Professor Euan Ritchie

They are both awful. Penny has chosen to side with awful politics on marriage equality, fossil fuels, and Gaza. And, if she wanted to, she could show us she cares, like Payman and Husic have. She’s just another spineless career politician.

We’re too far away to assess, at least, that’s what Penny and co. attempted to argue. 🙄

Little Aussie Battlers...

World’s biggest coral survey confirms sharp decline in Great Barrier Reef after heatwave The latest report from Australia’s tropical marine research agency shows hard corals on the Great Barrier Reef have been hit hard by an extreme marine heatwave.

So the Great Barrier Reef IS in danger then, @unesco.org?
theconversation.com/worlds-bigge...

Overwhelming grief of Gaza deaths forces principal from job he loves Sami Muamar says the grief, anguish and mental toll of constant death have forced him to leave the job he loves.

"Mr Muamar said he stopped counting the numbers of his extended family who have been killed in the conflict when the total reached 130."

And _still_ no sanctions for Israel, @albomp.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social?! Shame.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Netanyahu meets security officials as he reportedly considers full Gaza takeover Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has met with senior security officials to finalise a new strategy for the war in Gaza, with Israeli media reporting he is leaning towards a complete military ...

Senator Wong rushed to emergency under the immense strain of her raised eyebrow www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

The best way to achieve two states is for those who say they want to recognise Palestine to pull their fingers out and say that they recognise the place. But the leaders of the AUS government are terrified of the pro-Israel lobby. It is very simple. RECOGNISE THE STATE OF PALESTINE

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Agreed

Tired - Scotty from marketing Wired - Penny from Marketing

"You’ve said no to Santos”: Labor’s embrace of big oil and gasHow Labor out-loved the Coalition in its embrace of big oil and gas “You know what you’ve been doing,” said Foreign Minister and Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Penny Wong, wagging her finger at the Opposition senators across the Chamber.

She doesn't like upsetting ecocidal polluters either, so I imagine Penny sleeps very, very soundly australiainstitute.org.au/post/how-lab....

Weasel words from her, i mean Penny why will there be no Palestinians left? Do you mean genocide?

Ditto. Previous AG was awful, on so many fronts, look how we treated whistleblowers ffs.

Global civil society coalition calls for end to F-35 jet exports to Israel A global coalition of 232 civil society organisations has called on international partners in the F-35 fighter jet supply chain to end their arms exports to Israel, which is facing a case of genoci…

She's culpable. Rita Jabri Markwell, a solicitor at Birchgrove Legal in Sydney, told Anadolu that since 7 October, 2023, the Australian government has invested $13.785 billion in companies blacklisted by the UN for arms transfers to Israel. tinyurl.com/53kef6vk

Indeed, she brings great shame on this country. Thank you for your advocacy too! :)

Agree! She embarrassed herself this morning w all those mealymouthed cliches about “Hamas is a terrorist” org while Israel murders tens of thousands of children, but they are somehow legitimate.

The playbook is simple & well-established if the gov actually wanted to do anything:
1) ban weapons sales & stop involvement in manufacturing while arms are shipped to Israel
2) sanction sitting members of gov
3) expel the ambassador
4) condemn
5) vote accordingly at the UN.

That would be acting.

There are many, you need to be specific.

That's not my decision nor expertise, obviously. You can Google what actual international experts advise.

Ah, sorry! 😆

She ain't slow, she's compromised and she's trying revisionism on for size.

We've got the receipts, Penny.

Not only SFA but actively dismissed genocide in Gaza as ‘too faraway’ to assess and used it as a Greens-bashing strategy in Parliament & campaigning. Glad to see it blow up in her face, no credibility, never forgotten

That's rich from someone whose calculated inaction as part of PM @albomp.bsky.social's govt has amplified the "risk that there will be no Palestine left to recognise"

We'll not forget

ps ABC Radio National, it's not a "war in Gaza", it's occupation, apartheid, mass starvation & genocide

Said every genocide apologist and enabler, over and over again.

I can't be clearer about this. Hamas are f'ing awful, and must be held to account. Israel's government and the IDF are f'ing awful, committing live-streamed genocide, and must be held to account.

Worse, in fact, they've aided the genocidal oppressor and punished those providing aid...based on lies from Israel's government and the IDF.

All good! :)

We see you, Penny.

It's my favourite ecosystem and captured my heart many moons ago.

Toad? That's an adorable turtle frog!