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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.
LABOR AND ASSANGE – BURYING THE POLITICS
The Australian government is straining credibility in insisting the Assange case is not a political prosecution.
EXCLUSIVE: INSIDE LABOR’S ASSANGE GAME PLAN
New revelations on the Labor Government’s secret planning to act on the Assange case without offending the Americans.
REVEALED: AUSTRALIA’S SECRET PROPAGANDA UNIT
Britain assisted Australia in setting up a team modelled on the UK’s notorious Information Research Department to run influence operations in the Asia-Pacific in the 1970s, recently declassified files reveal.
DESPERATE MEASURES
Sympathy for the traumatised Palestinian community was targeted by political vigilantes attempting to influence the Australian election.
DEMOCRACY IN DANGER
‘State capture’ by private interests explains why, no matter which major party forms government in Australia, powerful and well-connected industries always seem to win.
AIDING PALESTINE
Will the Australian election see an end to the great Australian silence on Palestine?
FIGHTING N.A.T.O.
How a former Australian SAS soldier was hired to bring Russian and South African mercenaries to Libya to fight against NATO for President Gaddafi
FAST TRACK TO ARMAGEDDON
Australia’s hypersonic missile development, rather than promoting peace in the region, is helping ignite an arms race and increasing the chance of conflict.
REPUTATION LAUNDERING
The weapons companies spruiking the ‘benefits and opportunities’ of the wars in Ukraine and Yemen and tensions in the South China Sea are infiltrating our schools.
HOW AUSTRALIA GOES TO WAR
As the Ukraine war fills our screen and the risk of a war with China rises, Australia is not only joined at the hip to the US but seems likely to march in lockstep into America’s next provoked war. Only by reforming the wars powers can the representatives of the Australian people head that off.
ON FREE SPEECH – A COMMENTARY
It’s not good enough to be in favour of ‘free speech’ only when we agree with it.
EYES OVER THE PACIFIC
A ‘morally conflicted’ spying operation on Pacific nations sees Australia and New Zealand running a covert interception and surveillance program against our Pacific island friends.
AUSTRALIA’S FAILED RESOURCE GRAB IN AFGHANISTAN
Mystery surrounds how an Australian mining company sought to access Afghanistan’s $3-trillion treasure house of untapped minerals.
JUNKETS AND INFLUENCE
One in six Australian federal parliamentarians have accepted free overseas trips since the last election, with strategic flash-points Taiwan and Israel the most popular destinations paid for by lobbyists and foreign governments.
HOLIDAY SEASON BOOKS & FILMS, JUST FOR YOU
A little reading, a little viewing
AUSTRALIA CAPTURED
How the military-industrial complex has captured Australia’s top strategic advisory body
WHO’S NEXT?
We’re facing the prospect of ever tougher laws, police raids, arrests, and even jailings – and they’re not targeting war criminals, but the news journalists.
PARTNERS IN CRIMES?
The UK/Australia special relationship