@ln060711.bsky.social
Whadjuk Noongar Boodja, Boorloo/Perth, Western Australia
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Australia has an amazing opportunity to use its Medical Research Future Fund to immediately supercharge healthcare innovation - to develop new medicines, new therapies, new cures.
The economic and social potential for our country is huge.
The government could release billions of dollars today.
This ought to be engraved somewhere.
23.09.2025 02:56 — 👍 17432 🔁 6173 💬 321 📌 194Great first step that should have been taken years ago when Labor first started mumbling about it. Now at the very least admit it's a genocide, sanction Israel, stop the two way arms trade.
21.09.2025 13:33 — 👍 48 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
"I cannot avoid Flanagan’s conclusion – that the death of a single cockatoo is a kind of apocalypse, a permanent reduction in the finite resource of love."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Melbourne’s hospital cancelled their seminar on “children and war” because they were worried it might offend the people who support war
15.09.2025 07:52 — 👍 241 🔁 78 💬 9 📌 1
Two frames. Top: March of black-clad ultra nationalists with Aussie flags, placards saying “IMMIGRANTS GO HOME” “AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE” “TOO MANY INDIANS”, facing lone reporter who says, “But aren’t you all descendants of migrants?” Lower frame, same scene with marchers with fists raised replying,”DON’T SAY THAT, BECAUSE IT IRRITATES ME…”
Sore point.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
Guardian Aus headline: We know the Sydney Harbour Bridge march against the killing in Gaza was huge – but just how big was it? With photo of the crowd crossing the Bridge.
What was the crowd size at Sunday's #MarchForHumanity #SaveGaza March? Dr Aldo Raineri, an expert in crowd safety management, viewed drone footage of the event. He estimated it to be betwn 225,000 & 300,000. Listening Albo? #auspol #IsraeliWarCrimes #GazaGenocide www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
04.08.2025 22:00 — 👍 91 🔁 48 💬 2 📌 5The family of Virginia Giuffre responds to the Maxwell prison move: "President Trump has sent a clear message today: Pedophiles deserve preferential treatment and their victims do not matter."
01.08.2025 19:45 — 👍 4071 🔁 1404 💬 61 📌 46I ended up watching the entire Trump/Starmer press conference and...wow. It's really weird to see the UK, Europe, Australia, Canada etc. cower in front of someone who is openly fascist. Maybe it was a mistake to become this dependent on a 250-year-old-country steeped in racism
29.07.2025 19:34 — 👍 257 🔁 61 💬 17 📌 0
A map of countries that recognise the State of Palestine.
You can now add France… but apparently not the UK, Germany, Canada of Australia.
Shameful.
For 4 years I’ve called for truth in political advertising. With the rise of AI-generated misinformation & deepfakes, there is no excuse for inaction. The risks to democracy are real and urgent. I’m once again calling on the Govt to support my bill & ensure voters are protected from lies.
#auspol
“Save Gaza before everyone dies,” says Dr. Atef al-Ghoul, Director of Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis. “Eight billion people in the world cannot deliver a piece of bread to the hungry in Gaza.”
Read more here: mondoweiss.net/2025/07/when...
The head of the Mossad spy agency was recently in Washington to coordinate with the White House on plans to expel Palestinians from Gaza. The plan, along with the forced starvation and mass killing of Gazans, echoes the worst of the Nazi Holocaust.
mondoweiss.net/2025/07/isra...
#Palestine #Israel
Israel’s Mossad chief flew to D.C. to pitch Gaza’s ethnic cleansing plan: starve them, cage them, then deport the survivors. As Israeli journalist Gideon Levy said, it’s a plan worthy of Adolf Eichmann — the Nazi bureaucrat who orchestrated the Holocaust’s logistics.
Cartoon by @latuff.bsky.social
Children in Gaza have begun to die of severe malnutrition in increasing numbers as Israel continues to starve the people of Gaza. Infants are the most severely affected, as hunger devours their bodies until they reach "a point of no return." mondoweiss.net/2025/07/when...
24.07.2025 23:01 — 👍 72 🔁 67 💬 8 📌 6
"When you privatise the profits and socialise the losses".
A sad, but sadly not unique tale, as told by
@firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Why can't we just hold trump to the same standards that we hold every other president who has ever lived? This is fucking ridiculous.
