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.
Propaganda
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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