@BenDohertyCorro

International Affairs, The Guardian. Australia. Fellow @risj_oxford Oxford University. Opinions - hilarious/insightful/otherwise - my own.

 Sydney, Australia
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Release of major research by Prof Richard Tanter Nautilus Institute on The US now has access to more than half Australia’s military bases c.org/Gn8VKJ4WNc via @ChangeAUS @BenDohertyCorro @MichaelWestBiz @jaraparilla @saysgrumpysuzie @PeterCronau #usbases

The US now has access to more than half Australia’s military bases

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/07/us-military-bases-in-australia-map-list-spy-satellite-pine-gap IPAN's conference in July this year called for Australia to Break...

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Despite the global upheaval caused by the Trump administration, the Australian government is trying to plough on with AUKUS as if Biden was still in charge. @BenDohertyCorro joins @EmmaShortis to discuss Australia's gamble on the AUKUS submarine deal. 🎧 theaus.in/43vlCKI
Photo of Donald Trump and Anthony Albanese at the White House NEW EPISODE | Australia gambles on AUKUS as Trump rides Iran merry-go-round Listen to After America now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts.

ALT Photo of Donald Trump and Anthony Albanese at the White House NEW EPISODE | Australia gambles on AUKUS as Trump rides Iran merry-go-round Listen to After America now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Australian Institute of International Affairs event: Hear from author of The Curious Diplomat, Lachlan Strahan, about what diplomacy really involves, and what his experiences reveal about Australia's place in a rapidly changing world. bit.ly/4cATCuV
The image is a promotional material for an event titled "The Curious Diplomat," featuring a conversation with Lachlan Strahan and Ben Doherty. It includes event details: Tuesday 3 March, 6pm–7.30pm, at Glover Cottages. The event is organized by the Australian Institute of International Affairs. The cover of the book "The Curious Diplomat" is visible.

ALT The image is a promotional material for an event titled "The Curious Diplomat," featuring a conversation with Lachlan Strahan and Ben Doherty. It includes event details: Tuesday 3 March, 6pm–7.30pm, at Glover Cottages. The event is organized by the Australian Institute of International Affairs. The cover of the book "The Curious Diplomat" is visible.

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This event is open to @aiiansw members and non-members. @Lachie65 @BenDohertyCorro
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On 11 January 2023 officials drafted a nomination form to list the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation under Division 102 of the Criminal Code, but the Govt didn’t proceed with the listing. Why? Did they ignore a threat? More to follow! #auspol
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In Opposition Labor took a stand against modern #slavery and supported my private Senator’s bill to ban imports of goods produced by slave labour. Now in Govt they’re going slow, fearful of upsetting Beijing. One had hoped for better. #Uyghur #auspol theguardian.com/law/2025/aug…

Kmart supply chains under scrutiny for potential Uyghur forced labour links in Australian court case

Retailer says it has systems to identify and mitigate modern slavery risks and is ‘committed to respecting human rights’

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A Govt spokesman stated, “selection of any designated zone for high-level waste will be informed by extensive consultation with the community and key stakeholders”. So why is Govt fighting me in the Fed Court to keep selection plans secret? #AUKUS #auspol theguardian.com/world/2025/a…

Aukus laws will mean anywhere in Australia could be potential nuclear waste dump, critics say

Greens senator David Shoebridge says communities will have ‘no way to protect the land’ from waste that will be radioactive for millennia

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I have sadly been forced to take the Australian Govt to the Full Federal Court to fight for Australian high level radioactive waste related documents 🤷‍♂️. 2/2 #FOI #auspol michaelwest.com.au/secret-au…

Secret AUKUS nuclear waste site docs in Cabinet lockdown - Michael West

The Government has successfully managed to bury, for twenty years, a report into where and how high-level AUKUS nuclear waste will be stored.

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What will happen to #AUKUS sub high level radioactive waste? Neither the US or UK have a permanent storage solution and the Aust Sub Agency are silent on the issue (even thought they told me last month they have 14217 docs that mention the topic). #auspol theguardian.com/world/2025/a…

The lethal legacy of Aukus nuclear submarines will remain for millennia – and there’s no plan to...

