Fibbing on Anzac Day
April 25, 2022 was one of the less edifying days in the annals of commemorating the fallen. The day is regarded as special for Australians […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Bernard Collaery’s War Against Secret Trials
In terms of labyrinthine callousness and indifference to justice, the treatment of lawyer Bernard Collaery by the Australian government must be slotted alongside that of […]
To the Home Office We Go: The Extradition of Julian Assange
It was a dastardly formality. On April 20, at a hearing at Westminster Magistrates Court, Julian Assange, beamed in via video link from Belmarsh Prison, […]
Obscene Outsourcing: The UK-Rwandan Refugee Deal
This month, the government of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson joined an ignominious collective in announcing a refugee deal with Rwanda, seedily entitled the UK-Rwanda […]
The “China Threat” and the Solomon Islands
Rarely has the Solomon Islands had as much attention as this. Despite being in caretaker mode as it battles the federal election, the government of […]
Stumbles and Fictions: The Australian Election Campaign Begins
That a figure like Scott Morrison comes across as competent, able and free of imbecility after a day of electioneering in Australia suggests a broader […]
Law’s Limits: The Passage of the Antilynching Bill
In 1900, Representative George Henry White of North Carolina, the sole Black law maker in Congress at the time, dared to introduce legislation (HR 6963) […]
Political Appointments: Downgrading the Australian Human Rights Commission
With all the hollering and scolding of Russian barbarity in Ukraine and Chinese viciousness against the Uighur populace, one could be forgiven for thinking that […]
AUKUS in the Hypersonic Missile Wonderland
If further clues were needed as to why AUKUS, the security pact comprising the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, was created, the latest […]
Give Me that Flipper, Shane
For more terrestrially grounded people, writing about cricket can be seen as an exercise in distant planetary speculation. The Nobel laureate Harold Pinter did not […]
Aroused by Power: Why Madeleine Albright Was Not Right
When involved in war, those who feel like benefactors are bound to congratulate the gun toting initiators. If you so happen to be on the […]
Weaponizing Coal: Australia Gives Ukraine a Gift
Few would forget the antics of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison who, as Treasurer, entered Parliament with a lump of coal and proceeded to praise […]
Normal Butcheries: Saudi Arabia’s Latest Mass Execution
Great reformers are not normally found in theocratic monarchies. Despite assertions to the contrary, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia remains archaic in the way it […]
Rotten Rulings: Julian Assange and the UK Supreme Court
Julian Assange, even as he is being judicially and procedurally tormented, has braved every legal hoop in his effort to avoid extradition to the United […]
Foreign Policy Tripe: Scott Morrison’s “Arc of Autocracy”
Grand foreign policy speeches are not usually the specialty of Australian Prime Ministers. Little insight can be gleaned from them. A more profitable exercise would […]