Japan PM plans Australia visit over rare earths: report
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is planning a visit to Australia, seeking to discuss supply chains for rare earth elements and co-operation on safe navigation in the Strait of Hormuz,…
Why you notice daylight saving changing less and less
When Tasmania became the first state to roll the clocks forward in summer 59 years go, not everyone was happy. “Leave God’s time alone,” one person wrote to an ABC…
Monsters of war. The men who put the world at risk
The war in Iran is in its second month. A war started by a criminal defendant, a convicted felon, and a blackmail network that explains everything Western leaders won’t say.…
Mike Pezzullo. A gossiper who loved to peddle his influence
MWM has obtained the Pezzullo Inquiry report after a long FOI fight. It documents a litany of transgressions and allegations. Rex Patrick with the details (part 2). It’s taken 18…
JD Vance thinks space aliens are ‘demons’. Who can blame him? | Dave Schilling
Of course the vice-president is obsessed with extraterrestrials – look how bad things have gotten on Earth I can’t fault anyone for looking around at the state of things on…
The US-Israel war on Iran is accelerating de-dollarization and America’s decline | Ahmed Moor
De-dollarization promises to reorder the world, reducing American power globally The US-Israel war on Iran is expensive. It’s expensive in terms of human lives, first of all. It’s expensive too,…
Trump’s surreal speech on Iran shed no light on his goals | Kenneth Roth
The US president couldn’t give a single coherent reason for why this aggressive war of choice must still be prosecuted Donald Trump’s self-congratulatory speech on Iran on Wednesday night was…
Israel’s death penalty law marks a new phase in its dehumanisation of Palestinians | Yuli Novak
A government that openly embraces violence against Palestinians has now enshrined into law a policy of lethal force Yuli Novak is the executive director of B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights…
To a world at a loss as to how to handle Trump, I say this: the only answer may be to wait him out| Simon Jenkins
A great effort will be needed to undo the damage once the US president has gone. But with the constitution unable to bring him to order now, that is what…
I did not tell my sister that our other sister was dying. Silence was the right choice, yet murky and painful
In family estrangement, the mud and dirt gets everywhere, Kathryn Heyman writes. And it is very hard to undo what has been done Years ago, when I lived in Scotland,…