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Anas al-Sharif: Four Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli strike near Al-Shifa hospital Al Jazeera had condemned a "campaign of incitement" by the IDF against its reporters, but the military claims one of the journalists was part of Hamas.

An entire team of journalists, outside a hospital in a tent for journalists, killed by Israel. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Australia strongly rejects Israel's plan to seize Gaza City The foreign ministers of Australia, Germany, Italy, New Zealand and the United Kingdom say this decision will "risk violating international humanitarian law".

Words have had no effect.
Sanctions now. Travel restrictions - against all members of the government and IDF, and their families. Freeze assets and all trade. Kick out diplomats. Enforce ICC findings. Pressure Israel’s active supporters. Anything but this.

human world

I had to work instead of going to Freeplay so: you should let me make a soundtrack for your weirdo indie game ✌️

what if instead of House Music it was called Horse Music

sexy post-punk band called DM Fee

do you think he’ll write in

doing “cultural criticism” on “labubu” in “July 2025”

Also they published this on my birthday :) so you should read it :)

New purpose – by Alex Bennetts | Australian Literary Arts Magazine | ISLAND She tried her hand at pottery, indoor rock climbing, bonsai. Her palms showed the work of these dalliances, but they always, in tangential ways, recalled the honeymoon. The smashed vase on the bathroo...

I have a story out today, about finding a new purpose and one-way mirrors.

islandmag.com/read/new-pur...

when it rains, it gets wet (thank u)

stake out & towards eternity • Alexander Bennetts • The Suburban Review pretend a neighbourly ghost is / plotting to usurp your body. / sit, in public, witness the scatter of leaf / matter, flowerheads. / if you spot the ghost, you win. / if the ghost animates your body, ...

two poems! one is about a therapist’s garden and one is about reincarnating into an inverted world thesuburbanreview.com/2025/new-con...

when your cowardly friend gets sparkling water by accident

An object may have just come to us from another solar system

74 killed in Gaza as Israeli forces strike a cafe and fire on people seeking food Witnesses and medics in Gaza say an Israeli airstrike on a seaside cafe has killed at least 30 people in Gaza City.

How does anyone justify this? Seriously, how?

Live: Antoinette Lattouf wins unlawful termination case against ABC The Federal Court found the ABC contravened the Fair Work Act by terminating journalist Antoinette Lattouf's employment, for reasons "including that she held a political opinion opposing the Israeli m...

Judge: "I infer that Mr Oliver-Taylor sought to mitigate the anticipated deluge of complaints [...] In that sense, the decision was made to appease pro-Israel lobbyists who would inevitably escalate the complaints about the ABC."

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

bad thing about this app: you can’t turn off retweets from individual people

Stop rushing through art galleries. Spend 10 minutes with just one masterpiece instead | Jane Howard Science tells us art can expand our minds and bring us happiness. Australians are so lucky our public collections are free – and here’s one way to make the most of them

In the Guardian today, I've written about a recent visit to the NGV and spending time with art. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

normalise 👏 being 👏 an 👏 Australian 👏 woman

with flowers – by Alexander Bennetts | Australian Literary Arts Magazine | ISLAND If you hide behind a mixed bouquet you can get out of a tram fine. You can get out of small talk when you’re hoarding grief like a bundle of paper straws. With flowers, your headshot could be a botani...

here’s one that everyone’s allowed to read, a poem about the uses of flowers islandmag.com/read/with-fl...

‘Serious consequences for Australian democracy’: Author uses prize speech to warn against censorship Australian author Michelle de Kretser described feeling afraid of speaking publicly about the conflict in Gaza as she accepted the 2025 Stella Prize for her book Theory & Practice.

Powerful Stella prize speech from Michelle de Kretser:

“In Australia today it isn’t those applauding mass murder who have cause to be afraid, but those speaking out against it. Principally targeted are Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims, First Nations people, people of colour, queers.”

a poem is a metaphor for getting paid in gift cards to dodge your therapist's calls..... a poem is a thing that is both concrete and anti-concrete... always about a thing, especially when it first appears otherwisee.... e.g. every poem about making coffee is secretly a poem about fucking.... love poems are about power, obviously.... that's not a secret...... sexts are about capital... etc.

they demanded i publish a poem but only in Western Australia….. to maintain the purity of the true states

We are honoured to receive the 2025 NSW Literary Awards "Special Award", offered in recognition of an exceptional contribution to the literary life of Australia, to a literary work not covered by the existing categories.

www.sl.nsw.gov.au/awards/nsw-l...

long homie

finally some good news

Devastating

Stripping funding from the entire organisation because an artist spoke out against genocide.

Australians really need to shut the fuck up about Trump for a second while this shit is going on.

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