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Nuked, Andrew Fowler Like all military acquisition programs worth billions of dollars, Australia's decision to buy a new submarine fleet was expected to be a torturous process. But no one could have predicted the trail of...

Just finished this, well worth it. AUKUS will inflame regional tensions, undermine Australian sovereignty, tie us to an increasingly unstable US in which key officials now talk about using nuclear weapons and winning a nuclear war. A very bad idea.
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On the streets of Liverpool, there is a humanitarian crisis

A perfect storm of problems means more and more people are finding themselves homeless & sleeping rough & it’s getting worse - it’s a situation playing out across the country

A difficult 🧵 on what I’ve found reporting on this situation

Free Palestine rally on the lawn of the State Library of Victoria.

Every Sunday Melbourne marches for a free Palestine

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A commenter on our YouTube channel sums up Trump’s picks

Just a reminder that it was the Howard government that signed Australia up to the International Criminal Court. Alexander Downer was foreign minister. Peter Dutton was a backbencher.

I've been to both Israel and Gaza. I've seen the racism, the most appalling extreme right views, the arrogance and the divisions in the West Bank. The apartheid in Hebron. Decades ago I briefly worked for what was then the Red Cross delivering seed supplies to Gaza only to be destroyed by Israelis.

Maga!

This really is quite extraordinary.

Dreyfus should have grabbed him on the way out of the committee room and sacked him on the spot.

But then Dreyfus was the one who thought him a great pick.

Australia

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Chris Hedges Report: Surveillance Education Allison Butler and Nolan Higdon discuss the "ed-tech" systems eroding minors’ privacy rights and discriminating against students of color. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost Any technology created by the U.S....

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It can’t happen here - Pearls and Irritations Trumps early appointments to senior posts suggest Trump means what he says, and his rhetoric will be policy.

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ICC arrest warrants: Moral Equivalence? - Pearls and Irritations One thing people that people can agrees with is there can be no moral equivalence between the Israeli government and Hamas.

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Clear statement from the All Blacks
#ToitūTeTiriti

The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s

Laws to regulate misinformation online abandoned, gambling advertising ban pushed to next year Laws that would force social media companies to police misinformation and outright lies on their platform have been formally abandoned by the federal government. Laws to restrict gambling advertising ...

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Georgia Fires Entire Maternal Mortality Panel After Reporting on Abortion Ban Deaths | Common Dreams Georgia officials fired the Maternal Mortality Review Committee members after ProPublica revealed preventable deaths due to abortion restrictions.

Georgia Fires Entire Maternal Mortality Panel After Reporting on Abortion Ban Deaths | Common Dreams

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YouTube video by National Press Club of Australia IN FULL: Dr Nick Bryant's Address to the National Press Club

Don’t America my Australia” - my warning against the Americanisation of Australian politics and the perils of going further down the path of polarisation at the National Press Club this week.

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Spiky blue devils and chocolate lilies: Victorian grassland bursts with wildflowers after ecological ‘reset’ Careful management including weed control and a burn laid the groundwork for floral abundance in Boorhaman reserve Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Thousands of native daisies, aromatic lilies, milkmaids, billy buttons and rare orchids have blossomed in a pocket of north-east Victorian grassland in one of the best wildflower displays in years. Glen Johnson, an ecologist at Wild Research, said Boorhaman reserve, located north of Wangaratta, was “an amazingly diverse environment from the knees down”. Continue reading...

Spiky blue devils and chocolate lilies: Victorian grassland bursts with wildflowers after ecological ‘reset’

So much for “rules based order” international law? Former Australian PMs Tony Abbott, Scott Morrison urge withdrawal from the International Criminal Court over its arrest warrant for Netanyahu. Murdoch papers concur. “Moral equivalence” v crimes against humanity. This lets Putin off the hook.

ABC/SBS to be censored on Israel/Gaza/Lebanon coverage deemed by Senator Paterson to be biased against Israel:Paul Sakkal SMH/Age. ABC editorial rules require fair and fearless reporting which requires its journalists to strive to tell its audiences what’s really going on.

Bluesky Overtakes Threads as Liberals Flee MAGA Trolls on X Prior to Nov. 5, Threads had five times more daily US users than Bluesky.

“Social media start-up Bluesky is exploding as academics, journalist, and left-leaning politicians abandon Elon Musk’s X in search of bluer skies. Now, the platform has surpassed Meta’s Threads in user numbers, yet Threads still leads in app usage.”

Donate to Support ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle, organized by Jo Dyer When Australian Taxation Office whistleblower Richard Boyle takes the stand in his cri… Jo Dyer needs your support for Support ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle

All of you #auspol types tainting your day by starting it with #insiders can turn it around by doing something good and donating to ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle.

Every donation helps - big or small.

Help fund this courageous man's ongoing quest for justice!

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What they test in apartheid Israel and Gaza, will be used on domestic shores. We are dealing with profoundly evil people.

Vaccines have saved 154 million lives in the last 50 years alone. Someone tell RFK Jr.

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We keep saying this was going to happen. I feel like I’m going insane

Under the guise of defending free speech, Musk has turned X into one of the most restrictive, deceptive and manipulative platforms on the internet.

He promised to make X a source of truth. He was called out by his own AI for being one of the most prolific amplifiers of misinformation.

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