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DISRUPTION ON THE PATHWAY TO AN INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP IN AUSTRALIA
The full plans are slowly emerging for a massive international nuclear waste dump – suitable for high-level nuclear waste and potentially military nuclear waste – proposed for Aboriginal land in Central Australia.
AUSTRALIA OBSTRUCTED PROBE INTO DEADLY ‘RAINBOW WARRIOR’ BOMBING
France’s ‘Operation Satanique’ bombing of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior, 40 years ago this month, was state-sponsored terrorism – and Australia had a part in helping French secret agents to escape.
THE PLAN TO BOMB IRAN
The war strategy towards Iran was published in a policy paper outlining how the United States could use Israel to fight the war against Iran, while justifying it with a false narrative of failed negotiations.
U.S. MILITARY CONTRACTOR BACKING AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP
A U.S. military mega-contractor assisting an Australian company to develop a proposal for a nuclear waste dump in Central Australia has a flawed safety record in handling nuclear waste storage.
ACCOUNTABILITY AND WAR REPORTING
Most reporting of Western wars and conflict – as with current reporting of Palestine and early reporting of Vietnam 50 years ago – is missing context and interpretation.
CONFIRMED: AUSTRALIAN WEAPONS SOLD TO ISRAEL
With the Federal government covering for them, a Canberra-based company has supplied lethal weapons to a country accused of war crimes and genocide.
EXCLUSIVE: LIST OF EXPORTS TO ISRAEL SHOWS MANY ITEMS FOR MILITARY USE
While denying supplying complete weapons, the Australian government allows exports to Israel of parts and components for weapons and equipment that are being used in the genocide in Gaza.
REPORTING ON WAR CRIMES IS NOT A CRIME
The Zionist Federation of Australia has filed a formal complaint against journalist Mary Kostakidis in the Federal Court after accusing her of antisemitism for her reporting on X/Twitter.
TRADE IN A TIME OF GENOCIDE
In defiance of international rulings to boycott Israel for its ongoing violence and brutal occupation of Palestinian lands, Australia’s exports to Israel have continued during the genocide.
AUSTRALIA’S DEFENCE: NAVIGATING US-CHINA TENSIONS
A significant intelligence failure to detect live-firing by Chinese warships near Australia, has exposed Defence weaknesses, and the fact that when it counts, we are all alone.
THE GLOBAL SPREAD OF PALESTINE’S AGONY
Israel’s role in developing the military tools of imperial control.
NATO’S STRATEGY: ENGAGING CIVIL SOCIETY FOR INDO-PACIFIC DOMINANCE
Using a narrative of a China ‘threat’, NATO is engaging civil society groups in a Pacific battle for hearts and minds.
HOW THE ISRAEL LOBBY TRIES TO SILENCE CRITICISM OF ISRAEL
There’s a long history of the Zionist lobby pressuring, bullying and cajoling critics of Israel and they’re now upping their tactics in a time of mass slaughter in Gaza
PLANS TO PROTECT AUSTRALIANS IN NUCLEAR WAR ARE ‘CLASSIFIED’
An Alice Springs resident enquired about the preparations being made to protect her town if nuclear weapons are fired their way.
NUKES IN THE HARBOUR
Remembering the first nuclear-powered submarine visit to Australia sometimes neglects one inconvenient fact – it was nuclear armed.
AUSTRALIA DEFIES U.N. IN DEFENCE TRADE WITH ISRAEL
Australia is continuing to expand its relationships with Israel’s defence sector, defying the UN’s International Court of Justice.
FIVE-EYES DECEIT AND COLLUSION IN THE DAN DUGGAN CASE
A dangerous relationship with ASIO and an Australian law changed after the crime has made Dan Duggan a pawn in a grand US alliance strategy to demonise China.
IRAN NOT A ‘ROGUE STATE’: INTELLIGENCE CHIEFS
Australia’s top intelligence agency has long seen the reality the public is not allowed to know: Iran’s military doctrine is “defensive”, and its nuclear program is a “deterrent” against an Israeli or US attack.
THE LUCK OF AN ISRAELI COMPANY
Despite being dropped by some governments for its involvement in the slaughter in Gaza, Israel’s Elbit Systems continues to attract contracts and investments from Australia.
THE DANGER OF TELLING THE TRUTH
Correcting unfactual spin in the public broadcaster’s stories of the Ukraine and Gaza wars, cost one New Zealand journalist his job, but the public is losing far more.
PALESTINE – THE LESSONS OF EAST TIMOR
History teaches us that Palestine, as with East Timor, will be free.
AUSTRALIA’S COLLABORATION WITH ISRAEL’S GENOCIDE
FOI document releases show that behind the press releases and statements of concern, lie the facts of the Australian government’s knowing support for some of the gravest human rights crimes of the century.
NO PEACE IN THE PACIFIC
Challenges lie ahead for a peaceful Pacific, as leaders of Pacific Island nations face an accelerating Western push to get them onside against China.
EVIDENCE WITHHELD IN ISRAELI KILLINGS OF AID WORKERS
Britain, Israel and Australia are refusing to release evidence of the killing of an Australian aid worker and six colleagues in Gaza in April.
