‘Race against time’: Palestinians suffer from hunger in Gaza despite truce UN calls for all Gaza crossings to be opened to allow unimpeded deliveries of food and other humanitarian aid.

UN calls for all Gaza crossings to be opened to allow unimpeded deliveries of food and other humanitarian aid.

In their darkest moments, too many Australians are being met with lethal force instead of love and care | Lorena Allam Police are often not equipped to deal with mental health callouts. Alternative first responders are better placed to de-escalate tension and reduce harm

"We need to put an end to the number of families grieving the tragic, avoidable and violent deaths of loved ones who, in their darkest moment needed love and care, but were instead met with lethal force." excellent from Lorena Allam

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Sen David Pocock asked Estimates about the Australian Parliamentary Sports Club, the on again off again lobbyist body.

Now confirmed the Sports Club is a completely separate entity, and not associated with the Dept of Parl Services. DPS has no role in its operation nor has it provided funding.

Over half of the corporations bankrolling Trump’s vanity ballroom are facing (or recently faced) federal investigations into wrongdoing — including violating workers’ rights or misleading consumers.

They also have a combined $279 BILLION in federal contracts.

Follow the money.

Single frame. Murray Watt and Albo looking at papers with headlines “LIBS MAY DROP NET ZERO” and “LEY’s LEADERSHIP IN PERIL” Noticeboard behind them: “Environmental…#Weaken EPA ✔️#Never look a gift horse…”Approve new coal projects ✔️ #Approve North West Shelf ✔️ #Weaken Tas Salmon…” Murray Watt says, “They make us look like we’re serious about climate action!” Albo says, “Never look a gift horse…”

Gift horse.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

ATHLETICS:
Australian high jump World Champion Nicola Olyslagers is one of six finalists for World Athletics Female Athlete of the Year. She joins global stars such as Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Femke Bol and Tara Davis-Woodhall.
📸 Getty/Cameron Spencer.

This is the president of the United States taking a break from gold-and-marble interior renovations to say he’ll defy a court order to feed hungry Americans.

Nero would be proud.

Article form the Herald Sun 4 Nov 2015: "Melbourne Cup 2015: Overheard in the women’s toilets WHAT goes on tour stays on tour right? Well it did until now. These are the top 10 things we overheard in the toilets at the Melbourne Cup."

10 year anniversary to this shining moment of Australian journalism.

SNAP benefits feed essential needs while still leaving many hungry for more Journalist and author Adam Chandler explains what so much of the conversation about them gets wrong.

As SNAP hangs in the balance for nearly 42 million people, misinformation is rampant. Myths of laziness and fraud persist when we should be talking about too low wages for workers, income inequality, and our threadbare social safety net.

In this guest post, Adam Chandler sorts fact from fiction:

This 🧵.

"We refuse to be complicit in genocide, ethnic cleansing, or land theft carried out by Israeli military in the name of Zionism, the political ideology that seeks to establish a Jewish supremacist state on Palestinian land."

But the west's political & media class enables such atrocities.

AUKUS is worst decision from our political duopoly.
Exorbitant, unexplained & unjustified.
Commits Australia to
1.Australian bases for UK & USA nuclear submarines
2.Being part of USA confrontation with China
3.Being a repository for high level nuclear waste requiring security/storage >100,000 yrs

What is the National Party's end game? Splitting the Coalition and making the Liberals unelectable in the cities. It can't all just be for a few bob from Gina?

Couple 'effectively unable to be involved in care decisions' before man's death Bruce Drabsch's daughter Melinda Dagger, who was travelling to hospital to be with her ailing father, was phoned by a doctor and asked to inform her mother her husband of more than six decades had die...

"You could see him gasping for air, they were putting needles in him, I don't know what was happening," Mrs Drabsch said.

"It broke my heart, absolute shock, he was a wonderful husband."

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Fears fugitive welfare cut-off will capture innocent people Fugitives wanted for some of the most serious crimes and sexual offences could soon be stripped of their welfare payments.

wild 'both sidesing' of a deeply terrible bit of legislation - of course the police think more powers are a good idea. that does not mean that is true

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Scientists hopeful they have found source of SA algal bloom toxins Scientists believe they have identified the species responsible for the toxins in South Australia's marine algal bloom that has killed millions of aquatic animals.

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Research led by Professor Murray of #UTS … #women in #science…

Moral inadequacy in national leadership Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do, Voltaire

The much-touted Western exemplar of moral superiority, that has been forced down the throats of the other 88% of humanity for hundreds of years, was, and is, a tissue of lies. The bulk of humanity were forced to accept them. #auspol #superiority

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.

McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.

Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.

See the problem?

What would Whitlam think of the Albanese Government? Gough Whitlam’s head mandarin and Pearls & Irritations founder & editor-in-chief John Menadue shares what he sees as the lessons of the Whitlam years, one of which is that the powerful can never be tr...

"With 50 years having passed since the Dismissal, and with a newly re-elected Labor Government in power, there is no better time to look back on the Whitlam years and see what they might say about the contemporary Albanese Government."
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This is such an important document

ATTENTION: @albomp.bsky.social @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social

HOW is it you are not aware of the principle of "innocent until proven guilty," the fundamental legal doctrine that asserts every individual accused of a crime is presumed innocent until sufficient evidence is presented to prove guilt?

Spring racing fever. EPIC Cup unbackable favourite revealed - Michael West Spring racing fever is in the air, and nowhere is the excitement more electrifying than at the starting gates of the 2025 EPIC Cup.

And Australia's 'Electric Phar Lap' wins the Cup

#auspol Snowy Hydro 2.0 wins the Epic Cup again for the most outrageously expensive power project!

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Taking out the trash at ten to 5 on a Friday afternoon. Feel the transparency and respect.
Please read this thread BECAUSE they don’t want you to read about it.👇

The Greens have secured a Senate inquiry into the capital gains tax (CGT) discount. We will use this to expose one of the most regressive tax breaks in Australia, where 50% of the benefit goes to the top 1% wealthiest Australians.

Gambling means Australians are the biggest losers in the world A bet on the horses today is the only time many Australians will gamble. But this doesn’t change the reality that, collectively, Australians are the biggest gamblers in the world, wagering a total $25...

Hooray…Its not just fossil fuel expansion where Australia leads the world…

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Former US VP Dick Cheney.

War criminal and former US VP Dick Cheney has died. Cheney was a driving force behind the 2003 US invasion of Iraq. Cheney had falsely claimed there may be links between Iraq and Al Qaeda's 9/11 attacks in 2001, and falsely argued Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction. #USPolitics #Iraq

Navi Pillay. Don't be complicit in genocide Australia, warns former UN judge - Michael West Former UN human rights chief Judge Navi Pillay has warned that Australia and other states risk complicity in genocide

Australia at risk of prosecution for involvement in genocide, Navi Pillay former top UN judge tells #NPC
#auspol #gaza
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Much of the commentary on SNAP suggests that Trump is 'weaponizing' the program.

That's far too kind. He is deliberately starving Americans.

Just as he and Musk deliberately killed people around the world when they cut USAID.

Punishment before trial: this Home Affairs power grab will hurt many families Presumption of innocence erased: what this new bill means.

Punishment before trial: this Home Affairs power grab will hurt many families www.canberratimes.com.au/story/910387...

ANU bought shares in Israeli weapons maker after pledging to stop controversial arms investments Exclusive: University says Elbit Systems, whose drones have been used extensively in Gaza, not on any controversial weapons list when shares bought and sold this year

Aust universities will cry poor while stealing millions of dollars from precariously employed workers and throwing money at the mass murder industry.

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