Australia

Australia’s Plan To Adopt Definitions Of Racism Would Enforce Zionism

August 7, 2026 Alana Lentin, Mondoweiss. Educate! Australia, IHRA, Racism, Zionism

Australia is currently holding a Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion to make recommendations in response to the attack on the December 2025 Chabad Hannukah by the Sea event, which resulted in the murder of 15 people. The hearings so far have been dominated by people whose ‘lived experience’ of antisemitism is based on its conflation with anti-Zionism or support for Palestinians. Against the backdrop of the Royal Commission, the Australian government announced that “universities will be required to develop their own definitions of racism towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples under new national standards aimed at strengthening responses to racism on campus.”

Protestors Want Pine Gap Closed

July 28, 2026 Binoy Kampmark, Consortium News. Resist! Australia, CIA, Genocide, Palestine, US military

It remains a prickly reminder that Australia is an embarrassed vassal of power, annexed to the security interests of another state basking in imperial and fast diminishing splendour. Pine Gap, known more technically as the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap (JDFPG), is a largely U.S.-operated effort in Alice Springs, Central Australia. As the late scholar of strategic studies Desmond Ball pithily remarked in 1988, it is “an espionage operation. Euphemisms should not be allowed to obscure this essential point.” It grew out of a desire on the part of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.) in 1965 to establish a remote Australian-sited ground control station intended for signals intelligence satellites.

Indigenous Elder In Australia Is Suing King Charles III For Genocide

July 28, 2026 Marisa Wikramanayake, The Canary. Resist! Australia, colonization, Indigenous Sovereignty, Legal System

In June 2026, Krauatungalung Elder Djuran Bunjileenee Uncle Robbie Thorpe appealed to the Victorian Supreme Court in Australia as part of a genocide court case. The accused? King Charles III as the UK Crown representative. It is one of a series of court cases Uncle Robbie has filed. Another is a trespassing case brought against Margaret Gardner, the governor of Victoria. Uncle Robbie stands in front of the Victorian Magistrates’ Court in trousers and a North Face jacket. As I step onto the curb, he holds an arm out for a hug and warns me against being mown down by cyclists. It’s the first time we have met.

US Steps Up Interference In Australia’s Domestic Politics

June 8, 2026 Paul Gregoire, People's World. Educate! Australia, Foreign Relations, Media, Propaganda, Trump Administration, United States

Sydney, Australia — This past March, the Trump administration sent a cable ordering its embassies and consulates to launch local campaigns to proactively combat propaganda targeting the U.S. This initiative, of course, includes the U.S. embassy and its consulates in Australia, where Washington is already monitoring the criminal activity of local migrants and taking a keen interest in other aspects of the country’s domestic sphere. U.S. Secretary of State Mark Rubio signed the March 30, 2026, cable, an initiative that involves the U.S. Department of War’s Military Information Support Operations (MISO), formerly the Pentagon’s Psyops unit.

Australian Special Forces ‘Hero’ Charged Over War Crimes Allegations

April 7, 2026 Joe Glenton, The Canary. Resist! Afghanistan, Australia, Legal System, Military, War crimes

Australia’s most decorated living war hero has been charged over war crimes allegations in Afghanistan. Ben Roberts-Smith has been charged with five counts of murder. Australia held a long inquiry into war crimes allegations by Australian SAS soldiers. The alleged crimes took place between 2009 and 2012. Australian Federal Police said: It will be alleged that the victims were not taking part in hostilities at the time of their alleged murder in Afghanistan. It will be alleged that the victims were detained, unarmed, and were under the control of ADF members when they were killed.

Australia: Thousands Mobilize To Protest Israeli President Visit

February 10, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. Resist! Australia, Israel, Palestine Solidarity, Police, State Repression

Thousands of anti-genocide demonstrators rallied across Australia on 9 February to protest a visit by Israeli President Isaac Herzog, with large gatherings in central Sydney and further actions planned nationwide. Police clashes were reported as protests spread beyond Sydney, with thousands rallying in Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, and other cities, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Officers were seen restraining demonstrators in Sydney as crowds chanted slogans opposing Herzog’s visit.

Red Lines And Artificial Intelligence Warfare

February 5, 2026 Matilda Byrne, Consortium News. Educate! Artificial Intelligence (AI), Australia, Autonomous weapon systems, Militarization

Australia appears to be moving head first into unregulated AI warfare and this shocking possibility almost never makes the mainstream media. In the last decade, there’s been a massive acceleration in the militarisation of artificial intelligence (AI). Addressing the United Nations Security Council in late September, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong stated that, “decisions of life and death must never be delegated to machines, and together we must set the rules and establish the norms.” The advancement of AI in weapons is occurring across all areas: autonomous-piloted aircraft, drones, submarines, robot tanks and guns.

Hate Crime Laws Can Chill Free Speech

January 23, 2026 Anne Twomey, Consortium News. Educate! Australia, Free Speech, Hate Crime, Legal System, Right to Assemble, State Repression

What impact will the criminal hate provisions in the Albanese government’sCombatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Act 2026have on the ability of ordinary Australians to protest? An earlier version contained a criminal offence of promoting or inciting racial hatred. The government dropped this part of the legislation after both the Coalition and the Greens opposed it. However, inciting racial hatred remains relevant to the other key provisions, which permit the banning of “prohibited hate groups”. A group can be prohibited under the new law if the governor-general makes a regulation prohibiting it. The governor-general acts on the advice of the minister for the Australian Federal Police.

