The Pope’s visit? The Sydney Morning Herald had more important stories to cover
Why didn’t the Sydney Morning Herald mention the Pope’s visit to the region?
Susan Connelly – Pearls and Irritations – 19 September 2024
Gaza and victimhood
The regimes in Israel and Palestine both claim to be victims in the violence that engulfs them. Interpreting the situation through “victimhood” assists in understanding the human forces that arise from age-old conflicts and that continue to cause so much horrific suffering.
Susan Connelly – Pearls and Irritations – 30 April 2024
Imitation accelerates
The whole world is experiencing an “escalation to extremes” because we imitate each other to a profound degree. We should choose our models more carefully.
Susan Connelly – Pearls and Irritations – 31 March 2024
Enemy twins: Israel and Hamas unite to massacre innocents
Hamas’s refusal to recognise Israel as a state is as absurd as Israel’s belief that the current massacre of Palestinians will destroy Hamas. If all this were mere stupidity it would be bad enough, but the consequent violence against innocent people is extreme and it is accelerating.
Susan Connelly – Pearls and Irritations – 9 November 2023
When raising a flag means death
Filep Karma constantly raised the Morning Star flag of West Papua. His death again raises the question: why are the Papuan people still oppressed by Indonesia?
Susan Connelly – Eureka Street – 01 December 2022
The origin of monarchy is violence: Can Australia choose a new path?
The concept of monarchy began as an antidote to human violence.
Susan Connelly – Pearls and Irritations – 25 September 2022
Left for Dead
This article published recounts the reprehensible 2004 Australian espionage against Timor-Leste. In a spectacular own goal, Australian governments tried to hide the matter but instead garnered international publicity through the grubby charges laid against “Witness K” and his lawyer Bernard Collaery.
Susan Connelly – Arena Magazine – Winter 2022
It’s time for an ICAC
There’s a three-way relationship between Australia, China and Timor-Leste. How will the next government manage it?
Susan Connelly – Pearls and Irritations – 20 May 2022
Australians quick to forget terrible wartime price paid by Timorese saviours
The current government has shed every vestige of honour to conceal the truth about the espionage against the Timorese, venting its guilty fury on the spy with a conscience, Witness K, and his lawyer Bernard Collaery.
Susan Connelly – Pearls and Irritations – 19 February 2022 Click here for this article with references.
In spying on East Timorese, Australia forgets its neighbour’s sacrifices
Australian forgetfulness of the wartime friendship and suffering of the Timorese people was crowned in 2004 by a grubby act of government greed.
Susan Connelly – Pearls and Irritations – 20 December 2021
Australia shredded all decency in the persecution of Bernard Collaery.
Our spying against Timor-Leste and persecution of a whistleblower and his lawyer reads like a tawdry thriller that would embarrass James Bond.
Susan Connelly – Pearls and Irritations – 19 November 2021
Adventures in incompetence – Witness K sentenced
This whole farce is more about protecting the real criminals in the case, those politicians and public servants who devised and planned, enabled and financed the shameful act of spying on the Timorese people.
Susan Connelly – Pearls and Irritations – 21 June 2021
The Other Swindled Partner
What were you doing in 2004 as the Australian Government’s fleecing of the Timorese people took shape?
Susan Connelly – Pearls and Irritations – 6 May 2021
Politicians and Prosecutions
Straining gnats and swallowing camels is not reserved for biblical Pharisees. Australians in the 21st-century witness pious adherence to matters that have certain importance, but which are secondary to, and meant to serve, the great human principles of ‘justice, mercy, good faith’ (Matt. 23:23-24).
Susan Connelly – Pearls and Irritations – 16 December 2020
Susan Connelly. The World is Full of Scapegoats
Compromised politicians, muted religions, a distracted and increasingly partisan media and a malleable crowd combine in another tragedy. Scapegoating it is, but thanks to the Gospel it is not destined for seamless success.
Susan Connelly – Pearls and Irritations – 10 April 2020
Kafka in Australia: the trial of Witness K
The charges against Witness K and Bernard Collaery are the stuff of surrealism
Susan Connelly – Eureka Street – 06 August 2019
Fraser Anning’s enemy twin
Susan Connelly – Eureka Street – 17 August 2018
An article decrying the human tendency to revenge.
https://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/fraser-anning-s-enemy-twin
East Timorese heroes of Australian wars
Australians do not generally know the toll the Timorese people suffered when they befriended Australian soldiers in World War II
Susan Connelly – Eureka Street – 24 April 2017
History curriculum perpetuates East Timor myths
The school curriculum is as deficient in acknowledging our close neighbour Timor-Leste as the mainstream media is in reporting on it.
Susan Connelly – Eureka Street – 10 July 2012
Long Term Consequences of Government Policy on Resources of the Timor Sea
Susan Connelly – Australian Socialist, Volume 13 No 3, 2004
Address to Palm Sunday Marchers
Susan Connelly – Compass – Autumn 2002
How the human spirit responds to oppression
Susan Connelly – Eremos – August 2002
Forty-five years on, secrets of the Balibo atrocity haunt Australia
Susan Connelly – Sydney Morning Herald – 16 October 2002
Your brother, your sister – call for ‘global response’ on refugees
Review of “Questions from the Asylum” Catholic Weekly 22 September 2002
With Timorese refugees unwanted, what chance have others
Susan Connelly – Action for World Development – Summer 2001