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Binoy Kampmark
Dr. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne.
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Blind And Deaf To AUKUS: Australian Planners And Elusive Submarines
Friday, 13 February 2026, 4:11 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Australian Defence Minister, Richard Marles, a fool of Chaucerian proportions, deserves a star of commendation in his denials of what AUKUS really entails. More >>
Bad Beginnings: The End Of New START
Wednesday, 11 February 2026, 8:28 am | Binoy Kampmark
New START seemed to be yet another irritating fetter on an administration more enthused by ignoring international obligations than following them. More >>
Soothsaying And The Sampling Referendum: The Heralded Rise Of One Nation
Monday, 9 February 2026, 8:36 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Many of the views of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation were slyly and ruthlessly incorporated by the conservative government of John Howard. More >>
Lord Mandelson: Trapped In The Epstein Web
Friday, 6 February 2026, 4:32 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Epstein’s web is looking increasingly, and alarmingly, expansive. Not only did the wily, persuasive man of advice slither his way into the confidence of the governing classes, he invited the easy betrayal of secrets. More >>
Precarious Invitations: Israel’s President Isaac Herzog’s Visit To Australia
Wednesday, 4 February 2026, 2:48 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“When someone is accused by the United Nations of inciting genocide, you don’t invite them for tea, you don’t give them a platform, and you certainly don’t welcome them as a guest of honour.” More >>
Poor Adaptations: The Netherlands, Bonaire And Climate Change Obligations
Tuesday, 3 February 2026, 4:32 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The latitude governments have traditionally had in shaping these responses is shrinking before the judicial stare, and those States with overseas territories will be nervous about the prospect of a harrying lawsuit. More >>
Hedonism’s Dance: How The Governing Classes Fell For Jeffrey Epstein
Monday, 2 February 2026, 7:51 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Operating in the realm of power and influence, these figures have shown themselves to be dunces and cavorters before hedonism’s dance, utterly indifferent to the prospect that they would, eventually, be found out. More >>
Dooming The Chagos Deal: The Diego Garcia Dilemma
Saturday, 31 January 2026, 5:14 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The little Englanders from the conservative and populist side nurse dreams of Britannic relevance while citing a counterfeit concern for Chagossian welfare. More >>
The Preaching Pentecostal: Scott Morrison In Israel
Thursday, 29 January 2026, 3:35 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Morrison has shown that he can be a good Pentecostal when required, demonstrating the sort of charity that never leaves his home or the halls of the Hill Song Church. More >>
Dancing With European Nationalism: Israel’s Generation Truth Antisemitism Conference
Thursday, 29 January 2026, 8:30 am | Binoy Kampmark
The attendance list caused problems prior to last year’s inaugural conference, not least because it included speakers from parties with memberships boasting neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers. More >>
The Gangster’s Brief: The Barr Doctrine, Noriega And Maduro
Tuesday, 27 January 2026, 3:20 pm | Binoy Kampmark
American political culture remains legal and incurably sanctimonious. It’s encased in a carapace of rhetoric that professes an appreciation of international rules when convenient, and their execration, when otherwise. More >>
The Global Billionaire Steal: Wealth, Authoritarianism And Media
Monday, 26 January 2026, 3:30 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Oxfam’s Resisting the Rule of the Rich has, as its subtitle, “defending freedom against billionaire power”. It’s an important link, as money, rather than knowledge, tends to be the indicator of raw power. More >>
Artificial Intelligence, Crime And Prisons: Mahmood Revisits The Panopticon
Saturday, 24 January 2026, 3:30 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Reforming the prison population would entail the use of a panopticon design, an all-seeing architecture where guards could witness the activity of all prisoners through the day or night without them necessarily knowing when they were being watched. More >>
Payola Laws: The Gilding Of Golden Tonsils
Friday, 23 January 2026, 8:17 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The central case in any prosecution brief against John Laws will always be the seamless (or so he thought) change from being a populist bank basher celebrating the oppressed yokels to an ardent advocate for banksters. More >>
Carney At Davos: Removing That Sign In The Window
Thursday, 22 January 2026, 3:58 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Given that the United States has tried twice, and failed on both occasions, to successfully invade their northern neighbour, contingency planning is only prudent. More >>
Gaza Vanishing: Trump’s Board Of Peace
Tuesday, 20 January 2026, 3:14 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The envisaged structure of control over Gaza, seen as a vital part of fulfilling Trump’s 20-point plan for the territory, opens the second phase of the peace process. More >>
Sleepwalking On The Money: Inequality, Surveillance And The Cashless Society
Monday, 19 January 2026, 1:48 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Cash may not be the mighty sovereign it once was but it still holds court with stubborn appeal. More >>
A Cruel Truce: Israel’s Ongoing Demolition Of Gaza
Thursday, 15 January 2026, 1:15 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Absolute necessity, he explained, had to “arise from military operations, that is, from combat or direct preparations for combat.” More >>
Spectral Threats: China, Russia And Trump’s Greenland Rationale
Wednesday, 14 January 2026, 8:43 pm | Binoy Kampmark
However negligible and piffling the imaginary threat, analysts, are always on hand to show concern with such projects as Beijing’s Polar Silk Road which is intended as the Arctic extension of its transnational Belt and Road initiative. More >>
Festival Of Cowardice: The Cancellation Of Randa Abdel-Fattah
Tuesday, 13 January 2026, 1:41 pm | Binoy Kampmark
A glance at some of the Board’s membership reveals corporate blandness and brand merchants versed in the nebulous world of “consultancy” and “communication”. More >>
