While details remain scant, there are claims from multiple sources that a peace deal has finally been reached in the war between Iran and the United States, after nearly four months of fighting.

This ANZAC Day, RSL NSW is calling on communities across NSW to come together in a show of unity and gratitude by attending local commemorative services on Saturday, 25 April.

As Australia acquiesces in the United States' latest disastrous, illegal war, the Greens last week introduced a bill which would require both houses of parliament to vote before our troops can be sent overseas to engage in conflict. After one hour's debate, this was squashed by the Labor and Liberal parties, despite polls showing 90 per cent of Australians support war powers reform.

Desperate to distract attention from the Epstein files, and retain his faltering grip on domestic power, US 'Peace President' Donald Trump has attacked another sovereign country, and murdered its leader, along with numerous others, and Australia's prime minister is apparently fine with that.

Before Chris Hedges could even deliver his speech on the silencing and betrayal of Palestinian journalists, the National Press Club of Australia cancelled the Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent's invitation. Last week he delivered the speech anyway, at an event in Sydney.

Anthony Albanese's government has no functional opposition, but an Australian socialist utopia seems as remote as ever. Would Ben Chifley recognise Labor in the 21st century? What happened to the 'betterment of mankind'? The party which once existed to serve the interests of the working class now seems utterly beholden to the military industrial complex, big miners and the gambling industry.

In 1953 the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh, was overthrown by international oil interests, with the assistance of MI6 and the CIA.

This week, the federal opposition chose to spend most of its time in parliament attacking Labor over Gazan refugees, although no one has been able to leave Gaza for months due to the ongoing war.

Senator Fatima Payman's abrupt departure from the Labor Party after crossing the floor over the issue of Palestinian statehood was a very public demonstration of the tensions between party cohesion and individual conscience in the Australian political system.

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