A battle to disclose the content of secret letters between the Queen and the Australian Governor-General at the time of a coup against a reformist government in 1975 has been won – almost. But the most revealing story of the overthrow of Gough Whitlam’s government lies elsewhere.
JOHN PILGER ON A HIDDEN HISTORY OF WOMEN WHO ROSE UP
John Pilger describes a women’s rebellion in which his own ‘intractable’ forebear took part and which leads us to ask: where is such a spirit of resistance today?
ABORIGINAL PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO PROTEST THE COMMONWEALTH GAMES AS STOLEN WEALTH
Amy McQuire tears away the facade on the Commonwealth Games currently under way in Australia, on Queensland’s Gold Coast. Australia has a long history of presenting a sunny, sporty picture of itself, complete with Indigenous icons and ‘celebrating’ native people. There is rarely a hint of the greatest theft of land in recorded history and the brutality that accompanied it, especially in Queensland, the bloodiest state, and which goes on today.
THE KILLING FIELDS OF AUSTRALIA – A MATTER OF ROUTINE
Chris Graham reports on the trial in Perth, Australia of the white man who killed Elijah Doughty, an Aboriginal teenager, and the litany of killings and injustice that preceded it and mark the other Australia behind the sunny mask.
AUSTRALIA BECKONS A WAR WITH CHINA
Australia is sleep-walking into a confrontation with China. Wars can happen suddenly in an atmosphere of mistrust and provocation, especially if a minor power, like Australia, abandons its independence for an “alliance” with an unstable superpower.
STARVATION IN AUSTRALIA: UTOPIA’S DIRTY SECRET
In this latest report on the vast Indigenous region in Australia known as Utopia, John Pilger reveals a dirty secret.
AUSTRALIA’S DAY FOR SECRETS, FLAGS AND COWARDS
John Pilger describes the real meaning of ‘Australia Day’, a national day celebrated and mourned.
The message of Anzac: Put out more flags, or shut up
In this article for the Sydney Morning Herald, John Pilger compares the heroism of those with moral courage with the ‘sludge’ of fake patriotism.
The secret country again wages war on its own people
In a major article for the Guardian, John Pilger follows the release of his film ‘Utopia’ with an investigation into a new attack on Australia’s indigenous people, which has been called ‘cultural genocide’.
The forgotten coup – how America and Britain crushed the government of their ‘ally’, Australia
In an article for the Guardian, John Pilger marks the death of former Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam with the one story missing from the ‘tributes’ to a man whose extraordinary political demise is one of America’s dirtiest secrets.
