Sara Dowse

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Life as a Home Affairs whistleblower: ‘I’m just falling over’ Four years ago, Home Affairs assistant secretary Derek Elias attempted to report corruption in offshore contracts – the department’s response has left him mentally unwell and in financial turmoil.

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Oh, I think I watched some of that but don’t remember much about it, or the character based on Fry.

✍️ PETITION: Australia Needs a National Firearms Register Our research has revealed there are now more licenced firearms in Australia than before the 1996 Port Arthur massacre. ✍️ Add your name to call on the Federal Government to urgently establish a Nation...

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What Israel's genocide has laid bare Two years into an ongoing genocide — recognised as such by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B’Tselem, Physicians for Human Rights, Doc...

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Thank you, Uwe. It is a wonderful book. A friend has written that Julie Ossinger - an American writer - has written a novel based on Varian Fry’story. The Flight Portfolio. Do you know about that?

Perilous refuge • Sara Dowse Uwe Wittstock’s Marseille 1940 is a marvel of narrative art

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How The New York Times Helped Israel Kill Journalists In Gaza. The New York Times Helped Israel Spread Israeli Smears Used To Justify Killing Heroic Journalists Exposing The Genocide On The Ground In Gaza.

How The New York Times Helped Israel Kill Journalists In Gaza.
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Whitlam dismissal secrets unearthed from the archives of the Canadian governor-general This newly uncovered material, exclusively published by Crikey, is the first indication from Sir John Kerr himself that Queen Elizabeth II approved of the position he had taken during his dismissal of...

Whitlam dismissal secrets unearthed from the archives of the Canadian governor-general www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/27/w...

Superannuation and the Canberra Press Gallery's fantasies The Canberra Press Gallery was completely absorbed with the supposed politics of last week’s superannuation changes and completely failed to consider their merits and why the changes were therefore ma...

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Why the media so clearly fails at covering what Trump means for Australia In its focus on personalities and its inability to see the United States as a threat to Australia, the commercial media is failing Australians.

Why the media so clearly fails at covering what Trump means for Australia www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/21/d...

Time for a 'just peace' for all peoples in Palestine Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong took a long time just to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. And their belated declaration of Palestinian statehood is an empty gesture when w...

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Who are 'Advance' and what are they doing to our politics? Launched in 2018 as a conservative answer to GetUp!, the group Advance likes to style itself as the voice of the average person against “the elite.

Who are 'Advance' and what are they doing to our politics? johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Trump’s sham peace plan There will be no peace in Gaza. Only the temporary absence of war.

Trump’s sham peace plan johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

"For me, being part of the Jewish Council enabled some of those voices that have been not so much in the public domain to come out more stridently and hopefully inspire other people – other Jewish people."

Hear why Linda Briskman is proud to be a member of the Jewish Council Advisory Committee!

Omar Yaghi: Refugee from Gaza wins 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry Born in a one-room home on the outskirts of Amman, the son of illiterate Palestinian refugees from Gaza, Professor Omar Yaghi has risen from the hardships of displacement to the highest pinnacle of sc...

Omar Yaghi: Refugee from Gaza wins 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

No justice or peace for Palestinians in Trump’s Plan The Trump Plan is designed to reframe the issues in favour of Israel. Palestinians have been betrayed again.

No justice or peace for Palestinians in Trump’s Plan johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

The National Press Club of Australia, caving to the Israeli lobby, Cancels My Talk on Our Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists The National Press Club of Australia cancelled my talk on how the media, by amplifying Israeli lies, have betrayed Palestinian journalists, 278 of whom have been assassinated by Israel.

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Read the draft of Tony Blair's plan for Gaza, in full A draft of the former British prime minister's plan has emerged.

Read the draft of Tony Blair’s plan for Gaza, in full www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/01/r...

The poisonous chalice of recognition: A double-edged sword for Palestine While we should not regard it as a “historical moment” or a “game changer”, the recognition does have the potential to help Palestinians lead us into a different future.

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How important is an Albanese-Trump meeting? Trump’s record suggests that meetings with him frequently fail. Instead, Albanese has an important agenda to pursue at the UN in New York, and when dealing with the US better outcomes are more likely ...

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The Australian prime minister has little time left to salvage his place in history For many months now, Australians have been calling for our prime minister to accept his responsibility as the nation’s leader to sanction Israel in response to its military atrocities and ethnic clean...

The Australian prime minister has little time left to salvage his place in history johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...

Israel must end its genocide in Gaza. But Australia must act too Almost two years since Israel started its current campaign in the Gaza Strip, many governments are reluctant to call it what it is – genocide – simply because acknowledging it as such would incur lega...

Israel must end its genocide in Gaza. But Australia must act too johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...

Make fossil fuel exporters pay for the damage they are causing, not ordinary Australians Climate change is making natural disasters like fires, floods, heatwaves and drought worse, costing Australians billions every year. Make fossil fuel producers pay a climate disaster levy to help pay...

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The UN turns 80 The most important agenda item for the United Nations General Assembly this month will be the future of Palestine. But Palestinian leaders will be unable to discuss it, because they will be absent.

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The politics of extermination In 1895, Theodor Herzl, the founder of the Zionist movement, asserted: “We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while...

The politics of extermination johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...

How Hamas hardened • Peter Rodgers Divisions within the Palestinian organisation combined with Israeli pressure to tragic effect

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Seven hundred days of genocide: Israel attempts to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state and will fail September 4 marked 700 days since the outbreak of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, which began on 7 October 2023.

Seven hundred days of genocide: Israel attempts to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state and will fail johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...

Watermelons deemed an antisemitic symbol at pro-Israel mayoral summit A leaflet shared at Gold Coast summit includes a bizarre list of 'antisemitic' items

Watermelons deemed an antisemitic symbol at pro-Israel mayoral summit
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