Nick Everett
Starving a colonised people
Nick Everett

Starving a colonised people has long been a favoured policy of imperial powers. 

‘Closing the Gap’?
Nick Everett

In his election victory speech, Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese committed his government to implement the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full. Three steps were proposed by the authors of that statement: first, a Voice to Parliament, second, a Makarrata Commission of truth-telling and, finally, a treaty between First Nations People and the Australian government. Twenty months later, Albanese’s election night promise has evaporated.

John Pilger: a fierce critic of empire
John Pilger: a critic of empire
Nick Everett

John Pilger was a writer, journalist and film maker who pulled no punches. His work was hard hitting and scathing about the rich and powerful, both in Australia and globally. Pilger died in London on 30 December of pulmonary fibrosis, aged 84.

Are we going to let this happen to the Palestinians?
What happened to ‘never again’?
Nick Everett

This is an edited version of a speech delivered by Friends of Palestine WA chairperson Nick Everett at a rally in Perth on 21 October.

A family murdered by Israel
Nick Everett

Ayman Qwaider was impassioned and determined when he addressed a rally of 5,000 people in Perth’s Supreme Court Gardens on 21 October. Looking out across a sea of faces, he told those gathered about the brutal crimes that Israel was committing against Palestinians in Gaza, where he had lived most of his life.

Vale Esteban Volkov
Nick Everett

Esteban Volkov was just 13 when, in May 1940, Stalin’s assassins tried to kill him. Why? Because his grandfather was Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

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