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ECAJ research director Julie Nathan's social media - including a repost calling Palestinians "bloodthirsty hyenas" and a claim that "Gaza = Hamas" - has come under scrutiny, with APAN @apan4palestine.bsky.social president Nasser Mashni calling the posts "unashamedly hateful and racist"
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The longtime author of an
annual report into Australian antisemitism has come under fire for sharing anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian content on social media.
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The Albanese government "acted precipitously in the face of a lobbying campaign from the Murdoch press," ignoring the advice of academics and experts - @mon4kooyong.bsky.social
09.12.2025 23:01 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0News Corp’s Let Them Be Kids campaign, launched before the last election, was an effort to "give Peter Dutton a platform going into the federal election and take on the big tech companies, who are their major competitors when it comes to advertising revenue" - @sarahhansonyoung.bsky.social
09.12.2025 22:58 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The new social media ban for under-16s goes against the advice of experts, rights groups and kids themselves.
Its main backer? News Corp.
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“These are full-grown adults, and I’m a teenage girl,” she says. “If you explained this situation to any normal, sane person, they would tell you this is crazy.”
07.12.2025 20:37 — 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0In a meeting which left the teenager in tears, Council staff told her "my necklace was ‘political’ and they couldn’t promote anyone’s political agenda"
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A Melbourne council is under fire for scrubbing a teenager from its magazine and website after receiving complaints about the child's Palestine-flag necklace
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"Privatisation demonstrates how Labor, the Coalition and the corporate sector have rigged the economy against us. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
"We could absolutely have an affordable publicly-owned electricity system, run in the interests of the people, not corporate profit."
Inflation's up, services are being gutted and money-hungry corporations run everything. It's time to put basic services back in public hands, writes @maxchandlermather.bsky.social
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Despite stoking conflict from Libya to Yemen to Sudan, its alignment with the US and Israel and its financial clout, the UAE's tiny native population and steady alienation of its neighbours have made it more vulnerable than it appears.
02.12.2025 22:39 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Today we're launching West Asia Focus, our new series looking past misleading headlines and lazy assumptions to tell the region's real stories.
First up is a look at the UAE, the region's "sub-imperial" wrecking ball.
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Lawyer Nick Hanna called the prosecution "part of a pattern of concerning police action that serves to stifle political expression, particularly criticism of Israel and its genocide in Gaza"
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Wagga Wagga-based artist Michael Agzarian is contesting a charge of 'offensive language' over an artwork reading 'Death to the IDF'
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If dystopia is the new norm, @amyremeikis.bsky.social asks, does it have to be so dumb?
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Jayden wrote the phrases ‘No Pride in Genocide’, ‘Free Gaza’ and ‘F*** the IDF’ on his guitar’s front, which departmental staffers warned were unacceptable slogans to display if he wished to perform.
“They said, ‘We can’t be seen taking sides’,” Jayden alleges.
Today, singer-songwriter Jayden Kitchener-Waters will find out if he still has a job with the NSW Premier's Department.
His alleged infringement was attempting to perform at a departmental event with pro-Palestine slogans written on his guitar.
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Payman's social media channels have received dozens of abusive and threatening messages since Monday, when a man was sentenced to 18 months community service for emailing her a death threat
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Senator Fatima Payman says her staff are struggling to cope with an inundation of online Islamophobia - and that the PM has ignored her requests for help
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The Hilltop Youth have invaded their farms, herded sheep to graze on their vineyards and orchards, and cut down hundreds of vines - some planted before the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.
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The Hilltop Youth, an extremist settler organisation listed as a terror group in multiple countries, is driving Palestinians in the West Bank off their land.
Now the family farm of Palestinian-Australian Sari Kassis is in their sights.
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Dr Ezzideen Shehab
returned to Gaza just a few days before 7 October 2023 and has provided medical care to its people ever since.
He tells that story in his new book, 'Diary of a Young Doctor'.
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In an exclusive interview with Deepcut, Hamas Politburo member Mousa Abu Marzouk warns that the group “cannot stand by as spectators while crimes are being committed against our people".
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Victoria’s public libraries have been warned about using a cartoon watermelon mascot due to its possible association with “political movements”.
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Sidoti mentions that journalists tell him of the "pressure" they encounter when writing about Gaza:
"I’ve been doing human rights work for 45 years... I’ve never encountered journalists saying this to me."
In an exclusive Q&A, international human rights lawyer Chris Sidoti shares his fears for the survival of international law and Australia's avoidance of the Gaza genocide
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The Carlton Blues are facing a backlash from their fanbase in Melbourne's north after firing the club mascot for refusing to participate in a pro-Israel fundraiser
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The talking points reveal that the government has decided not to support a children's field hospital in Gaza proposed by prominent humanitarian Dr Mohammed Mustafa.
Mustafa - who was not aware of the government's decision - has called the government's cited reasons a "cop-out".
A Labor staffer mistakenly emailed the federal government’s full talking points on Israel, Palestine and Gaza to the Australia Palestine Advocacy Organisation.
Read them in full here:
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As Israel continues its bombardment and cuts off aid, the joy of the ceasefire has quickly given way to anxiety and fear. Rasha Abou Jalal reports from Gaza.
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