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116 legal and policy experts have now opposed Labor’s new powers for police to recommend cutting payments from people without them even having been convicted of a crime.

Cops shouldn’t be anywhere near welfare law and Labor should withdraw this amendment. www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/treat...

Courts turn on coal mines over climate impacts The NSW Land and Environment Court invalidated the approval for the Ulan coal mine expansion near Mudgee, based on a precedent set in July.

NSW courts cancel the extension of a large coal mine near Mudgee on the basis of the Court of Appeal overturning the 2022 approval of MACH Energy’s massive Mount Pleasant mine in the Hunter Valley in July. Congrats 🥳 Mudgee District Environment Group! #ClimateAction

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Working with children check tracker established amid pressure on child care Almost a decade after one was recommended by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

A welcome and long overdue reform that will help better keep children safe. This needs to be implemented with urgency.
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Autism is a natural divergence from neurotypicality. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be.

Transness is a natural divergence from cisnormativity. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be.

Just deal with people being different than you.

Ok, this one is too good and has to be shared! @jaybird54.bsky.social Goodnight & Sweet Dreams!

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

I do hope Hastie quits the front bench as he is threatening. Here’s hoping he quits politics altogether and pisses off. We don’t need men like him making rules for us

UN Commission puts world on notice - Israel is committing genocide in Gaza - Michael West A United Nations investigation has today concluded that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Australian politicians and business have clear legal duty to act - UN Commission Report legal analysis finds Israel genocide of Palestinians
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UN inquiry finds Israel’s war on Gaza to be genocide This is a breaking news story.

The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory has found that Israel has the genocidal intent to destroy, wholly or partly, the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Dear #ABC24 news, kirk is a foreign Nazi "influencer" stop all the wall to wall eulogies on the prat. Tell us about news we actually care about...and want to be informed about
Signed, Australia

Donald Trump, Peter Mandelson & Jeffrey Epstein. From Matt.

'Not an easy decision': ANU vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell resigns Australian National University vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell has resigned from her position, after months of controversy due to sweeping staff cuts and allegations of poor governance.

Professor Bell’s resignation is the culmination of months of scandal, plummeting staff and student morale, and a governance system that is completely broken.

Let’s not forget that Chancellor Bishop’s leadership has also been fraught, and she too must be held accountable for the crisis at ANU.

The Govt has given up on insisting the US honour a formal free trade agreement, but hopes the US would honour a formal security agreement in a time of need. Hope is not a defence strategy 🤦‍♂️. #AUKUS #auspol

I for one am glad this terrorist is off our streets.

If the police hadn't acted so swiftly, there was a very real chance that next week, this insurgent could have been holding up an even bigger piece of cardboard.

YES, THANKYOU

No conviction for whistleblower Boyle. Reform urged after ordeal - Michael West Tax office whistleblower Richard Boyle avoided jail with no conviction recorded after a seven-year ordeal, punished for doing what was right.

7 year ordeal over for ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle is finally over w no conviction recorded. Severe need to fix #auspol WB laws.
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Usman Khawaja said in Parliament today that the Government has been “100% too slow” in banning gambling ads.

Australia Institute polling shows three in four Australians (76%) support a total ban on gambling ads!

@amyremeikis.bsky.social #auspol

When I was 15 I worked in the Bargain Mart section of a department store. If not busy we had to mess up the display tables and then tidy them. They’ll be getting them to drop rubbish soon in order to have something to pick up.

Linda Reynolds may have won in court but her narcisstic and vindictive defamation case has done more to damage her reputation than anything Brittany Higgins or David Sharaz ever tweeted

Memo to Labor MPs trying to find their watermelon pins now it's safe to be pro-Palestinian again: it's at the back of the sock drawer, next to your moral compass.

Katie Mack: honestly climate change scares the hack out of me and it makes me so sad to see what we’re losing because of it Gary P Jackson: maybe you should learn some actual SCIENCE the , and stop listening to the global warming SCAM Katie Mack: I dunno man, I already went and got a PhD in astrophysics. Seems like more than that would be overkill at this point.

Happy Anniversary to my favourite Twitter interaction

NPR: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposts video of pastors saying women shouldn't vote

You know how people called women hysterical for predicting the right wing would take down Roe v. Wade (which they've done) and then attack access to birth control (which they're doing)?

Hear me when I say that women's very right to vote is next.

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BREAKING: The Victorian Labor conference has just voted for an independent parliamentary inquiry into AUKUS, to suspend all AUKUS funding to the UK and US and then withdraw from the pact altogether. That’s a win for peace. Will Albanese and Wong listen?

The Australian govt should immediately announce $500m funding for mRNA vaccine development.

Get those scientists here.

Just an amazing opportunity handed to us by the brain worm infested loon.

Trump just vowed to sex-test every female Olympian in 2028. That’s right…mandatory genital inspections. New task force already in motion.

Personally, I’d love to see every country refuse to come to the Olympics in 2028…and announce it…now.

A bit perplexed at the headlines about today’s #marchforhumanity saying “perilous” and “police feared the worst”. Surely the story is that, in spite of police fears, the march was peaceful, demonstrators full of goodwill and happily cooperated with police instructions to manage the huge turnout.

“tens of thousands of people who will march across the Harbour Bridge tomorrow are crying out for moral leadership. It is a time for all of us, including those in positions of power, to do everything they can to halt an active genocide and stand with the people of Gaza." @sarahschwartz.bsky.social

Judges Keep Restrictions on Los Angeles Immigration Arrests An appellate panel upheld a finding that federal agents appeared to rely exclusively on race and other factors, such as speaking Spanish, in making arrests.

Breaking News: A federal appeals court upheld a decision that temporarily halted agents from arresting and detaining L.A. immigrants without probable cause.

Be there for Palestine. Be there for the right to protest. Be there to be on the right side of history.