22.07.2025 21:06 — 👍 262 🔁 11 💬 8 📌 0
“I’m a UN pro bono official — I’m not even paid. Yet suddenly I’m a threat to the global economy. Why? Because I asked big tech to comply with international law and stop profiteering from genocide.”
— Francesca Albanese
UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine
#IStandWithFrancescaAlbanese
Can we also keep in mind that often the "antisemitism" claimed is NOT REAL eg graffiti that says, "FREE PALESTINE" or "END THE GAZA GENOCIDE" is NOT antisemitic.
HOWEVER, the RACISM and ISLAMOPHOBIA that non-white and Muslim Australians experience IS ACTUALLY REAL. #auspol
Jewish Council Rejects Special Envoy’s antisemitism plan The Jewish Council of Australia has today warned that the newly released Special Envoy’s Plan to Combat Antisemitism risks undermining Australia’s democratic freedoms, inflaming community divisions, and entrenching selective approaches to racism that serve political agendas. The report is riddled with misinformation and claims about nefarious funding sources for protests and universities that verge on conspiracy theory. The Council is especially concerned about the plan’s strong endorsement of the widely discredited IHRA definition of antisemitism, which has been used to silence legitimate criticism of Israel and Zionism. The Council criticised the plan's emphasis on surveillance, censorship, and punitive control over the funding of cultural and educational institutions: measures straight out of Trump's authoritarian playbook. We caution that some of the reccommendations including new visa powers and judicial inquiries into student activity — risk censoring criticism of Israel, deepening racism, and failing to meaningfully address the root causes of antisemitism. The Council is calling on the government to: • Ground its response in anti-racist principles that include tackling Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian racism, racism against First Nations people and all other forms of racism; • Engage a broad spectrum of Jewish voices, including those critical of Israel, who have not been consulted in the development of this plan; • Reject authoritarian proposals that erode civil liberties under the false guise of Jewish safety.
The @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social has put out a very strong and well argued statement rejecting the special envoy’s antisemitism plan
10.07.2025 04:15 — 👍 597 🔁 266 💬 21 📌 11
Mahamad Safa 🇺🇳
Number of Journalists killed in wars:
Vietnam: 63 journalists in 20 years.
World War II: 67 journalists in 7 years.
Gaza: 228 journalists in 642 days.
This violates Article 79 of Additional Protocol I Geneva Conventions, but international law clearly doesn’t apply to Israel.
2023-23 TAX STATS SPREADSHEET SHOWING 91 PEoPLE WITH A TOTAL INCOME OF $1M+ who paid $0 tax
The 2022-23 tax stats just dropped. And there we have it:
91 millionaires who paid ZERO tax
AOC is quite on point with this.
24.06.2025 19:45 — 👍 7946 🔁 1516 💬 104 📌 28
“The money isn't just being used only to fund their retirement. The plan is for it to help fund the inheritances of their other children without necessitating selling off the family farm”
Oh f*ck off.
Super tax breaks are not to fund inheritance.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
"Donald Trump has decided he is going into a war, for God's sake someone tell him we are not going in with him" "He is not playing on a game console here, he is playing with real lives here" "can someone please tell him he is not running a TV show" #auspol Jacquie Lambie
youtu.be/EshaIp4_IVI?...
Jacquie Lambie is correct.
And Albanese, Wong and Marles so slavishly following that bloody sociopath into his new war means our government is our biggest national security risk. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Our government is absolutely 100% doing an illegal war using the justification of WMDs that don't exist *again*, and this time, they're not even telling us. I feel fucking sick.
23.06.2025 09:53 — 👍 142 🔁 37 💬 5 📌 4
The US bombing Iran is a flagrant breach of the international rules-based order, said Allan Behm, special adviser at the Australia Institute.
Australia should have “made clear we are a country that stands up … for the rules-based order”. #auspol
"25 Palestinians were killed that morning waiting for aid trucks. Hamza brought Hatem’s body back to Gaza City & buried him beside their mother, who was killed by an Israeli sniper in Aug 2024. Their brother, Khalid, 21, died in a Jan airstrike while evacuating wounded civilians on his horse cart."
22.06.2025 23:41 — 👍 137 🔁 90 💬 4 📌 4
