The core ethos of decent Humanity is Kindness and Truth but this is grossly violated by the racism and mendacity of US-, UK-, Apartheid Israel- and Zionist-perverted and US lackey Australia. War is the penultimate in racism and genocide the ultimate in racism. Australia has been involved in all 1950 onwards US Asian Wars, atrocities associated with 40 million Asian “deaths from violence and deprivation” (Google this phrase), with the Right-Far Right Coalition (presently in Opposition) involved in all and Centre-Right Labor (presently in Government) being involved in all except for the Vietnam War and the Iraq War. Australia ignores the horrendous extent of this carnage.
An international team of expert epidemiologists published in The Lancet found that 64,260 Gazans had been killed violently by 30 June 2024 (Day 269 of the Gaza Genocide). Assuming the same rate of killing, this translates to 174,625 Direct (violent) deaths by 7 October 2025 (Day 731 i.e. after 2 years). However other expert epidemiologists published in The Lancet and elsewhere have “conservatively” estimated that deaths from deprivation (Indirect deaths) are 4 times the Direct deaths, this implying 174,625 x 4 = 698,500 Indirect deaths and a total of 873,125 “deaths from violence and deprivation” (Google this phrase) by 7 October 2025. Australia ignores the horrendous extent of this carnage too.
Similarly, experts estimated 64,260 violent deaths by 30 June 2024 (Day 269 of the killing) which translates to 136,000 violent deaths by 25 April 2025 (Day 569 of the killing). They “conservatively” estimated 4 non-violent deaths from deprivation (indirect deaths) for every violent death (direct death), this indicating 544,000 indirect deaths, and hence a total of 680,000 deaths by 25 April 2025, Anzac Day, Australia’s war dead memorial day.
However Google 680,000 with “ABC News” and you will discover the ABC reporting “more than 65,000” in response to audience complaints about a broadcast assertion that “680,000 people have been killed in Gaza”: “ABC NEWS | News Breakfast | Death toll in Gaza | 23 September 2025 | Resolved. Two audience members raised a concern that a guest interviewed on News Breakfast said that 680,000 people have been killed in Gaza which was not challenged by the presenters. That figure is unverified and no context about the source was provided in the interview. To address the concern, during the live program on 24 September 2025, News Breakfast made an on-air clarification stating that: “And we just want to clarify something said on the program yesterday. We invited Reem Burrows from the Palestine Australia Relief and Action Group on the program to discuss Australia’s recognition of a Palestinian state at the UN. During that interview, she said it’s reported over 680,000 people have been killed in Gaza, the current death toll from Gaza’s Ministry of Health is more than 65,000″ (ABC, Resolved complaint, 24 September 2025).
Indeed if you Google “ABC News” with 65,000, 66,000 or 67,000 you will find that the ABC “likes” such estimates that under-count the estimates of expert epidemiologists by a factor of 13-fold.
I responded to the ABC “Resolved complaint” report by publishing a detailed rejoinder in Gideon Polya, “Mendaxocracy, Kakistocracy, Murdochracy & Corporatocracy Australia: Lazy ABC Grossly Undercounts Gaza Genocide”, Countercurrents, 23 October 2025: “The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the ABC, Australia’s taxpayer-funded equivalent of the UK BBC) has an appalling record of under-counting Indigenous deaths in US wars. When a Palestinian activist referred to 680,000 Gaza deaths the ABC responded to complaints and offered 65,000 deaths. In reality Gaza deaths from violence and deprivation after 2 years of the Gaza Genocide and Gaza Holocaust now total 873,000 based on data in The Lancet…
The ABC has an extremely bad record when it comes to reporting the Indigenous death toll in US wars. Thus, on the occasion of the (incomplete) US withdrawal from Iraq in 2011, the ABC reported that “The withdrawal ends a war that left tens of thousands of Iraqis and nearly 4,500 American soldiers dead”. However, the horrible reality is otherwise: 2.7 million Iraqi deaths from violence and deprivation in the 2003-2011 Iraqi Genocide and Iraqi Holocaust (Gideon Polya, “US-imposed Post-9/11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide”). There are 5 million orphans in Iraq – go figure…
The ABC permitted me to make 3 nation-wide broadcasts but then rendered me “invisible” for 20 years despite my thousand huge articles and 10 huge books. I have individually addressed thousands of carefully-researched Letters to Mainstream media but only a dozen have evaded the censor. Recently Pearls & Irritations published 10 of my submitted Letters in a row but then applied total censorship. For revelations Google “Australian Mainstream media lying & censorship.”
Some useful suggestions:
(1). All ABC managers should be literally kicked out of the ABC because censorship of the Truth is a betrayal of trust.
(2). I would be happy to manage the ABC for the lowest salary of a full-time ABC employee. The ABC should be about urgently reporting the Truth and I can bring a mountain of Elephant in the Room things from a thousand articles and 9 huge books that the present emasculated and subverted ABC ignores.
(3). A modest suggestion: that the ABC reports the Truth at least 2 days each year – I would nominate Anzac Day and Remembrance Day and suggest possible licence on those days from legal constraints on truth-telling.
(4). Although I have been rendered “invisible” to Mainstream Australia I am proud to have defended in print (necessarily outside Mendaxocracy Australia, “ruled by liars”) about 40 truth-telling Australian writers variously importuned by the liars and bullies. A decent ABC should honour and court these truth-tellers.
(5). Journalists working for commercial media are pressured to lie by omission and commission by the owner-imposed culture. However ABC journalists are taxpayer-funded and such lying can be akin to betrayal, treason and theft.
(6). Censorship is anathema to the core academic ethos of commitment to Truth and free speech but this has been grossly perverted by grossly over-paid managers (“refugees from scholarship” according to my late father) (see Gideon Polya, “Current academic censorship and self-censorship in Australian universities,” Free University Education). The same restitution of Truth and free speech is demanded of both universities and the ABC.
(7). For 2 years the world has looked on while Zionist Israelis unforgivably perpetrated a Gaza Massacre, Gaza Genocide and Gaza Holocaust. The ABC should report the Truth (for a detailed and exhaustively referenced account see Gideon Polya, “Unforgivable 2-Year Gaza Massacre, Gaza Genocide & Gaza Holocaust By 50 Appalling Numbers,” Countercurrents, 14 October 2025). Please inform everyone you can – lying Mainstream media and politician presstitutes certainly won’t.