This could have been Australia, but thanks to John Howard, Tony Abbott, Scott Morrison, the Minerals Council and the BCA, we wasted nearly 20 years subsidising gas and coal instead. What a waste.

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice

I so admire and am inspired by the @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social team, by their humanity and bravery - thankyou @sarahschwartz.bsky.social and colleagues.

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Gas exports have tripled Australian gas prices and doubled electricity prices New Australia Institute research reveals that gas exports have led to the tripling of wholesale east coast gas prices and doubling of electricity prices, since exports began in 2015.

Allowing unrestricted gas exports from the east coast of Australia has resulted in domestic wholesale gas prices more than tripling and electricity prices doubling, our research found.

Read:

'Our nearest neighbour is our newest ally': Albanese, Marape sign new defence treaty PNG and Australia formally sign a landmark new defence treaty, elevating the bilateral relationship between the two countries to an alliance and agreeing to "act to meet the common danger" if the othe...

As an Australian, I’m especially proud to be in PNG today. 50 years ago, demonstrating how interdependent and close our countries are, Gough Whitlam said something like, “Australia can only be fully free when PNG is fully free”. This announcement is in that spirit.
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Image shows a sign in a TB ward saying that their are patients shedding drug resistant TB in this ward, next to it is a CO2 monitor showing excellent air quality, readings that demonstrate great ventilation and airflow

Honoured to visit Port Moresby Gen Hospital. TB is the nation’s #1 killer & we’re proud to work with PNG on addressing it. Note the key to how TB spread has been mitigated in hospital settings for decades - airborne controls… lessons that should be applied more widely. @burnetinstitute.bsky.social

Just read through these. My God.

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice To those I have lost – the teachers, mentors, loved ones – who once taught me what it was to be Jewish. Those who once shared my table, yet now sit on the other side of a deep chasm. I write with hesitation. My words have been twisted before. But silence has become its own wound. Continue reading...

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz

Ah - this explains why there's a hopeful buzz over on Mastodon. You're very loved over there as well.

Seriously, "leftie" journos in that room, where. the . fuck. are. you? It might be time to put ethics and morality ahead of your career prospects. This is a holocaust and a fascistic assault on democracy in the West. And you're just gonna sit there quietly? Go fuck yourself.

Heseltine at the Tory conf:

"Fascists of the 30s are back... Trump's language coincides with words here... The immigrant has replaced the Jew as the problem. We must make clear we will never have any part in the populist extremism of Farage... We don't need Trump's mouthpiece anywhere near No. 10.”

Greta Thunberg has arrived in Greece following her deportation from Israel,
after the Gaza aid flotilla was intercepted
#GlobalSumudFlotilla
She said:
“I could talk for a very,very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment.
Trust me, but that is not the story.”
#Athens airport

Demonstranten massaal naar Rode Lijn-protest tegen ‘hemeltergende leed’ in Gaza: ‘Meer hummus, minder haat’ Zo’n 250 duizend mensen demonstreerden zondag op het Museumplein in Amsterdam tegen het ‘lafhartige’ Israëlbeleid van het kabinet. Velen waren er ook al eerder bij in Den Haag. ‘Derde keer bij de Rode...

Around 250,000 people demonstrated today at Museumplein in Amsterdam in support of Palestinian.

www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/d...

I'm very concerned about all the #GlobalSumudFlotilla detainees, but especially Hannah Schafer, who seems likely to be held in extended detention in Israel. Israeli armed forces have committed grave and multiple breaches of international law in attacking the flotilla and mistreating its crew.

Works for me.

The myth of 'social cohesion' - do as they say, not as they do - The Shot There’s an established principle in law: he who comes looking for equity must come with clean hands. The clean hands...

My latest article in The Shot

"The largest contributors to the breakdown of social cohesion in Australia are the governments of Australia, practising a privileged fuck-you version of democracy that makes its own rules & caters for those within the club"

#pffft
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Thank you everyone

❤️ 🙏🏽 ❤️

#Gunnawah

Seems to be a disturbing pattern in the response to the Trump regime so far.

Large wealthy corporations and institutions capitulate, pay bribes, or are even complicit with the descent into fascism.

But courageous resistance comes from those with the least power.

That is precisely how things developed in 1930s Germany, and in other European countries as Nazism spread.

People want to believe that their ancestors were brave resisters, but in truth, too many were not

YouTube video by The Sunday Shot THE SUNDAY SHOT - OCTOBER 5

Sunday Shot starts at 10am today, with me and Jo, @marquelawyers.com.au, Julianna Schultz, and an interview with Grace Tame

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbl6...

Dear @instanterudite.bsky.social @davemilbo.bsky.social Superb Sunday Shot today. While the discussion concerned deeply troubling events (Gaza, Trump's USA), it was encouraging to hear intelligent, informed discussion with empathy rather than shallow tabloid trash gossip mag journalism. Thank you. 🙏

"within Albanese’s cabinet, the fiercest resistance to wider public-hearing powers for the NACC came from Albanese himself"

This secretive and unaccountable government rots from the head. #NACC #robodebt #auspol

New government data confirms what everyone already knew...multinational gas exporters are reaping billions from Australian resources while paying little or no tax.

"People are getting increasingly sick of it."

🔊Richard Denniss, co-CEO, the Australia Institute
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

The myth of 'social cohesion' - do as they say, not as they do - The Shot There’s an established principle in law: he who comes looking for equity must come with clean hands. The clean hands...

Here's @ronnisalt.bsky.social

'The myth of ‘social cohesion’ – do as they say, not as they do'

Now here is somebody the world really should mourn

Here is a woman deserving of all the accolades and all the glory and all the stars we have in our heavens

One of the brightest, most compassionate, beautiful humans to ever walk our planet

May you fly high O Captain, O glorious Captain

❤️ 🐒 ❤️

YouTube video by SK Hideaways 367 Collins St. Falcons🪽Chick #2 Hatches 🐣 #1 Rolls Out of Nest with Excitement🙃 2025 Oct 1

Chick #2 snuck out in the dark of night, but dawn provided a grand entrance for the wee one. Chick #1 was so excited they rolled out of the nest box. Mum F24 eventually rolled them back in. One more hatch to go.🐣

Courtesy 367 Collins St. Falcon Cam
#raptors #birds #peregrinefalcons #skhideaways

YouTube video by SK Hideaways 367 Collins Street Falcons🪽 Mum F24 and Dad M24 Welcome 1st Chick!🐣🎉 2025 Sep 30

Mum F24 was on incubation duty when chick #1 appeared from under her. When Dad M24 arrived, he seemed perplexed about what to do now that one of his beloved eggs had become a squirming chick.

Courtesy #367CollinsSt Falcon Cam
#raptors #birds #peregrinefalcons #skhideaways

Hop the bunny, malting and eating and eating hay

Hop's malting and a bit disheveled ATM but who isn't??

Cartoon. Image shows NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon in Gaza’s ruins, talking to a gaunt woman, huddled with her two children. He’s saying, “New Zealand is a very principled nation. We won’t be rushed”

New Zealand prevaricates on whether to recognise Palestine as a state, or not.
My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Palestine #Gaza

Australian doctors become unofficial correspondents from hospital in Gaza City In a ruined hospital and with little medication, two Australian doctors say the situation inside Gaza City is a "nightmare".

Hard to know quite what more can be said. I watched the video by the two Australian doctors referred to in this piece, as powerful a testimony as you can get.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

#BREAKING | Greta Thunberg: “I'm not scared of Israel. I’m scared of a world that has seemingly lost all sense of humanity.”