Indigenous People in the Northern Territory of Australia have struggled for the past 16 months to “roll back” the Northern  Territory Emergency Response (NTER) legislation, more commonly known as the “intervention,” which the government introduced  in 2007. None of the 73 communities it impacted were consulted before NTER was enacted,... » read this article

Editor's Note: The following film documentary is conveniently presented in 18 parts, each covering a different sub-topic and each ranging in length from approximately 6 to 10 minutes. The segments can be viewed in their entirety or according to the viewer's interest, by title. They examine geopolitics and New Zealand's... » read this article

27 March 2009 WSWS - The conviction of former Federal Court Justice Marcus Einfeld last Friday on perjury charges relating to a 2006 speeding fine marks the culmination of an extraordinary two-year media vilification campaign. After pleading guilty before the New South Wales Supreme Court, Einfeld was sentenced to three... » read this article

27 January 2009 WSWS - The onset of recession in nearly all Australia's major trading partners has produced warnings that the country has entered a "vicious cycle" of contraction that could last at least five years. With Britain declared in recession last week, seven of Australian capitalism's biggest markets are... » read this article

29 December 2008 The Rudd government's Clarke review of last year's aborted terrorist witch-hunt of Dr Mohamed Haneef has proven to be a whitewash of the former Howard government and a vehicle for the current Labor government to bolster the country's draconian counter-terrorism measures. A basic contradiction lies at the... » read this article

Stephen Chan left New Zealand in 1976. This conversation with political analyst Zaeem Baksh about the Tuhoe Incident took place on one of Stephen's rare visits back to New Zealand in November 2007. Stephen Chan is currently Professor of International Relations at the University of London and Dean of Law... » read this article

23 October 2008 Polls held in the state of New South Wales (NSW) over the weekend signal disaster for the incumbent Labor government led by Premier Nathan Rees. In by-elections held across four working class electorates—Cabramatta, Ryde, Lakemba and Port Macquarie—Labor's vote took an historic plunge with the largest by-election... » read this article

Can you imagine the outcry if an Australian city council rejected a proposal to build a Jewish school? You don�t need to imagine. Anyone who dares to utter a single word against it will be labelled �anti-Semitic�. Australian politicians from the Prime Minister and his herd to the herd of... » read this article

For a decade, Australians have been living under a right-wing, semi-fascist and racist Liberal government, led by an egomaniac John Winston Howard. In order to win elections, the Howard�s gang manipulated the public, instilled fear and incited hatred against marginalised communities, including the small community of Arab and Muslim Australians.... » read this article

4 December 2007 The new Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his Labor cabinet were formally sworn in yesterday. Barely a week after winning office, their agenda is already evident: to carry through a new wave of savage cost cutting and �micro-economic reform�. With the election campaign out of the... » read this article

26 November 2007 The Australian Liberal-National coalition government was thrown out of office in Saturday�s federal election. The anti-government sentiment was so strong that it claimed the scalp of Prime Minister John Howard himself, who lost his northern Sydney seat of Bennelong after having held it for 33 years. This... » read this article

Forty years ago, Aboriginal Australians were recognised (by Anglo-Australians) as Australian citizens. Many Australians, including Aboriginal Australians, thought the days of racism and dispossession in Australia were numbered. They were wrong. Aboriginal Australians remain a marginalised community, unprotected from colonial ideology and laws... » read this article

Forty years ago, Aboriginal Australians were recognised (by Anglo-Australians) as Australian citizens. Many Australians, including Aboriginal Australians, thought the days of racism and dispossession in Australia were numbered. They were wrong. Aboriginal Australians remain a marginalised community, unprotected from colonial ideology and laws... » read this article

Can you imagine what would happen if Dr Haneef is a white Anglo-Australian detained in India, accused of trafficking in narcotic drugs? Actually, you don�t have to imagine. The entire Indian justice system will be on trial in Australia, accused of corruption and... » read this article

While Anglo-Australians can be proud of a long-time forgotten truth of �Fair Go� Australia for the privileged, today�s Australia is an unequal and unfair society. The myth of �Fair Go� Australia is just a shield, protecting Australia against criticism of Australia�s unfair treatments... » read this article

New Zealand prides itself on human rights, social compassion and political �neutrality�. Moreover, New Zealanders pride themselves on being �peace loving� people. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. These images are a distortion of reality. New Zealand is a fully-fledged... » read this article

The situation has become so bad for Australian Muslims; it forced the Federal Police Commissioner to intervene and speak out against the persecution and alienating of the Muslim community, and the policing tactic of Muslims racial profiling and victimisation.   �As I... » read this article

Published: 19 October 2006 Eddie Thomas was just a few months old when the white people came and took him away. They took his brother and sister, too. The children's grandmother had been looking after them, following the death of their mother after Eddie's birth. The three young Aborigines were... » read this article

  "Satire is the ultimate weapon of truth." Broughton   Down under, New Zealand is undergoing a, �down with everything� renaissance. The Labour Member of Parliament for Rotorua, Steve Chadwick, came the conclusion that hockey sticks are a major cause of avoidable death. Thus, hockey sticks have been banned in... » read this article

It is getting harder to describe Australia in term of an independent, democratic and morally responsible nation. Australia has moved from a forward looking to a backward sliding society. Many people, including many Australians are regarding this shift in direction as morally reprehensible.   In recent time, Australia�s vote at... » read this article