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How very Pocockian. The only parliamentarian to have captained an elite national sports team got expelled from the parliamentary sports club for expressing principles about the sinister cavortings of the gambling industry.

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

👀A Rutgers professor who teaches an anti-fascism class was blocked from leaving the US hours > Trump’s “Antifa” roundtable w/ Jack Posobiec who has called Bray a “domestic terrorist professor.” TPUSA at Rutgers has called him an “antifa member,” a claim he denies. He’s received death threats. 1/

The RBA says changing rates won’t raise house prices. I wouldn’t be so sure The biggest and most pressing economic problem Australia faces is nothing new: the ever-worsening ability to afford to own the home you live in.

Thank you @rossgittins.bsky.social. That’s high praise coming from you.

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What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.

Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social

We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.

Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊

Being a renter in Australia means handing over an unnecessary amount of personal data to real estate agents who have no clue - and who often don't care - how to keep that data secure. Many can't tell you how it's stored, who can access it and when/if it gets destroyed

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, major UN report finds Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide in Gaza, according to the "most authoritative assessment" to date.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Thanks mate!

Pro-Israel groups have attacked me for years. The Bendigo Writers Festival is a turning point. Randa Abdel-Fattah writes of her experience as a target of the pro-Israel lobby

Incredibly powerful op-ed written by Randa Abel-Fattah that everyone needs to read. It’s being published by @deepcutnews.bsky.social after The Age commissioned it then spiked it.

Here’s a piece I wrote about the damage done to Australian cultural institutions - ABC, Creative Australia, MSO, SLV, SLQ, etc and now Bendigo Writers Fest - by their surrender to the demands of pro-Israel pressure campaigns
open.substack.com/pub/nickfeik...

He spoke at the Mont Pelerin Society in 2020 so 🤷🏼 www.hoover.org/sites/defaul...

Ken Henry wants Australia's media to do a better job Ken Henry, a former treasury secretary, says the media has to hold Australia's political system accountable for its policy failures

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Ken Henry: the marine disaster in SA is not an early warning. It’s a late warning. We should have been awake decades ago to the damage climate change will do and is doing. #KenHenry #NPC #auspol

Source: www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Ju...

Federal Court judge Michael Wigney says when Australia’s government set its greenhouse gas emissions targets in 2015, 2020, and 2021, its targets were “plainly not consistent” with its international obligations under the Paris Agreement, nor with the best available science.

Antisemitism envoy distances herself from husband’s donation to right-wing lobby group Donation records lodged by a company Jillian Segal’s husband is a director of show that his family trust gave $50,000 to Advance.

There we are.

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Licensing rage Don't let "Special Envoys" rob us of our power of democratic deliberation

"the Special Envoy’s overreach with this latest report is part of a process that has been ongoing in Western democracies for decades now. Piece by piece ... an issue is presented in a way that drains it of all its nuances and reduces it to an us-against-them confrontation."

The word is "massacres"

Jillian Segal and husband funding far-right group "Advance" - The Klaxon Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal and her husband are among the biggest funders of far-right group "Advance”, which spreads hateful propaganda and racist tropes.

🚨Antisemitism boss Jillian Segal and her husband are the second biggest funders of far-right group "Advance". The extremist lobby group spreads online racism and xenophobia, including directly targeting Palestinians...
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Just days after Elon Musk's AI chatbot praised Hitler and called itself "MechaHitler", Australia's lead advisor on fighting antisemitism praised Musk's platform X's use of AI to "root out hate" 😵‍💫

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'It is completely incongruous': How the media’s coverage of Gaza has sent reporters independent An increasing number of reporters are launching independent ventures as audiences express distrust in the big newsrooms.

Have failures in coverage of Israel signalled the death of traditional newsrooms?

Creative Australia reverses controversial decision to dump Biennale artist After controversially and suddenly withdrawing Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino from the 2026 Venice Biennale, Creative Australia has announced it has reversed its decision.

Momentum is building

Antoinette Lattouf's unlawful sacking exposed the power of lobbying on the Australian media Antoinette Lattouf's unlawful sacking has exposed how lobby groups pressure the media.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

A campaign of complaints about Antoinette Lattouf put the ABC under pressure – and it buckled | Alan Sunderland The world these days is filled with those who seek to influence public interest journalism. The role of senior managers is to stoutly resist that pressure

Excellent from Alan ...

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On 6/20/25, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale smeared Steve Bannon & Tucker Carlson—who oppose US intervention in the Israel/Iran war—as “this new Woke Right.” (The Israel/Iran war & “Woke Right” smear continue to fracture the MAGA coalition.) 1/

Thanks you. I miss that bulletin too. That was another thing respondents said. People want more fact-based reporting (which is what that 7:45 am bulletin was).

Thank you

As the media works to win trust, people say they want the truth Australians want journalists to tell the truth. Is that a simple request?

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

As the media works to win trust, people say they want the truth Australians want journalists to tell the truth. Is that a simple request?

Could everyone please read this. By @garethhutchens.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

The planet warms, liberal democracy is attacked: Does the government care? Fossil fuels are warming the planet. Liberal democracy is under attack. Does Australia's government understand what's happening?

If we want to live in a world in which individual human and civil rights mean anything, certain groups in society must not be allowed to behave with impunity.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...