January 2021

Australia's air attacks in the Middle East ended three years ago – or did they? | Paul Daley

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Defence is refusing to provide details about the Australians piloting deadly British air force drone strikes in Iraq and Syria

Australian air attacks on enemy ground targets in the Middle East ended three years ago. Or so the Australian military told us.

But undisclosed to either the Australian public or the federal parliament, this country’s air force personnel have been piloting deadly British air force drone strikes on enemy combatants in Iraq and Syria.

Amid the false history over 26 January, it pays to consider what Australia was really built on | Paul Daley

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Trolls and Indigenous-baiters got a gift from the PM this year, but in the midst of all the stories you’ll hear today it is real history that matters most

As the Australian summer yawns into late January and the first hint of russet kisses the treetops, languor quickly gives way to pain and anger as that day comes around. You could set your calendar by that fusillade of incendiary, hurtful words that inevitably comes in defence of marking a national day on the date that ushered in Indigenous dispossession.

WHO worries that Melbourne University’s links to arms industry will threaten joint medical research

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The World Health Organization has ethical concerns about the university’s collaboration with nuclear weapons maker Lockheed Martin

The University of Melbourne’s links with nuclear weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin are compromising collaborations between the institution’s global-leading infectious disease researchers and the World Health Organization.