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The plot against journalist Antoinette Lattouf sheds much light on the phony campaigns and witch-hunts of the past three months, targeting mass opposition to the Gaza genocide.

It was the third demonstration outside ABC facilities in recent weeks over its Gaza reportage, none of them covered by the public broadcaster or the rest of the official media.

“We do not create our art merely for entertainment or for profit. We create because it is a human imperative in the same way that speaking out against war crimes is a moral imperative.”

Mass resignations, boardroom turmoil and angry donors are some of the ways the Israel-Hamas war is filtering down into Australia’s high-powered arts world.

Paul Keating says he "can do better than groupthink" after becoming the only living former prime minister not to sign a letter on the Hamas-Israel conflict.

Paul Keating says the first draft of a statement on the Israel conflict eventually signed by all living prime ministers except him was too ‘sharp’, and anyway he had never been a co-signatory with other leaders despite being asked many times.

From the blog of Julie Nathan at The Australian Jewish News

The annual Earle Hoffman Oration was delivered in Canberra by one of the late founders of the city's Jewish community family, human rights lawyer George Newhouse. He spoke about the relationship between the Jewish community and the First Nations peoples of this land as it stands today. Ahead of the oration, George Newhouse said: "My…

Former federal Labor MP and senator Belinda Neal is turning her attentions to international human rights violators. “President Xi Jinping, don’t you know who I am?“.