New Zealand pushes for UN Security Council Seat for 2015 as Voice for Pacific...

May 23, 2012 (TSR) - A day after confirming Kiwi troops' early exit from Afghanistan, Foreign Minister Murray McCully was in New York pushing New Zealand's case to sit with...

East Timor – A Lesson in Why the Poorest Threaten the Powerful

by John Pilger, renowned investigative Australian journalist and international academy award winning documentary film-maker May 1, 2012 (TSR) - Milan Kundera's truism, "the struggle of people against power is the struggle of...

Australia lines up with US for war with China

February 18, 2012 (TSR) - An Australian defence posture report, released last week, is the latest sign of the Obama administration’s reckless and aggressive push against China on all fronts—diplomatic, economic...

The Road To Tehran Goes Through Damascus

February 18, 2012 (TSR) - Between the chaos and artillery fire unfolding in Homs and Damascus, the current siege against the Ba’athist State of Bashar al-Assad parallels events of nearly a century...

Australian Banks Given One Week To Prepare For European “Meltdown”

December 20, 2011 (TSR) - Whereas previously we had heard extensive horror stories about banks being told to prepare for the end of the world in case the European summit (the latest...

Genome power is about to sweep world: Nobel laureate

NOBEL laureate Barry Marshall plans to become the first Australian to post his own full genetic code, or genome, on the internet, even though it does reveal unsettling insights. His...

Asylum seekers sew lips

SYDNEY, Australia. November 19, 2010 (AFP) - UP TO 10 asylum-seekers in a remote Australian immigration detention centre have sewn their lips together, the government said on Friday, just...