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"This media media document was released just hours before the Attorney General George Brandis announced the replacement of Brian Martin as the commissioner of the Royal Commission into the Northern Territory's youth detention system. The new commission will be jointly run by Aboriginal man Mick Gooda and former Queensland Supreme Court judge Margaret White. More about Mick Gooda and images in this article."


Ghillar, Michael Anderson 1 August 2016

PM Turnbull's Royal Commission into juvenile justice in Northern Territory is a cowardly act by a Prime Minister, who is ducking for cover in an attempt to protect his Minister, Nigel Scullion, from being scrutinised by the national and international community, which has been shocked into total disbelief at what was shown on Australian National TV by ABC Four Corners report 'Australia's Shame' on Monday 25 August 2016. We thank Cara Meldrum Hana for her investigative journalism skills to expose graphically what had been ignored by the authorities for so long.

Read more: Why Australia refuses to ratify UN Convention on Torture

by C. Doran, and T. Anderson

The release of the Chilcot Report in the UK and Andrew Wilkie's (Federal independent member for Dennison and former intelligence analyst in Australia's Office of National Assessments) public statement: “... Prime Minister John Howard took Australia to war on the basis of a lie and stands accused of war crimes. That he has never been held to account, and that his Foreign Minister Alexander Downer is now Australian High Commissioner to London, is quite simply outrageous..." has brought Australians' attention to the travesty of our country participating in the US led invasion of Iraq.

Below is posted a section from the article, "Iraq and the case for Australian war crimes trials" called Australian responsibility: cluster bomb deaths of civilians from the journal, Crime, Law and Social Change with permission of the authors, Chris Doran and Tim Anderson. This will be followed up by a another section called, Australian responsibility: the assault on Fallujah that will be posted next week.

Read more: Iraq and the case for Australian war crimes trials: Part 1

by C. Doran, and T. Anderson

This is the second installment from the article, "Iraq and the case for Australian war crimes trials" called Australian responsibility: the assault on Fallujah from the journal, Crime, Law and Social Change and is posted with permission of the authors, Chris Doran and Tim Anderson.

Australian responsibility: the assault on Fallujah

A second case providing detailed evidence for the war crimes prosecution of Australian officials is their direct responsibility for the brutal assaults on Fallujah in late 2004. There are numerous and well documented accusations of war crimes committed under the direct command of Australian Major General Jim Molan. Noam Chomsky (2006) describes these allegations as ‘far more severe than the [Abu Ghraib] torture scandals’ [20: 73].

Read more: Iraq and the case for Australian war crimes trials: Part 2

by Humphrey McQueen

A presentation given to Solidarity Breakfast on Radio 3CR, 9 July 2016

‘A financial crash is much more likely than not during 2016. When it strikes, it will be far greater than in 2008. The entire global economy will seize up – as almost happened in October 2008.’

That’s how I began my February contribution to Solidarity Breakfast. Last month, I ended by pointing out that

‘In a couple of weeks from now, the Bank of International Settlements will issue its Report for 2016. If the Bank now says that everything is on the mend, I shall have to eat my proverbial.’

Well, the Report came out on June 26.

Read more: A spectre is haunting capitalism: the spectre of debt