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 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 DAVID HARDAKER | Aug 5, 2025 | Opinion, The world
Sunday’s pro-Palestine march of 100,000 or more in the drenching rain over the Sydney Harbour Bridge crystallised a moment in history for Australia and the watching world. To be caught in such a moment is exhilarating, shocking, disturbing and/or discombobulating,...
by DAVID HARDAKER | Jul 28, 2025 | Analysis, Politics
Surely about now Sussan Ley must have a tinge of regret about taking on the job of opposition leader, notwithstanding the circa-$440,000 pay packet that also comes with a shot at ignominy. The immediate reason is that Ley, a one-time co-chair of the Parliamentary...
