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Australia's nuclear industry has a shameful history of 'radioactive racism' that dates from the British bomb tests in the 1950s, The same attitudes persist today with plans to dump over half a million tonnes of nuclear waste on Aboriginal lands.
It is election time in Australia, and the electioneering took a remarkable turn Thursday night with announcements that the Australian Federal Police had raided the offices of the opposition Australian Labor Party,
Australia has the world’s largest known uranium deposits – about 28 percent – and is the world’s third largest exporter of uranium with nearly 7,000 tonnes a year.
Target Finding for the Empire: The Pine Gap Joint Defense Facility, America’s Spy Hub in the Heart of Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, August 21, 2017
The Burka Comes to Australia’s Parliament: Pauline Hanson’s Panto By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, August 19, 2017
Breaking the Seal: Child Abuse and the Confessional in Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, August 16, 2017
A Plague on Parliament: Australia’s Citizenship Crisis By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, August 15, 2017
Money Laundering in Chief: Scandal at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, August 14, 2017
Setback of “Green Conscience”: The Australian Recycling Sham By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, August 13, 2017
Australia’s Refugee Transit Centre on Manus Island: The Fate of Hamed Shamshiripour By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, August 13, 2017
Dismantling Tent City. Gathering of the Homeless in Sydney, Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, August 10, 2017
Gay Plebiscites: Australia’s Crisis on Same-Sex Marriage By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, August 08, 2017
Trump, Turnbull and Australia’s Refugee Crisis By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, August 05, 2017
Leaked Trump Phone Conversations with Foreign Leaders, Regime Change in America, Cold War 2.0, Risking Things Turning Hot By Stephen Lendman, August 04, 2017
Britain’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson in Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, August 02, 2017
Fanciful Terrors: Bomb Plots and Australian Airport Security By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 31, 2017
Australia’s Secret Military Base: The Pine Gap “Stealth” Anniversary Party By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 30, 2017
Australia’s Water Tragedy: Hydropolitics and the Failure of the Murray Darling Basin Plan By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 30, 2017
The Cardinal, The Church and Legal Theatre: Historic Procedure in Melbourne Magistrates Court By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 29, 2017
Citizenship and the Australian Constitution By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 28, 2017
The Refugee Crisis: Resettlement, the UN and the US-Australia Deal By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 26, 2017
Murder, Spies and Weapons – Three Fascinating ‘Deep State’ Stories By Moon of Alabama, July 23, 2017
Archaic Obstacles: Australia, Parliament and Dual Citizenship By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 20, 2017
Donald Trump Performance Signals Decline of US Power, Australian Perspective By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 18, 2017
Militarising Civilian Life: Australia, Policing and Terrorism By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 17, 2017
A Question of Accountability: Cardinal Pell, the Vatican and Child Abuse By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 14, 2017
Death on the Road: Memory in Australia’s Tim Winton’s Shrine By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, June 22, 2017
“The Hotel Tacloban”: The Depravity of War from The Pacific War Theater to the CIA’s Phoenix Program By Dr. T. P. Wilkinson, June 21, 2017
Australia’s Cinema: To Wake in Fright By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, June 16, 2017
Dreams of Detention By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, June 09, 2017
John McCain in Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, June 02, 2017
Tennis Player Margaret Court and Same-Sex Woes By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, May 31, 2017
U.S. Military World’s Largest Polluter – Hundreds Of Bases Gravely Contaminated By Whitney Webb, May 18, 2017
US Airstrike against Syria: More to the September 2016 ‘Mistake’ Than Originally Thought By James ONeill, May 10, 2017
Protecting Australia against Japan? The Need for US Military Presence in the Asia-Pacific Region? By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, May 09, 2017
The Universal Lesson of East Timor By John Pilger, May 08, 2017
Olympian Politics: The Australian Olympic Committee By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, May 06, 2017
Empty Values: The Australian Concept of Citizenship By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, May 03, 2017
Anzac as Apologia and Religion By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 25, 2017
US Vice President Mike Pence in Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 24, 2017
Ice and Busts: The Lost War on Drugs in Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 21, 2017
