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“Unfounded fear, hatred or hostility directed towards Muslims and Islam. It affects all aspect of Muslim life.” (Runnymede Trust, UK, 1997).   A protest by a few hundred people in Sydney’s CBD over an anti-Muslim racist film, “Innocence of Muslims” turned into an ugly scene. It is a protest against... » read this article

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9 August 2012 The ferries that ply the river west of Sydney Harbour bear the names of Australia's world champion sportswomen. They include the Olympic swimming gold-medalists Dawn Fraser and Shane Gould, and runners Betty Cuthbert and Majorie Jackson. As you board, there is a photograph of the athlete in... » read this article

When I, a citizen of Australia, analyse capitalism's weaknesses, it is easy and obvious to single out the distribution of wealth in an economy (from majority to the elite). This is common disgraceful knowledge. I for one. especially in my country, am depressed by the immoral and destructive effects of... » read this article

Every day Australian media outlets, led by the five major TV channels and the Murdoch press, propagate images of Australian soldiers as heroes treating injured Afghan children and doing construction work in Iraq. The notion that Australia is a “humanitarian” nation could not be further from the truth. Behind this... » read this article

22 June 2012 Australian and US governments “playing word games”  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke out today from the Ecuadorian embassy in London about the escalating assault on his democratic rights and why he had been compelled to seek political asylum in Ecuador. Interviewed by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio... » read this article

21 June 2012 The Socialist Equality Party condemns Prime Minister Julia Gillard and her Labor government for its role in forcing WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange to seek asylum in Ecuador. Assange took this desperate step after the British courts paved the way for his extradition to Sweden to be questioned... » read this article

While most Australians rightly believe that Australia is a multicultural nation, in reality multiculturalism is encouraging divisions, discrimination and racism. Australia needs an inclusive multicultural policy to dismantle “white” dominance and unite Australians. Since the early 1970s, Australia has embraced multiculturalism and prides itself of being a multicultural nation. After... » read this article

Editor's Note: Dengue fever infects around 100 million people in the tropics each year. Some sources say the disease is fatal for 40,000 people a year while the article below says 12,500. I don't know who is doing the counting! Dengue is a mosquito-borne disease that is passed from one... » read this article

Remembrance for Australia's war dead has long been used to glorify militarism--and promote Australia's status as a junior partner to U.S. imperial aims. THE STREET where I grew up in Sydney was a war street. There were long silences, then the smashing of glass and screams. Pete and I played... » read this article

The Australian government is to fund emergency measures to help combat suicide in Aboriginal communities in the remote Kimberley region. It has seen a sharp increase in the number of indigenous people taking their own lives. Young Aborigines are four times more likely to commit suicide than their non-indigenous counterparts.... » read this article

Editor's Comment: Axis of Logic began reporting on Australia's treatment of refugees and asylum seekers in 2004 when Australian Mary Dagmar Davies contacted us about her sacrificial efforts to build the Jannah the SIEVX Memorial named after the SIEVX, "the Titanic of the Poor". It was a tiny Australia-bound fishing boat... » read this article

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18 January 2011 Queensland police threatened Grantham service station owner Martin Warburton, 41, with arrest on Thursday if he attempted to speak with Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Queensland Premier Anna Bligh about the failure of their governments to provide timely and adequate assistance to the flood-ravage community. Warburton,... » read this article

It was United States president Woodrow Wilson who called for "open diplomacy" — number one of his fourteen points in 1918 — so that "diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view." He would surely approve of Wikileaks' efforts at open diplomacy, though current US Secretary of State... » read this article

24 August 2010 The socialist and internationalist program advanced by the SEP in the 2010 Australian federal election has won a powerful response from significant layers of workers and young people throughout the country. Emails, inquiries, expressions of support and applications to join the party have come not only from... » read this article

“The truth is that all men [and women] having power ought to be mistrusted”. - James Madison, U.S. president 1809-1817       In a nation that prides itself of being a “tolerant” and a “fair go” for all Australians, one expects the candidates campaigning for Prime Minister position will be... » read this article

15 July 2010 As more information drips out, the role of Washington in the June 24 political coup against former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd looms ever larger. It is increasingly apparent that the Obama administration had become concerned that Rudd was wavering in his support for the crisis-wracked US-led occupation... » read this article