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Summary 1. Palantir Technologies openly supports Israel’s war efforts and works with military, intelligence and immigration authorities. 2. Government institutions and corporations associated with that violence are now being normalised inside Australia. 3. The Michael West Media investigation reveals documented engagement between Palantir and the National Disability Insurance Agency
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Australia is a party to the Genocide Convention (CPPCG). This requires Australia to prevent and punish genocide, whether committed during peace or war. 0:00 /0:40 1× Australia is also a state party to the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), which it signed in 2013 and ratified in 2014. This
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Ed Husic’s position at Labor's National Conference should not be used to reassure Muslims and advocates for justice that Labor is still worth waiting for. It should show them why waiting inside Labor has failed. Husic did what Muslim Labor loyalists have spent years telling the community
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Labor believes Muslim Australians can be acknowledged and assisted after harm is inflicted without becoming powerful enough to alter the decisions that inflict it. That calculation sits at the centre of the government’s response to Aftab Malik’s Islamophobia report. It accepted the recommendations that demanded the least from
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Dr Wesam Charkawi completed a PhD in Countering Violent Extremism at Western Sydney University Reckless, academically clumsy, and dangerous are the words that come to mind following the speech of ASIO's boss, Mike Burgess, at his annual threat assessment 2026. The grand unifying theory that should not be
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Anthony Albanese’s Eid message speaks of humanity, fellowship and comfort, yet it comes from a Prime Minister who has refused to say genocide, extended diplomatic honour to Isaac Herzog, and now offers Muslims a reminder about values his own office has failed to uphold.
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Three Muslim men, Amin Abdullah, Mansour Kaziha and Nadir Awad were killed at the Islamic Center of San Diego after two teenagers opened fire while around 140 children were inside the mosque. Abdullah, the security guard, confronted the gunmen, exchanged fire and helped trigger the lockdown that kept those children
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These last few weeks and months have been significant across legal, political and community fronts. Below is a breakdown of the key developments and our full analyses. More to come soon. The Farrer by-election Labor opened the door to One Nation: “Imitation always loses to the original” Labor’s
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The assumption that ideology leads to violence is based in fear, not facts, writes Dr Wesam Charkawi
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Labor’s failure is that it accepts One Nation’s frame, then pretends to oppose One Nation’s consequences. It feeds the politics of fear and division, expands punitive laws, postures on borders and security, then condemns the monster when it grows. Labor has become One Nation’s rehearsal act.
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Silence for Israel’s Crimes
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The interim report by the Royal Commission frames social cohesion as a security project.