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Four million salmon died prematurely at Tasmanian fish farms in 2025, government data reveals Death toll sparks calls for companies to be fined under animal welfare legislation over mass fish deaths

Almost all salmon in Australia is from Tasmania, and the industry there is essentially unregulated - and dangerously unhealthy.
Do not eat it.

Bushfire map showing an enormous evacuation zone for the Otways fire, centred just above Cape Otway and with the "evacuate immediately" region extending almost to Lorne, the best part of 40km away.

It really is fucking unbelievable how big the evacuation zone is for the Otways fire is.

For those not familiar with Victoria, the map below shows about a third (...?) of the Western Vic's whole coastline. The "evacuate immediately" region in the middle is about 60km x 40km. 😟

Yashar Ali m @yashar x.com BREAKING - IRAN UPDATE HRANA's latest numbers. The total number of fatalities - confirmed and under review - has now surpassed 22,000. Reminder: HRANA death confirmations take time, as they go through multiple layers of verification. The spike in cases is due to the fact that some Iranians can now communicate via messaging apps. But full internet access is still not available, so we do not yet know the extent of the carnage at the hands of the Islamic Republic. Confirmed fatalities: 5,459 Protesters: 5,149 Children (under 18): 60 Government-affiliated forces: 208 Non-protesters/civilians: 42 Fatalities under investigation: 17,031 TOTAL: 22,490 Severely injured: 7,403 Total arrests: 40,887 Arrests of individuals under 18: 325 Broadcast forced confessions: 205 cases Summonses to security agencies: 11,023 cases

BREAKING - Iran update

As some Iranians have been able to use messaging apps, confirmed fatalities, arrests, etc have skyrocketed.

Currently 22,490 fatalities have been confirmed and are under investigation.

Australia needs to exit AUKUS and the 5-Eyes, close Pine Gap and end U.S. military training in the N.T.

jaderemedy • 4h ago And now comes the most nauseating part of this whole goddamn mess: the hypocrisy. The same loud-mouthed idiots who spent years screaming about tyranny are suddenly dead fucking silent, or worse, cheering, now that it's their side doing it. "ThEy'Re cOminG fOr OuR gUnS!" "GoVerNMenT oVerReAch!" "ShAll nOt bE inFrinGeD!" All that chest-thumping bullshit evaporated the second armed federal agents started terrorizing people they don't like. Let me get this straight: a civilian gets shot dead by federal agents, and the only thing you brainless cunts can muster is "well, DHS says he had a gun"? THAT'S your red line? Guns are sacred when they're strapped to your waist, but magically become a death sentence when they're used as a post-hoc excuse by the government? Either the Second Amendment applies to everyone, or you never believed in it at all. Fucking pick one and own it. This is exactly what tyranny looks like, by the way. Not jackboots marching in formation, but armed agents roaming neighborhoods, stopping people, killing civilians, and then daring the public to question it. Tyranny is execution followed by a press release. Tyranny is labeling the dead a "threat" so the state doesn't have to explain why someone's life just ended in the street. Tyranny is demanding obedience while shredding due process and calling it order. And all you so-called "freedom lovers" are fucking fine with it, as long as it's brown people, immigrants, protesters, or anyone you've already dehumanized. Turns out "don't tread on me" actually meant "tread on them." You weren't afraid of tyranny. You were afraid of losing dominance. There's a difference, and this moment exposes it completely. "Just comply" isn't a principle. It's cowardice dressed up as common sense. It's the language of people who have already accepted that the state gets to decide who deserves rights and who doesn't. And once you make that deal, don't act shocked when the line moves, because it always fuckin…

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military:

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On 1 April 2024, Ms Zomi Frankcom, an Australian national, was murdered by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in Gaza while supporting a World Central Kitchen (WCK) aid delivery.

And now Anthony Albanese has invited the president of Israel to Australia

Apparently all is forgiven

Revealed: Australian taxpayers subsidising the IDF, illegal settlements in Israel - Michael West Australian taxpayers are subsidising the Israel Defense Forces and illegal settlements in the West Bank via the ACNC charities regulator

Wow, this is really interesting, and very, very disturbing.

Handwritten postcard

Mine scolded me for being "unhelpful" when I shared my expectation he represented his constituency and opposed Australia's complicity in genocide.

Criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu may be an offence under Australia’s new hate speech laws, Greens warn Anthony Albanese and Tony Burke say the laws are needed to protect Australians – particularly the Jewish community

Perhaps the most disgraceful of all the “national security” laws that have been passed since Sept 11 2001.

Albanese would have been a good, compliant minister in the Howard govt.

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What ceasefire? These horrific numbers show Israel's genocide in Gaza isn’t over, despite Donald Trump announcing phase two of his so-called ‘peace deal.’

Check out the rest of the statistics here: zeteo.com/p/tracking-i...

Okay fellow Aussies, just so you know, fabricating and hiding 15 pipe bombs around a city isn’t terrorism.

