Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by POWER John
• With Beijing and Canberra engaged in a flurry of inquiries, bans, scrutiny of deals and detentions, questions of when ties will hit rock bottom loom large
• A Chinese tabloid resurrected late Singapore leader Lee Kuan Yew’s warning that Australia risked becoming ‘the poor white trash (…)
, by AAP
An Australian nun kicked out of the Philippines has called on Canberra to cease supporting the country’s military which is accused of human rights breaches.
An Australian nun booted out of the Philippines has demanded Canberra cease its support of the country’s military which she says is (…)
, by PIETSCH Sam
Australia’s rivalry with China in the south-west Pacific is intensifying. On 8 November, Scott Morrison declared it was time for Australia to “step up” in the region. He revealed a new aid package for Pacific island countries, featuring a $2 billion financing facility to help construct basic (…)
, by ROUSSET Pierre
The Pakistani Supreme Court had just declared Asia Bibi innocent of the crime of blasphemy for which she was previously sentenced to death. Religious movements did not accept the decision and fought back, calling to paralyze the country by blocking the roads, opening a major political crisis. (…)
, by PIETSCH Sam
The Manus Island concentration camp is not only the culmination of Australia’s increasingly brutal treatment of refugees over many years. It also epitomises the neo-colonial relationship between Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Colonial powers have long favoured “offshore processing” for (…)
, by BRAMBLE Tom, WARD Liam
It was only appropriate that Prime Minister Julia Gillard launched her Government’s new “Australia in the Asian Century” White Paper [[http://asiancentury.dpmc.gov.au] at the Lowy Institute, sponsored as the Institute is by Australia’s wealthiest businessman, Frank Lowy. This White Paper is a (…)
, by BRAMBLE Tom
The rise of China has been of enormous significance for the Australian capitalist class. The Sydney Morning Herald’s Ross Gittins outlines three major reasons why the East Asian giant now matters for Australian capitalism. First is its sheer size. With a population of 1.35 billion, it has 20 per (…)
, by PEARCE Rohan
February 23 marked the deadline for submissions to the federal parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Treaties (JSCT) on the new Australia-Indonesia “security” pact. If there is any uncertainty about the hypocrisy that underlies Australia’s neo-colonial foreign policy, then this treaty — a (…)
, by HINMAN Pip
A new “security pact” between Australia and Indonesia, to be signed on November 13 in Lombok, will strengthen Canberra’s military and economic alliance with Jakarta, at the expense of the peoples of both countries.
The Indonesia and Australia Framework for Security Co-operation will assist (…)
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