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Stuart Rees

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Labor’s politics of consensus stifles dissent, compassion

Labor’s politics of consensus stifles dissent, compassion

Stuart Rees arguess that the present debilitating consensus in the federal parliament is that loyalty to Israel and the United States is imperative,...

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Green Left Weekly

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Australia’s politics of consensus is stifling dissent and compassion

Australia’s politics of consensus is stifling dissent and compassion

Governments sustain power by repeating stories about themselves. In Australia’s federal parliament, a narrow political consensus – marked by...

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Pearls and Irritations

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No Plan B: Trump’s Gaza plan sidelines justice and law

No Plan B: Trump’s Gaza plan sidelines justice and law

Donald Trump’s so-called Peace Board for Gaza promises reconstruction but delivers domination. With Palestinians excluded and international law...

26.02.2026 10

Pearls and Irritations

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Herzog policing: Cowardice dressed up as authority

12.02.2026 7

Green Left Weekly

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Cowardice dressed up as authority on Sydney’s streets

11.02.2026 9

Pearls and Irritations

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Trump’s 'Peace Board' is imperialism in a new suit

24.01.2026 10

Pearls and Irritations

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2025 in Review: Bullies and sycophants, cowardice on high, courage from below

10.12.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

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Australia’s Christmas double standards on Palestine

26.11.2025 7

Pearls and Irritations

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BBC and ABC targeted by conservative critics for the wrong reasons

21.11.2025 9

Pearls and Irritations

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Defending the BBC

14.11.2025 7

Pearls and Irritations

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The future of Palestine: What Australia must do

26.10.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

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A century of deceit: Towards a new understanding of the colonisation of Palestine

08.10.2025 6

Pearls and Irritations

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Recognising Palestine a long overdue act of courage

22.09.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

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Death or displacement, ‘Please no more polite language about the Netanyahu evil’

27.08.2025 10

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Redefining Hamas, pleading for a peace force

26.08.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

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Appeal to Parliamentarians: Resist Israel/US thuggery, be advocates for peace

31.07.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

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Spare more than a thought for Iran’s protesters

20.07.2025 8

Pearls and Irritations

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Suggesting a Nobel for Trump is a Netanyahu obscenity

10.07.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

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Courage needs to be shown in politics – Israel is no longer above the law

01.07.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

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A naval force to escort humanitarian aid is an act of peace

12.06.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

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A sign of hope: UN High Commissioner Navi Pillay to receive 2025 Sydney Peace Prize

04.06.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

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Israel must be forced to stop slaughtering Palestinians

Across Australia and around the globe, millions of people are outraged by Israel’s slaughter in Gaza and the West Bank. Their outrage is now...

27.05.2025 10

Green Left Weekly

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Millions want intervention to stop Israeli slaughter of Palestinians

23.05.2025 8

Pearls and Irritations

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Inaccessible, indifferent, out of touch? A vice-chancellor’s non-response

19.05.2025 9

Pearls and Irritations

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Vale Ali Kazak

18.05.2025 9

Pearls and Irritations

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P&I authors expose Israeli atrocities, but with what effect?

05.05.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

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Silence is no response to slaughter; recognise Palestine

To save Palestine and Palestinians, intervention by influential governments could occur by supporting the dispatch of United Nations peacekeepers to...

23.04.2025 10

Green Left Weekly

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Silence is no response to slaughter, so at least recognise Palestine

21.04.2025 8

Pearls and Irritations

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Institutionalisation: Vice-chancellors’ cowardly collusion with antisemitism lobby

06.04.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

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A moral precipice challenge – Vote for humanity

24.03.2025 9

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Anatomy of a public meeting: genocide a key election issue

16.03.2025 10

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Universalism the panacea for Palestine

10.03.2025 10

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Moral panics, from Teddy Boys to antisemites

20.02.2025 8

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Palestine, incredible, unbelievable

14.02.2025 9

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2025 Jerusalem (Al Quds) Peace Prize to Wendy Turner

01.02.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

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Anti-Semitism ‘Rise’ obscures more slaughter in Gaza

25.01.2025 7

Pearls and Irritations

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Gaza ceasefire, the missing pieces

17.01.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

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Sudan: Beyond pessimism

09.01.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

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Noam Chomsky, the voice silenced, the legacy unending

Voted many times by UK and US magazines as the most important public intellectual in the world, Noam Chomsky, scientist, linguist, human rights...

04.01.2025 9

Pearls and Irritations

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Goodbye democracy: Labor’s rank and file of no consequence

In the 2022 federal election, Labor members in the supposedly safe seat of Fowler were not allowed to choose their candidate. Instead, head office...

29.12.2024 8

Pearls and Irritations

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Anti-Semitism, a pandemic of concocted claims

In response to arson on a Melbourne synagogue, ill informed politicians, ignorant media commentators and a bully Israeli Prime Minister have rushed...

20.12.2024 5

Pearls and Irritations

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Canberra’s cowardice leaves Australian women and children stranded in Syria

US diplomat Peter Galbraith insists the Australian Government and Opposition are exaggerating the dangers of even trying to bring 10 Australian...

17.12.2024 4

Pearls and Irritations

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