We only save that word for truly unforgivable, heinous acts like peacefully protesting against an ongoing genocide.

#auspol

$hitler is a Russian agent??
No waaaaaaaay!

Good for Ukraine.
Chump has ruined our reputation.

Tough gun laws are such an embedded part of Australia’s national mythos, remarkable to see bipartisan commitment to them disappear with virtually zero backlash because the media is more focused on making sure the Coalition votes for Israel-lobby backed hate speech laws.

This time last week, firefighters were up against catastrophic fire conditions in Longwood, VIC.

The Longwood fire has so far burnt 130,000 hectares, an area 1.6X the size of Canberra. As of 15 January, authorities say 173 homes have been destroyed with another 12 significantly damaged.

Selling military supplies to a genocidal regime, and trying to ban protest and criticism of Israel. Folks, please, that's not "centre-right", that's fascist.

Australia exposed Iranian asylum seeker to torture on Manus, UN says United Nations says man experienced ‘serious violence’ in detention but Australia argues it did not control PNG facilities

United Nations rightfully calling out Australia's human rights abuses of asylum seekers in offshore 'detention centres'.

"...Australia failed to... prevent torture & ill-treatment... or to provide adequate rehabilitation & medical care, amounting to 'torture & cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment'

Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.

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“Dire threat of collapse”: southern Australia’s most important river system

Just remember that last year @albomp.bsky.social’s government approved a carbon bomb, the North West Shelf Gas project.

For those that pay attention to and respect climate science, and laws of physics and chemistry, you’ll appreciate why this is an issue.

Omar Hamad—

"Before the existence of Israel, the world didn’t know that 70 kilograms of flesh in a plastic bag could equal an adult man, or that 20 kilograms of flesh in a plastic bag could equal a child.

"This is the bloody civilization that Israel has created and exported to the entire world—

More than 35,000 people in Gaza have completely or partially lost their hearing due to explosions during the genocide.

Israel’s crimes against humanity will be felt for generations — and we will never give up until we have brought about justice for the Palestinian people.

Ten Sydney harbours’ worth of threatened species habitat cleared under Albanese government in 2025, report finds Australian Conservation Foundation’s analysis finds the amount of habitat approved for land clearing hit a 15-year high last year * Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here More than 57,000 hectares of threatened species habitat was approved for destruction by the Australian government in 2025 – the most in 15 years, according to analysis by the Australian Conservation Foundation. The ACF’s latest annual “extinction wrapped” report has revealed that the threatened species habitat greenlit for land clearing was about 10 times the size of Sydney Harbour – more than double the 2024 figure, and over five times the 10,426 hectares approved for razing in 2023. Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as a free newsletter Continue reading...

Ten Sydney harbours’ worth of threatened species habitat cleared under Albanese government in 2025, report finds

Australian politicians are condemning X and Grok, so why won’t they leave the platform? Anthony Albanese has said the AI chatbot generating sexualised images of women and children is ‘abhorrent’ but has an account posting on the site

No sign Australian politicians will leave X after the Grok scandal. Hard to see what if anything could make people who are still posting on there now leave. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

How the U.S. and Israel Are Trying to Co-opt Iran's Protests Samira Mohyeddin and Narges Bajoghli join Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain to break down what’s driving the protests and why Washington’s talk of intervention carries enormous risks.

Watch the full livestream ⤵️

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Australian politicians right now….

Criticising Israel: Bad

Using social media site that creates sexually explicit pictures of underage girls: Good

"I don't speak for the board," Mr Malinauskas said. "Can you imagine if a far-right Zionist walked into a Sydney mosque and murdered 15 people," he reportedly said. "Can you imagine that as Premier of this state, I would actively support a far-right Zionist going to Writers' Week and speaking hateful rhetoric towards Islamic people? Of course I wouldn't." "The reverse is happening in this instance, and I'm not going to support that either. "I think it's a reasonable position for me to have, it's a view that I believe. He said the Government had "always stood up for the independence of arts events and that's a record that we're proud of."

name one white male who was cancelled because a white Australian male walked into two mosques and murdered 51 people. I’ll wait.

• Australia news live Penny Wong says Israeli president Isaac Herzog's visit a good thing' despite backlash from Labor party members Follow updates live

It's "culturally unsafe" to have a Palestinian Aus author advocate against the systematic slaughter of hundreds of thousands of her people, but it's
"a good thing" for the president of apartheid Israel, which has committed daily massacres and mass starvation for 2yrs, to visit us. Unbearably racist.

I don’t know how Malinauskas is managing to make this even worse. This is a horrendous comment - the false equivalence here is horrific

Dr Gary Foley, Melbourne/Naarm, Jan 11

"A small group of Zionists demanding a royal commission are the same people cheering on the genocide of Palestine."

"Aboriginal people had our own royal commission 30 years ago. Nothing was done. 600 of us have died in prison since"