Miriam Cosic

Live: Littleproud says government must ensure Iran footballers don't bring values of 'tyranny' Nationals Leader David Littleproud says the government must ensure Iranian footballers who have sought asylum in Australia do not bring values of "tyranny". Follow live.

What an absolute jerk Littleproud is.

Nationals Leader David Littleproud says the government needs to ensure Iranian footballers who have sought asylum in Australia do not bring values of "tyranny".

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Senator Peter Whish-Wilson:

#auspol #foreignpolicy #war #USPolitics #foreverwars

US begins large military drill with South Korea while waging war in the Middle East The United States has begun a large military exercise with South Korea involving thousands of troops while also waging an escalating war in the Middle East.

The United States began a large military exercise with South Korea involving thousands of troops Monday while also waging an escalating war in the Middle East.

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

For this year’s International Women’s Day, let me put it as simply as possible: Men should be glad we want equality — not revenge.

Palantir embedding staff in Defence and mining Australian data under contract with Trump-aligned company A Department of Defence contract for 'Industrial Intelligence Capability' obtained by Crikey is the first time that the nature and conditions of the controversial company's work with Australia has bee...

A DoD contract for ‘Industrial Intelligence Capability’ obtained by Crikey is the first time the nature and conditions of Palantir's work with Australia has been made public.

Palantir embedding staff in Defence and mining Australian data
- by Cam Wilson

www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/09/p...

Christian Nationalism is NOT Christianity, but it is a national security threat.

📌 The Military Religious Freedom Foundation says it has received over 200 complaints that troops are being told war with Iran is meant to accelerate “Armageddon.”

The Middle East is a distraction Europe simply cannot afford.

Our primary focus must remain on helping Ukraine defeat Russia.

If Putin wins on our doorstep, nothing else matters.

We need to arm Ukraine, sanction Russia, and finish the job

And runs a boastful Administration whose swaggering new Department of War doesn't even know not to stack the flag-draped coffins in a van like boxes of retail goods for delivery?

#decency

WTF? He doesn't even know to take his damned baseball cap off when saluting American war dead?

#decency

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

Who Is Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s New Supreme Leader? The selection of a son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in a strike on his compound at the start of the war, could anger Iranians seeking change.

Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was named his father’s successor to become Iran’s third supreme leader. Here is what to know about him.

Iran defies Trump, elevates Khamenei's son Mojtaba as successor Mojtaba's appointment could reshape Iran's war and reverberate far beyond the Middle East.

Iran defies Trump, elevates Khamenei's son Mojtaba as successor
- by Samia Nakhoul and Parisa Hafezi

#Iran
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Constant threats and backlash undermine women's rights around the globe, but women still continue to fight against repression.

This International Women's Day, we honor the courage of those working to improve the lives of women and girls everywhere. #IWD26 #InternationalWomensDay

#InternatiinalWomensDay
#Afghanistan

#InternatiinalWomensDay
#Afghanistan

Defence refusing to say if WA base helped killer US sub Defence is refusing to say whether a naval communications facility in the remote northwest helped support a US submarine carrying ADF personnel launch a deadly strike against an Iranian warship.

Defence is refusing to say whether a naval communications facility in the remote northwest helped support a US submarine carrying ADF personnel launch a deadly strike against an Iranian warship
- by Andrew Greene and Katina Curtis

thenightly.com.au/politics/def...

Push for gas tax as LNG exports reap huge profits after one week of war
- by Mike Foley and Nick Toscano

www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: "So, what do virtuous, liberal, democrats do now?

"Take Iran. Should we throw petals at the feet of "peacemakers" Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu?
Because they have despatched Iran's theocratic despot and his vile buddies?"

Full piece at @theipaper.com

The first strike on Iranian oil infrastructure ha landed,
On the Shahran fuel depot on the northern outskirts of Tehran, where gasoline and military fuel are stored for domestic distribution across a city of thirteen million people.
- by Shanaka Anselm Perera

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A siren in Tel Aviv means run to shelter. In Gaza, it means nothing-because there are no sirens. Just bombs. Just death. Just silence. That's the difference

The Australian government seems OK with bombing girl's schools and sinking a navy vessel, leaving it's sailors to die. How about setting fire to a city of 10 million who have no water?
#AusPol

.@davidshoebridge.bsky.social

Albanese has now admitted that Australians were onboard the US nuclear sub that sank an Iranian vessel and left the crew to drown, in a violation of international law. This was always an inevitability of AUKUS. End AUKUS now.

A US nuclear submarine just sank an Iranian frigate off the coast of Sri Lanka, leaving the survivors to drown. I asked Wong if any of the 50 or more Australians stationed on US nuclear submarines in the Pacific were on this submarine.

The Government refused to answer.

Cancellation of Army exercise fuels speculation about Mideast troop deployments The abrupt cancellation of a training event has put a spotlight on the 82nd Airborne Division, which specializes in ground combat and other fraught missions.

'Cancellation of U.S. Army exercise fuels speculation about Mideast troop deployments'

The elite 82nd Airborne Division, which specialises in ground combat and other fraught missions, is awaiting new orders after the unexpected change of plans.

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