Binoy Kampmark

Dr. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne.

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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 >>

Chatbot Unions: The Dawn Of AI Marriages

Sunday, 16 November 2025, 4:54 pm | Binoy Kampmark

The problems of AI sycophancy, where the responses from a chatbot affirm and encourage pre-existing prejudices and views, meet at a confluence of political messiness, yearning desire and the wish to simply hear those words: “I do.” More >>

Dangerous Edits: The BBC’s Foolish Gift To Donald Trump

Tuesday, 11 November 2025, 1:57 pm | Binoy Kampmark

The Panorama special, titled “Trump: A Second Chance?”, goes on to give the impression that flag-waving men had also converged with menacing intent after the speech. More >>

Consultants And Artificial Intelligence: The Next Great Confidence Trick

Saturday, 8 November 2025, 2:29 pm | Binoy Kampmark

Seeking the services of these consultancy guided platforms is an exercise in cerebral corrosion. More >>

A Question Of Needlessness: Selling Iron Dome To Australia

Friday, 7 November 2025, 1:28 pm | Binoy Kampmark

The world of defence policy is truly another planet. There, budgets are given to astronomical burgeoning and bizarre readings. Threats can be invented or exaggerated. Insecurity can be inflated. Decisions for the next project supposedly more lethal ... More >>