Ivy Stars

pretty weird that our second most populous state will treat 14 year olds like they're adults, but won't let them on social media until they're 16. feels like a bit of dissonance there

Wait, what!?

Ghislaine Maxwell is being waited on ‘hand and foot’ in a ‘luxury’ prison: a top official said he was ‘sick of having to be Maxwell’s bitch.’

Trump made sure the woman who helped traffic girls for billionaires gets spa treatment in exchange for her silence.
#StopJohnsonsEpsteinCoveup

Can Anthony Albanese credibly claim to be a successor of Whitlam? - Michael West From AUKUS to government secrecy, politics to policy, PM Anthony Albanese is closer to Liberal Scott Morrison than Gough Whitlam

Very good read by @yelgeb.bsky.social on debate over Albo v Gough Whitlam #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/can-anthony-...

#60mins reporting via a whistleblower that a bikie linked security gang has partnered with our own Australian Federal Police to manage refugees on Nauru. Wild. Tragic. Outrageous. Corruption. This is a genuine scandal. #60minutes #nauru #albanese

I have zero expectations for LNP - and they exceed those expectations every day.

I did however have some expectations for Labor - and I now feel completely betrayed.

I truly didn’t think they would be this bad.

Could and should be so different 😞😞 #auspol

Anti-corruption commission watchdog inquiring into NACC chief Brereton The inspector of the National Anti-Corruption Commission is inquiring into the agency's head, Paul Brereton, in relation to several complaints including from a former employee.

Corruption watchdog being watched by its watchdog again.
Would be good if they investigated corruption as much as they investigate their own conduct imo

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Call on PM Albanese to introduce strong environmental protection laws The government is overhauling our national environmental law. Together we can make sure they halt nature destruction and end the extinction crisis.

“Australia has one of the worst rates of deforestation in world & is number one in world for mammal extinctions. Every second a native animal is brutally killed by bulldozers.

www.greenpeace.org.au/act/forests-...

A product listing page on Shein for a realistic sex doll resembling a young girl, approximately 77 cm tall, with long dark hair, a white veil-like headband, and wearing a white pajama set with blue trim. The doll stands barefoot on a light gray rug in a softly lit room with a white couch, potted green plant, and woven basket in the background. Key text includes: "77cm Sex Doll" at the top, "Special Free Shipping Deal" in green, and a detailed title below: "AUS$199.00 77cm Sex Toys Sex Toys Sex Doll Realistic Female Trunk Lover Doll - Male Pleasure Self Massager, With Realis-" (text cuts off). The composition centers the doll prominently against a neutral, minimalist indoor setting, emphasizing its child-like proportions and features.

Temu and Shein peddle dismembered child-like sex dolls as mannequins to skirt Australian bans, fueling depraved fantasies of pedophiles who customize prepubescent torsos for penetration. #ChildExploitation

Israeli settlers are burning down the Christian town of Taybeh in the West Bank

The village is known for its uniquely all-Christian population.

Cars, lands and home all attacked in a series of violent pogroms aimed at uprooting Palestinian communities

fucken what?

Just think about this.

A supposedly left leaning Premier is going to force people out of their homes and livelihoods in service to a planet destroying fossil fuel company that pays no tax and hasn’t FOR A DECADE.

Make it make sense.

Rio Tinto has an old mining facility in Arnhem Land that it doesn’t really use but won’t close. Rio will need to pay $4bn to repatriate the land if closed. So it sits almost empty.

Their town which is similarly empty has 100 empty houses while First Nations ppl live 10 to a house 15 mins away.

The Government That Isn’t: Labor’s Masterclass in Looking Busy Let’s be kind. Just sitting in the driver’s seat is enough for some. Then there’s the Competence Trap: the myth that good administration is an end in itself. Of course, we can’t rule out stage [...]

“With 94 seats, its largest majority since 1943, Labor governs with the courage of a bunny caught in the headlights, terrified of using its power. Keating would have reshaped the country with these numbers.”