Australian Writers’ Festival Cancelled After Disinviting Palestinian Author

January 13, 2026 Middle East Eye. Resist! Australia, Censorship, Festival, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity

One of Australia’s largest art festivals has axed its writers’ week amid a boycott by more than 180 authors and guests after the cancellation of Randa Abdel-Fattah, a prominent Palestinian-Australian author and scholar. In a statement published on Tuesday, the Adelaide Festival’s board said its “decision has created more division and for that we express our sincere apologies”. It also added that its three remaining board members would also be stepping down. Four board members - including the chairperson of the festival - had resigned over the weekend. The board also added that it “apologise(d) to Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah for how the decision was represented”.

Hands Off Venezuela! Solidarity In Australia And Southeast Asia

January 9, 2026 Nick Dobrijevich, People's Dispatch. Resist! Asia Pacific, Australia, International Solidarity, Venezuela, Wars and Militarism

Following the Trump administration’s illegal attack on Venezuela, people’s movements and political figures throughout the world immediately mobilized in solidarity to reject the unilateral US military aggression. The mood of solidarity reached Southeast Asia and Australia, with public opposition and demonstrations in Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and elsewhere. Snap rallies in Australia were held on Sunday, January 4, in Melbourne and Sydney, with actions outside the US embassy in Canberra as well as in Brisbane and Hobart. The mobilizations were nationally coordinated by the new coalition Hands Off Venezuela, formed in October 2025 to organize emergency responses against the US military threats and airstrikes in the Caribbean.

Exploiting A Massacre To Cover Up A Genocide

December 15, 2025 Joe Lauria, Consortium News. Educate! Anti-Semitism, Australia, Israel, Media, Terror Attack

The 15 innocent victims killed in Sunday’s terrorist attack on a Hanukkah party at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia are being exploited by extreme Zionists in a bid to distract from Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. Their memories are being used by the likes of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli as well as Australian officials, sections of the media and members of the public. Instead of putting the blame on the only known perpetrators police have identified so far — the father and son shooters Sajid and Naveed Akram — Zionist extremists are implicating innocent citizens who have dared protest Israeli atrocities.

Journalist Files Defense In Anti-Semitism Test Case

December 11, 2025 Joe Lauria, Consortium News. Resist! Anti-Semitism, Australia, Mary Kostakidis, Media, Press Freedom, Zionism

Embattled Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis has filed her formal defense against the charge by the Zionist Federation of Australia that she is an anti-semite, telling a federal judge the allegation of racial vilification is really intended to smear legitimate criticism of Israel and stifle free speech. In her 29-page filing, Kostakidis argues that her reporting on Israel’s actions in Gaza did not target Jewish people but the Israeli government. Her posts on X had nothing to do with the “race or national or ethnic origin of Jewish Australians and/or Israeli Australians,” she says.

Selling Out Australian Sovereignty

December 6, 2025 Peter Cronau, Consortium News. Educate! Australia, F35s, Israel, Sovereignty, United States, Wars and Militarism

Exclusive reports by Declassified Australia of at least 71 packages of F-35 fighter jet weapons parts being exported from Sydney to Israel have revealed that Australia has forfeited control over the plane’s spare parts stored here for Australia’s fleet of F-35s. Australia has signed up to a system where, at a moment’s notice, those “parts and components” may be whisked off the shelves at the RAAF Williamtown Air Base in New South Wales on the whim of a foreign state to be exported to a foreign country in a distant war zone. “What you’re probably talking about is items that Lockheed Martin imported into Australia to support the maintenance and sustainment of our fleet and then needed to move around to someone else. They are entitled to do that under the F-35 global supply chain mechanism.”

The Speech A Press Club Banned

October 21, 2025 Chris Hedges, Consortium News. Resistance Report Australia, Censorship, Chris Hedges, Palestine, Press Freedom, Sydney

This talk is not sponsored by Raytheon, BAE Systems and Thales, which sell weapons to Israel to sustain the genocide. It is not sponsored by Amazon Web Services – which provides cloud infrastructure to Israeli defense and intelligence agencies – Deloitte or Mastercard, which also do business with the apartheid state of Israel. This is how you know we are not at The National Press Club of Australia. There are two types of war correspondents. The first type does not attend press conferences. They do not beg generals and politicians for interviews.

Venezuela Closes Embassies In Norway And Australia

October 14, 2025 Orinoco Tribune. Resist! Australia, Burkina Faso, Colombia, Embassies, Foreign Relations, Multipolar World, Norway, Venezuela, Zimbabwe

On Monday, Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry announced that it has begun the first phase of a comprehensive restructuring of its foreign service, ordering the closure of its embassies in the Kingdom of Norway and Australia. “As part of the strategic reallocation of resources, the closure of the embassies in the Kingdom of Norway and Australia has been ordered,” the ministry said in a statement. Venezuela explained that bilateral relations and consular assistance for the Venezuelan community in Norway and Australia “will be efficiently addressed through concurrent diplomatic missions, the details of which will be announced in the coming days.”

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