Editor's Note: Dengue fever infects around 100 million people in the tropics each year. Some sources say the disease is fatal for 40,000 people a year while the article below says 12,500. I don't know who is doing the counting! Dengue is a mosquito-borne disease that is passed from one... » read this article

Remembrance for Australia's war dead has long been used to glorify militarism--and promote Australia's status as a junior partner to U.S. imperial aims. THE STREET where I grew up in Sydney was a war street. There were long silences, then the smashing of glass and screams. Pete and I played... » read this article

The Australian government is to fund emergency measures to help combat suicide in Aboriginal communities in the remote Kimberley region. It has seen a sharp increase in the number of indigenous people taking their own lives. Young Aborigines are four times more likely to commit suicide than their non-indigenous counterparts.... » read this article

Editor's Comment: Axis of Logic began reporting on Australia's treatment of refugees and asylum seekers in 2004 when Australian Mary Dagmar Davies contacted us about her sacrificial efforts to build the Jannah the SIEVX Memorial named after the SIEVX, "the Titanic of the Poor". It was a tiny Australia-bound fishing boat... » read this article

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18 January 2011 Queensland police threatened Grantham service station owner Martin Warburton, 41, with arrest on Thursday if he attempted to speak with Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Queensland Premier Anna Bligh about the failure of their governments to provide timely and adequate assistance to the flood-ravage community. Warburton,... » read this article

It was United States president Woodrow Wilson who called for "open diplomacy" — number one of his fourteen points in 1918 — so that "diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view." He would surely approve of Wikileaks' efforts at open diplomacy, though current US Secretary of State... » read this article

24 August 2010 The socialist and internationalist program advanced by the SEP in the 2010 Australian federal election has won a powerful response from significant layers of workers and young people throughout the country. Emails, inquiries, expressions of support and applications to join the party have come not only from... » read this article

“The truth is that all men [and women] having power ought to be mistrusted”. - James Madison, U.S. president 1809-1817       In a nation that prides itself of being a “tolerant” and a “fair go” for all Australians, one expects the candidates campaigning for Prime Minister position will be... » read this article

15 July 2010 As more information drips out, the role of Washington in the June 24 political coup against former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd looms ever larger. It is increasingly apparent that the Obama administration had become concerned that Rudd was wavering in his support for the crisis-wracked US-led occupation... » read this article

(photos/comments added to this article by Axis of Logic) 15 July 2010 A speech by Tom Albanese, chief executive of the giant mining transnational Rio Tinto, underscores the key role played by the major mining companies in the June 24 coup that removed Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, and the ruthlessness... » read this article

The Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was elected in 2007 by a majority of Australians. On Thursday morning, June 24, 2010, Mr Rudd was ousted and replaced by his deputy, Ms Julia Gillard, in one of the most vicious political executions in Australia’s political history, a bloodless coup d'état.  ... » read this article

Thank you, Julia Irwin, Australian federal parliamentarian who gave a fine statement in the House debateon Wednesday, 16 June 2010. The Member for Fowler (ALP) spoke up for citizen action and BDS, stating, “… like the Stalinists of old, some world leaders continue to deny the reality, or, worse, defend... » read this article

Sanna Andrew is the Socialist Alliance candidate for Fremantle, Western Australia, in the coming federal elections. She joined the Socialist Alliance in 2007. She is a qualified social worker and has worked in community-based mental health service provision for more than a decade. Andrew is also an active member of... » read this article

A former high-ranking United States defence official says Australian troops could be in Afghanistan for the next 30 years. Australia's strategy in the country has been thrust back into the spotlight this week with the deaths of two Australian Army engineers in Uruzgan province. Defence Minister John Faulkner says Australian... » read this article

Resources Minister Bryan Green’s $3.6 million subsidy (HERE)to drive logging deeper into high conservation value forests is a provocative and damaging act while constructive negotiations are underway between conservationists and the forestry industry, the Australian Greens said today. “A lot of goodwill is being invested by both sides at the... » read this article

(Photos included below) It is important to begin these impressions of Venezuela by explaining that our time in this country, in which we have been lucky enough to get beneath the surface, has confirmed suspicions that 90 per cent of what we hear about Venezuela in Australia is utter nonsense.... » read this article

The ongoing, racially-motivated attacks on international students and people from non-Anglo-Saxon backgrounds, and concerted efforts by the Australian Government and the media to downplay racism, prove that Australians are unable and unwilling to live as a civilised society without racism. In white Anglo-Saxon Australia, it remains as deeply-entrenched as ever.... » read this article

11 February 2010 Deputy Prime Minister and Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard has sent a clear message to business that the Rudd government will take whatever measures are needed to suppress any action by workers over jobs, wages and working conditions. Gillard last week announced amendments to Labor’s already draconian... » read this article

The role of the Ombudsman is ‘to safeguard the rights of citizens by establishing a supervisory agency independent of the executive branch’.  Unlike Sweden – where an Ombudsman was first established in 1809 –, in Australian, the Ombudsman is a tool of the executive branch to legitimate and protect corruption... » read this article