"Memories of division" Why isn't every vote in parliament a conscience vote?

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Australian Palestinian farm in the occupied West Bank raided by Israeli settlers Australian citizen, Palestinian farmer and vigneron Sari Kassis, whose family company Domaine Kassis wines sells both locally and overseas, has reported that over the past two weeks there has been a r...

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Hardly expect remnants of Coalition to hold Albanese to account? Albo & his gutless cabinet actually delivering what was once an LNP agenda.

“Ley wanted an end to live exports until she was deputy leader. She was a friend of Palestine, until she was not. She wanted environmental protections until her party had a tantrum. Those are the issues she had time to think about.”

The blind leading the visually impaired… #Ley is cooked.

#auspol

When the president is destroying national landmarks, murdering fishermen, raising prices because he's angry over a Reagan video, and kidnapping parents in front of their crying children is probably not an ideal time to have a lazy, completely incompetent legislative branch perpetually on vacation.

Shameful. Absolutely not in my name PM! Amazes me
how Albanese (& his govt) have abandoned the principles held by previous Labor governments.

Australia becomes world’s third-largest utility battery market Australia has overtaken the United Kingdom to rank behind China and the United States in utility-scale battery capacity, with 14 GW/37 GWh of projects at or nearing financial close.

"Australia is also the first nation to surpass 1 GWh of utility battery capacity per million people, launching it into a league of its own, far ahead of China and the United States, each with less than 400 MWh per 1 million people."

Sunday thought: We're winning These are terrible times, to be sure. But we will triumph

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Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.

No phones, no staff, nothing.

I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

Wonderful news. They totally deserve each other.

Trita Parsi (@tritaparsi) At the MED conference in Napoli, the legendary Gideon Levy calls on Europe to sanction Israel "that same way South Africa was sanctioned." "Until Israelis recognize that Palestinians deserve the same...

At the MED conference in Napoli, the legendary Gideon Levy calls on Europe to sanction Israel "that same way South Africa was sanctioned"

"Until Israelis recognize that Palestinians deserve the same rights as the Jews, nothing will be resolved"

Call this a geriatric rant if you wish, but at 90, I’ve decided enough is enough I’m fond of King Charles but, on my significant birthday, I must declare: I am not his subject. I owe him no allegiance.

NO KINGS!
The Australian perspective... "The British themselves would not accept an Australian as a head of state, and it is time we declared at that level who we are, at last."

Thank you,Thomas Keneally!
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Support for Labor in Victoria jumps despite crime fears Labor is leading the Coalition on a two-party preferred basis by 52 per cent to 48 per cent a year out from the November 2026 election, in a stunning turnaround.

One day the Victorian opposition will drop the anti-trans, anti-treaty, anti-renewables, anti-‘crime’ culture wars, and propose one policy in favour of something.
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✍️ ADD YOUR NAME: End Government Secrecy Australians have a right to access government information and to understand how decisions are made on their behalf. But the Labor Government’s proposed changes to freedom of information laws threaten ...

Australians have a right to access government information and to understand how decisions are made on their behalf. I just signed this @australiainstitute.org.au petition calling to end government secrecy: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/end_governme...

✍️ PETITION: Strong environment laws stop new coal and gas The Australian public voted for a climate majority at the last election, and we want strong environment laws that can stop new coal and gas.

nb.australiainstitute.org.au/strong_envir... Pathetic that Albo lacks the balls to take on fossil fuel donors and QLD/WA Premiers.

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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The one-man super scheme Of all the things Scott Morrison does not understand, and the list is long and often embarrassing, somewhat in the shape of his prime ministership, China would rate very close to the top.

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Brilliant assessment of Scott Morrison. 🥴🤢🤮

Imagine kicking the former national rugby captain out of your sports club instead of the gambling lobby.

To paraphrase Groucho Marx, who'd want to belong to a club that would accept Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its sponsors?

Billionaire Hands off Public Policy! Tesla's chair is in charge of our tech future - but it should be us shaping policy

A Tesla executive is leading Australia’s R&D review. That’s not OK. Public roles should serve the people – not billionaires. Add your name to demand Denholm’s resignation and new integrity laws: getup.to/OmJgz4Ukk1f1...

Takes a monster to recognise a monster 😂

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice

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How Trump gets and processes information How Trump is making potentially lethal decisions

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Hedges Report: NPC Australia caves to Israel Lobby, cancels 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.

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Satan in discussions to run transitional Gaza authority Former British prime minister Satan is in talks to run the Gaza International Transitional Authority (GITA).

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Not cool at all. It was a thoughtful, objective article.

“Kirk wanted the America he was killed in. He fought for it. Became rich in doing so. And up until his final breath was continuing his harmful grift that has seen trans-people demonised across world. So I do not mourn that.”

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Not likely to see any progressive policies, on republic, environment, 4 year terms for parlt, etc,etc till this reactionary LNP-Lite PM retires.

1. The cult of tradition. 2. The rejection of modernism. – Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.” 3. The cult of action for action’s sake. – Thinking is a form of emasculation.” 4. Disagreement is treason. 5. Fear of difference. – The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. 6. Appeal to social frustration. 7. The obsession with a plot – At the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged.” 8. The enemy is both strong and weak – By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. 9. Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. 10. Contempt for the weak. 11. Everybody is educated to become a hero. – heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death.” 12. Machismo and weaponry. – both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality 13. Selective populism. – the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People. 14. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. – all the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.

Recently @amyremeikis.bsky.social reminded my of Umberto Eco's 14 points of "eternal fascism" in which "it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it".

And well , there is a sh*it load of coagulation happening.

Two rights experts to address Press Club on Palestine recognition Two globally renowned figures in the field of human rights will address the National Press Club in Canberra on 1 October on the topic “Palestine recognition: necessary but insufficient”.

Sidoti is an Australian hero for human rights.

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'AMERICANS OWNED LIKE A B¡TCH BY ISRAELI ZIONIST'S'

Aiding Another State To K¡ll Babies & Steal Thier Land !!!

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