Independent Australia

23/12/2025

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22/12/2025

An Australia without brave media outlets standing up to Trumpian, anti-truth spin doctors? Watch Independent Australia's owners on why we need IA...

Independent Australia’s owners say why save IA

An Australia without brave media outlets standing up to Trumpian, anti-truth spin doctors? Watch Independent Australia's owners on why we need IA...

22/12/2025

I was at a birthday dinner when I received a message from my brother that immediately felt wrong. It was disjointed and unclear, as if something serious had happened but hadn’t yet settled into words. I rang him straight away.

Bondi after the bullets
~ Michael Cohen

I was at a birthday dinner when I received a message from my brother that immediately felt wrong. It was disjointed and unclear, as if something serious had happened but hadn’t yet settled into word...

21/12/2025

We have arrived at the end of another lap around the sun. In-house guru David Kowalski recaps another brilliant year for new music, both locally and abroad.

Bye bye '25 and another brilliant year for new music

We have arrived at the end of another lap around the sun, and another brilliant year for new music, both locally and abroad.

21/12/2025

The gap between settler lives and those it colonised is the system working as it was designed to.
~ Yuki Lindley

Settler colonialism is a structure, not an event

The gap between settler lives and those it colonised is the system working as it was designed to.

21/12/2025

As 2025 draws to a close, we can look back on a year when economic inequality became firmly entrenched on the Australian political agenda.
~ Carl Rhodes

Inequality is back at the heart of politics

As 2025 draws to a close, we can look back on a year when economic inequality became firmly entrenched on the Australian political agenda.

21/12/2025

Looking at Australia through the lens of award-winning photojournalist Bill McAuley.
High on the hill: Melbourne's iconic Nylex Clock
~ Bill McAuley

It's the end of the year and time to look back at some of the iconic photos featured in EYE FOR AUSTRALIA in 2025.

19/12/2025

Here's an excerpt from the newest episode of Indy Eye, where managing editor Michelle Pini chats with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges to discuss "blowback" from the ongoing Gaza genocide, the shocking Bondi attack and that "interview" with David Marr.

See the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMmrEs7J9jU

Read the Chris Hedges Report here: https://therealnews.com/chris-hedges-report

19/12/2025

For more than 70 years, community water fluoridation has been defended as settled science, despite weak evidence of benefit, unresolved health risks, ethical violations and the quiet influence of powerful corporate interests.

Fluoridated faith: How weak science and vested interests sold mass medication
~ Dr Mark Diesendorf

Community water fluoridation has been defended as settled science, despite weak evidence of benefit and the quiet influence of powerful corporate interests.

19/12/2025

As the Trump Administration weaponises state power against critics, America’s self-image as the guardian of a rules-based international order is collapsing in real time.

From rules-based order to rule by fear: America’s democratic unravelling
~ Mark Beeson

As the Trump Administration weaponises state power against critics, America’s self-image as the guardian of a rules-based international order is collapsing in real time.

18/12/2025

The Bondi attack has been cynically repurposed to advance an immigration narrative that collapses under even basic factual scrutiny.

Bondi terrorism delivers dive in journalism standards
~ Dr Abul Rizvi

The Bondi attack has been cynically repurposed to advance an immigration narrative that collapses under even basic factual scrutiny.

18/12/2025

Apparently, he's just 'got his eyes closed'... many, many times.
CARTOONS: Donald Trump is not 'falling asleep' in the White House
~ Mark David Cartoons

Apparently, he's just 'got his eyes closed'... many, many times.