PINE GAP READIES FOR U.S. NUCLEAR WAR
With Australians still adjusting to the new AUKUS military agreement, the United States has been quietly expanding and refocussing its satellite surveillance base at Pine Gap, preparing it to fight a nuclear war against China.
FRIENDS OR ALLIES
The United States sank the French submarines deal and formed the AUKUS military pact, to smash a new Indo-Pacific strategic alliance of France, Australia and India that wanted friendship with China.
ISRAEL’S AUSTRALIAN ‘HOSTAGES’
Hundreds of Australians’ family members holding valid Australian visas are being prevented from fleeing devastated Gaza – by the Israeli military, and the impotence of the Australian government.
BUCK-PASSING INSIDE THE MURKY ARMS TRADE
Australia bears ultimate responsibility for how Australian weapons are being used in conflict zones around the world.
WEAPONS EXPORTS IN AN AGE OF GENOCIDE
The recent photograph of a new Australian-made weapon in Israel in the hands of an Israeli soldier raises questions about the ongoing approval of weapons exports to the country.
FREE SPEECH ABOUT ISRAEL IS ON THE LINE
As Israel’s destructive war against Gaza continues, a complaint about a tweet of a prominent journalist will force a crucial test for Australia’s free speech, free press and democratic rights.
DECODED: DEFENCE DEPARTMENT’S DEADLY DECEITS
After nine months of denial and disinformation, the Australian government has been forced to confirm its deadly exports to Israel.
LESSONS FROM FIGHTING FOR ASSANGE FREEDOM
There are vital lessons and warnings that must be considered in the freeing of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
JOURNALISM REMAINS A CAGED BIRD
While Julian Assange may now be free, it is clear that journalism is not.
AUSTRALIA PUSHES AHEAD IN THE AI ARMS RACE
As Australia resists new laws to restrain AI weapons development, Australian companies are using real wars to test their killing power.
AUSTRALIA ‘GONE MISSING’ ON PREVENTING GENOCIDE
Newly declassified documents reveal how early and how much Australia knew of Israel’s genocide in Gaza after 7 October – and how it is failing to uphold its international obligations.
REVEALED: THE PENTAGON’S INFILTRATION OF AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES
The US military and arms dealers are paying hundreds of millions of dollars to ‘educate’ Australians at our leading universities.
SECRETS OF THE WEAPONS TRADE
The Australian government is obscuring weapons exports to Israel despite International Court’s ruling to oppose ‘plausible genocide’
SECRET U.S. MILITARY SPYING OPERATION HIDDEN FROM GOVERNMENT IN NEW ZEALAND
NZ’s Waihopai satellite spy base, like Australia’s Pine Gap, has been revealed secretly geolocating targets for US military operations, but without the NZ government’s knowledge.
ASSANGE DEATH PENALTY ‘POSSIBLE’
If a genocide in Gaza doesn’t move the hearts and minds in Washington to act, then it’s not likely they give a toss about what happens to Julian Assange.
THE ASSANGE ‘DEATH PLOTS’
First the CIA, now the US Dept of Justice, could take actions that would see WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange dead.
SILENCING THE MESSENGER
Israel kills journalists, while the West merely censors them.
JUDGING GENOCIDE
Australia’s reluctance from afar to recognise Israel’s genocide in Gaza is being challenged by the genocide case against Israel in the World Court
THERE IS A WAR COMING, SHROUDED IN PROPAGANDA
John Pilger’s final essay investigates why today there is ‘a silence filled by a consensus of propaganda’ as the world’s two greatest powers draw closer to conflict.
A MASTER OF TERROR
The murky background of the likely next President of Indonesia may come to haunt Indonesia, and Australia.
THE SECRET RULES OF WAR
In war, the rule of law can be a ‘flexible’ concept – but one man stepped forward and blew the whistle on the secret cover-up of Australian war crimes.
AUSTRALIA’S ROLE IN THE BOMBING OF GAZA
Being part of the global supply network that supplies parts for the Israeli F-35 jet fighters used over Gaza implicates Australia in their alleged war crimes.
THE PALESTINE LABORATORY
Israel’s actions in Gaza have been fine-tuned over years of imprisonment, humiliation, occupation, and killing of Palestinians.
TARGETING PALESTINE
Australia’s secret support for the Israeli assault on Gaza, through Pine Gap.
DEATH OF A HERO
On the anniversary of the Balibó killings, the Australian government is still holding tight to its secrets on the East Timor genocide. As the fight to unearth those dark secrets continues, we remember one of the heroes of that fight.
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
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.
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.
BLOOD IN THE ARCHIVES
Newly declassified files from the National Archives of Australia show how the Department of Foreign Affairs provided PR cover for Indonesia’s genocidal scorched-earth campaign in East Timor.
THE ‘MOST EXTENSIVE COVERT PRO-WESTERN INFO OP’ ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Declassified Australia exposes and analyses a massive secret propaganda operation being run out of the US, that has been buried by Western media.
WHERE THE BLOODY HELL ARE YOU FROM?
Australia’s refugee intake shows a clear disparity between Afghan and Ukrainian refugees.