Australia’s future nuclear submarines will produce highly radioactive waste, and allies in the UK and the US still don’t have a safe place to store their own

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Wonderful reporting here from @BenDohertyCorro and Mike Bowers
The Pacific Newsroom@newsroom_the30 Jun 2025
Bougainville fought a war to shut down Panguna mine. Now it wants to reopen it | Rio Tinto | The Guardian theguardian.com/business/202…

Bougainville fought a war to shut down Panguna mine. Now it wants to reopen it

The reviled foreign project could be key to Bougainville’s prosperity in independence. But some say the island risks repeating the mistakes of the past

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Meanwhile, away from the @elonmusk & @realDonaldTrump spat, in news from people w/o power... important refugee reporting in @GuardianAus by @BenDohertyCorro in PNG, w/pix by @mpbowers : “How long do we wait? What will happen to us? We deserve answers.” theguardian.com/australia-ne…

‘We just sit here’: the broken men Australia’s offshore detention regime left behind in Papua New...

Samad Abdul is among the last of more than 2,000 people who passed through the illegal system. Prevented from leaving PNG, he says his life is wasting away

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#auspol @BenDohertyCorro Bob Carr says Aukus a ‘colossal surrender of sovereignty’ if submarines do not arrive under Australian control Former foreign minister says it is ‘inevitable’ US won’t supply nuclear-powered submarines under Aukus theguardian.com/australia-ne…

Bob Carr says Aukus a ‘colossal surrender of sovereignty’ if submarines do not arrive under...

Former foreign minister says it is ‘inevitable’ US won’t supply nuclear-powered submarines under Aukus

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I spoke to @GuardianAus’s @BenDohertyCorro about the threat of vigilante billionaires and an increasingly virulent global plutocracy theguardian.com/australia-ne…

Australians join super-rich cosying up to Trump – and aren’t afraid to say what they want

Gina Rinehart and Anthony Pratt are among the super-rich seeking a direct line to the US president and a chance to increase their already immense power

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ICYMI: Australia is responsible for asylum seekers on Nauru, the UN Human Rights Committee ruled late last week. In this @BenDohertyCorro @GuardianAus story (bit.ly/405Ck16) about the cases brought by @AlisonBattisson and by @SarahRACS, @madelinegleeson put it this way:
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“America is running a high temperature at the moment.” I spoke with @GuardianAus’s @BenDohertyCorro about what the US presidential election means for the world. theguardian.com/us-news/2024…

How will the outcome of the US election affect Australia, Aukus and our region?

Australia’s future is closely tied to the future occupant of the White House. What impacts could a Kamala Harris or Donald Trump presidency have?

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Such a raw, personal and powerful piece from my @UNSWLaw @KaldorCentre colleague Sherine Al Shallah @amiranu2ta theguardian.com/commentisfre…

As a Lebanese Australian, the country I live in feels hostile to my pain – and by extension, to me...

Every bit of news of every attack trivialises everything else here. Dreams, plans, ‘achievements’

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The impact of the flawed fast track process is widely documented. It’s time for #permanentvisasnow “My hand does not stop shaking .. I am sick, a lot of us are very sick. There is so much pressure. We live on edge the whole time, without family..” theguardian.com/australia-ne…

The asylum seeker who saw no way out of Australia’s ‘cobweb of cruelty’

Mano Yogalingam had been on a temporary visa for a decade before he died of self-immolation. Other refugees detail the strain of being stuck in limbo

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🧵 Lolita came to Australia for safety. She is now gone. Women are entitled to be and feel safe. @australian covers what we believe happened to Lolita. theaustralian.com.au/nation/… Demand action #FindLolita #FreeLolita
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theguardian.com/australia-ne… The federal government could repatriate Australian women and children from Syrian detention camps if it had the ‘political will’, the full bench of the federal court has said. But there's no legal obligation to...

Government could repatriate Australian women and children from Syrian detention camps if it had...

The federal court dismissed the case brought by Save the Children and ruled that the government had no legal obligation to bring them home

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“The depression is very bad, very bad. What is our future, no one can tell us.” theguardian.com/australia-ne…

‘What is our future?’: the Nauru detention centre was empty. Now 100 asylum seekers are held there

The number of asylum seekers at the centre has been slowly growing, with fears they will spend years trapped on the island

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