Jenny O’Connor

She’s such a lovely person.

Australians overwhelmingly back sanctions on Israel, new poll finds 'Sizeable majority' of voters across political lines want Israel to end genocide in Gaza

NEW: Australians overwhelmingly recognise and oppose the genocide in Gaza and want the government to do more to stop it, according to a new poll released today.

www.deepcutnews.com/p/australian...

Dr Jane Goodall filmed an interview in March 2025 with the understanding it would only be released after her death. This is her final message.

🤔

Apply this to Australia.

Seriously.
#trump is unwell.

Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll

VOTING HAS BEGUN! Who will be the 2025 Australian bird of the year? Vote now, vote every day for the best bird. Will it be the tawny frogmouth's year? www.theguardian.com/environment/... #birdoftheyear #birds

Melbourne Free Palestine march

Six heroic Aussies are inside a notorious Israeli prison, the same hellhole where Greta Thunberg was dragged by her hair and made to kiss the Israeli flag. Reports DFAT is scolding ppl on the phone that have called in. Your government is complicit. Free Palestine, Melbourne/Naarm

A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0 If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

Trump’s bullying of Latin America isn’t part of any plan – he doesn’t have a clue what he’s doing | Simon Tisdall The president’s threats to attack Venezuela are regressive, dangerous and almost certain to backfire, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

It is such a relief to see respected journalists calling out #Trump for what he really is -
a clueless, stupid fool.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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🎯 @cathywilcox.bsky.social

You said it, Ronni.

DFAT has now confirmed Australians and others have been abused by Israeli authorities after their abduction from the flotilla.

Assaulted and injured. Deprived of sleep and medication. Still illegally detained.

The PM and Foreign Minister must urgently demand their safe release.

Andrew Hastie’s resignation could not be worse timing for Sussan Ley Hastie says he decided to quit because a letter she sent him earlier in the week made clear he wouldn't be formulating the Coalition's immigration policies.

Andrew Hastie's resignation could not be less relevant to the future of Australia. #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

The myth of 'social cohesion' - do as they say, not as they do - The Shot There’s an established principle in law: he who comes looking for equity must come with clean hands. The clean hands...

My latest article in The Shot

"The largest contributors to the breakdown of social cohesion in Australia are the governments of Australia, practising a privileged fuck-you version of democracy that makes its own rules & caters for those within the club"

#pffft
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

The myth of 'social cohesion' - do as they say, not as they do - The Shot There’s an established principle in law: he who comes looking for equity must come with clean hands. The clean hands...

Speaking truth @ronnisalt.bsky.social

The myth of ‘social cohesion’ – do as they say, not as they do theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

They already have.

Could the National Press Club be less embarrassing and less complicit in the genocide of Palestine/the West's decline into overt fascism, pretty, pretty, pretty please? 🙏 Cancelling Chris Hedges' talk on the betrayal of Palestinian journalists only proves his point. Truly, truly pathetic

So the National Press Club - an association of journalists - doesn't wanna talk about all the journalists being deliberately targeted and murdered during a genocide because . . . it might upset the people that are targeting and murdering the journalists who were reporting on a genocide?

Umm, WTF?

MSF denounces killing of 14th staff member in Gaza Medical staff were hit by Israeli forces while wearing their MSF vests and waiting for a bus to go to work at a hospital.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières just had their 14th member of staff killed by Israeli occupation forces.

Israel deserves to be fully sanctioned. Netanyahu’s Govt make apartheid South Africa look like a benign state.

www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/msf-d...

Does a single one of the Australian National Press Club 'people' care about the murder of hundreds - HUNDREDS - of journalists, photographers, news crews & support staff in Gaza? The 'Freedom of the Press section' of its website has two entries from 2022, about China & Russia.
npc.org.au/our-people

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.

What an incredible act of cowardice by the National Press Club.
WTF.

Yep - small rural locals have massive infrastructure needs and fk-all income.
Unsustainable - and usually safe (conservative) seats so mostly ignored by state govt.

Good opening serve Poss - Having been a LG councillor for almost 10 years (mayor for 4) my view is we need regional govts - abolish both local and state and redistribute funding from feds to be managed regionally .
Never going to happen- but a conversation we need to have.

Watchers of US politics

I got that 😉

Yes - it’s political donors.
Every time.

Wonderful news!

Don't believe the spin. Pollution from the gas export plant is destroying the ancient Murujuga rock art. The ABC’s report that a top statistician quit a study into whether Woodside’s North West Shelf gas plant was destroying the Murujuga rock art after the WA

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