THE MEDIA ARE TARGETING THE PUBLIC FOR A WAR WITH CHINA
The Australian and British media are ramping up public fear of the rulers in Beijing, aiding a major military build-up, and perhaps conflict, by America and its allies
WHY INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM MATTERS
There’s never been so many obstacles in the way of investigative journalism – but there are opportunities and ways to challenge these silences.
FREE-FIRE ZONE, WEST PAPUA
High-tech automated lethal drones and rocket-firing helicopter gunships of the Indonesian military are being used in attacks on indigenous villagers in West Papua – just a few hundred kilometres north of Australian territory.
THE ART OF DOGGED INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM EXPLAINED
Nicky Hager is one of the world’s best independent, investigative journalists; find out how he’s been challenging power for decades.
KILLING BY ALGORITHM
Australia lacks adequate ethical restraints on its booming development of autonomous weapons that kill with minimal human input.
AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES RUSH TO ‘EDUCATE’ INDONESIA
Despite a lack of solid results, a growing number of Australian universities are rushing to set up in Indonesia to teach wealthy locals.
TRUTH LIES BLEEDING
When two Reuters media workers were killed in Baghdad in the Iraq war, the US military moved rapidly to hide the truth – until WikiLeaks revealed the cover-up.
HIGHLIGHTS
‘Top Secret’ NSA map, this extract showing the Pacific Ocean and the XKeyScore surveillance facilities located in Australia and New Zealand and other nations.
The NSA surveillance facilities are located in Australia at Pine Gap (Rainfall) near Alice Springs, the signals intelligence satellite stations outside Geraldton in Western Australia, at Shoal Bay near Darwin, and at the HMAS Harman listening post in Canberra, and in at New Zealand’s Waihopai satellite interception station (Ironsand). (Image: NSA, via Edward Snowden)
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SINKING BILLIONS – REVOLVING DOORS
The Australian Defence Department’s new Frigates project is a jobs merry-go-round for former military officers, bureaucrats, and weapons makers.
SINKING BILLIONS – UNDERGUNNED AND OVERPRICED
Missing records, billions in over-runs, and flawed ships – how the Australian Defence Department’s new Frigates project is a boondoggle for a British weapons-maker.
BORN IN THE USA – AUSTRALIA, INDIA AND THE QUAD
Australia’s rock star feting of Modi gives support to his domestic agenda, contributing to the decline of democracy and human rights in India, and also to the push for confrontation with China.
AUKUS COMING TO DINNER
With billions of dollars on the banquet table, Australia should choose its dinner guests wisely.
THE ISRAELI COMPANY HACKING INTO YOUR LOCKED MOBILE PHONE
The use of military grade spyware by Australian government departments means our most personal data stored on our mobile phones – from financial details, contacts, and private photos, to an archive of messages and movements – is no longer secret.
SNUBBING THE NEIGHBOURS
An assertive and rising Indonesia has reacted badly to Australia’s renewed AUKUS embrace with the Anglosphere.
THE TIME FOR LOUD DIPLOMACY – A COMMENTARY
Despite a year of grace given to the Prime Minister for ‘quiet diplomacy’ to work, the release of Julian Assange from political incarceration and extradition looks as remote as ever – so it seems it’s time to get out the loudhailer once more.
THE PATHWAY TO FREEDOM FOR JULIAN ASSANGE
A mere stroke of the pen by US President Joe Biden can see the immediate release of Julian Assange.
THE AMBASSADOR AND THE HIT LIST
On the recent death of veteran Australian diplomat Richard Woolcott, the historical record leaves him an unquiet grave.
GREEN ENERGY’S DOWN SIDE
Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest is looking to develop a ‘green energy’ mega project in Africa – but at what cost?
MAJORITY OPPOSE U.S. WAR ON CHINA
The majority of Australians prefer a policy of neutrality and oppose joining US wars under the ANZUS alliance, polling shows.
SILENT COLLABORATOR – AUSTRALIA
EXCLUSIVE: Australia’s official neglect of detained WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, is revealed in Federal Government files obtained under FOI legislation.
THE ‘GRAND NARRATIVE’ OF TERRORISM
Revenge has been the primary driver in most of the Islamist terror attacks on Australian soil – revenge for Australian involvement in violent US wars in Muslim countries of the Middle East.
SPORTS DIPLOMACY – A TOOL OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
It’s not just sport… how a very Australian sport is being Americanised and militarised to further US global interests.
TWIGGY’S AFGHAN MINERAL COUP
The ‘deal of the century’ for the exploitation of Afghanistan’s resource treasure trove has disappeared in a puff of smoke.
FUTURE PROSPECTS: BRIGHT, AND IMPROVING
Here at Declassified Australia, we are facing a bright future.
BOMBER’S REVOLVING DOORWAY
There is a never-ending conga line of politicians, intelligence, military and defence officials quick-stepping through revolving doorways onto the boards of lucrative military weapons companies.
WATCHING THE EYES
A new history of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance ultimately provides cover for those nations’ modern day crimes.
THE QUEEN’S COUP
Queen Elizabeth II of England advised the Governor-General he could overthrow the elected government of Australia – and he did.
MASSIVE ANTI-RUSSIAN ‘BOT ARMY’ EXPOSED BY AUSTRALIAN RESEARCHERS
An Australian university has unearthed millions of Tweets by fake ‘bot’ accounts pushing disinformation on the Ukraine war.
SECRECY AND EMPIRE
Under the guise of protecting the national interest, Australia’s security establishment acts in secret to uphold the global US-led imperial order.