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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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Indiscriminate Suppression: Attacking Pro-Palestinian Protests After The Bondi Killings
Wednesday, 24 December 2025, 4:07 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The fuss will come in the form of a constitutional challenge from the Palestine Action Group, Jews Against the Occupation and the First Nations-led Blak Caucus in the new year. More >>
Ignoring International Obligations: Blocking UN Human Rights Delegates In Australia
Monday, 22 December 2025, 3:58 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Australia is regarded as a liberal democracy, with a smattering of human rights legislation its various governments observe with resignation, when convenient. Along with most states, its attitude to the UN and its various emissaries remains guarded. More >>
The Problem With Machado: Assange Sues The Nobel Foundation
Sunday, 21 December 2025, 4:20 pm | Binoy Kampmark
While this complaint remains a purist’s attempt to return the peace prize to a more conventional reading, the practice of awarding this inflated award to figures of ill-repute and sullied reputation will be hard to shake. More >>
Confusion At NATO: Rutte, Russia And Delusions About Trump
Thursday, 18 December 2025, 1:15 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The howling subtext here is Ukraine’s increasing irrelevance to US foreign policy, evident in the parallel lines of European-Ukrainian negotiations on the war, and US-Russian discussions that sup from a different cup. More >>
Using The Slain: Israel Exploits The Bondi Beach Shootings
Wednesday, 17 December 2025, 3:08 pm | Binoy Kampmark
With a customary sense of perversion, Netanyahu has managed to mangle Israeli policy, his own political destiny and the interests of Jews in a terrible, terrifying mix. More >>
Culinary Muddles At UNESCO: Italian Cuisine As Intangible Cultural Heritage
Tuesday, 16 December 2025, 2:50 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Furthermore, how these traditions of culinary transmission and engagement survive in a post-industrial age is skirted over. But food, Barthes writes, is a medium through which one “experiences a certain national continuity”. More >>
Schemes Of Bankruptcy: The United Nations, Funding Dues And Human Rights
Thursday, 11 December 2025, 2:43 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The UN Human Rights Council was the next fashioned target, with February’s withdrawal from the body justified on the basis that it had “protected human rights abusers by allowing them to use the organization to shield themselves from scrutiny”. More >>
Perfectly Appropriate: Trump, Infantino And The FIFA Peace Prize
Wednesday, 10 December 2025, 1:54 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Politics and sport do mix, as they have always done. Infantino, chief of the world’s foremost unchallenged sporting mafia, may claim otherwise, but his tenure shows that he knows that crude reality all too well. More >>
The Colby Review, AUKUS And Lopsided Commitments
Tuesday, 9 December 2025, 2:30 pm | Binoy Kampmark
This true steal for US diplomacy, and sad tribute to Homo boobiens on the part of the Australians, has continued with the review of AUKUS conducted by Undersecretary of Defense Policy Eldridge Colby. More >>
“Kill Everybody”: War Crimes And Pete Hegseth’s Lust For Blood
Friday, 5 December 2025, 1:45 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The substance here is clearly not narcotics. Trump’s outrageous pardon of former Honduran leader Juan Orlando Hernández, serving a 45-year sentence in a West Virginia prison for paving “a cocaine superhighway” to the United States, gave the game ... More >>
Experiments In Futility: Australia’s Teenage Social Media Ban Approaches
Wednesday, 3 December 2025, 4:16 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Cyber Safety Solutions founder Susan McLean is clearly on firm ground in dismissing the restrictions as moribund before they even come into effect. More >>
A Ceasefire In Name Only: Gaza’s Prolonged Purgatory
Tuesday, 2 December 2025, 3:09 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In the case of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, transgressions have become the lingua franca of the parties, though Israel remains, by far, the perpetrator par excellence. More >>
Clownish Proscriptions: Challenging The Palestine Action Ban
Sunday, 30 November 2025, 2:21 pm | Binoy Kampmark
This clownish effort by the Starmer government against Palestine Action, one of a long and running list, has brought the importance of civil disobedience and lawful assembly to the fore. Will the high court bite? More >>
Fossil Fuels At COP30: Sacred, Profane And Unmentioned
Friday, 28 November 2025, 3:46 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The resulting COP 30 agreement, with the aspirational title “Global Mutirão: Uniting humanity in a global mobilization against climate change” was a tepid affair. More >>
Contract Bikies And Bribed Politicians: Australia’s Nauru Refugee Deal
Wednesday, 26 November 2025, 3:17 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Nauru has also become an absurdly outgrown feature of Australia’s fixation with Chinese influence in the South Pacific. The Nauru-Australia Treaty of December 2024 reads like an open chequebook for the acquisitive Adeang and his grasping cronies. More >>
Keeping It Dull: Australia’s Compulsory Voting System
Monday, 24 November 2025, 2:01 pm | Binoy Kampmark
What becomes clear is that gamey flavour in politics is not something Australian political strategists, representatives or planners can cope with. It’s far better to have that sort of pungency boiled down to something reliable, stable and tolerable. More >>
Parochialism, Justice And International Law: Türkiye’s Genocide Warrants For Israel
Sunday, 23 November 2025, 2:57 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Governments the world over often misuse international law as a pretext to attack their enemies. This effort by the Turkish court system might be seen as another play in the politicisation of human rights. More >>
Things Happen: Trump, The Crown Prince And Killing Khashoggi
Friday, 21 November 2025, 1:45 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Since Khashoggi’s murder, the response from the Kingdom has been one of denial, distancing and detachment. It has involved isolating the killers as wayward enthusiasts and adventurers, lacking the force of a mandate. More >>
Clandestine Cleansing: Al-Majd Europe, Gaza And Israeli Policy
Wednesday, 19 November 2025, 1:36 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The conditions created by the war and its relentless prosecution, one that has left 69,000 Palestinians dead, has engendered the reasons for an exodus. And through that, ethnic cleansing is making its mark, directly or otherwise. More >>
Competing For Emissions: The COP Candidate Contest
Monday, 17 November 2025, 3:42 pm | Binoy Kampmark
If there is no resolution between Ankara and Canberra, the Germans have promised to step in, as reluctant as the German state secretary Jochen Flasbarth seems to be. Tens of thousands of emitting participants will be simply dying to know. More >>
