COLUMNIST: BINOY KAMPMARK

Wounding Victory: Nigel Farage Beats Count Binface

Aug 15, 2026 | Feature Article

It was never really in doubt. The Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, irritated, bothered, and keen to throw scrutiny off hi ...

Locking up the Felines: Cat Curfews Down Under

Aug 13, 2026 | Feature Article

Nothing inspires confidence in the silliness of the human species than its efforts to understand the workings of others. ...

Undiplomatic Melons: Anthony Albanese’s Oafish Bungle

Aug 12, 2026 | Feature Article

ldquo;Politicians, rdquo; the vituperative satirist Auberon Waugh observed, ldquo;can forgive almost anything in the w ...

Solemn Anniversaries: The UN Refugee Convention turns 75

Aug 11, 2026 | Feature Article

That grand old thing is getting on a bit. Still significant and still functioning wearily, the

Balls to the White House Ballroom

Aug 8, 2026 | Feature Article

The edifice complex of the Trump administration is proving to be an aggressive one. As with previous presidents, the cur ...

Project Panama: Scanning and Book Destruction at Anthropic

Aug 6, 2026 | Feature Article

Book burning. Book pulping. Book vandalising. It rsquo;s all the fashion and, dare one say it, the rage. Libraries are c ...

Stillborn Peace Plans: Israel, Hamas and the Question of Disarmament

Aug 5, 2026 | Feature Article

Another trumpeted achievement, another heralded occasion of momentous significance. Or it may be nothing of the sort. US ...

Horse, Anyone? Equine Spotting in the Food Chain

Aug 4, 2026 | Feature Article

The undeservedly discredited horse is again coming in for criticism as a food filler for items that make nary mention of ...

Football Lucre: The Revolt Against Infantino’s Funding Plans

Aug 2, 2026 | Feature Article

It is a stew of inedible quality. But eat it we are expected to do. Consider the stomach-churning ingredients. FIFA, an ...

Managed Extinguishment: Husic, Debating Gaza and the ALP Conference

Jul 30, 2026 | Feature Article

The Israeli embassy in Canberra had warned about it, and, with rattling confidence, thought it appropriate to remind the ...

Execrable Drivel: The US State Department’s Cuba Report

Jul 29, 2026 | Feature Article

This was certainly an occasion when the mouse roared. At least the threatened lion thought so, if the latest hysteria-st ...

Karim Khan: Sex, Politics, and the ICC

Jul 28, 2026 | Feature Article

Could it be put down to a measure of confidence on his part? On this occasion, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ...

Enrichment Antics: Trump’s Saudi Nuclear Deal

Jul 26, 2026 | Feature Article

The Israelis had their jaws dropping and dragging on the grounds. The Saudis were cock-a-hoop. The Trump administration ...

Modish Blockades: The Houthis, Trump and Expanding the War

Jul 23, 2026 | Feature Article

The naval blockade has become conveniently modish, particularly when it comes to narrow straits of water where heavy int ...

Close that Facility: The 2026 Pine Gap Protests

Jul 21, 2026 | Feature Article

It remains a prickly reminder that Australia remains an embarrassed vassal of power, annexed to the security interests o ...

Acting the Goose: Pauline Hanson’s Tour of Blighty

Jul 19, 2026 | Feature Article

She has been a remarkable survivor in the cutting, remorseless field of politics. Mocked for her incoherence, her lack o ...

Fearing Justice: Rubio Gets Bolshie About the ICC

Jul 15, 2026 | Feature Article

Why are they so afraid? The Trump administration, pathologically obsessed about the exaggerated reach of the Internation ...

Binoy Kampmark

Dr. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He currently lectures at RMIT University. Email: [email protected]. More He is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, teaching within the Bachelor of Social Science (Legal and Dispute Studies) program.

Binoy’s research and teaching interests lie in the intersections of law, international relations and history. Much of his research and teaching involves the examination of conflict, diplomacy, and the various crises confronting international society including refugees, terrorism, ‘rogue’ states and undocumented citizens.

Binoy has written extensively in both refereed journals and more popular media on his research interest topics of the institution of war, diplomacy, international relations, 20th century history and law.

The quality of his research has been acknowledged in awards made by the US-based International Association for the Study of Forced Migration and Limina, journal of the History Department of the University of Western Australia.

Media expertise
Binoy is available for media interviews and comments as an expert on international and national security, terrorism, the war on terror and politics.

He has been interviewed for National Public Radio in the United States, Radio National in Australia, and radio stations in South Africa. He is also a regular contributor to online publications including The Conversation, Eureka Street, CounterPunch (US) and Scoop (NZ).

Binoy was also commissioned by the UK History Channel in December 2007 to January 2008 to write package descriptions for the American Civil War, and in March 2006 to write a package on World War II: The War in the West, 1943-1945.