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Imagine what Reynolds could have accomplished if she worked as hard at her job as she does at both inventing and then protecting her so called reputation

Look, I think most liberal democratic systems are functionally equivalent, but in Australia and other Westminster states, the set of events which leads to a government shutdown in the US instead triggers a general election, and it'd be nice if the US had that, too

The IMF reports on 191 countries.

Australia is ranked 2nd

We're 1 of only 7 countries out of 191 with an "AAA" credit rating. The USA & the UK's not AAA.

So, if the RW media, the #LNP, and #PHON are saying things are bad in Australia, then you should know they are only #gaslighting you.

#auspol

No peace without accountability: Sydney Peace Laureate Navi Pillay Donald Trump may have declared the war on Gaza over, but a welcome-but-shaky ceasefire and lasting peace are not the same thing.

"I have never seen this level of defiance of international law, with a state getting away with it due to powerful support."

Navi Pillay with @emmashortis.bsky.social on Israel's impunity, govts' responsibilities, and need for accountability. #GazaGenocide
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Our healthcare system is strained with packed waiting rooms, patients waiting in pain for years, and delayed appointments due to cost. But a solution exists.

A 25% tax on gas exports could raise $17 billion a year, funding that could help our healthcare system.

@mattgrudnoff.bsky.social #auspol

NSW government rejected expert advice before failed koala reintroduction that left more than half dead Exclusive: Documents reveal state environment department had ‘reckless indifference’ to fate of individual koalas, Greens spokesperson Sue Higginson says

Here is an alarming illustration of what happens when governments ignore expert advice. This is truly appalling and those responsible must be held accountable. Koalas died due to negligence, and trust in conservation is undermined. Story by @lisacox.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

All week the pro-Israel and pro-Trump supporters screamed at us, in unison: why aren’t you celebrating the ceasefire??

Because we knew it wouldn’t last. But even I didn’t think it’d be over in less than a week. What a complete & utter humiliation for Trump, thanks to Netanyahu.

Israel tests ceasefire by breaking it by blowing up some more civilians, gosh, hope the ceasefire can stand up to the test

As Israel breaks the ceasefire with air strikes on Gaza, its F35 fighter jets are being kept in the air through parts shipped from Williamtown NSW, and made in Bendigo Vic and numerous other locations. We say it again, there must be a two-way arms embargo on Israel.

I'm only surprised that Israel bothers to make up excuses to justify its barbaric actions aimed at erasing all Palestinians from Palestinian lands. The whole world knows Israel has only lies, and still ... only Yemen has physically tried to stop them. #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust

Israel has violated ceasefire 47 times and killed 38 Palestinians, says Gaza media office Authorities urge UN to intervene ‘to protect unarmed civilian populations’ after attack on bus that killed 11

The ceasefire you have when Israel is involved. Where is the International outcry?
#disarmisraelnow
#fromtherivertothesea

YouTube video by The Sunday Shot Chris Hedges talks with Dave about journalism, censorship and empire

I interviewed Pulitzer Prize winning war correspondent Chris Hedges for an hour about the Western media betrayal of Palestinian journalists, the National Press Club of Australia, fascism and a violent empire in decline.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LatG...

Israel returns Palestinian prisoners’ bodies with ‘signs of torture, mutilation and execution’ An unknown number of Palestinians abducted by Israel died or were killed while in custody; living former prisoners have described horrific and, sometimes, deadly torture.

An unknown number of Palestinians abducted by Israel died or were killed while in custody; living former prisoners have described horrific and, sometimes, deadly torture. #auspol #hostages

Linda Reynolds’ latest move Imagine that a young woman is raped in your office. You are a minister and she is the most junior member of your staff. In the footage you see later, she is too drunk to put on her shoes. She walks ba...

Today’s brilliant editorial…
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A photo of Dave Milner, the editor of The Shot standing in his living room with renowned journalist*, Chris Hedges who was recently disinvited from his proposed National Press Club speech for reasons best known to the pro-Israel lobby * Dave is also a renowned journalist

Dave has an interview with journalist Chris Hedges tomorrow morning on the #SundayShot

And we didn't even have to check to make sure it was okay with our sponsors

#wedonthaveanysponsorsanyway

(you can watch it here tomorrow morning at 9am AEDST www.youtube.com/@TheSundayShot )