A small protest outside the British Consulate turned into a powerful stand for imprisoned writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah and forced the building to close its doors, writes PEN Melbourne.. THE BRITISH ...

As the U.S. reconsiders its AUKUS commitments, the alliance faces a defining test of trust, power and political will, writes Vince Hooper.. IN 2021, the AUKUS security pact was hailed as a bold ...

Independent Australia is a progressive journal focusing on politics, democracy, the environment, Australian history and Australian identity.It contains news and opinion from Australia and around the ...

White hate crimes surged from 2016. As reported here at IA since 2020, hate crimes inspired by Donald Trump have surged ever since he announced his run for President in 2015, with direct urgings to ...

Colourful cultural icon Dame Edna Everage with omnipresent gladioli: Melbourne Live and Intimate. (Photo, 2008.) The "mega-star housewife" was created by late Australian comedian, actor and satirist ...

“I do worry when I hear my name called three times, Mick. It’s either really good news or really bad news.” By the end of the first verse, patrons to the left had picked up their drinks and regrouped ...

If any party were to resist, it would be Labor. After all, it was Gough Whitlam who pulled Australian troops out of Vietnam in 1972. And it was Simon Crean, leading the Labor opposition in 2003, who ...

The Australian media's explainers on rubber bullets don't explain that our police have them too — and that they use them here, on us. Tom Tanuki reports.. THERE'S BEEN MUCH DISCUSSION about rubber ...

Near the end of the book, Kate is in Guyra researching the story of her mother’s favourite brother, Frank Russell, whose ballot-winning of a property in the 1938 Closer Settlement Scheme at Green ...

Just when Australia needed a way out of its $368 billion submarine gamble, along comes the most unlikely escape hatch of all, writes Mark Beeson.. IF THERE’S ONE THING we can all agree on, perhaps ...

Scott Morrison – known for his inability to hold a hose and shirking all responsibility – has been handed the highest accolade in the land, a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC).. The award was ...

Diversity crisis deepens. The cancellation of both programs has exacerbated existing concerns about diversity in Australian television. A 2020 report found that more than 75% of presenters, ...