Australian Academics Witch-hunted for Challenging US Lies on Syria Attack By Mike Head, April 16, 2017
Australia Beckons a War with China By John Pilger, April 12, 2017
The Syrian Chemical Weapons Nexus: Verdict First, Evidence Later By James ONeill, April 12, 2017
Afghanistan’s President Ashaf Ghani in Australia.The Hazara Dilemma By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 04, 2017
Disaster As Joy in Australia: Cyclone Debbie Strikes By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 30, 2017
Cyclone Watch in Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 26, 2017
Australia Blows Israel’s Credibility on Its “World Vision” Sham Accusations By Dr. Vacy Vlazna, March 23, 2017
Romancing Coal in Australia: The Adani Obsession By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 19, 2017
The History of Free Speech in Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 16, 2017
One Nation Train. “Make Australia Great Again”, US-Australian Relations By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 03, 2017
Australia Participated in 2003 Iraq War Solely to Boost Ties with Bush, Army Think-Tank By RT, February 27, 2017
Copyright, Intellectual Property and the Extradition Saga of Kim Dotcom By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, February 27, 2017
Triumphing over Reality: China, Australia and Free Trade By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, February 10, 2017
Populism in Australia: Channelling Trump “Down Under” By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, February 09, 2017
Trumping Australia’s Refugee Deal By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, February 03, 2017
Aping Washington: Tony Abbott, Israel and Australian Foreign Policy By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, January 04, 2017
Justice for Palestine: The Flaws of UN Resolution 2234 and the “Two-State Solution” By Dr. Vacy Vlazna, December 29, 2016
Monitoring the Miners: Rio Tinto, Drones and Surveillance By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, December 13, 2016
Fossil Fuel Corruption and the Environment: The Problem with Australia’s Adani Mining By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, December 09, 2016
The Virtue of Protest: Democracy, Refugees and Australia’s Parliament By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, December 04, 2016
Plucking the Foreign Goose: Australia’s Tax on Backpackers By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, December 02, 2016
Flawed Alliances and the “Pivot to Asia”: Australia, the US and Trumpism By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, November 26, 2016
Bodies as Propaganda: The US-Australia Refugee Agreement By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, November 22, 2016
Trump and the “New Deal” of Modern Politics: Black Swans, White Sharks and Golf Diplomacy By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, November 21, 2016
7.5 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes South Island Of New Zealand By Scoop, November 14, 2016
New Zealand’s Only Middle East Exit Strategy – Leave Now By Chris Trotter, November 03, 2016
Having a Flutter: The Melbourne Cup and the Australian Gambler By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, November 01, 2016
Discrimination and Condemnation: Australia’s War on “Boat People” under “Operation Sovereign Borders” By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, October 30, 2016
The Illusion of Meritocracy: “Rock Star Economist” Thomas Piketty in Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, October 28, 2016
Nobel Laureates Dump Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton is “Outstanding… Sensitive to the Rest of the World” By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, October 27, 2016
Video: The Building Storm Against The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Trade Agreement By The Daily Conversation, October 23, 2016
Nauru, Refugees and Australia’s “Torture Complex” By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, October 19, 2016
Demonising Wind Energy in Australia: The South Australian Blackout By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, October 17, 2016
Australian War Crimes in Afghanistan Exposed By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, October 16, 2016
Obituary: Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (25 Million BC-2016) By Rowan Jacobsen, October 14, 2016
Australia Becomes First Country To Begin Microchipping Its Population. RFID Implants in the Human Body By Organic and Healthy, October 04, 2016
The Curse Of The Honorary Doctorate: The Case of Former Australian PM John Howard By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, October 04, 2016
Bartering on Refugees: The Costa Rica Solution By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, September 22, 2016
Selling Australia’s Security and Refugee agenda. Prime Minister Turnbull as Fantasist By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, September 18, 2016
Australia’s Global ‘Exit’: Tribalism and International Institutions By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, September 15, 2016
Islamic State, Lone Wolf Attacks, and Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, September 08, 2016
Australia: Opponents of War with China Labelled “Rats, Flies, Mosquitoes and Sparrows” By James Cogan, September 06, 2016