Eternal vigilance

Our open free society is vulnerable to exploitation by hostile, authoritarian foreign powers such as China, Russia and Iran, and security is required to preserve our freedoms, rather than constrain them.

Australia expels Iranian ambassador over antisemetic attacks

Australia has expelled Iranian diplomats in protest against the antisemetic attacks on a Jewish synagogue and other sites in 2024.

Iran gambles on war

Iran has waged war against Israel through proxy terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah for years, but the barrage of missiles it launched directly against Israel will invite massive retaliation, and perhaps threaten the regime itself.

Narges Mohammadi wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Imprisoned Iranian women’s rights advocate Narges Mohammadi has won the 2023 Nobel peace prize for her long fight against the oppression of women in Iran by the clerical dictatorship.

Standing up to Iran

The Iranian regime remains as poisonous on the international scene as it is to its own people, and Australia must play its part in resisting Iran’s assault on humanity.

Towards a democratic Iran

The popular protests sweeping Iran against four decades of authoritarian religious rule are a step towards the prosperous, democratic and peaceful future which most young Iranians crave.

Back to the future in Iran

The public unrest that has gripped Iran since September, spearheaded by women, is essentially about the very objectives that the instigators of the 1978–79 Iranian revolution sought but failed to achieve – a democratic transformation of the country.

Iran’s mullahs can’t crush its people

The execution of protester Mohsen Shekari by Iran’s theocracy for the crime of “enmity against God” will only stoke the blazing fire of unrest sweeping the country.

Iran v the clerics at the World Cup

England thrashed Iran 6 – 2 in their opening World Cup match, but the bigger story may be the spilling over of dissent and protest against the theocratic dictatorship at home spilling over onto the pitch on this biggest of sporting stages.

Iranians rise up against theocracy

Hundreds of protestors have been murdered by Iran’s theocratic rulers in recent weeks, stoking rather than suppressing the popular protests against the theocratic regime.

The mauling of the mullahs

Forty years of brutal theocracy in Iran appears to be unraveling as the population – led by women – rise up against the ruling clerics.

Iranians v theocracy

The ongoing popular protests against Iran’s theocratic rulers are the most serious challenge to the regime since millions took to the streets after the fraudulent 2009 presidential election.