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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.
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?
As Australia enters the AUKUS embrace with its traditional alliance partners, it risks being dragged into catastrophic war against China.