A Friday Rave

A Friday Rave is joined by Rawan Arraf, Principal Lawyer and Executive Director of the Australian Centre for International Justice to discuss the Federal Court Order against Defence Minister Richard Marles to disclose the list of documents pertaining to export permits and actual exports to Israel prior to and since October 2023. In the case bought about by Al-Haq, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and represented by represented by the Australian Centre for International Justice and barristers from the Victorian Bar and the New South Wales Bar, the documents must be handed over by the 17th of July 2026. A Friday Rave will be following and reporting on updates as they come.

This week we explore Gina's lastest investments in critical minerals projects and her MAGA-style courtship of Pauline and Elon. We talk about data centres, semiconductors, bottle-necks and the South China Sea. And a quick run through of the companies that the cops are using to get data from your tech

Today we talk about the 11th hour adjournment of the case brought by AL-HAQ against Richard Marles for documents pertaining to defence exports to Israel in the Federal Court. And we look at some of the lesser known Australian companies that are sole-source suppliers to the global F-35 program... including Israel. And yes, that picture is one of them.... The full report produced by Mercedes can be found here.Bear with us on the patchiness, the wonders of modern technology and the telecomms weren't in our favour today

Defence has announced increased private investment to bolster the multi billion dollar defence budget. We look into the Advanced Capabilities Investment Fund and some of the companies poised and ready to take up the cash cow. It becomes blindingly obvious that defence decisions are all about the money, and not for "national security" as they would have you believe.

It's the 78th year since the first Nakba, but the catasrophe has never ended. The defence budget, the whole of government approach, israel's impunity and australian surveillance planes are all part of the genocidal project. None of us are free until Palestine is free

Outgoing CEO of Lynas Rare Earths addressed the National Press Club, so we dig into that as an exercise in lobbying, and trying to convince kids that mining is excellent, nothing to see here. And we have a quick yarn about the recently announced multinational defence bank.

It all comes back to May Day.... It has always been about workers having a say in how we live.. from when we will and won't work, and what we will do with our time, the dignity of working people. So where are we today? A May Day perspective of working people and our lives today, from the apartheid employment system in Australia, the Royal Commission and classified recommendations and government lobbyists, and it's always people who suffer in the unending wars in the quest for resources and money.