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Anyone else in Brisbane have very choppy internet connection?

Official statement by Vernon Ah Kee regarding the 2025 National Portrait Prize.

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the right thing to do @albomp.bsky.social it's not so hard if you have a moral compass.

‘You don’t brag about wiping out 60‑70,000 people’: the men who dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki This summer will mark 80 years since the attacks stunned the world. Today, every one of the crew members who carried out the bombings is dead. Here, one of the last writers to interview them reopens h...

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‘You must step in’: family of Kumanjayi White demand federal government support after death in custody Grandfather Ned Hargraves says there is ‘no trust’ between the remote community of Yuendumu and NT police

‘You must step in’: family of Kumanjayi White demand federal government support after death in custody

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I was briefed on the intelligence last week.

Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

Melb’s wealthiest private schools are scoring massive tax-free donations to help them build new luxury infrastructure, Herald Sun reports.

Our research has revealed that collectively, private schools get more Commonwealth funding than public schools.

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MEDIA RELEASE: Jewish Council condemns FM Wong’s endorsement of US military strike on Iranian nuclear targets, which threatens to escalate a dangerous regional conflict and lead to more death and suffering

The bombing of Iran was to support a nation conducting genocide.

The Australian government supports the bombing and thus the genocide.

"We're now in a position where we are relying on Iranian restraint...That's why these attacks were always incredibly risky and unnecessary."

"If that regime feels cornered and feels like it has no choice, then of course it's going to respond. That was always the danger." @emmashortis.bsky.social

"We know what kind of situation this gets the United States into. We've seen it in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it appears that the lessons of that history just are not being learned."

@emmashortis.bsky.social on the Today Show this morning, following the US bombing Iran. #auspol

The fog war is thick, but for all the talking points claiming “there was no other option” or that this is some brilliant play at forcing Iran to make a “deal” to prevent it from possessing nuclear weapons, never forget there WAS such a deal - it was unilaterally abandoned by Trump in 2018... (1/2)

The Australian government is gutless. #NoWarWithIran #FreePalestine

Australia says Iran’s nuclear program ‘a threat to international peace’ after US launches attacks and threatens more Albanese government says ‘security situation in region is highly volatile’ as experts and Greens decry Trump-ordered strikes as illegal

Today’s ALP would 💯 have voted to go to war in Iraq

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Dr Assal Rad—

"UNICEF Spox James Elder can barely hold back his tears: 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘎𝘢𝘻𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦?

"Look at the ruined building behind him, he’s at Nasser hospital. You know, like the hospitals Israel doesn’t target."

Finally home. Drive 1200-odd kms this week. Brisbane - Roma - St George - Brisbane. If you're an east coaster, and never travelled to the *outback*, I recommend planning a trip. It's not as far as you think.

In a regional Queensland town, a wide still river, early morning.

Early morning along the Balonne River in St George, in regional Queensland. Love the places my work takes me.

Had @abcnewsbot.bsky.social on this morning while getting ready. How they humanised Israeli victims of the bombing in a way they haven't for victims in Gaza over the past 2 years. Amy McQuire has a video on this. The double standards are appalling.

I really think there needs to be more focus on the fact Israel is luring starving people out into open space with food, and then turning tankfire and machine guns on them.

Indigenous teen scaling her way to a World Championship Bidjara and Dunghutti teenager Orielle Michaelis-Thorpe has made history as the first Aboriginal female youth to win a national title in competitive climbing.

Bidjara and Dunghutti teenager Orielle Michaelis-Thorpe has made history as the first Aboriginal female youth to win a national title in competitive climbing.

Yes! I need to stop scrolling 🤦🏽‍♀️. Fresh Baked Bread will help.

Mostly living in cities, towns, and villages within Israel’s internationally recognised borders, many Palestinian citizens of Israel found themselves excluded from life-saving infrastructure during the worst nights of the Iran-Israel conflict to date. For Samar al-Rashed, a 29-year-old single mother living in a mostly Jewish apartment complex near Acre, the reality of that exclusion came on Friday night. Samar was at home with her five-year-old daughter, Jihan. As sirens pierced the air, warning of incoming missiles, she grabbed her daughter and rushed for the building’s shelter. “I didn’t have time to pack anything,” she recalled. “Just water, our phones, and my daughter’s hand in mine.” The panicking mother tried to ease her daughter’s fear, while hiding her own, gently encouraging her in soft-spoken Arabic to keep up with her rushed steps towards the shelter, as other neighbours climbed down the stairs, too. But at the shelter door, she said, an Israeli resident, having heard her speak Arabic, blocked their entry – and shut it in their faces. “I was stunned,” she said. “I speak Hebrew fluently. I tried to explain. But he looked at me with contempt and just said, ‘Not for you.’”

"Not for you."

Palestinian citizens of Israel--21% of the population--are being excluded from bomb shelters on the basis of their ethnicity.

This is the society the West will defend at all costs.

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YouTube video by Zeteo How Israel, the Media, & the West Set the Stage for Gaza’s Genocide

Watching: How Israel, the Media, the West set the stage for Genocide. youtu.be/ZlwXJzRGyNk?... @zeteo.com

Almost an entire day locked in on budgets orvproposals. So much still not ticked off though. Everything takes longer than you think it will. It feels like even simple requests take forever. It's neverending.

Yep. I googled pusillanimous. 🤣🤣

Duh! 🙄 Report finds Voice referendum normalised racism and increased hostility toward First Nations People

https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/report-finds-voice-referendum-normalised-racism-and-increased-hostility-toward-first-nations-people/bngw83lbw

*Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly*

I REALLY love this video. It's helped so many in SEQ just in the past few days, understand what's about to happen.

We have always been here and so have our LGBT+ community, we just didn't call them by an acronym.
We called them family.
Learn your history and decolonise FFS.

#mardigras #lbgtqia #culture #alwayswasalwayswillbe #homophobic #transphobic