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Australian government ramps up anti-China campaign, spends billions on weaponry

July 15, 2020 By Denis Doherty And Hannah Middleton

Australian PM Morrison is using fear as his chief weapon, evoking the rise of Nazism and describing the post-pandemic world as “poorer, more dangerous, and more disorderly.”

Anti-China racism aims to distract Australians as U.S. economic control grows

June 24, 2020 By Celeste Dale

Among the top 20 companies on the Australian Stock Exchange, 15 (three in four) are majority-owned by U.S. investors.

Australian fires and drought: Government cut climate change research, ignored scientists

January 27, 2020

Australia's government is wedded to the fossil fuel industry and says it will do nothing that would not compromise “the strength of the economy” over environmental concerns.

Australia’s climate change-denying prime minister tries to dodge blame for fires

January 6, 2020 By Morning Star

PM Scott Morrison also faces accusations of “milking” the firefighting effort for political purposes.

Half a billion animals may have been killed by Australia fires

January 3, 2020 By Jake Johnson

"The fires have burned so hot and so fast that there has been significant mortality of animals in the trees, but we will probably never find the bodies."