Author: Jmedia Manager
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Australia-Iran prisoner swap ‘would not have been done without US agreement’
The barrister for the Iranian researcher extradited from Australia in an apparent prisoner swap for two Perth bloggers has urged the Morrison government to use its diplomatic leverage to turn around deteriorating relations between the US and Iran. Barrister Pouyan Afshar, who represented University of Queensland PhD student Reza Dehbashi Kivi said Australia “because of…
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ABC not biased? Then explain this
The ABC is meant by law and charter to be unbiased. Every day it breaches that fundamental obligation. Today’s example? Jon Faine, one of the green-Left hosts on ABC radio, discusses the Extinction Rebellion: “We’re not giving time to climate deniers.” A: note the offensive reference to “deniers”, a deliberate link to Holocaust deniers. B:…
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Palestinians performers aim for the stars in Grey Rock
Grey Rock takes audiences to a small Palestinian village in the West Bank where we meet Yusuf — a former TV repairperson secretly building a rocket ship bound for the moon. The play, which was developed in Palestine and premiered at New York’s La MaMa theatre is featured at this year’s Melbourne International Arts Festival. We’re joined…
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Israelis unearth the remains of an ancient metropolis
Israeli archaeologists have unveiled the remains of a 5000-year-old city they say was among the biggest from its era in the region, including fortifications, a temple and a cemetery. “We have here an immense urban construction, planned with streets that separate neighbourhoods and public spaces,” Yitzhak Paz of the Israel Antiquities Authority said at the…
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In Budapest, there lies one of the most poignant reminders of the evils of anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitism is creeping into our schools, Rosie Lewis, The Weekend Australian, Saturday: Josh Frydenberg has called for Australians to be better educated about the Holocaust after reports of two apparently anti-Semitic events in which a 12-year-old was forced to kiss the shoes of a Muslim classmate and a five-year-old was allegedly named a “Jewish cockroach”.…
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Why Australia’s conservatives are finding friends in Hungary
When Tony Abbott gave two speeches in Hungary last month, it prompted an outcry from his usual progressive critics. They were alarmed by the former prime minister’s talk of migrants “swarming across the borders in Europe”, invoking the dangerous old notion of immigrants as pests or vermin. Abbott was not the only senior Australian figure…
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Porter quiet on possible Iran detainee swap
Australia’s Attorney General on Sunday refused to comment on whether a prisoner swap was behind the release of two Australians from Iran in exchange for an Iranian student who was facing extradition to the United States. The blogging couple, Jolie King and Mark Firkin, returned to Australia on Saturday after all charges against them were dropped.…
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Upping the volume
Hofesh Shechter is one of the most most successful and in-demand choreographers on the current world stage. He is best known for the works he directs and choreographs for his own Hofesh Shechter Company. But in addition to this, he fulfils a diverse range of commissions from ballet companies (among others, Paris Opera Ballet and…
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A story of migration, refuge and reconstruction: Elwood Talmud Torah
Viennese émigré Kurt Popper was a remarkable and prolific architect who helped introduce European modernism to the design of Australia’s places of worship. On a plane tree-lined suburban street not far from Melbourne’s St Kilda Botanical Gardens stands a physical reminder of the turbulence and horror of world events in the twentieth century. Themes of migration,…
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Under capitalism, even water is a tool of oppression
Imperialism and water in Palestine Human need for water is a weapon in the service of imperialism and settler colonialism. Water can be not just a commodity, but a means of ethnic cleansing. In occupied Palestine, Israel-as-oasis is a prominent part of the state’s national mythology. The military occupation, expanding illegal settlements and apartheid are…