Chris Maltby

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

Watching Defence Minister Richard Marles refuse to answer basic questions about Australia’s export of weapons parts to Israel is excruciating.

Six-year-old Hind Rajab was killed in Gaza after being trapped in her car and riddled with 335 Israeli bullets. She pleaded for rescue while wounded and hiding among her dead family. Paramedics sent to rescue her were also slaughtered.

No global outcry.

#FreePalestine #HindRaja #Gaza #Palestine

Today is International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples & instead of posting something about the need for healing or sorrow I want to just say this. I am so bloody proud of the history I represent. The culture I am a part of & how lucky I am that I get to live it every day.
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I hate John Howard.
I am irreparably disappointed in Albo.
I hate hearing Albo boasting about his govt's achievements (while he does nothing to stop a genocide) as much as I hated hearing Howard boast (while he waged war on Iraq). #auspol #RecognisePalestine #FreePalestine #ZionismIsNotJudaism

His voice is something beyond words, and then there are the songs...

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The IHRA definition of antisemitism, in conjunction with hastily added laws, seeks to make opposition to genocide a hate crime. Dismantle this. Anywhere this definition holds power over an institution, genocidal ghouls are trying to silence dissent against their slaughter of Gaza

Her position is untenable.

Shakedown!

#AUKUS #auspol

YouTube video by Harry Williamson Michael Kennedy Sings Dhungala

The greatly missed Michael Kennedy
youtu.be/vTijyIVSlXc

Hello? International law? This is obscene. Do we still share values with the US? If so, we are utterly guilty of this genocide.

Media release👇

After two years of inaction, this must be a red line for the Albanese Government. Sanctions to the level of what was introduced against Russia following its illegal invasion of Ukraine, including an end to the two-way arms trade with Israel, are a necessity.

Think tank accused of ‘retaliatory action’ after staffer complaint about high-profile director Emilie Dye says the Centre for Independent Studies engaged in “retaliatory” action after she refused to sign a confidentiality agreement over an incident with Tom Switzer.

"In response to detailed questions from this masthead, Switzer “categorically denied” the allegations and said he had “already decided” to quit as the head of the think tank before Dye’s complaint"

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www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

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Four frames. Title: COCKATOO DANCE MOVES. 1. HEADBANG - Cockatoo lurching forward, thinks “I can’t believe we’re still on board with AUKUS. 2. BODYROLL - Cocky reeling back, thinks “I squirm to think of chummingbup with Trump…” 3. FOOT LIFT - Cocky lifts foot, thinks “I wish we could de-couple from the autocrat.” 4. SIDESTEP - Cocky leans, steps sideways, thinks “Step well away and give this deal the DUMP!”

Cockatoo dance moves.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

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A 24 hour vigil outside Parliament House read the names of children killed by Israel in Gaza.

Reading the names, I found it hard not to be moved thinking about these innocent lives lost.

Sex abuser who was not concerned about things done by her sex abuser boss is not concerned about things done by another sex abuser with her sex abuser boss.

🚨 Today's Productivity Commission report on AI reads like a corporate wish list from Amazon, Google & Apple. They're using rosy financial projections to dodge proper AI rules while Europe, Canada & UK build real protections. Australia risks joining the USA in becoming AI's wild west.

Hundreds of jobseeker payments cancelled illegally by government IT system, watchdog finds Ombudsman says staff at workplace relations department were wrong to rely on an automated system to stop money for claimants

Today’s Ombudsman’s report into welfare cancellations has found almost 1,000 people had their payments unlawfully cancelled by the automated system over 2 years.

The Greens are calling on Labor to stop all welfare payment suspensions immediately.

‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks Petrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a deal to cut plastic production and protect people and the planet

ICYM - ‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks

- Petrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a deal to cut plastic production and protect people and the planet

#plastic
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Where's Magnitsky? Heat rises on Albo to match words with actions, sanction Israel - Michael West Public pressure is rising to sanction Israel over war crimes in Gaza in the wake of the March for Humanity over the Bridge.

“In the 1980s, Bob Hawke took a lead with the Commonwealth Heads of Government, even against Margaret Thatcher, who was not comfortable with imposing these sanctions against apartheid South Africa. And he won. Nelson Mandela later attributed those sanctions as a key factor in ending apartheid.”

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Huge American-style utes are damaging our roads, reducing safety, and increasing emissions.

“In Europe they’re introducing measures to discourage people from driving these big utes...

"In Australia we’ve got subsidies for them.”

@richarddenniss.bsky.social, Executive Director

#auspol

Rockliff needs to have the confidence of the house to remain as premier. Given the similarities between the Libs and the ALP, they could just agree to a coalition of incompetence.

80 years ago, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

We remember the thousands who were killed in a crime against humanity, as well as the survivors who carried the pain of the past.

Today, let us honour them by vowing to rid our world of nuclear weapons once and for all.

Offshore detention is a toxic and cruel system, one with little to no oversight.

The fact that bikie gangs are one of the few organisations that are comfortable working under this regime says everything about it.

If Labor continues to allow welfare payment suspensions, it shows they don’t really care about what happens to people on welfare & have learned nothing from Robodebt.

The TCF is an expensive hangover from the Coalition and has been backed in by Labor for far too long.

NASA Acting Chief Duffy Issues Directive to Speed Up Moon Reactor Plans NASA’s acting administrator Sean Duffy plans to accelerate the construction of a nuclear reactor that could be used on the moon and alter the way NASA will partner with industry to replace the aging I...

Fun fact: this is about as likely as a massive resurgence of nuclear reactors on Earth

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...