Pacific elders are speaking out against Australia鈥檚 bid to host COP31, scheduled for 2026.聽Pip Hinman reports.
Asia & the Pacific
International scrutiny of Indonesia's brutal occupation of West Papua was given a boost with the release of the documentary Paradise Bombed, which details Indonesia鈥檚 military occupation of West Papua and its 2021 bombing of Kiwirok and surrounding remote mountain villages, reports Leo Earle.
Scientists, environmentalists and fisherfolk from around the Pacific took part in a global media conference on August 10 as part of the campaign to stop Japan鈥檚 planned dumping of nuclear waste water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean, reports Peter Boyle.
Two small progressive parties,聽the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) and the Malaysian United Democracy Alliance (MUDA) have been campaigning for a "new politics" in the August 12 Malaysian state elections, reports Peter Boyle.
The new blockbuster film Oppenheimer has raised complex questions on the nature of the society that permitted such bombs to be developed and used and the stockpiling of nuclear arsenals that can destroy the world many times over, writes Prabir Purkayastha.
Visiting Pacific peace activists Monaeka Flores (from Guahan/Guam) and Shinako Oyakawa (from Okinawa) warn that the United States military expansion in the Pacific has the dystopian objective of 鈥渨inning鈥 a nuclear war at the expense of the people on whose land these military bases are sited, reports Peter Boyle.
We can鈥檛 possibly mobilise the human and material resources needed to confront the climate crisis 鈥 the real threat to our security 鈥 while聽gearing up for a new Cold War, let alone a hot war, argues Sam Wainwright.
Chris Slee reviews Liang Hong's 2021 book, China in one Village, which examines the alienation from village life that accompanies China's reliance on rural migrant labour.
To challenge its聽drive to war and to force the government to invest in its people, students need to organise, argues聽Harrison Brennan.
Labor has decided (with Coalition support) to ensure that MPs and Senators have no real say over how Australia goes to war.聽Mark Robinson reports.
Speakers criticised the AUKUS pact and the proposed nuclear powered submarines at a bigger than usual Hiroshima Day protest. Paul Petit reports.
鈥淣o subs, no war, no US bases on our shore鈥 rang through the streets聽as protesters commemorated the 78th anniversary of the US' nuclear assault on the city of Hiroshima and three days later Nagasaki. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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