER | Aug 12, 2025 | Analysis, The world
What’s with the outrage over the Albanese government’s decision to break with the US and recognise a Palestinian state? The gesture is close to meaningless given the one-in-a-million chance of there ever being a two-state solution, for the many reasons The Politics...
by DAVID HARDAKER | Aug 7, 2025 | Analysis, The world
This week Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson visited the occupied West Bank — not to see conditions on the ground for Palestinians but to spend time at an Israeli settlement. He became the highest-ranking US official to do so. Settlements are illegal under...
by MURRAY HOGARTH | Aug 6, 2025 | Opinion, The world
Let’s assume that elements of the youthful firebrand left-winger Anthony Albanese still exist within his complex and evolved political make-up. This version of the prime minister would be alert to the prospect that an era of vocal social discontent and popular protest...
