Australia

Australian inflation eases

Australia’s July CPI is lower year-on-year but the nation’s treasurer says it needs to drop “further and faster” Australian inflation eased to a four-month low in July thanks in part to government rebates on electricity […]

Comment

Canberra’s corporate press pass

It’s not just journalists who hang around the National Press Club. A plethora of political lobbyists, industry bodies, weapons makers, the Big Four accounting firms, Big Tobacco, Big Pharma, alcohol and gambling interests—groups overwhelmingly foreign-controlled—all […]

Asia

Hong Kong’s caged poor

Whilst still under British colonial rule Hong Kong faced a housing crisis, the solution was to put poor people inside cages—seven decades later that’s where they remain 10 November 2021 | Story and images by […]

News

Who is following ASPI?

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute has more than 100,000 social media followers yet averages around only ten engagements per post. Is its online engagement real or just another piece of weapons maker and foreign government-funded […]

News

ASPI now officially annoying

In keeping with its claims of “independence” the cashed up Australian Strategic Policy Institute decides it is best placed to write its own history 26 October 2021 | Marcus Reubenstein Winston Churchill, whose once mighty […]

Comment

Nuclear “sub-standard”

The US Navy and Britain’s Royal Navy can’t maintain their own nuclear submarines so how is Australia, a nation with no expertise in nuclear powered vessels, going to maintain its attack submarines? 23 September 2021 […]

Comment

Credibility tanked

ASPI consistently cites an annual review by the University of Pennsylvania as proof its global credentials are “gold standard” but a closer look at the report hardly supports ASPI’s claim 30 August 2021 | Marcus […]

Comment

ASPI’s censorship sneaks

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute says it’s independent, free of influence and stands by the integrity of its research, so who is scrubbing negative comments from its Wikipedia page? 20 August 2021 | Marcus Reubenstein […]

Feature

Who takes weight of racism?

Ordinary Chinese-Australians are being forced to carry both the weight of racism and suspicion on their backs—much of the abuse has emanated from our institutions 16 October 2021 | Words and Main Image by Marcus […]