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John Menadue

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26.11.2025 7

Pearls and Irritations

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Working with PM Fraser - parting words - Part 5 - Malcolm Fraser

Working with PM Fraser - parting words - Part 5 - Malcolm Fraser
22.11.2025 7

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Working with PM Fraser - burying White Australia - Part 4

Working with PM Fraser - burying White Australia - Part 4
21.11.2025 6

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Working with PM Fraser - a country divided - Part 3

Working with PM Fraser - a country divided - Part 3
20.11.2025 4

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Nurturing the next generation of voices

Nurturing the next generation of voices
19.11.2025 8

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Working with PM Fraser - the business view - Part 2

19.11.2025 8

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Working with PM Fraser - the changeover - Part 1

Working with PM Fraser - the changeover - Part 1
18.11.2025 5

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The integrity of our media matters – please support Pearls and Irritations

The integrity of our media matters – please support Pearls and Irritations
14.11.2025 7

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The Dismissal, the role of the CIA, MI6 and Austral Americans

The Dismissal, the role of the CIA, MI6 and Austral Americans
08.11.2025 10

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Murdoch, the Dismissal and my job in Japan

07.11.2025 2

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The Prince and the Dismissal

06.11.2025 7

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The Queen’s implausible denial

05.11.2025 10

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What would Whitlam think of the Albanese Government?

04.11.2025 6

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The second Dismissal – the loans affair and meetings with Kerr

04.11.2025 6

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Ambush and deceit

03.11.2025 7

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Albo, Trump and China: No one likes a loser

23.10.2025 20

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No justice or peace for Palestinians in Trump’s Plan

03.10.2025 7

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Australia needs to diplomatically disengage from our 'dangerous ally'

14.09.2025 8

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Climate change, not China, is the real threat in the South Pacific

11.09.2025 7

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The real death toll in Gaza

05.09.2025 60

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For 35 years after Vietnam, we had a self-reliant defence policy. We need it again

26.08.2025 9

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John Menadue in conversation with David Marr

25.08.2025 10

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The occupation and ethnic cleansing of Gaza was always Netanyahu’s intention

09.08.2025 10

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Did the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945 end the war?

02.08.2025 9

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Our media refuse to call out genocide in Gaza

31.07.2025 10

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Menadue on the dulling of the Australian conscience

25.07.2025 10

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Vale John Deeble - an architect of Medicare

22.07.2025 8

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Trump, his minions may do us a favour on AUKUS

21.07.2025 50

The New Daily

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Fifty years since that little green card came into being

20.07.2025 6

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The Tasmanian election on 19 July won’t fix the mess

17.07.2025 10

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Donald Trump and his minions may yet do us a favour in ending AUKUS

16.07.2025 9

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Our white man’s media shuns Asia

24.06.2025 7

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PM Albanese promises to restore trust in democracy

14.06.2025 6

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The bamboo ceiling is still very much in place Down Under

14.06.2025 10

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Fundraising June 2025

01.06.2025 10

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Our retreat from Asia has become a rout

27.05.2025 6

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Weaponisation of ‘antisemitism’ hides primitive savagery of Palestinian genocide

22.05.2025 6

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'Never again' for Jews, Palestinians and all humanity

02.05.2025 7

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Message from the editor-in-chief: Genocide is not newsworthy in The Australian

29.04.2025 8

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'Never again' not only for Jews, but for Palestinians and all humanity

28.04.2025 40

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Dutton has little faith in Medicare. Like Trump, he prefers culture wars

13.03.2025 10

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Catriona Jackson appointed editor of Pearls and Irritations

13.03.2025 10

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The AUKUS chickens are coming home to roost, already

06.03.2025 7

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The weaponising of ‘antisemitism’ is to hide the genocide

06.02.2025 4

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Editorial changes at Pearls and Irritations

25.01.2025 20

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Summing up

20.01.2025 5

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How Murdoch got a foothold in Foxtel (An updated post from 1 February 2014)

13.01.2025 10

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In defence of free speech about genocide in Gaza

Early in the New Year, acclaimed journalist and former SBS news anchor Mary Kostakidis posted a statement on her X account in the hope it would...

06.01.2025 20

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Will the Cocos Islands become like Diego Garcia, highjacked by the US?

The 2000 residents of Diego Garcia were forcibly removed to make way for a giant US military base. A repost from May 30, 2024 Will the same happen...

04.01.2025 7

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The US sees China through the dark mirror of its own unbridled aggression

As China grows and prospers many in the US want us to believe that China will follow the same path that the US itself pursued – global military...

01.01.2025 6

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